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1 The Simpsons 2 South Park 3 That 70's Show 4 Futurama 5 Miscellaneous 6 The Wizard of Oz

The Simpsons

The Simpsons has made many references to Pink Floyd.

• Dark Side of the Moon - Consistently a poster in Homer's room in his flashbacks; in "Homer Goes to College," there is a poster of the album in the dean's office at Springfield University.
• Wish You Were Here - in "Old Man and the Lisa," Mr. Burns tells a Hippie recycler, 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'.
• Animals - Hallapalooza episode. Homer sets off a cannon and the Pink Floyd Pig is fired out. Peter Frampton states that he "...got it at Pink Floyd's yard sale".
• The Wall - Episode where Homer discovers his middle name and becomes a hippie. After making juice with drugged vegetables, Ned Flanders drinks some and sees a strange parade which includes the hammers. Also In "Missionary: Impossible", Marge misquotes the start of "Comfortably Numb" (saying "Is there anybody in there?") when contacting Homer on a short wave radio.

It was also rumoured that Pink Floyd were set to appear as guests on the show due to a drawing of them, autographed by Matt Groening being distributed online. As of yet, they have not.

South Park

In the South Park episode "4th Grade", Eric Cartman taunts "haha, charade you are, teacha" to his new fourth grade teacher, a reference to the first part of the song "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" from Animals. He also tells this to Stan's sister, Shelly, in another episode after snapping a picture of her with her 22 year old boyfriend while she was supposed to babysit him.

That 70's Show

In That 70's Show, Hyde is often seen wearing a Dark Side of the Moon T-Shirt. The show is approaching the release date of The Wall near the end of 1979.

Futurama

In the episode "The Series Has Landed", when Fry and Leela are running from the mad moon farmer, they notice that the dark side of the moon is coming. Fry says, "Look! the dark side of the moon!" and a music clip that sounds like "Breathe" from Dark Side of the Moon plays.

Miscellaneous

• Pink Floyd are well known for their lengthy compositions, considered some of their finest works.
  1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-9)" - 25:40 (Wish You Were Here, split into two parts)
  2. "Atom Heart Mother Suite" - 23:39 (Title track to album)
  3. "Echoes" - 23:29 (Meddle)
  4. "Dogs" - 17:08 (Animals)
  5. "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" - 13:00 (Atom Heart Mother)
  6. "A Saucerful of Secrets" - 11:52 ('\'A Saucerful of Secrets) (12:48 on Ummagumma'')
  7. "Pigs" - 11:28 (Animals)
  8. "Sheep" - 10:20 (Animals)
• The giant inflatable pig that was to be used on the Animals album cover (floating over the Battersea Power Station) supposedly slipped its moorings and floated off, being spotted by airline pilots at 40,000 feet.
• The original inflatable pig used in the Animals and Wall tours were designated intellectual property of Roger Waters so could not be used in the reformed (Gilmour, Mason and Wright) Floyd tours. They got around this by changing the gender of the pig, adding testicles.
• Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, a list of 150 songs circulated on the internet purportedly sent out by radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications that were recommended to be pulled from airplay (it was later determined that the original list was the work of a few program directors working independently, and that the list changed and grew as it was circulated). Pink Floyd's "Run Like Hell" and "Mother" were on the list.
• On the song Wish You Were Here, in the 26th second, a small cough can be heard, followed by an even quieter sniff at the 31st second. There is an unproven rumour that this cough is representing David Gilmour's quitting smoking during the recording of the album, however, the cough could just as easily be just to add to the 'person listening to WYWH coming onto the radio' effect.
• Meddle, released in 1971 and considered Pink Floyd's turning-point album, recieved mixed reviews upon its release. Michael Watts of Melody Maker passed off the album as "So much sound and fury signifying nothing". Drummer Nick Mason responded to Watts' review by sending him a gift box containing a boxing glove mounted on a spring.

The Wizard of Oz

Dark Side of the Moon has also been the source of a persistent urban legend that it was conceived as a kind of synchronized soundtrack for the film The Wizard of Oz (David Gilmour has since gone on record to deny the group had anything to do with "Dark Side"'s synchronization with "Oz").

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