Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was a 20th century surrealist painter most famous for his "melting clocks" painting, The Persistence of Memory.
==References==
* He was spoofed on Sesame Street with a character named Salvador Dada, a French artist who appeared in a sketch with Biff in Season 6.
* Dalí was also referenced in a scene in the 1975 pilot The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence. The clocks on the wall of the main production room show the times in various cities in one scene; in another scene, the clocks have changed to a cubist "Picasso" clock, a melting "Dalí" clock, and a blank "Anonymous" clock.
* In the Muppet Babies episode "The Weirdo Zone", Baby Gonzo shows the babies what his version of weird is. Dalí-like imagery is used to illustrate what Gonzo calls the Weird Zone.
* The Cookie Thief features a spoof of Dalí's The Persistence of Memory, titled The Persistence of Cookies.
* The melted clock dangling on the tree branch in The Persistence of Memory appears in an Alphaquest segment as a "wilted watch."
* Cookie Monster admires the famous Persistence of Cookie at the Museum of Monster Art in the 2015 storybook All Aboard!
* Sesame Street Magazine illustrator Joel Schick spoofed The Persistence of Memory with a sleeping Cookie Monster. On January 10, 2017, Sesame Street’s Facebook page posted the image captioned, "The Persistence of Cookies".
* Dr. Bunsen Honeydew melts a clock in the Muppets Now episode "Fever Pitch", prompting a "Persistence of Memory" reference from his Beak-R assistant.
MB303 Dali01.jpg|"The Weirdo Zone"
MB303 Dali02.jpg|"The Weirdo Zone"
TCT-Dali.jpg|The Cookie Thief
All_aboard_van_gogh_4.jpg|All Aboard!
Joel Schick - Dali.jpg|Joel Schick
MuppetsNow-S01E02-SalvadorDalí.png|Muppets Now
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