Dick and Jane - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

  • The title of the film Fun with Dick and Jane (and its remake) is a reference to the Grade 1 title of the book series.
  • A PBS children's television series called Between the Lions does a parody of the books entitled Fun with Chicken Jane
  • In the Simpsons episode "They Saved Lisa's Brain", the Comic Book Guy's t-shirt reads "C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN", similar to the catch phrases in the book series.
  • Many Target commercials featuring target dog included the phrase "See Spot save", a take on of the famous "See Spot run".
  • In the Disney animated feature film Tarzan one sequence set to music features a book with a page that says "See Jane, See Jane Run."
  • The book The Bluest Eye uses a Dick-and-Jane narrative throughout the novel.
  • In a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon Calvin wrote a book report with the title "The Dynamics of Interbeing and Monological Imperatives in Dick and Jane: A Study in Psychic Transrelational Gender Modes."
  • The band Hawaiian Pups spoofed the characters in the song "Baby Judy" from their 1983 EP Split Second Precision

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