

Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto C3PO is the Tin Man and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. “The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is raised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure.
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The 1997-2001 Nickelodeon TV show The Angry Beavers had a theme song reminiscent of Spanish Flea.įamous quotes containing the words film and television, film and/or television:

In American Pie 2, the band camp counselor plays the song on his trumpet. In the Philippine Noontime show It's Showtime on ABS-CBN, this song was played for taking a picture of a person's face with a frame called "Face Dance". In an episode of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer, Vic Reeves plays the song through a prosthetic arm. In the 1997 film Perdita Durango, the two main characters happily groove to the song while abducting two teenagers. When Taggart (John Ashton) asks what the tune is, Rosewood replies, " The Dating Game!" In the fingerprint scene in Rosewood's home in Beverly Hills Cop II, Eddie Murphy (playing Axel Foley) and Judge Reinhold (playing Billy Rosewood) improvised the idea of humming the tune. The tune has been featured in four episodes of The Simpsons: "The Otto Show", "Team Homer", "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday", and "Natural Born Kissers". It was one of two Alpert songs in a 1966 animated cartoon by John Hubley, A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature. In addition to its use in The Dating Game, the song has been used in a variety of film and television soundtracks.
