pop culture needs to be referenced before returning the television series new york undercover used the study as the subject of a second season episode titled bad blood marvel comics' limited series truth red white black reinterpreted the tuskegee experiment as part of the weapon plus program black in action entertainment weekly ralph ellison in his book invisible man makes allusions to the tuskeegee study in the film half baked dave chappelle's character tells a doctor that gives him marijuana that his grandfather was a part of the tuskegee experiments gil scott heron's song tuskegee on the television show house dr cameron references tuskegee as a brutal inhumane study