References in Popular Culture
- In the 30 Rock season two premiere episode, "SeinfeldVision," the character Jenna Maroney returns from summer break having starred in Mystic Pizza: The Musical. Her noticeable weight gain is attributed to eating 32 slices of pizza a week for the show.
- In one sub-plot of the Broken Lizard film, Puddle Cruiser, the main characters watch the film believing that Julia Roberts gets naked in it.
- Pepperidge Farm Goldfish snacks are packaged with biographical details of mascot Finn, including his favorite film, Optimistic Pizza.
- In Cougar Town, Laurie compares herself to Julia Roberts from Mystic Pizza when she visits the country club.
- In the episode "Run Away, Little Boy" of Gilmore Girls, Paris (played by Liza Weil) compares the "whole small town, 'we don't let a clock run our lives' thing" from Stars Hollow with Mystic Pizza.
- In the Facebook game "Café World", there is a dish that players can cook called "Mystical Pizza".
- In The Lonely Island song "No Homo", the group feels the need to emphasize that knowing all the lines of Mystic Pizza is not homo.
- In the TV series Parks and Recreation, the character Ron Swanson only knows Julia Roberts as "the toothy girl from Mystic Pizza".
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