Joe Piscopo - Pop Culture References

Pop Culture References

• In the season 5 episode "Not Even Close... Encounters" episode of Psych, Shawn's dad says that Shawn believed Joe Piscopo had been abducted by aliens to which Shawn replies, "That remains my theory until someone can pinpoint the man's whereabouts."
• Piscopo is mentioned in four episodes of The Simpsons. In season four's "Brother from the Same Planet," Bart is seen watching "Tuesday Night Live," starring Krusty the Clown, and comments, "I miss Joe Piscopo." In another season four episode, "Lisa's First Word", Marge prefaces a flashback to 1983 with the line "A young Joe Piscopo taught us how to laugh...". In season five's "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Homer refers to 1985 and says "..and a maturing Joe Piscopo was leaving Saturday Night Live to conquer Hollywood." This was intended as a joke, referring to the fact that Piscopo's career did not really flourish after he left SNL. In season twenty's Coming to Homerica, Marge Simpson, talking to her new nanny in front of her baby Maggie, references Piscopo's relationship with his former nanny Kimberly Driscoll and says "Maggie, you now have a nanny, just like the ones Joe Piscopo and Ethan Hawke left their wives for."
• In the Scrubs episode, My Mirror Image, Dr. Cox is interrupted during his workout, and asks the interns, "What does this outfit tell you?", to which Dr. Kelso responds, "You're entering a Joe Piscopo look-a-like contest?"
• On the Family Guy episode, Meet the Quagmires, Peter says that not taking Lois to the movies is worse than the time he gave Joe Piscopo a barbell set. It then shows Peter and Joe in a room with workout equipment. Peter says "Ok Joe, now don't get carried away with this." Joe replies "Don't worry Peter, I'll only work out in my down time."
• He was mentioned in three episodes of Married With Children: once by Al Bundy to distract a security officer at a filming studio, a second time in the episode "A Tisket, A Tasket, Can Peggy Make a Basket?" where Al and Peggy recognize him (off screen) as an usher at a basketball game, and lastly in "Kelly Knows Something" where a sports trivia game show host tells Al that his popularity was classified as being "between Joe Piscopo and the fat kid who played on Head Of The Class". He is actually referenced a fourth time, when Kelly, Bud, and Al are discussing names for the supposedly upcoming new arrival to the Bundy family. After hearing his kids' suggestions, Al Bundy deadpans 'Piscopo'.
• A caricature of Piscopo appears very briefly in the animated made-for-TV movie, Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation. Near the end of the closing credits, one of the numerous "joke credits" reads "Our Only Regret: Joe Piscopo."
• He is mentioned in the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song, Jammin' Me.
• The Nintendo 64 game Gex 64: Enter The Gecko tells the player to "Don't take career advice from Joe Piscopo".
• On the Viktor Vaughn album, Vaudeville Villain, Joe Piscopo is referenced in the song 'Saliva', with the lyrics: "Cock diesel and still tell a joke like Joe Piscopo".
• The Das Efx song, Mic Checka from 1992, features the line: "My Saturday nights are liver than Joe Piscopo".
• At the beginning of the episode "The House That Peg Lost" in season 3 of "Married...With Children", Al is heard watching a program about "the luckiest men in America" and the Robin Leach-like presenter mentions Joe Piscopo.
• In season 4 of The Golden Girls when Rose asks Dorothy if she's upset because Blanche may sell the house, Dorothy responds she's really upset because Joe Piscopo didn't get the lead in Rain Man.