Appearances Elsewhere
Following rumors of a Zippy movie project, Griffith devoted dozens of strips to his real and imagined dealings with Hollywood. An animated television series, to be produced by Film Roman and co-written by Diane Noomin, was in negotiations from 1996 to 2001, but was abandoned due to lack of financing.
On July 9, 2004, Zippy made his stage debut in San Francisco in Fun: The Concept at the Dark Room Theatre. Bill Griffith approved of the adaptation, though he did not work on the project. Fun: The Concept was adapted by Denzil J. Meyers with Jim Fourniadis.
A collection of about 1,000 Zippy quotes was formerly packaged and distributed with the Emacs text editor. Most installations of the "fortune" command, available on most Unix-type systems, also contain this collection. This gives Zippy a very wide audience, since most Emacs users can have a random Zippy quote printed on their screen by typing "M-x yow" and most Linux or BSD users can get a random quote by typing "fortune zippy" in a shell. However, as a result of a decision by Richard Stallman motivated by copyright concerns, these quotes have been erased for GNU Emacs 22 .
Live-action footage of an actor portraying Zippy (Ron Brannan) and singing a song about the character was included in the 1988 documentary Comic Book Confidential. This song ('I'm Zippy') is available for free download on the official website (http://www.zippythepinhead.com/media/I_mZippy.mp3)
In the Seinfeld episode "The Stall" Elaine's boyfriend Tony (played by Dan Cortese) falls during a rock climbing adventure with Kramer and George. In the aftermath of the incident Elaine says Tony might look like a monster; Jerry then says he might look like Zippy the Pinhead.
In 2010, The Theatre Project of Baltimore presented Zippy the Pinhead: The Musical, co-produced, written and directed by Lorraine Whittlesey of Private Sector Productions. The show ran from November 14 to 21, 2010. Griffith was involved as creative consultant.
After Griffith criticized Scott Adams' comic Dilbert, Adams responded on May 18, 1998, with a comic strip called Pippy the Ziphead, "cramming as much artwork in as possible so no one will notice there's only one joke... it's on the reader." Dilbert notes that the strip is "nothing but a clown with a small head who says random things" and Dogbert responds that he is "maintaining his artistic integrity by creating a comic that no one will enjoy."
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Famous quotes containing the word appearances:
“We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)