I Am Curious (Yellow) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Title references

• The title of The Simpsons episode "I Am Furious Yellow"
• The Get Smart episode "I Am Curiously Yellow", which was the series finale
• The That Girl episode "I Am Curious Lemon"
• Issue #101 of The Amazing Spider-Man wherein Gwen Stacy suggests seeing the movie with Peter Parker.
• The Fall’s 1988 album I Am Kurious Oranj (which in turn inspired Lee and Herring's popular comedy character "The Curious Orange", portrayed by Paul Putner)
• The Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane issue "I Am Curious (Black)" wherein Lois Lane becomes a Black woman for a day
• The Melrose Place episode "I Am Curious Melrose"
• The Moonlighting episode "I Am Curious... Maddie"
• The Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "I Am Curious Ed"

General references

• Curious Yellow, a virtual world in Jeff Noon's novel Vurt.
• A fluorescent chartreuse color named "curious yellow", which Chrysler Corporation offered as an optional-at-extra-cost "High Impact Paint (HIP)" color on its 1971 Plymouth cars.
• Curious Yellow is the name of a network worm in Glasshouse by Charles Stross, based on the name of the worm described in this paper by Brandon Wiley: Curious Yellow: The First Coordinated Worm Design.
• In her book You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, producer Julia Phillips mentions a film script entitled I Am Furious (Yellow), an unproduced comedy script about a woman who becomes enraged whenever she sees the color yellow. Phillips mentions that she was considering the project as a starring vehicle for Madonna.
• In an episode of The Lucy Show, Jack Benny (who was once a spokesman for Jell-O) tells Lucy that he's working on a film entitled I Am Curious, Jell-O.
• In an issue of Mad Magazine, a movie theater advertises a film called "I Am Lecherous (Purple)" and in a do-it-yourself New Wave film advertisement using an assortment of random words, one of your choices is "I am ____ (____)"
• In "Death in the Family", an episode of the BBC comedy series Steptoe and Son, Harold raises his father's spirits after the death of their horse by promising to take him to see "I Am Curious (Yellow)".