The Velvet Forum

I rewatched one of the more lasting and significant episodes of The Simpsons recently -- "Homer's Phobia," from 1997, with John Waters (as a dealer of kitsch antiques) representing the entire ethos of gay culture -- and discovered two visual allusions to the VU, one more fleeting and obscure than the other:

This one is pretty straightforward:



I believe this one is an intentional allusion to the Electric Newspaper album, although were it not in the same episode as the Banana album image I might've been prone to dismiss it as a coincidence. Note that the sequence has the Waters character flipping through the Simpsons's own albums collection:

An obscure reference, but yeah! Haven't seen that episode.
i've wracked my brains to remember an underground film from 1966 that also has a parody of the ceremony - thought it might have been one of Waters' own 8mm films, but apparently not. In terms of a record with it on, it would have to be the EVO LP.

Do you all remember as well the reference to Loaded in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

Here's a YouTube clip: https://youtu.be/O0U3XlvezWQ

The East Village Other Electric Newspaper was 1966 and features the radio report of Luci Baines Johnson's wedding of that year. The Lynda Bird Johnson wedding was in 1967. A slightly tangental way of referring to The East Village Other Electric Newspaper album? But I guess it's an explanation.