Soupy Sales - Legacy

Legacy

• ABC replaced The Soupy Sales Show in 1961 with Cynthia Pepper's short-lived sitcom, Margie. Sales and Pepper later became good friends.
• In the episode "TV Or Not TV" of the 1960s cartoon series The Jetsons, a segment was shown with a character named "Soapy Sam" who hit George Jetson in the face with a pie.
• In the episode "The One with the Lesbian Wedding" of the TV series Friends, Phoebe mentions Soupy Sales while supposedly being inhabited by the spirit of her dead massage client.
• Howard Stern named Sales as one of his childhood heroes, and in an interview on the 2007 Sirius Satellite Radio program "The History of Howard Stern," he expressed regret over his harsh words and actions towards Sales.
• Sales is referenced in the Bloodhound Gang's song "Pretty (When I'm Drunk)".
• Soupy Sales is referenced by name in the song, "6ix" on the 1996 The Lemonheads album, Car Button Cloth. His on-air request that children send money to him is also referenced in that song with the line, "Come on kids, grab your parents' wallet". While those are the lyrics performed in the recording, they are not the printed lyrics included in the album packaging.
• In the 2007 film Juno, Sales is referred to during the scene in which Juno confronts Bleeker about taking another girl to the prom. Juno had earlier suggested he go out with her, but he said he did not like her because she smelled like soup. Later, when Juno realizes she loves him, she calls his date Soupy Sales.
• There is a brief track called "Soupy Sales" on the album Coroner's Office by the death metal band Post Mortem.
• There is a track on Jim Bryson's 2000 album The Occasionals called "Soupy Sales".
• Phil Ochs, in his introduction to "(The Marines Have Landed On The Shores Of) Santo Domingo" from the Phil Ochs In Concert live album references Soupy Sales: "I was over there, entertaining the troops. I won't say which troops. Over there with a USO group, including Walter Lippmann and Soupy Sales."