The Canadian children's TV series The Big Comfy Couch used a version of the song in the episode " Backwards ".

Each episode of The Big Time will focus on a different vertical ( Baseball, Soccer, Cooking etc .…) and will feature contestants competing for a chance to live their dreams.

He is fired in the episode " I Get the Big Names " for audio taping Brooke Vandanberg while she urinates on the toilet and then leaking it to the media.

* Big Blue, a legendary sea monster from the X-Files episode Quagmire

Other examples are My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss ( modeled after The Apprentice ), My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, Hell Date ( modeled after Blind Date ), Superstar USA ( modeled after American Idol ), Space Cadets ( which convinced the hoax targets that they were being flown into space ), Punk'd ( involving celebrities in staged crises ), Invasion Iowa ( in which a town was convinced that William Shatner was filming a movie there ), and Reality Hell ( different target and premise every episode ).

When Enos returned at the start of the fifth season the pair both served as deputies and shared the same patrol car for five episodes before Cletus disappeared ( his last appearance being in the episode " Big Daddy "), said to have gone on vacation, never to return ( until 1997's Reunion movie after Enos ' apparent return to California after the series ).

Big Idea's popular VeggieTales episode was called " Dave and the Giant Pickle ", where Phil Vischer voiced Goliath.

Nimoy provided the voice of Spock as a guest star in a Season 5 episode of the CBS sitcom, The Big Bang Theory.

Each episode consists of four rounds: a question round, a Big Board round, a second question round, and then a second Big Board round with higher money amounts and prize values.

" Although apparently elderly, he claims to be only 31 years old ( in 1993's " Selma's Choice ", his driver's license says he was born August 2, 1961, and in " Duffless ", Moleman confessed his real age at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, implying that his grotesque appearance has been caused by severe alcoholism ), though Moleman has been seen at the Springfield Retirement Home on season ten's " The Old Man and the " C " Student " and in the season 13 episode Little Girl in the Big Ten.

* Randy Travis – Country music star Randy Travis, like Griffith a North Carolina native, appeared in the season six episode " The Big Payoff " ( 1992 ) as Billy Wheeler.

In the episode " Little Big Girl ," it is revealed that Nelson is German.

In the Series 5 episode " The Big Bang " the Doctor telepathically left a message in Amy Pond's head before sealing her into the Pandorica so that she would know what was happening when she woke up.

* In The Sopranos episode, " Big Girls Don't Cry ", Christopher Moltisanti's acting instructor assigns Chris and several classmates — whom she terms " rebels without causes "— to enact the scene wherein Plato dies and Jim cries over his friend's body.

In 1993, the band filmed an episode of MTV Unplugged, where they debuted the song " Big Empty.

The use of the term in reference to surfing can be traced back to the 1959 film Gidget, in which " The Big Kahuna ", played by Cliff Robertson, ( Martin Milner in the TV episode ), was the leader of a group of surfers.

In February 2011, Burton made an appearance as himself on NBC's Community in the episode " Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking " and the following week on CBS's The Big Bang Theory in the episode " The Toast Derivation ".

He appeared in " The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary " ( 2009 ), the fifth episode of the third season of the situation comedy The Big Bang Theory, playing a fictionalized version of himself, as the focus of Sheldon Cooper's ire for not having attended a Star Trek convention at which his appearance was scheduled.

Wheaton returned in Season Five of The Big Bang Theory in the episode " The Russian Rocket Reaction ".

Variously, the island has caves, a volcano ( in episode " Operation: Steam Heat "), a gold mine ( in episode " The Big Gold Strike ") and even a snow-capped mountain (" Man With a Net ").

In the first season episode " Big Man on Little Stick " as the Professor is helping surfer Duke Williams with provisions before his trip back to Hawaii he mentions the location as, which would put it very close to Clipperton Island, an uninhabited atoll owned by France.

* Although not named, a poisonous, two headed serpent appears in an episode of Once Upon A Time.

In 1997, the episode " Hedda Hopper's Hollywood " was ranked # 62 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

Lilith Sternin starts as a one-time character in the Season 4 episode, " Second Time Around " ( 1985 ), but then she becomes a recurring character since Season 5 ( 1986 – 87 ), although she is a permanent character for Seasons 10 and 11 ( 1991 – 93 ).

's Time Travelers ( 1995 ) – Emily Roebling in episode: " Brookyln Bridge "

* Cheers ( 1984 ) – Amanda Boyer in episode: " A Ditch in Time "

It also included a 60-minute episode (" The Case of the Missing Time Capsule ").

In 1964 Marx starred in " Time for Elizabeth ", episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, a truncated version of a play that Groucho Marx and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948.

At the conclusion of that episode, that surviving Dalek self-destructs, leaving the Doctor believing that he was the sole survivor of the Time War.

In the Adventure Time episode, In Your Footsteps, Jake says, " He's trying to steal your identity.

This particular fact was reinforced when TV Guide ranked the series number 10 on its 50 Worst Shows of All Time List in 2002 ... a full 10 years after the last first-run episode aired on May 30, 1992 ( although the entry specifically refers to the Hee Haw Honeys spinoff, not the main show itself ).

* After the airing of the season 5 episode " Games, Flames, and Automobiles ", in which Al created a game based on Tool Time, Northern Games released The Home Improvement Board Game.

* The poem was used by Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) to inspire Liz Lemon ( Tina Fey ) in the 30 Rock episode " Everything Sunny All the Time Always ".

In the 1967 episode Merlin, the Magician from the TV show The Time Tunnel, Merlin is portrayed by Christopher Cary.

For example in the final episode, Victor is killed by a hit-and-run driver, and although there is no explicit reference that Victor and Margaret had children, the episode " Timeless Time " contained a reference to someone named Stuart ; the strong implication being that they once had a son who had died as a child.

The Star Trek episode " The Naked Time " features polywater that is capable of infecting and spreading like a virus, collecting carbon from bloodstreams and affecting the brain similarly to ingested ethanol.

Time Team visited Padstow for the episode " From Constantinople to Cornwall ", broadcast on 9 March 2008.

** " Relationships ", an episode of As Time Goes By

In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Once More Unto the Breach ", Kor referred to his ship, the Klothos, which was first named in the TAS episode " The Time Trap ".

The remastered Original Series episode " Amok Time " featured Shikahr in the background as Spock beams up at the episode's end, and the remastered version of " The Ultimate Computer " replaced the Botany Bay-style Woden with an automated grain carrier from " More Tribbles, More Troubles.

The Invasion of Time introduced a red carrier ship which could be briefly seen on the TARDIS scanner in episode 5.

The Invasion of Time saw Commander Stor using the small rod again, but also in episode six, a Sontaran trooper uses a short black rifle-like laser to try to burn through a lock on a door inside the TARDIS.

The series has also been parodied, including an episode of The Powerpuff Girls which features the Mayor of Townsville playing a spoof of Ocarina of Time, and a season 3 episode of Robot Chicken, in which a skit based on The Legend of Zelda references aspects of the series, including the existence of multiple Links, Triforce, Rupees and rescuing Princess Zelda.