In Popular Culture
- In a 1995 episode of The Simpsons entitled Bart vs. Australia, a brief image of an animated Jackson as part of his Energizer ad campaign of the late 1980s appeared in a slideshow. The slideshow was a collection of images depicting Australian cultural icons which were gradually losing commercial appeal in the United States. The imagery was presented to the Simpson family before Bart was due to appear in an Australian court over fraud charges.
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