History ReferencedBy / TheWiz

* ''Series/{{Martin}}'': While auditioning to sing backup for [[Music/TheNotoriousBIG Biggie Smalls]], Pam dresses up as Music/PattiLaBelle, calls herself [[Music/TinaTurner Shawntina Turner]] and sings a [[LargeHam spirited]] rendition of "Home".

*** ''Weekend Update'' co-anchor Creator/MichaelChe reports, "On Thursday, a gang of Black people, who were allegedly under the influence of narcotics, murdered two high-ranking community leaders on live television..." then reveals that he was reading the Creator/FoxNewsChannel recap of ''The Wiz''.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'': The second season episode "Hmm... Tastes Like..." features a rendition of "Believe in Yourself".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} in the OffToSeeTheWizard segment of [[Recap/FuturamaS3E18AnthologyOfInterestII Anthology of Interest II]] Fry as the Scarecrow at one point says that “I needs to stop and take The Wiz.”

* ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'': The second season episode "Hmm... Tastes Like..." features a rendition of "Believe in Yourself".

* ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite'': In the series finale "The Wizard of Watts" Black Dynamite briefly changes the channel to ''The Wiz'' movie playing on TV before being knocked unconscious and having a WholePlotReference dream about Oz. He's greeted by Music/JamesBrown in the role of the good fairy who describes the place as "The black version of ''The Wiz''" and when Broto the poodle points out that ''The Wiz'' is already black, he replies "Yeah, but not '''THIS''' black, this place makes ''The Wiz'' look like ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''!"

*** ''Weekend Update'' co-anchor Michael Che reports, "On Thursday, a gang of Black people, who were allegedly under the influence of narcotics, murdered two high-ranking community leaders on live television..." then reveals that he was reading the Creator/FoxNewsChannel recap of ''The Wiz''.
*** A crossover between ''The Wiz Live!'' and 1939's ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' features host Creator/RyanGosling as the '39 Scarecrow, who awakens from a train ride to find himself in "East Oz", the setting of ''The Wiz Live!'' A culture clash ensues when the "West Oz" denizen meets a 2015-minded Dorothy (Sasheer Zamata), her similarly modern friends (Michael Che as the Scarecrow, Jay Pharoah as the Tin Man, and Kenan Thompson as the Cowardly Lion), and the sassy Wiz herself (Leslie Jones).

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In [[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E8BarelyLegal episode 8 of the 5th season]] when told that police have left the city, a bunch of (white) citizens unzip themselves to reveal African American people wearing yellow underwear who then begin to dance and sing to the song "Brand New Day". A reference to the film version of ''The Wiz''.

* ''Series/InLivingColor'': A season 3 "Funky Finger Productions" sketch contains an excerpt of a movie described as "[[XMeetsY a cross between]] ''The Wiz'' and ''Film/{{Flatliners}}''", in which the Tin Man (Tommy Davidson) and Cowardly Lion (David Alan Grier) venture to ask the Wiz to give a dying Scarecrow "a brain and a heart...and a kidney and a liver and the whole nine yards".

* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': "[[OrangeIsTheNewBlackS04BunnySkullBunnySkull Bunny, Skull, Bunny, Skull]]" has the inmates watch ''The Wiz'' for movie night. Suzanne says her favorite part comes when Glinda floats in with her giant bubble (which only occurs in "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz the white people version]]"), as an ActorAllusion to when Uzo Aduba played Glinda in ''The Wiz Live!''

* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': "[[OrangeIsTheNewBlackS04BunnySkullBunnySkull Bunny, Skull, Bunny, Skull]]" has the inmates watch ''The Wiz'' for movie night. Suzanne says her favorite part comes when Glinda floats in with her giant bubble, a reference to "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz the white people version]]", and an ActorAllusion to when Uzo Aduba played Glinda in ''The Wiz Live!''

* ''Series/InLivingColor'' has a season 3 "Funky Finger Productions" sketch containing an excerpt of a movie described as "[[XMeetsY a cross between]] ''The Wiz'' and ''Film/{{Flatliners}}''", in which the Tin Man (Tommy Davidson) and Cowardly Lion (David Alan Grier) venture to ask the Wiz to give a dying Scarecrow "a brain and a heart...and a kidney and a liver and the whole nine yards".

* ''Series/InLivingColor'' has a "Funky Finger Productions" sketch from season 3, containing an excerpt of a home movie described as "[[XMeetsY a cross between]] ''The Wiz'' and ''Film/{{Flatliners}}''.

*** A crossover between ''The Wiz Live!'' and 1939's ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' features host Creator/RyanGosling as the '39 Scarecrow, who awakens from a train ride to find himself in "East Oz", the setting of ''The Wiz Live!'' A culture clash ensues when the "West Oz" denizen meets a 2015-minded Dorothy (Sasheer Zamata), her similarly modern friends (Jay Pharoah as the Scarecrow, Michael Che as the Tin Man, and Kenan Thompson as the Cowardly Lion), and the sassy Wiz herself (Leslie Jones).

*** A crossover between ''The Wiz Live!'' and 1939's ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' features host Creator/RyanGosling as the '39 Scarecrow, who awakens from a train ride to find himself in "East Oz", the setting of ''The Wiz Live!'' A culture clash ensues when the "West Oz" denizen meets a 2015-minded Dorothy (Sasheer Zamata), her similarly modern friends (Jay Pharoah as the Scarecrow, Michael Che as the Tin Man, and Kenan Thompson as the Cowardly Lion), and the Wiz herself (Leslie Jones).

* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' Season 41 episode that aired two days after the NBC premiere of ''The Wiz Live!'' contained two references to the special:
** ''Weekend Update'' co-anchor Michael Che reports, "On Thursday, a gang of Black people, who were allegedly under the influence of narcotics, murdered two high-ranking community leaders on live television..." then reveals that he was reading the Creator/FoxNewsChannel recap of ''The Wiz''.
** A crossover between ''The Wiz Live!'' and 1939's ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' features host Creator/RyanGosling as the '39 Scarecrow, who awakens from a train ride to find himself in "East Oz", the setting of ''The Wiz Live!'' A culture clash ensues when the "West Oz" denizen meets a 2015-minded Dorothy (Sasheer Zamata), her similarly modern friends (Jay Pharoah as the Scarecrow, Michael Che as the Tin Man, and Kenan Thompson as the Cowardly Lion), and the Wiz herself (Leslie Jones).

* In [[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E8BarelyLegal episode 8 of the 5th season]] of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when told that police have left the city, a bunch of (white) citizens unzip themselves to reveal African American people wearing yellow underwear who then begin to dance and sing to the song "Brand New Day". A reference to the film version of ''The Wiz''.

** A crossover between ''The Wiz Live!'' and 1939's ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' features host Creator/RyanGosling as the '39 Scarecrow, who awakens from a train ride to find himself in "East Oz", the setting of ''The Wiz Live!'' A culture clash ensues when the "West Oz" denizen meets a 2015-minded Dorothy (Sasheer Zamata), her similarly modern friends (Jay Pharoah as the Scarecrow, Michael Che as the Tin Man, and Kenan Thompson as the Cowardly Lion), and the Wiz herself (Leslie Jones).

* In [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/FamilyGuyS5E8BarelyLegal episode 8 of the 5th season]] of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', when told that police have left the city, a bunch of (white) citizens unzip themselves to reveal African American people wearing yellow underwear who then begin to dance and sing to the song "Brand New Day". A reference to the film version of ''The Wiz''.

In an episode 8 of the 5th season of Family Guy, when told that police have left the city, a bunch of (white) citizens unzip themselves to reveal African American people wearing yellow underwear who then begin to dance and sing to the song "Brand New Day". An obvious reference to the film version of The Wiz.