Miami Vice in Popular Culture - 1990s

1990s

• 1991, in an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Geoffrey the Butler (played by Joseph Marcell) walks into the kitchen wearing a white linen suit and purple turtle-neck underneath; Will (played by Will Smith) jokingly asks: "Is that Geoffrey or Philip Michael Thomas?"
• 1991, a Christmas episode of the BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses, is titled "Miami Twice".
• 1993, in the film Cop & a Half, the main character Devon Butler is a huge Miami Vice fan; he tells his grandma: "Tonight is the night we watch Miami Vice together" and during the film is seen watching the episode "A Bullet for Crockett".
• 1996, a Finnish group of senior-high students, later known as Don Johnson Big Band, gets together for the first time.
• 1997, Something Wild, an album by Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom, has a hidden track with a cover of Miami Vice theme.
• 1997, in the Nash Bridges Season 2 episode, "The Counterfeiters", Johnson teams up with former Miami Vice costar, John Diehl, as a criminal posing as an S.I.U. officer.
• 1997, in the Nash Bridges episode, "Wild Card", Philip Michael Thomas and Don Johnson reunite for the first time on television together since Miami Vice, and you can hear a version of the "Miami Vice Theme" playing in the background.
• 1998, in an episode of Friends ("The One with All the Thanksgivings"), a flashback to 1988 shows Rachel at the Gellers' for Thanksgiving. When the doorbell rings, she opens it to see Ross and Chandler dressed like Crockett and Tubbs from Miami Vice.
• 1998, in the movie The Wedding Singer, the character Glenn Guglia, dressed in Crockett's trademark white linen suit over a pastel blue T-shirt and sporting a six-o'clock shadow, says he's not worried about his summer wedding's interfering with seeing Miami Vice because they will be showing reruns. Later, he is shown driving and listening to the "Miami Vice Theme". Later, on an airplane scene, a stewardess refers to him as a "Creep from coach who thinks he's Don Johnson".
• 1999, the intro of the "Black Widow" song from Children of Sodon's Hatebreeder album is a cover of the "Miami Vice Theme".