In Popular Culture
- The Simpsons mentioned The Chevy Chase Show on their "138th Episode Spectacular", when actor Troy McClure mentioned he had previously hosted a documentary entitled The Five Fabulous Weeks of The Chevy Chase Show. In The Simpsons video game The Simpsons: Road Rage, Krusty will occasionally compliment fast drivers by lamenting that the ride was "over faster than Chevy Chase's talk show!".
- It was later mentioned by The Onion, which joked that the program was entering its "sixth blockbuster season" in an alternate universe.
- Family Guy mocked the show during the episode "Meet the Quagmires", which supposed that in an alternate universe, Chase had gone on to succeed Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. Upon discovery of this Peter responded "We messed up bad, we messed up real bad!".
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