History Main / AmericanGothicCouple

* Brilliantly spoofed at the end of [[https://youtu.be/bvZQSw3F6FE this]] (banned, {{NSFW}}) IKEA commercial. (Also contains copious amounts of the ParentalSexualitySquick trope, and a ''[[AFishCalledWanda Fish Called Wanda]]'' reference for good measure.)

* Brilliantly spoofed at the end of [[https://youtu.be/bvZQSw3F6FE this]] (banned, {{NSFW}}) IKEA commercial. (Also contains copious amounts of the AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents trope...)

''Art/AmericanGothic''. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No]], not [[Series/AmericanGothic1995 the show]], the 1930 Grant Wood painting with the dour, Alan Greenspan-esque man with a pitchfork and his equally dour daughter (who's often [[RelativeError mistakenly assumed to be his wife]]). It is actually a portrait of Grant Wood's sister and his dentist. Incidentally, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_House house in the painting still stands today.]]

* In episode 3 of Creator/{{Telltale|Games}}'s ''VideoGame/BackToTheFutureTheGame'', there is a portrait of [[spoiler:First Citizen Brown and his wife Edna]] in the former's office that looks like ''American Gothic''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has a painting in it called the ''Terrarian Gothic'', featuring the Mechanic and Goblin Tinker.
* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' has a random event in the Hamlet called "Bumper Crop", where the farmers increase efforts to supply the heroes. During this event a familiar looking couple can be seen standing in the center of town along with their harvest.
* The front cover ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' PC game "Crazy Paint" shows [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/92/34/62/92346219e079f1d4e56ff38dbef538f6.jpg Wakko Warner painting the picture with his siblings Yakko and Dot]].
* ''VideoGame/DeathRoadToCanada'' has the rare "Gothic Farm" event, where you can rescue the American Gothic couple, referred to as Ma and Pa, from a farm overrun by zombies. If you can rescue them both, you get options for training in medical or mechanical skills (from Ma and Pa respectively), a stash of food or a sickle, a decently strong light weapon with multi-target that [[UnbreakableWeapons never breaks]]. Curiously, Ma and Pa are rare characters that cannot be played as by the player at all, not even in O*P*P mode.

''Art/AmericanGothic''. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No]], not [[Series/AmericanGothic1995 the show]], the 1930 Grant Wood painting with the dour, Alan Greenspan-esque man with a pitchfork and his equally dour daughter (who's often [[RelativeError mistakenly assumed to be his wife]]). It is actually a portrait of Grant Wood's sister and his dentist. Incidentally, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_House house in the painting still stands today]].

''Art/AmericanGothic''. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No]], not [[Series/AmericanGothic1995 the show]], the 1930 Grant Wood painting with the dour, Alan Greenspan-esque man with a pitchfork and his equally dour daughter (who's often [[RelativeError mistakenly assumed to be his wife]]). It is actually a portrait of Grant Wood's sister and his dentist. Incidentally, the house in the painting still stands today.

It's very well-known, and along with Leonardo's [[Art/TheMonaLisa Mona Lisa]] and Edvard Munch's Art/{{The Scream|Munch}}, it's one of the most parodied, imitated and referenced paintings in media, both real and fictional.

''American Gothic''. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant No]], not [[Series/AmericanGothic1995 the show]], the 1930 Grant Wood painting with the dour, Alan Greenspan-esque man with a pitchfork and his equally dour daughter (who's often [[RelativeError mistakenly assumed to be his wife]]). It is actually a portrait of Grant Wood's sister and his dentist. Incidentally, the house in the painting still stands today.

* Music/AmandaPalmer and Creator/NeilGaiman posed for a parody photograph of the painting with Palmer holding a floor cleaner and Gaiman holding a BBQ fork. [[http://www.apexbookcompany.com/blog/2009/04/ten-days-of-amanda-palmer-day-1/ The photo]] was taken by Kyle Cassidy.

* The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Bravo Dooby-Doo", which is a send-up-slash-crossover with ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', has him and Shaggy [[StandInPortrait hiding]] from the MonsterOfTheWeek in such a painting during the chase scene.

* The pilot episode of ''Series/NowhereMan'' shows the protagonist's self portrait photograph which is him and his wife posed the same with a camera on a stand in his hand in place of the pitchfork.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gothic_House The house still stands today.]] The State Historical Society of Iowa and the National Register of Historic Places rent it out to tenants, on the condition they maintain it as close to its original form as possible. Naturally, the first thing most tenants do is [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/American_Gothic_house_picture_taken.jpeg pose like the painting.]]

It's very well-known, and along with Leonardo's [[Art/TheMonaLisa Mona Lisa]] and Edvard Munch's Art/{{The Scream|EdvardMunch}}, it's one of the most parodied, imitated and referenced paintings in media, both real and fictional.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Artist Unknown", Squidward Tentacles is revealed to have made a version of the painting, with the two figures drawn in his likeness. All of Squidward's art is just his face drawn in various degrees of abstractness.

* The movie ''Film/GoodFences'' starring Whoopi Goldberg also has a parody of the painting on its cover.

* ''Series/TalesFromtheCrypt'': George and Luisa on the faux comic cover for "[[Recap/TalesFromTheCryptS2E9FourSidedTriangle Four Sided Triangle;]]", although [[{{Foreshadowing}} Luisa is the one holding the pitchfork]].

* The June 2019 issue of ''The New Republic'', featuring two popular "Democratic Socialists", Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

* In ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'', The couple who run the local market resemble the American Gothic Couple. The Store Sign even has an Image of them resembling the Painting.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' episode "Brinkadoom" has Beetlejuice and Lydie fly past a pair who resemble the farmer and his daughter, but with icicles hanging off their bodies. BJ refers to them as Uncle and Aunt Arctica.

It's very well-known, and along with Leonardo's {{Mona Lisa|Smile}} and Edvard Munch's TheScream, it's one of the most parodied, imitated and referenced paintings in media, both real and fictional.

* In the ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' Halloween episode "Chuck Versus the Sandworm", two of the Buy More employees dress up as the farmer and his daughter. It's Jeff and Lester.

* There's a [[http://americangothicparodies.blogspot.com/ blog]] devoted to collecting these parodies).

* The music video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t99bpilCKw "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked" by Cage the Elephant]] has a cameo.

* The artwork on the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4558 Orcish Settlers]] parodied this painting with green orcs replacing the couple, a piece of toast impaled on a broken pitchfork, and the house on fire.
* A ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/40127522@N05/5349377398/ promo card]].