Related Songs and Allusions
In a 2000 interview, Sir Mix-a-Lot reflected: "There's always butt songs. Hell, I got the idea sitting up here listing to old Parliament records: Motor Booty Affair. Black men like butts. That's the bottom line." The song is part of a tradition of 1970s-90s African-American music celebrating the female posterior, including "Da Butt," "Rump Shaker," and "Shake Your Groove Thing." Spoken word duo Athens Boys Choir has a parody of the song on their album Rhapsody in T called "Tranny Got Pack." An alternate version was performed at a 2006 Washington Mutual retreat in Hawaii. The song was also covered by Jonathan Coulton in his Thing a Week project. It was spoofed in an episode of In Living Color, "Baby Got Snacks," featuring Jamie Foxx as the lead singer. In 2008, the movie Another Cinderella Story used a parody of the song, entitled "Baby Got Bacne," in the scene in which "Cinderella's" mother is in an advertising campaign. There was also a 2009 Burger King commercial promoting SpongeBob SquarePants Kid's Meal toys, which used a parody called "I Like Square Butts". Another parody includes "Baby Likes Fat" which is used in The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XVII". It was also parodied on the "Buoyancy" episode of Bill Nye the Science Guy with "Bill's Got Boat".
In the TV show Friends, Rachel Green and Ross Geller sing the song to their baby in the Season 9 episode "The One with Ross's Inappropriate Song", and the encounter with Rachel's sister Amy in "The One With Rachel's Other Sister."
The song has also inspired, or served as a framing device, for a logic puzzle.
The song is played during the credit sequence of the video game Fat Princess while the player is attacking the staff with a scythe.
A portion of the song was referenced in the end of the 2001 movie Shrek, during the Karaoke dance party.
The beginning of the song words,"Oh my god Becky, look at her butt" was used in "The Motto" by Drake and Lil Wayne.
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