In Popular Culture
- The 1950s edition was briefly parodied in a Merrie Melodies cartoon, Wideo Wabbit, featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, as Fudd's pursuit of Bugs lands him in a re-enactment of Custer's Last Stand.
- On one of the "Classic 39" episodes of The Honeymooners, Art Carney as Norton---hearing Jackie Gleason as Ralph say he had a plan to get wife Alice (Audrey Meadows) to give him the money to go on the Raccoon Lodge convention---launched into this soliloquy parodying You Are There's famous catchphrase: May 3, 1953. Ralph Kramden . . . in search . . . for money . . . for capital . . . to enter his No-Cal Pizzeria . . . He says, "I have a sure-fire plan of getting the money, it can't fail!" . . . Alice Kramden says, "No!" . . . unquote . . . all things are as they were then, except you are there!
- The series was parodied on The Ernie Kovacs Show as "Vas You Dere?" The cast performed a lampoon of the stabbing of Julius Caesar, presented as a carnival act.
- The series was parodied on The Electric Company in a sketch titled You Weren't There. "You weren't born yet, you were out of town, or you just weren't paying attention," says the narrator.
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