Yosemite Sam - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Yosemite Sam appears in the Drawn Together episode "Charlotte's Web of Lies". He is seen in Ling-Ling's Anger Management group with Hulk, Marvin the Martian, and Skeletor.
  • In an episode of How I Met Your Mother to make fun of the news anchor Sandy, Ted and Marshall make him "Yosemite Sandy" by putting a hat and mustache on the TV screen during the news.
  • On an episode of Night Court, Dan (John Larroquette) is forced into impersonating Yosemite Sam by a mentally disturbed woman he's dating.
  • On an episode of Two and a Half Men, Charlie remembers his mother having sex with a man that resembled Yosemite Sam, since then, when he sees Yosemite Sam on TV, he gets nauseated. At the end of the episode, we see Jake watching Yosemite Sam on TV, much to Charlie's dismay.
  • He was one of Joey Gladstone's favorite impressions in the show Full House.
  • In the Family Guy episode titled "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing", Yosemite Sam (voiced by John Kassir) is seen complaining about his "penis-compressingest, sperm-killingest, testicle-grippingest" jeans.
  • In SuperNews!, Yosamite Sam is an employee of the Blackwater mercenary company and work as a drill sergeant to John Rambo, another employee of Blackwater company.
  • Yosemite Sam may likely have been the inspiration for the Sesame Street Muppet character, "Sinister Sam".
  • Yosemite Sam is mentioned by name in the following songs:
    • "Lady Cab Driver", performed by Prince on his 1982 album, 1999.
    • "The Coalition To Ban Coalitions" by Hank Williams Jr.
    • "Egg Man" by the Beastie Boys on their album Paul's Boutique.
    • "Rooting For The Bad Guy" by The Wildhearts on their 2007 self titled album.
    • "Dirt Off Your Shoulder Freestyle" by Cassidy.
    • "I Hear Voices" by Kasabian on their album Velociraptor!.
    • "Complex" by "Merkules & Prada West".
  • Yosemite Sam appears on the logo of the KIJHL hockey team, the Castlegar Rebels.
  • Yosemite Sam was the cartoon icon of the similarly-mustachioed Pittsburgh Pirates player Phil Garner in the late 1970s.
  • The image of Yosemite Sam has been printed on mudflaps with the words, "Back off!".
  • The band Matt Bunsen and the Burners recorded a song entitled "I'm Yosemite Sam" which deploys the first paragraph, and the 'Voice' section of this Wikipedia entry as lyrics for the verses of the song.

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