Parodies and Homages
The band Incubus covered the song while on their 2006 Light Grenades Tour.
Umphrey's McGee covered the song, complete with box props, as the first song of their encore on December 31, 2006 show at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, with percussionist Andy Farag contributing vocals in the Andy Samberg role and Brendan Bayliss singing Justin Timberlake's part. The multi-camera video is available on YouTube.
In "Koi Pond", the sixth season Halloween episode of The Office, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) dresses in a suit with a silk shirt and gold chains, with a box wrapped as a present attached to his waist.
On an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, DeGeneres performed a jingle for AQUA2GO water drink boxes to the tune of "Dick in a Box".
Facebook created a virtual gift shop for Valentine's Day that included a box with a bow on top and a hole cut into one of its sides.
A parody from the female perspective, Leah Kauffman's "My Box in a Box", appeared on YouTube and has since been viewed over 4.5 million times. On January 8, 2007, on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Olbermann called "My Box in a Box" the "#1 most viralest video" in the world. The video received press coverage in a wide variety of media, including Rolling Stone and Cosmopolitan.
The internet comedy series "Web Zeroes" made a number of references during its initial episode in October 2009, beginning with the character Alex singing the "step 1" line in response to a "how" question.
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“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)