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Melvin Van Peebles in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

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Featured in

    • "Sneak Previews" Take 2: Movies That Changed the Movies (TV Episode 1979)

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    • "Sneak Previews" The Life and Death of the Black Movie (TV Episode 1981)

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    • "At the Movies" Movies That Changed the Movies (TV Episode 1984)

      A clip is shown.
    • Identity Crisis (1989)

    • New Jack City (1991)

Referenced in

    • Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

      Mario Van Peebles can be seen wearing a "Sweetback" t-shirt - a movie he starred in as a boy and written and directed by his father, Melvin Van Peebles
    • New Jack City (1991)

    • "Mystery Science Theater 3000" Fugitive Alien (TV Episode 1991)

      Tom: "Bacchus 3 will be back in 'Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.'"
    • "Mystery Science Theater 3000" It Conquered the World (TV Episode 1991)

      "James Arness will be back in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song!"
    • "In Living Color" Clarence Thomas's First Day (TV Episode 1991)

      "Sweet Clarence's Badass Song"

References

    • Easy Rider (1969)

Spoofed in

    • "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" Free Magilla (TV Episode 2005)

      Harvey's client is Melvin Peebles. The camera then cuts to a Melvin Van Peebles/Sweetback caricature who slowly and exaggeratively says "badass".
    • "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" The Death of Harvey (TV Episode 2007)

      Sweet Sweetback lookalike hisses the letter "s" for a single long breath.
    • "Black Dynamite" Sweet Bill's Badass Singalong Song or Bill Cosby Ain't Himself (TV Episode 2014)

      Title parody.

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