Cultural References
Featured as a haunted rhyme that the villain, Andre Linoge, psychically transmits throughout Stephen King's "Storm of The Century" TV movie (1999). The song is also sung in another Stephen King movie "Rose Red" (2002) by the ghost of the child character April Rimbauer.
Referenced in the Internet technology standards paper RFC 2324, an April Fools' document that describes the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol. One part defines Hypertext Transport Protocol status code 418 to mean "I'm a teapot". This occurs when an attempt to brew coffee with a teapot is made, and the resulting entity body (the contents of the page displayed by the browser) "MAY be short and stout".
Tim Brooke-Taylor from The Goodies (1970s) would say the first line while miming the actions sometimes when in a panic. The Goodies also recorded a pop song titled "I'm A Teapot."
Season 1 Episode 4 of Friday the 13th: The Series (episode entitled "A Cup of Time") features the song as sung by sinister elderly lady come rock star "Lady Die" played by Hilary Shepard Turner.
In QI (Season G, Episode 1, "Garden") Stephen Fry puts both hands on his hips and changes the rhyme to "I'm a little teapot, short and stout, here is my handle, oh bugger I'm a sugar bowl". A similar joke, "I'm a little teapot, short and stout. Here is my handle, here is my... handle... Gosh, I'm a sugar bowl." was used in the original Saturday Night Live cast skit "Gidget Goes to Shock Therapy".
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