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  • Gumby and Pokey appeared in a TV commercial for General Mills' Frosted Cheerios.
    Gumby: Hey, they're frosted!
    Pokey: Hey, we're clay!

Film

  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022): When Ellie arrests Detective Putty, she calls him a low-rate Gumby.
  • Jingle All the Way: There is a scene near the end with a large parade of famous cartoon characters and mascots. Gumby can be seen marching in the parade in a few shots.
  • In Surf Ninjas, the protagonists are told that they need to meet with a man named Gum-Bey; Johnny quips that he must be Po-Key's friend.

Literature

  • In Harmonic Feedback, Drea thinks her teacher Mr. Diaz looks kind of like Gumby because of his buggy eyes and lanky body.

Live-Action TV

  • America's Funniest Home Videos: One of their most well-known video had a little boy dressed as Gumby for Halloween. Unfortunately for him, the dimensions of the costume make it difficult for him to walk, crimb up stairs, or even get up after inevitably falling over.
  • Full House:
    • In "Mad Money", one of the things Joey buys with his $5,000 savings bond is a 1964 Gumby and Pokey pinball machine, which was worth $1,275.
    • In "Aftershocks", Uncle Jesse finds Joey's Gumby figure in the garbage disposal.
    • In "Smash Club: The Next Generation", when Uncle Jesse becomes depressed after being denied a loan request to refurnish the Smash Club, Danny describes depression to Michelle by comparing it to the time she found out that Gumby wasn't microwave-safe.
  • Home Improvement: One episode of "Tool Time" had Tim make a joke about "Gumbo" being Pokey's best friend, which garnered no laughs from the audience. When Al made an unrelated joke of his own, however, they went nuts.
  • In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode The Screaming Skull, the cast watch "Robot Rumpus" as a pre-movie short. Since Tom Servo and Crow are robots themselves, they identify more with the antagonistic robots than with Gumby or Pokey, and they're traumatized when the short ends with the robots dismantled.
  • Overlapping with music, The New Edition Story's third episode re-enacts the incident that created Bobby Brown's popular Gumby-esque flat-top.
    Bobby: (angrily) Man, what the hell!? You got me lookin' like Gumby!
  • Saved by the Bell: In "Masquerade Ball", Tori tries to get revenge on Zack and Slater for having a challenge to see who could kiss her first. At said party, she ends up unintentionally setting up astronaut Slater to kiss Gumby Screech, who she had thought was Zack.

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Western Animation

  • Gravity Falls: At the end of the "Clay Day" segment in "Little Gift Shop of Horrors", Soos inexplicably turns into an Expy of Gumby, even exclaiming Pokey's catchphrase "Holy Toledo!" when it happens and skating on one foot. However, Grunkle Stan and the twins, having had enough of stop-motion after having had to fight for their lives against evil stop-motion animated characters earlier that day, freak out and throw the Mystery Shack's TV at Soos.
  • Western Animation/MAD”: Pokey appears in the skit, “Lone Rango”, a mashup of The Lone Stranger and Rango.
  • Robot Chicken:
    • A sketch from "Badunkadunk" has a teenage Hulk act as Gumby's stunt double.
    • A sketch from "Saving Private Gigli" has the Blockheads being put on trial for the murder of Gumby.
  • The Simpsons: The Couch Gag for "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" has the Simpson family roll into their living room as clay balls, and Gumby arrives a couple of seconds later. After a few seconds of rolling, the Simpsons form into themselves in claymation form, with Gumby doing the same.
  • The The Real Ghostbusters episode "Station Identification" features several not-so-affectionate spoofs of various TV shows, films and cartoons. One of them is "Gumbo", a violent cross between Gumby and Rambo.

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