Referenced By / Bing Crosby

Literature

• In Evidence of Things Not Seen, Frank asks Stella if she'd like to swing on a star and carry moonbeams home in a jar.

Live-Action TV

• In the Fantasy Island episode "The Comic/The Golden Hour," Tattoo does an "impression" of Bing Crosby that involves lip synching to "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral" with a record player hidden in the bushes.

Western Animation

• Der Binger was a favorite of the crew of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, and was spoofed on many of their cartoons. Among the most notable:
  • "Bingo Crosbyana" featured a caricature of Bing as a fly, who was also a Dirty Coward who fled the scene when a spider abducts the leading lady. Crosby was not amused and sued Warner Bros.
  • "Baby Bottleneck" features a brief mention of Crosby during the scene of Daffy answering phones, referencing his large family of boys. ("I'm sorry, Bing, you've already filled your quota.")
  • "Swooner Crooner" features a rooster version of Bing helping Porky get his chickens back from a rooster version of Frank Sinatra.
  • "Catch as Cats Can" also references Bing's rivalry with Sinatra; in this case, Bing is a parrot who tries to get a cat (an early version of Sylvester) to eat Frankie as a canary.
  • Bugs Bunny briefly imitates Bing in "What's Cookin, Doc?"
  • Bing is among the out-of-work entertainers trying to woo Elmer for his vaudeville act in "What's Up, Doc?"
  • Bing's bad luck at the horse races is referenced in "Porky's Preview", "Hollywood Steps Out" and "The Old Grey Hare"
• In the Silly Symphony'' short "Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)", Crosby is caricatured as the titular Cock Robin.
• Taz's father Hugh in Tazmania is patterned after Bing Crosby. The episodes featuring Uncle Drew, who is a parody of Bob Hope, are based on the Road to ... film series.
• On The Simpsons, Rev. Lovejoy's superior the Parson is a parody of Crosby's role of Father Chuck O'Malley in Going My Way and ''The Bells of St. Mary's".