Movies & TV References
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Movies & TV References
In the program on Nickelodeon called Brothers Garcia, the son gets a job in a CD store, and you can see the International Superhits poster in the background, Warning signs, and stands everywhere.
In one of the Jimmy Neutron episodes Jimmy starts a band with Carl and Sheen and they play the song 'Warning'.
On the Friends episode of Rachel's 30th birthday, and they're showing a clip of Ross' 30th, when he gets the car, there's an Alternative Press poster with Green Day on it, behind them.
On two different episodes of Friends. outside the coffee shop, CENTRAL PERK, there's a record shop. on one episode there was a nimrod poster (the yellow circle with nimrod written in it.
On a "Get Fuzzy" comic for January 2005 (not sure what date) the boy is wearing a shirt with GREEN DAY on the front. The cat makes fun of his "12 year old skater look".
A Green Day mention is a stand up comedian named Bobcat Goldwaith says "I'm trying to look punk but I came out looking like Green Day's dad."
In the Simple Plan video, Shut Up, David, the bassist, has an American Idiot sticker on his bass.
At the Nascar awards banquet, a couple of Green Day soundbites were used in the Driver's montages. Part of 'American Idiot' was played during Kurt Busch's montage.
In an episode of King of the Hill titled 'Aisle 8A', you can see a Green Day sticker in Bobby's locker.
MTV's show "Pimp My Ride" uses the sound bite to American Idiot and Stuck with Me.
Vh1's show "I Love the 90's", Green Day is named Dirty Sort of Punk Rockers.
In 1994, Green Day guest starred on Saturday Night Live, as a musical guest.
On the show "Later with Jools Holland," Green Day guest starred. (October 15, 2004)
On the show Blue Collar TV, the introduction video in the beginning sounds exactly like "Warning".
On the show 'Who's Line Is It Anyway?' Drew makes the guys sing a song Green Day style.
On September 13, 2004, the beginning of the show called Las Vegas on the WB, played almost the entire song American Idiot at the beginning.
In UK soap Hollyoaks, the character Liam, has the martial arts Green Day poster in his room.
In the movie The Prince and Me, in Eddie's dorm room, you can see a Green Day poster on the door many times throughout the movie.
On the Top 40 Greatest Reality TV moments on when this one girl was cleaning a toilet with her enemy's electric toothbrush, they played "Longview."
Green Day recorded a show for MTV, but it couldn't be shown on MTV before 10pm because it was said that Billie was too out of it and he could possibly scare young children.
Jay Leno's Tonight show band plays a cover of Green Day's "Welcome to Paradise". You can hear some of it before they go to a commercial break. Also, Dave Lettermen's band with Shaffer, regularly plays Basketcase with the horns! It sounds cool, but you can only hear it as they are coming OUT of the commercial break!
On Vh1's countdown of the 100 greatest songs in the last 25 years, Green Day's "Time of Your Life" was #78.
It is an unsubstantiated rumour involving Green Day, that they are part of the band known as "The Network" which released albums under "Adeline" records.
On VH1's "I Love the 90's", clips of Green Day are shown when they talk about Woodstock '94. Billie is also named as one of the alternative rockers of 1995.
On VH1' 50 Greatest Album Covers, Dookie was #7.
At the beginning of the first season of "24," the senator (future president)'s kids had just come back from a Green Day concert. The son talked about being onstage while they were playing!
They played Minority on a documentery of an actor named Adamo Ruggiero from the show Degrassi, on The N.
On the show Mad TV, Green Day is a musical guest two times. They play the songs Warning and Blood, Sex, and Booze.
In School Of Rock, the last scene during the credits, Freddy the drummer is waring a Green Day Warning shirt from the 2001 Warning tour. (Picture)
There is an old episode of Saturday Night Live where they were playing Jeopardy and Adam Sandler playing a girl. He said "my favorite band is Green Day!!!" like really enthusiastically.
On MTV's History of the Mosh Pit, Green Day is featured in some of it and Mike makes fun of people moshing to When I Come Around.
In an episode of Step By Step, a college guy's room has the Dookie poster on the back wall.
In the movie Freaky Friday, theres a Green Day poster in Anna's room.
On the Saturday Night Live episode when Green Day preforms, Roseanne introduces them wearing a Kerplunk T-shirt.
Green Day guest voiced on an episode of "King of the Hill", as teens that are good at paintball. Tre was the voice of the leader, Kane.
At the end of every Carrot Top show, a small clip of "Good Riddance" is played.
On the "Top 50 Greatest Teen Icons" show on VH1, the part on Carson Daly, they show a clip of Carson hugging Mike and you can see Billie and Tre also. In another part, they also play "Good Riddance".
On the show "Who Knows The Band?", one of the three people on trail for knowing a famous band or musician claims that Green Day had stayed at his house once on tour. By the end of the show, this turned out to be true.
On how to live like a rockstar (on MTV) Stuck With Me is played, and they show a clip of Mike trashing his bass into an amp.
In the Foo Fighters CD, One by One, Billie Joe is thanked first.
Green Day was mentioned in the new Less Than Jake DVD, specifically mentioning the album Dookie.
In the George Lopez show,in the girl's room an International Superhits poster can be seen.
In the blink-182 biography, Tales From Beneath Your Mom, in one of the photos, Mark Hoppus is wearing a Green Day Kerplunk t shirt.
On the show on Fox called the Pitts, in the girl's room there is a poster of Shenanigans.
On MTV's big urban myth show, they were playing the song Warning in the backround for a few seconds and there was like a half second clip from the dookie video, but all you can see is Tre and Mike's hand
In the movie "10 Things I Hate About You", Julia Stiles is buying an album. The album is Green day's INSOMNIAC.
In the movie "High Fidelity" Green Day is brought up between someone working in the record store and a customer.
On the diary of Avril Lavigne she is listening to Time of Your Life by Green Day in the limo and singin to it.
On the Rottentrolls (childrens tv in UK), Roger, the king of the trolls, sings two lines of Good Riddance as he's walking along a path.
On Season 4 of the television show ER had the episodes "Gut Reaction" and "Shades of Gray" that included Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" to go with the storyline of characters nurse Jeanie and the dying boy, Scott Anspaugh.
On the Friends episode of Rachel's 30th birthday, and they're showing a clip of Ross' 30th, when he gets the car, there's an Alternative Press poster with Green Day on it, behind them.
On Sabrina the Teenage Witch one of the characters bands fictitiously opened for Green Day.
On the last episode of Seinfeld, Green Day's Time of your Life was played.
On the Craig Kilborn Show, when guest Matthew Fox appeared he was wearing a Green Day dragon style T-Shirt.
In the TV series 24 a Warning poster is visible in the daughters room during the first season.
In the movie "House Arrest" starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Pollock, the heavy metal kid warns off the police by pretending to be an electrician saying "there was a problem connecting the main wire to the Green Day connecter."
In Angus several Green Day references are made.
In High Fidelity a girl asks if they have the new Green Day album.
In the movie Analyze That an International Superhits Green Day poster is visible in the sons room.
In Chasing Amy several copies of Green Day albums are visible in the record store scene behind the actors.
On the first episode of the new season of "Rescue Me" on F/X there is a scene with 2 firemen in the firehouse discussing a lyric of some sort..one guy goes "Is that from the Bible?" and then the other fireman replies "It's Green Day asshole."
In the movie "Stick It" they play Brain Stew in the backround.
There is a Green Day poster on Ed's dorm door in 'The Prince and Me'.
At the end of the "Andy Milonakis" show, their exit song is "American Idiot"
In "The Pacifier" you can see a Green Day poster in the sons room.
At the MTV Movie Awards They played Stuck With Me for the nomination of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Brugandy (Best On-Screen Team), American Idiot when Dustin Hoffman won Best Comedic Performance for Meet the Fockers, Holiday for the nomination of Leonardo DeCaprio for the Aviator (Best Male Performance), and Boulevard of Broken Dreams when Napoleon Dynamite won Best Movie!
In "The Last Kiss" during the scene where Michael and Kim are making out in her room, you can slightly see the Green Day hand grenade poster on the right .
In the move 'Surfs Up', 'Welcome to Paradise' is used in the trailer.
'Holiday' was used for the party scene in the movie 'Accepted'.