References to the Godfather

Hi there.

I'm sure there has been a thousand references to the Godfather in other movies. Maybe you would like to post them here, it's cool to watch.

For example on Seinfeld, i've noticed it three times:
1- Jerry saying "Elaine, don't talk to me about my business"
2- A parrot's name was Fredo, and after it died they said: "Fredo was weak and stupid"
3- Jerry got massacred in a dream and Kramer came and said: "Look what they've done to my boy"

So?

Well, The Simpsons have done a bunch of references to the Godfather...

The movie "Analyze This" with Bob DeNiro and Billy Crystal has blatant references (and they talk about it)...

Crystal: "They shot me, and you came over and fell to the sidewalk and shouted, 'papa! papa!'"

DeNiro: "So I was Fredo? I don't think so..."

References? Boy do I have a list

In THE RUGRATS IN PARIS MOVIE, they watched the GODFATHER the night before and in the cartoons wedding scene, the kids go to Angelica asking for favors, I think she was called the Bobfather (as the kids always butcher words)

Many rap artists (god for friggin bid) have taken names from the movie, there are rapper's called CORLEONE, Godfather, Fredro ( a reference to Fredo), a rap corporation called Murder Inc.

In the TV show SOAP, they used the term "Godfather" for the Boss' identity- never used before in televsion

In ALL IN THE FAMILY- Archie once witnessed a mugging and the victim was Italian, Antonio Voschino. Archie said it was 2 hoods in blue silk suits driving a Cadillac, when it was really a punk kid. A member of an Italian defemation society named Ralph Silvestri visited Archie to discuss his account that was in the newspapers.

Ralph Silvestri: Mafia is not even a word, its defunctit.(phonetic) Even in that movie "The Godfather" they never say Mafia. You know what the called organized crime? Organized Crime

John Belushi in a analysts group skit as the Godfather on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

In the movie the FRESHMAN, Mathhew Brodericks caharcter is an film major and his Professor (Mr Bentley from the Jeffersons) uses Godfather II as his only example of movie making. Marlon Brando's performance is a direct copy of Vito Corleone- best line in the movie

Clark: Is that Benito Mussolini
Carmine: It aint Tony Bennett

lol John Belushi as "dueling Brandos" always makes me laugh.

I vaguely remember some cartoon show from when I was younger, where one kid had trimmed a shrub thing into the shape of a horse, and later woke up with its head in his bed. Maybe it was "Hey Arnold."

I saw that too, but it was "Pepper Ann". Why I watched that show I don't know...

BOY MEETS WORLD

In one episode, Eric came to Shawn and Cory asking for a favor and with Italian music in that background they said things like, "This I cannot do" and that, "We are legitimate."

There was also a recent commercial where a guy put roast beef in his wifes bed to make room for beer and she woke up and screamed. lol

I just remembered.... They did it on South Park:

The little fat kid wanted to killa another kid, so he took him on a boat ride... they were even playing the Godfather Theme in the background... very funny

Just about every movie, cartoon, television show, or bit that has the head honcho or villain sitting in a chair petting his cat.

That reference alone deserves its own thread.

Grand Theft Auto:Vice City, has a mission called "Keep your friends close..." And there was this spoof Mafia movie, (I remember it had a scene in it where a tall guy was dressed as a priest, and a midget came out with a machine gun, and the priest said " Say hello to my little friend" when they at a funeral. I know that it is a Scarface reference, but I'm sure it had some refeences to the Godfather.)

Hi!

Wasn't this first shown in one of the James Bond movies back in the 60's? And even then they must've taken inspiration from someone else, I guess.

Back to the topic. There's a hilarious GF reference in "Hotshots 2": when the main couple visits an Italian restaurant, one can clearly observe Mike, McCluskey, and Sollozzo at a table next to them.

Best regards.

Alexander

P.S. Ah, yeah. Petting the cat. Bart Simpson does just this when a plastic figure of James Bond is cruelly melted in a microwave oven, this time with absolutely no chance for escape. What a nice triple connection.

There's a whole thought on GF in "YOU"VE GOT MAIL" when Joe Fox (Hanks) trys to explain to Kathleen Kelly (Ryan) why GF is so important in their everyday dealings with other people. He tells her to "go to the mattresses" when she encounters a cutthroat competitor.

At a dinner party Joe trys to recreate the horse's head in the bed scene, which completely goes over Kathleen's "head". It's hilarious!

Joe (Tom) does a fair Vito Corleone impression!


"Go home Mike. Go home and bury your wife and child."
"It won't be that simple."

Check this out for godfather references!!!
http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/i/i_am_the_mob_catatonia.html
How cool are those lyrics. The song is on the international velvet album if anyone is looking for it.

Hey! I like another one from Seinfeld. Jerry is no longer a godfather of a child of his friends, and Kramer becomes the godfather. In the end of the episode we see Jerry and Elaine standing in front of Kramer's apartment as the door slowly closes, and both of jerry's friends are kissing Kramer's hands as the godfather music is playing. This was very amusing.

On an episode of "Lizzie Mcguire", someone's pet chimp got lose in the main characters house and caused trouble by breaking all a bunch of crap. And when the owners get him at the end (the chimps name is "Fredo), the owner goes, "You broke my heart Fredo, you broke my heart."