Appearances in The Media
The show has been parodied numerous times:
- Comedian Chris Rock on his series The Chris Rock Show in a segment titled "Taxi Driver Confessions" where Rock played a cab driver who said outrageous things to unsuspecting customers.
- The Goo Goo Dolls, who had a member of their band, Dave Schulz, appear in episode #6, spoofed the show in their video for the single, "Sympathy." '
- The Simpsons makes a reference to the show in the episode "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", in which Homer complains about his family on a program called Taxicab Conversations.
- In Spin City Michael Flaherty asks after being interrogated by a taxi driver whether this is Taxicab Conversations. At that point, there is a cut and the rest of the scene is portrayed to be from the view of an on-board hidden camera.
- In a Season One episode of Two and a Half Men, "Drive East on Sunset Until You Reach the Gates of Hell," the two brothers hail a cab after leaving a bar: the two are drunk and as the episode ends, the duo wake up on the deck of Charlie's house; nearby is a form saying they've signed the waiver for a TV show called Taxicab Confessions. Two clips of the recordings made in the cab follow.
- In The Office episode 6 "Diwali" Season 3, Pam drives Michael home in the back seat of her car, Michael admit that he is not wearing his own shoes and then says "this is just like taxi cab confession". Pam responds; "One more word and I'm stopping the car".
- In Ugly Americans episode "Bat Person" Randal pitches a show exactly like it and is told so numerous times.
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Famous quotes containing the words appearances and/or media:
“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)