In Popular Culture
- In 1961's The Parent Trap, the characters during the animated opening title sequence refer to each other as "John" and "Marsha".
- In 2007, comedian the great Luke Ski recorded a ten-minute homage called MC Freberg, a parody illustrating what a Freberg-type satire of rap music would have sounded like. Originally recorded for The FuMP, the track also appears on Ski's album BACONspiracy.
- On the fourth season premiere of the TV series Mad Men, Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) and Joey Baird (Matt Long) repeatedly call each other "John" and "Marsha".
- Freberg's Dragnet parodies are generally credited with the popularizing the catch phrase "Just the facts, ma'am", which Jack Webb's character never actually said on the show.
- Warner Brothers cartoons (in which Freberg appeared, uncredited, as a voice artist) often had cameo appearances by couples named "John" and "Marsha". In one case, the woman was an alien, making the couple "John" and "Martian".
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