Referenced By / The Beverly Hillbillies

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• An early ABC promo for The Hughleys features a parody of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song.
  Well, he worked real hard to be a hundred-thousand-aire
  His homeboy said, "Fool, move away from there!"
  They said a white neighborhood is where you want to be
  So, we bought a big house, now you're living next to me

Film

• Jumanji: When being told by Judy that he looks like he shaved with a piece of glass, Alan snaps back, "Did the Clampetts have a yard sale?"

Literature

• In Cemetery Bird, Brandon sings part of the Beverly Hillbillies theme to himself.

Music

• The "Weird Al" Yankovic song "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*" sets the lyrics from "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" to "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits.

Theatre

• The "Othello Rap" from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) has a nod to the Beverly Hillbillies theme at its very end:
  Iago got caught, but he prob'ly copped a plea,
  Loaded up his bags, and moved to Beverly... Hills, that is.

Western Animation

• Hey Arnold!: In “The Aptitude Test”, Helga’s test results convince her that her ideal career is “woodsperson”, so she begins to act like a stereotypical country person, admitting that she gets her entire idea of how country people behave from “Beverly Hillbillies” reruns.
• The Simpsons:
  • The end credits for "The Old Man and the Key" parodies the Beverly Hillbillies credits sequence, with the Simpsons waving to the audience while keeping a sleepy Grampa alert.
  • In "Moe Baby Blues", the Hibberts watch The Beverly Hillbillies Down Under on their car's built-in DVD player.
  • At the end of "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore", Isabel Sanford shows a clip from a Beverly Hillbillies episode in which Jethro tells Granny he's going to "shoot some Vietcong".
  • in "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution", Homer accidentally fires a pistol at the Museum of Television, and the bullet hits the ground on a Beverly Hillbillies display, causing oil to spurt out.
  • "Deep Space Homer" has The Simpsons driving in The Clampett's vehicle while the TV Theme is playing.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Pizza Delivery", Squidward calls SpongeBob "Jethro" when he tries to act like a pioneer.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: In "Acme Cable TV", one of the featured programs is The Possum Swamp Pauper, a reversal of the series' premise in which Montana Max loses his fortune and winds up with possum hillbillies.

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