Parodies and Popular Culture
- Married... with Children, season 11, episode 10, "The Stepford Peg": Peg (Katey Sagal) bumps her head on the coffee table after slipping on a candy wrapper, and becomes a stereotypical housewife thanks to Al (Ed O'Neill) implanting suggestions that she does do housework.
- The Chronicle, season 1, episode 18: "The Stepford Cheerleaders"
- Homeboys in Outer Space, season 1, episode 10: "A Man's Place is in the Homey, or The Stepford Guys"
- Desperate Housewives: In Season 1, Bree Van de Kamp is said to be running for the "mayor of Stepford" because of her perfection.
- Newhart, season 2, episode 4: "The Stratford Wives"
- Note: The BBC movie soundalike The Stretford Wives (2002) is not related.
- In one episode of Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide there were three "perfect" girls in the class, and Moze thinks they are robots.
- In an episode of My Hero, Pierce is asked if it is possible to make the Stepford wives a reality.
- S'Express sampled the line "yes, yes, this, it's wonderful" in their 1989 hit "Hey Music Lover".
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