References in Popular Culture
- In I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), the lead character, Jack Spade, and his ex-girlfriend have a flashback about their experience of dancing on Soul Train. They dance down the Soul Train line (to the song "Dancing Machine" by the Jackson 5) but are so terrible they knock out all the other participants.
- A sequence in Charlie's Angels (2000) featured actress Cameron Diaz dancing on Soul Train.
- In 1974 Junior Walker recorded a song called "Dancin' Like They Do on Soul Train."
- The sketch comedy show In Living Color parodied Soul Train in 1990 with a sketch called "Old Train," parodying Cornelius's (and the show's) age and increasing disconnect with modern black music.
- An episode in the 36th season of Saturday Night Live parodied The Best of Soul Train by advertising a collection titled The Worst of Soul Train, featuring various bizarre or spoof performances.
- On the television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1994, it is revealed that Philip proposed to Vivian on an episode of Soul Train in the 1970s. They are asked to return on a special anniversary show. Don Cornelius played himself in the episode.
- An episode of The Steve Harvey Show featured Steve and some students going down a Soul Train line during detention.
- At the end of the movie This Christmas the main cast danced down a "Soul Train" line to Marvin Gaye's song "Got to Give It Up" (before the credit roll).
- IGT acquired the rights to create a slot machine based on the series.
- The show is parodied as The Soul Mass Transit System in The Simpsons' episode Rosebud.
- In the season 3 episode of The Cleveland Show titled "The Men In Me," Cleveland decides to take a trip on the 6:30 Soul Train as a starting point to go back to his roots.
- In Adult Swim's Black Dynamite (TV series) episode titled "Just Beat It or Jackson Five Across Yo' Eyes," the Soul Train variety show is visited by character Cream Corn. While leaving his duties of the group to see the Jackson 5, he then saves young Michael Jackson from an assassination attempt.
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