Cultural References
- In The Simpsons episode "Homie the Clown", Krusty bets all the money he earned franchising his name - ultimately 48 dollars - against the Globetrotters, telling his financial advisor, "I thought the Generals were due!" In another episode, entitled "Lisa the Tree Hugger," Homer refers to the Luftwaffe as "the Washington Generals of the History Channel."
- In the Futurama episode, "Time Keeps On Slippin'", in a basketball game against the Harlem Globetrotters, Professor Farnsworth's Team of Atomic Supermen are dressed in Washington Generals colors. They do well at first and then lose inexplicably during a "time slip" during which one of the Atomic Supermen dies and Phillip J. Fry is substituted for him.
- On the September 28, 1991 Michael Jordan/Public Enemy episode of Saturday Night Live, there was a sketch entitled "The First Black Harlem Globetrotter." The Globetrotters were depicted as a white team, and in a dispute over Jordan's character joining the team, Mike Myers's character proclaims "Let's quit, we can start our own team, we can call it...the Washington Generals."
- Various unflattering comparisons have been drawn between the poor play of the Washington Nationals baseball team and the Generals, most notably by Chris "Mad Dog" Russo.
- In the season five finale of How I Met Your Mother Ted remarks to Robin "Never ending battle? Career's been trouncing romance for years now. It's like the Globetrotters versus the Generals, career's sinking hookshots from half court, romance is just a bunch of slow white guys who couldn't make it in the Italian League"
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