PBC Sightings

This is a page for any products by PBC spotted in any media. This can include television, web-series, or elsewhere.

## The Goldbergs

Despite this show taking place in the 1980s, a Halloween episode features a Life Size dancing skeleton at the school dance.

## ICarly

In the ICarly studio, Pete the Repeat Parrot can be seen in the background.

## Unknown Hungarian TV series

In one Hungarian TV series, there is a Billy Bass Jr. that can be heard singing "I Will Survive" in some episodes.

## Speechless (2016-19)

In the garage in the DiMeo house, a 90s Big Mouth Billy Bass can be seen.

## IT: Chapter Two (2019)

During a flashback scene inside Beverly Marsh’s home, two Big Mouth Billy Basses can be seen hanging on the walls, despite those scenes occurring in the late 80’s rather than the late 90’s, when the popular animatronic fish originally came out.

## Goosebumps (1995 Series)

In the episode "The Haunted Mask", main character Carly Beth is presented with a mini Pumpkin Imposter from the bullies during the lunch scene. In the episode "The Haunted Mask 2", the same Pumpkin Imposter can be seen held by a girl trick or treater when Steve leaves his home to go trick or treating.

## Wonder (2017 Movie)

A Buddy Birthday Dancing Hamster can be spotted by the entrance of Mr. Browne's class. It appears again in the Halloween scene with a paper pumpkin taped to its face.

## WALL-E

A Big Mouth Billy Bass can be seen in WALL-E's hideaway, among other articles of salvaged garbage.

## Baby Einstein (1997-2012)

### Only seen in 1998-2003 versions:

The following scenes are only seen in the original releases of the stated titles below. When each of the classic videos were remade in 2004, these scenes were replaced by other scenes.

* In the original version of "Baby Bach", Cornelius the Dancing Chicken can be seen in various scenes of the video. Sunny the Singing Sunflower also makes an appearance near the middle of the video.
* Sunny the Singing Sunflower appears in the original versions of "Baby Shakespeare".
* In the first segment of "Baby Santa's Music Box", you can see the Dancing Claus Couple in action. Later on in the video, you can find the Hip Swinging Dillard's Bear on a white screen.
* Some of these items also make appearances on the Baby Webster Flash Cards.

### Appear in all versions:

The following scenes are in all releases of the stated videos below.

* In "Baby Wordsworth", you can spot a Dancing Santa in the background of a scene in the opening titles/first song, because the stock footage comes from Image Bank Film by Getty Images. Later in the video, you can see three Wild Flowerzz in action. If you go into the bonus features and check the Toy Directory, you can find another set of Wild Flowerzz.
* In "Meet the Orchestra", you can find a Green Devil Went Down to Georgia Frogz in a certain segment of the video.
* In "Baby's First Sounds", the Macarena Turtle Dancer appears in the first segment, as well as the ending segment.
* In "World of Words", Sunny the Singing Sunflower makes an appearance.
* A lot of the Living Motion series appears in some videos.

## Baby Prodigy (2003)

In Baby Prodigy, the Dancing Flowers and Jumpin' Chloe with baby Joey appear near the beginning, and the Monster Race appears at the middle of the video.

## Tiny Christmas (2017 Nickelodeon Movie)

A Big Mouth Billy Bass can be seen on the table behind Riele Downs' character during the giant cat scene.

## Henry Danger "Christmas Danger"

In the Christmas special of Nickelodeon show "Henry Danger", a Lifesize Santa Claus can be seen in the background during the beginning of the episode where Captain Man and Kid Danger are serving food to the homeless in a shelter. It can also be seen later when Henry, Jasper, and Charlotte go to the shelter and break ridiculous laws for revenge.

## SML

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SML creator Logan Thirtyacre owns a PBC Twerking Girl Bear and uses her as a character in his web series. She is named "Candy" in the series and has become a popular character among the SML fanbase. As well as the Twerking Girl Bear, an NFL Frogz can be spotted in the background of one episode. Main character Cody can be seen in a few episodes wearing a beat-up Happy Shuffler Lumberjack.

## Nathan Spies

Nathan Spies owns a Stepping Christmas Tree and uses it as a decoration in "Mickey’s (& Pooh’s) Christmas Adventure" & his YouTube videos about puppets singing Christmas songs in 2022.

## Walk the Prank

A Big Mouth Billy Bass-like singing fish can be seen in the 3rd episode of Season 1,

## Nanalan'

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In the full-length episode "Chirp", during the story time plot, Nana shows Mona a book where Mona gets to press buttons. This is a reference to the sound books that PBC makes, i.e. Play-a-Sound, etc.

## Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010 movie)

In the scene where Greg and Rowley are being chased by teenagers on Halloween night, an Airblown Inflatable classic Jack-O-Lantern makes a background appearance.

## Odd Squad: World Turned Odd

In the 2018 PBS Kids TV special for series "Odd Squad", a singing fish that appears to be a Big Mouth Billy Bass can be spotted. However, instead of singing "Take Me to the River", it sang a parody song called "Take Me to the Lake".

## Titototter

A PBC Spinning Puppy appeared at the start of the episode “Christmas Madness”.

## The Wiggles

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In one of the videos of the franchise, there is a chicken dance Chicken.

## Greatest Freakout Ever 23

In YouTube video "Greatest Freakout Ever 23" by YouTube channel Wafflepwn, a PBC Rocking Skeleton can be seen on the mantle from 0:04 to 0:07, and again quickly at 0:11.

## Family Guy

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In Family Guy episode "Be Careful What You Fish For", Peter asks Billy Finn (a dolphin) if they have "Fish Jesus". Billy responds: "Of course. He was nailed to a board and hung in a man's study as a novelty to sing funny songs". Peter then responds with: "Your god is a gag gift; did you know that?" This is a reference to Big Mouth Billy Bass.

## Creepy Louis Armstrong Singing Doll - Low Battery

In the 2009 viral video "Creepy Louis Armstrong Singing Doll - Low Battery", a PBC Pop Culture series Louis Armstrong is featured, malfunctioning on low batteries. The video became popular enough to be featured in an episode from viral hit web series "Equals Three" by content creator Ray William Johnson.

## the easiest gift for dads…

In the YouTube video “the easiest gift for dads…” by content creator BENOFTHEWEEK, It is revealed that Ben’s dad has all three of those Interactive Christmas characters that PBC makes.

## We made a Dancing FREDDY Animatronic from FNAF!

In the YouTube video “We made a Dancing FREDDY Animatronic from FNAF!” by content creator Wicked Makers, Jaimie and Jay turn a cute dancing bear into a Withered Freddy animatronic from Five Nights at Freddy’s! The animatronic by PBC that’s actually getting turned into is a Chantilly Lane police officer bear from 2009. The video was posted 10 days before PBC went bankrupt in 2023.

## HeyItzPuppies

On this channel, Puppies, the off-brand Oobi, reacted to some of PBC’s on-brand and off-brand products being sold at one of their clients, BigLots.

## Halloween (2018)

An Airblown pop up ghost can be seen in the background in one scene in which people are exploding a pumpkin with explosives (here is the scene). A hanging pumpkin ghoul can be spotted hanging in the gas station, with a face drawn onto it with marker.

## Fortnite Battle Royale

In the hit video game Fortnite, across the Battle Royale map are fish plaques. Once the player starts to emote in front of them, they start moving and singing like Big Mouth Billy Bass.

## South Park

A Big Mouth Billy Bass can be seen hanging on the wall in the police station (the item appears every time the police station is seen).

## The Simpsons

In the episode Poppa’s Got a Brand New Badge, the city of Springfield is suffering from a heat wave and because of this the city is drawing large amounts of power that the power plant can't support. While everyone is told to conserve energy Homer decides to plug in a dancing Santa in order to give the house " a touch of winter" After turning the figure on it is just enough to cause a city-wide blackout. This Santa figure could refer to the Dancing Jolly Ole St. Nick as it moves similarly and plays the same song.

In 1st episode Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, Homer is seen installing and testing the Christmas lights on the roof. While only a few bulbs work his neighbor Ned Flanders asks him if his decorations look alright. Seen on the lawn is a carousel, Ferris wheel and a life size waving Santa with elves on the roof. While this episode aired in 1989, it predicts all PBC items like this. Despite that none of those items were made before the early 2000's, it wouldn't be possible for the figures to be wood or blow molded as they are all 3D and only 4 animated blow molds were made, none of them being a waving Santa, carousel or Ferris wheel.

## That 70's show

In the episode titled Halloween, the Foreman residence is shown to have a hay bale outside along with a table inside that both have multiple pumpkin imposters on them. Despite the show being set in the 1970s, the Pumpkin Imposter wasn't released until 1989.

## Last Man Standing

In the Prologue of the episode entitled "The Bride of Prankenstein," a Hand Candy Bowl is set on the kitchen table after Mike Baxter (Tim Allen) gets pranked.

## Jorge Ramos y Sú Banda

In this show, A Sidestepper Snow Snowman appears with different clothes.

## King of the Hill

* In episode **Pigmalion** during the beginning of the episode, an inflatable pumpkin is seen on the lawn of the Hill residence.
* During episode The Trouble with Gribbles, Dale brings home a talking fish on a plaque named Smoking Sammy Salmon. Sammy is a reference to Big Mouth Billy Bass.

## Bar Rescue

* On the episode John of The Dead of Bar Rescue, John Taffer and his team revamp Underworld Grill and Bar. While the bar tries to go for a gothic look the owners decided it would be best to make it that way by putting up multiple Halloween decorations in the restaurant. Below is a list of each PBC-branded decoration in the restaurant
	+ Life Size Edwardian Butler
	+ Life Size Jason Voorhees
	+ 4 Scary Skulls
	+ Among all of the decor, there where multiple PBC hanging and standing decorations, and when all of the decorations are taken down and put in the center of the restaurant, the Life Size Jason is missing. This could be due to Jason Voorhees being a copyrighted character.

## Evil Nun

* A Big Mouth Billy Bass-like singing fish can be seen and used as an essential tool in the Evil Nun indie game, seen here.