In Popular Culture
American artist David Hammons used Kool-Aid and incorporated a stamp of the Kool-Aid Man for a piece that hung in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The Kool-Aid Man has made several appearances on the television series Family Guy:
- In the episode "Death Has a Shadow", he bursts through a wall in a courtroom and shouts, "Oh yeah!". Where upon seeing he created a scene and no one in the room spoke, he slowly backs out of the large hole he had made in the wall.
- In the episode "Peterotica", he is shown sitting in his living room when a man crashes through his wall, causing him to realize how it felt to be the target. Later in the episode, after Peter fell off a train and rolled into the same wall again, the Kool-Aid Man moans in disbelief.
- In "Prick Up Your Ears", after Stewie panics about the existence of the Tooth Fairy, Brian and then Chris fail to calm Stewie down and then Quagmire makes an attempt. Then the Kool-Aid Man is seen in a pair of boxing gloves at the back of the line behind Cleveland, Mayor West, Herbert, The Evil Monkey, Kilobot and Dr. Hartman, all of whom are armed with weapons ready to "console" Stewie one-by-one.
- In "Stewie Kills Lois", once Peter is found guilty for first-degree murder, some people shout "Oh no!" and the Kool-Aid Man once again bursts through the wall screaming "OH YEAH!". The judge then complains, considering it has happened twice prior.
- In "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair", Evil Stewie lures him out by pretending to impersonate other people going "Oh No!". When he bursts through the wall and shouts "OH YEAH!", Evil Stewie kills him by beating him to death with a baseball bat.
- In "Back to the Pilot", we see the Kool-Aid Man waiting to break through the courthouse like in "Death Has a Shadow".
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