Solid Gold (TV Series) - Pop Culture References

Pop Culture References

• A September 2007 episode of the sketch-comedy show Saturday Night Live featured a satirical promotion for a supposed "Best of Solid Gold" DVD, with the announcer stating, "enjoy as the Solid Gold dancers sexy-shake it to some of the most undanceable songs ever written," before showing the dancers dancing to "We Built This City".
• The animated internet talk show This Spartan Life features the "Solid Gold Elite Dancers" as the show's equivalent to a talent segment.
• The music video for Sum 41's "We're All to Blame" parodies Solid Gold and features the Solid Gold Dancers via CGI.
• In an episode of The Golden Girls (Season 2-Episode 18-Aired: 2/14/1987) character Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur) finds out her new boyfriend is a priest. When he tells her she looks lovely in her low-cut, sequined blouse, she quips, "I look like the mother of a Solid Gold dancer!"
• In the 1990 Babes episode, "Bend Me Shape Me," Darlene Gilbert (Susan Peretz) makes a reference to the show after seeing a workout tape that her sister Charlene (Wendie Jo Sperber) bought, saying that the instructor on the tape made them look like "Fellini's Solid Gold" while trying to follow her lead.
• In a 3rd season episode of 30 Rock titled "The Ones" Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) mentions that her prom night ended with "Eating ice cream and watching Solid Gold in my Basement."
• In episode AABF20 of The Simpsons ("Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", original airdate May 16, 1999), when Chuck Garabedian asks the audience, "Are you tired of missing out on the good things in life -- family vacations, jet packs, Solid Gold dancers?", Homer leans in to Marge and says, "There's only three left in the world."
• In a 2nd season episode of The Cleveland Show titled "Cleveland Live", he introduces the show with "The Original Solid Gold Dancers."
• In the 2001 film Evolution, Orlando Jones' character says, "Don't you snap at me, unless you want an angry Solid Gold dancer on your hands."
• In episode 18 of the sixth season of Roseanne, Roseanne states she studied dancing "in living room with the Solid Gold Dancers."
• In multiple interviews, Teri Hatcher has declared that she was voted "Most Likely to Become a Solid Gold Dancer" by her graduating class in 1982.
• On the Adult Swim show Black Dynamite, the title character claims that any dancer on Solid Gold can dance like Michael Jackson as an insult to Michael.
• In the 1988 film Scrooged, there is an episode of Solid Gold played on a TV. The movie, ironically, was released five months after the show was cancelled.