Big Mouth Billy Bass - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

The success of the Big Mouth Billy Bass has made it something of a cultural icon. The toys appear frequently in pop culture.

• The device appears in Lemmy, when Kilmister activates a specimen hanging next to his bathroom mirror in his L.A. home.
• A Big Mouth Billy Bass has a cameo in WALL-E
• Big Mouth Billy Bass was also mentioned in Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie wherein Jeff Foxworthy said that a person with more than three of the toys (which Jeff himself is admittedly guilty of) "might be a redneck". Queen Elizabeth has one, which she displays on the grand piano of Balmoral Castle.
• On Chuck, then-assistant store manager Morgan Grimes sports a Billy Bass on his office wall, emulating his manager and de facto stepfather Big Mike who has a large trophy fish (Marlin) mounted on his office wall.
• In the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode 1x11, Gil Grissom was seen to own a Big Mouth Billy Bass placed above his office door because its motion sensor was better than a watch dog.
• On the television show George Lopez, George has a singing fish in his office.
• It is also seen on the television show The Sopranos (in the 2001 episodes, "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power" and "Second Opinion"), where Tony Soprano beats one of his underlings with it, for leaving it on his desk.
• It appeared on The Daily Show as "Michele Bachmann's Big Mouth Billie Vagina" in 2011 introduced by The Daily Show's Senior Women Issue Correspondent Kristen Schaal.
• In the first episode of the fourth season of Whose Line is it Anyway?, Wayne Brady pretends to be a singing bass in the "Dating Game" segment.
• One appears on the wall of Wernham Hogg offices in The Office, including a brief scene in which David Brent demonstrates it to camera. Unfortunately, the batteries were dead.
• A similar device, no brand-name given, appears in several of the later Confessions of Georgia Nicolson books, having been brought home from a trip to London by Georgia's father as a gift for her younger sister Libby. It sings "Maybe it's beCOD I'm a Londoner", on loop, and is nicknamed "Mr Fish". Libby repeatedly puts it in Georgia's bed, along with a jar of fishpaste ("snacks for Mr Fish"), and refuses to ever turn it off. Georgia is extremely relieved when the batteries go flat, and annoyed when her father replaces them.