Popular Culture
The series was parodied on the comedy series Second City Television ("SCTV") in the sketch depicting Cisco and Pancho in "Friendlyville." Ironically, the SCTV series' producer-distributor, Rhodes Productions, acquired the distribution rights to the series in the mid-1980s and rebroadcast on Chicago's WGN-TV among other stations, hence the closing credits again altered at the end as: "A Rhodes Productions Presentation."
On the long-running children's show Wonderama, a character in a Western-style costume called "The Disco Kid" would appear during the dance segment.
In 1994, Turner Network Television carried a Cisco Kid television movie, with Jimmy Smits as Cisco and Cheech Marin as Pancho.
The chamber of commerce office in Cisco, Texas, has a small exhibit on The Cisco Kid, but the character is not related to the community, the seat of Eastland County.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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