Trivia / Vanilla Ice

• Creator Backlash: Much of his early years. Ice has practically fallen all over himself trying to get distance between his 1991 persona and now.
  • In particular, he strongly regrets the clothing his label forced him to wear in the early '90s. It probably doesn't help that most people still assume he dressed that way by choice.
  • For a while, any material from To the Extreme was off-limits, but he still performs "Ice Ice Baby", and even recorded a Nu Metal version, "Too Cold", in 1998.
• Fan Community Nicknames: V.I.P's, Ninjas.
• Genre-Killer: For the rest of the '90s until Eminem came on the scene, it was almost impossible for white rappers to be taken seriously thanks to Vanilla Ice (well, maybe House of Pain and The Beastie Boys, though HOP only had one real hit themselves).
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  • 3rd Bass dissed him in "Pop Goes The Weasel," with Henry Rollins playing him in the video.
  • The Binding of Isaac: Repentance has an item called Freezer Baby, whose description when picked up reads "Iced iced baby", a nod to Vanilla Ice's Signature Song.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders has the Climax Boss, DIO's second-in-command, literally be named Vanilla Ice. Of course, this is the result of JoJo being Reference Overdosed with music references, but there's also a bit of punwork going on by having Vanilla Ice's Stand be named Cream.
  • The Offspring used him as an example of lameness in the trope-naming "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)":
    He needs some cool tunes, not just any will suffice
    But they didn't have Ice Cube, so he bought Vanilla Ice
  • Mega Man Powered Up has Fire Man which, during a dialogue as a boss against a playable Ice Man, namedrops Vanilla Ice's iconic song verbatim.
    Fire Man: You may think life's all about ice ice, baby, but I'll show you that the fires of justice burn red-hot!
  • "Rock TV" from Super Mario World has King Koopa advertise the new rock TVs with a personality he calls "Vanilla Ice Age".
    Oogtar: Ice Age, baby!
  • Young Sheldon: In "A Clogged Pore, a Little Spanish and the Future", Missy says that she would like to marry Vanilla Ice. Sheldon is confused about Missy wanting to marry a snow cone.
• Troubled Production: The "Ice Ice Baby" video had its problems. The crew didn't have a set to film in, so Ice and company invaded an abandoned building in downtown Dallas, TX. They had to climb the fire escape to get up there, meaning having to lug the heavy camera equipment up with them. Because they technically weren't allowed in the building, they had to rush the filming process. The vehicle that Ice was driving also had no gas, so in the scene where he's driving off, it had to be pushed by two of his friends on set with him.
• Two-Hit Wonder: Although many consider him a One-Hit Wonder considering he's only remembered for one of those hits. Yes, "Play That Funky Music" was a hit.

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