Miami Vice in Popular Culture - 1980s

1980s

  • The children's show Sesame Street parodied the hit 1980s show with a few segments titled "Miami Mice".
  • In the mid-1980s, the comic strip Heathcliff featured a take-off on Miami Vice. The two characters were crime-fighting mice, Sonny Sprockett and Rico Tibbs, that helped Heathcliff solve mysteries.
  • 1985, Miami Vice has also been parodied in the world of professional wrestling. Fuji Vice, a parody skit featuring wrestlers The Magnificent Muraco and Mr. Fuji, was aired on the WWF's Tuesday Night Titans show.
  • The January 18, 1986 episode of Saturday Night Live featured the parody sketch "Cleveland Vice" starring Randy Quaid and Harry Dean Stanton.
  • 1986, in an episode of ALF, when ALF and Willie get stuck in the middle of the forest in their station wagon, ALF says, "This never would've happened to Sonny Crockett!" Willie asks why this is so, and ALF explains: since Sonny Crockett has a car phone in his Ferrari Daytona, he could have called for help.
  • 1986, Bill Pullman plays a not-so-bright Miami Vice-loving character in the film Ruthless People. He owns a pair of goldfish named Crockett and Tubbs.
  • 1986, the series was parodied in an Alvin and the Chipmunks episode as "Chipmunk Vice."
  • 1987, in Episode 7 of The Bill Series 3, "Blind Alleys, Clogged Roads", PC Reg Hollis looks for PC Nick Shaw in the CAD Room of Sun Hill. PC Melvin mentions that he's probably off watching Miami Vice.
  • 1987, in the film Mannequin, Hollywood Montrose tells Jonathan Switcher: "Don't let Felix get to you, he just got a bad case of Miami Vice".
  • The 1988 song "Walk the Dinosaur", by Was (Not Was), references the show.
  • 1988, The Taito arcade game Chase H.Q. was inspired by the show.
  • In the late 1980s, independent comic book writer/artist Dwayne Ferguson published a series titled Hamster Vice.
  • 1989, the Miami Vice boat was later used as a promotion boat for the Finnish Ericsson Hotline mobile phone importer and raced some during that time in the Scandinavian offshore races.
  • 1989-1992, the Australian comedy show Fast Forward did a Miami Vice skit.
  • An episode of the children's show Happy's Place parodied the Miami Vice title sequence in a skit titled "Churubusco Vice".

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