The 28th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (TV Special 1976)
Nominee clips.TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time (TV Special 1997)
Ranked as #1.TV Guide's Top 100 Episodes of All Time (TV Special 2009)
Ranked as #3.TV (The Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time (TV Special 2016)
Chuckles the Clown's death is #6 on TV's Most Memorable Deaths."WatchMojo" Top 10 Best TV Episodes of All Time (TV Episode 2019)
"Chuckles Bites the Dust" gets an honorable mention.
"St. Elsewhere" Close Encounters (TV Episode 1985)
Believing himself to be Mary Richards, John Doe #6 laments the death of Chuckles the Clown."Jeopardy!" Episode #16.127 (TV Episode 2000)
The $200 clue in "Classic TV Episodes" category"Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann" Episode #3.153 (TV Episode 2005)
Keith mentions it and quotes Lou Grant's line, "I don't want anybody to make any fuss. When I go, I just want to be stood outside in the garbage with my hat on.""Crossing Jordan" Death Toll (TV Episode 2006)
Dr. Howard Stiles is in a therapy session with Dr. Nigel Townsend. They talk about Dr. Townsend's tendency towards humor in difficult circumstances. They make reference to this episode of the Mary Tyler Moore where Chuckles the Clown is killed by an elephant that thinks he is a peanut.- Jimmy mentions that he took his senior yearbook quote from the episode
"The Cleveland Show" It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown (TV Episode 2010)
the cutaway scene where Cleveland laughs at David Carridine's funeral
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