Michael Winslow - References in Other Media

References in Other Media

  • In The Simpsons episode "Marge Be Not Proud", Bart Simpson is caught stealing and is lectured by Homer, who concludes with the lines: "We live in a society of laws. Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing, did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects." Homer then laughs at himself while trying to impersonate Winslow and forgets what he was yelling at Bart about.
  • Michael Winslow was parodied by Phil LaMarr in a MADtv skit mocking Hollywood Squares.
  • The episode "Sausage Fest" of Robot Chicken featured Winslow's Larvell Jones from Police Academy as well as the other police officers when they join the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning to become X-Men. Michael Winslow voiced his character as well as the accompanying sound effects. Throughout the sketch, Jones' character seems to be making screeching sound effects whenever Professor Xavier rolls around on his wheelchair. Xavier realizes this and uses his powers to make Jones brain dead so that he cannot do this anymore, only to find out that his wheelchair was, in fact, screeching on its own. Winslow also performed an alternate ending theme for the credits of that episode.
  • Winslow was spoofed on In Living Color, with David Alan Grier making sound effects. Although the biggest punchline was a narrator saying "You remember Michael Winslow from Spaceballs, as well as Police Academy 1, Police Academy 2..." and continues naming the Police Academy films up to a non-existent Police Academy 8 and 9.
  • In the episode of The Office entitled "Dwight's Speech", Michael Scott imitates Winslow while vamping for Dwight Schrute at a sales convention.
  • In the Family Guy episode "Family Guy Viewer Mail #1" Quagmire and his friends are in a haunted house and supposedly hear an Owl, which briefly frightens them, only to find out it was Winslow, who makes a guest appearance and performs several other sound effects.
  • In the Psych episode "We'd Like to Thank the Academy" the characters explicitly reference the Police Academy films, and at various points Burton Guster attempts to imitate Winslow's sound effects, particularly a machine gun effect.
  • Key & Peele portrayed Winslow and Bobby McFerrin as "The Kings of Mouth Noise" in a fight for top billing on a sound effects tour
  • In the Castle episode "Knockdown", Castle talks about the best fictional police officers, and lists Dirty Harry, Cobra and Larvelle Jones (though he doesn't recall the latter's name).

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