Pop Culture Influenced By Sesame Street - Other Usages

Other Usages

• Although rubber duckies existed before Sesame Street, their pop culture icon status was mostly spurred on by Ernie's "Rubber Duckie" song, and subsequent appearances of Ernie's bath toy.
• In the film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film), Lt. Garber says of the subway hijackers, "Someone down there knows how to drive a train. You don't pick that up watching Sesame Street"
• In the Spider-Man 3 video game, after purchasing the 5 Hit Melee Combo Bruce Campbell (The Narrator) will say "Today's melee combo is brought to you by the number 5 and the letters O and W", referring to how Sesame Street ends.
• The Beavis and Butt-head book This Book Sucks makes reference to the program, stating that it would be televised after Barney & Friends and viewers could "get a class credit for watching".
• The Return of the Living Dead (1985): Dan O'Bannon purposely named two characters Ernie Kaltenbrunner and Burt Wilson, a reference to the show.
• In "Kansas," a fourth-season episode of the Jim Henson-produced SciFi Channel series Farscape, the show's alien characters are seen learning the alphabet from a Sesame Street segment in which Kermit the Frog teaches a young girl her ABCs. ("This child is slow!" one protests, referring to the girl onscreen.)
• In 2006, popular Sesame Street characters including Big Bird and Elmo joined Alex Trebek during an episode of Jeopardy! with the category, "Sesame Street Eats". The category focused on various elements found in healthy foods.
• Billy Joel mentions Sesame Street, along with the PBS station it appears on in New York City (WNET Channel 13), in his 1982 song "Pressure"
• In the online game Lost Souls, Discordians counting things using the built-in 'count' command may sometimes count things in the style of Count von Count.