The stories and characters created by Dr. Seuss have been beloved by children and adults alike for generations, so its only appropriate that the good doctor's works get a fair amount of tributes and parodies in media.
Works with their own pages
Other works:
In General
Comic Book
- Batman: Black and White: "Batsman: Swarming Scourge of the Underworld" includes a billboard featuring a lawyer-friendly but still easily recognizable version of the "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" advertisement.
- DC: The New Frontier begins with a children's author writing about the Eldritch Abomination threatening everyone before committing suicide. The author is implied to be Seuss.
- In Love Anthony, the marriage counselor Dr. Campbell's office is described as a library constructed by Dr. Seuss, full of teetering towers of books and magazines that reminds Beth of a game of Jenga just before someone loses.
- 3rd Rock from the Sun: In one episode Dick Solomon reads a passage from Fox in Socks out loud, flips to the cover and looks at Seuss' name for a second before announcing, "this man is a genius!"
- "This Machine Is 4" by NOFX contains several references to the plot of The Sneetches.
- R.E.M.'s "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" mentions "a reading from Dr. Seuss" as one of the things the narrator lists in a search for "something more substantial" than his soup. The following verse recounts the plot of The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
Horton Hears a Who!
Music
- Deee-Lite's "Groove Is in the Heart" references the name of the book.
- Dexter's Laboratory: At the beginning of "Monstory", Dexter is studying a tiny civilization with a microscope and says he's studying "Horton's theory of Who".
- Family Guy:
- A Cutaway Gag from "Love Blactually" is about the story Horton Hears Domestic Violence in the Next Apartment and Doesn't Call 911.
- In "Back to the Pilot", one of the books in 1999!Stewie's bedroom is Horton Hears a Suicide.
- MAD: The final sketch of "Pacific Ring / Horton Hears a Whodunnit!" is a mashup of this book and Whodunnit? (2013).
- Robot Chicken: A sketch from "Due to Constraints of Time and Budget" features a delinquent elephant named Morton hearing tiny partying people on a crack rock.
The Lorax
Literature
- Gracefully Grayson: When Grayson and Emma were in first grade, they appeared in a class production of The Lorax as pink trees.
- Lily and Dunkin: Lily's grandfather used to read The Lorax to her under their favorite banyan tree. She brings a copy of the book to her tree-sit when the tree is scheduled to be cut down.
- In the book Pet Trouble: Oh No, Newf!, a 4-year old Heidi tries to read this under the covers, except she can't read yet so she just looks at the pictures.
- Questionable Content: In "Doctor Seuph",
Dora and Martin trade some drunk puns when talking about interpreting their friend Faye:Dora: He is the Lor-ass, and he speaks for the Fayes.
Martin: Does that make you the Punceler?
- The Nostalgia Critic:
- In his review of Felix the Cat: The Movie, during Pim's first scene, the Critic does an impression of the Lorax, saying "I speak for the trees!"
- In his review of the live-action Garfield movie, one of the many insults the Critic gives to the film's version of the titular feline is "The Lorax's butt".
- The Critic has reviewed the 2012 film adaptation by Illumination Entertainment.
- MAD: The sketch "I Am Lorax" is a mashup of the 2012 film and I Am Legend.
- Robot Chicken: A sketch from "Butchered in Burbank" features the Lorax being taught by "that marketing whore" the Moolah that profit is more important than trying to impart an educational message. The Cat in the Hat, Horton and the Sneetches all express similar sentiments.
- The Simpsons: In "Treehouse of Horror XXIV", the first segment, "Oh, the Places You'll D'oh!" (which parodies the works of Dr. Seuss in general) features an appearance by the Bore-ax, whom Homer (as the Fat in the Hat) trashes for selling out, a reference to the Misaimed Marketing of the 2012 film (in particular, the infamous Lorax Mazda commercial).Bore-ax: I am the Bore-ax, I speak for the woods, but I've plastered my likeness on consumer goods.
Homer: Sell-out!
