Cultural References
This sketch was one of the most popular on SNL, and the characters and their catchphrases entered American pop culture. When Schwarzenegger entered politics, he referred to the sketches himself, using the phrases "girlie men" and "pump you up." He even used the "girlie men" term during the 1988 Presidential election. Accompanying then Vice President George H.W. Bush, he attacked Bush's Democratic opponents by saying to the crowd: “They all look like a bunch of girlie men, right?" He used the phrase again to attack California state legislators in speeches during his election campaign for governor of California.
The two Crawler-transporter vehicles used by NASA are nicknamed "Hans" and "Franz" after the SNL characters.
Two Designers from Germany, Konstantin Landuris and Horst Wittmann, work under the name of "hansandfranz", inspired by the "SNL" namegiving.
In the West Wing season 6 episode "The Wake Up Call", President Bartlet refers to the British prime minister's press conference as "getting all Hans & Franz" about the alleged shooting down of a British airplane by Iran.
Hans and Franz also appeared in the Cranium Command attraction in the Wonders of Life pavilion at Walt Disney World Resort's Epcot theme park.
In a Tiny Toon Adventures episode parodying SNL sketches, Buster and Plucky play as "Sigmund and Raymond", and played the sketch on "blowing up" their visitors. Hamton shows up and he is pumped with air.
Hale and Hardy, the accented, musclebound dachshunds in Garfield Gets Real, are likely based on Hans and Franz.
In 2008, Team Four Star released an episode of Dragonball Z Abridged featuring Goz and Mez, two characters that act like Hans and Franz.
In the 2009 video game Borderlands, the player partakes in a boss fight against a pair of beefy, muscular men named Hans and Franz, a reference to the SNL duo.
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