Halloween the film franchise, and its central character of iconic slasher Michael Myers, has over its 42 year legacy permeated international pop culture, with the masked figure making appearances in several mediums, including the American television series “Robot Chicken” and Jennifer Love Hewitt’s “Ghost Whisperer” (among others), but did you know Halloween has also made multiple appearances on “Family Guy?”
One of our favorite instances of that comes in episode 13 of season 10 of the Seth McFarlane animated comedy, titled, “Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream.” In it, Family Guys’ main character Peter Griffin is excited to find that Quahog’s local TV news anchor Tom Tucker is actually Halloween actor and stuntman George P. Wilbur, who portrayed the character of Michael Myers in Griffin’s “favorite movie ever,” Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.
And in one of our favorite jokes from the episode (during a snippet of the classic Halloween 4 scene in which Myers terrifies Jamie Lloyd in her bedroom) the Shape arises to proclaim, “Good evening! I’m Michael Myers. I have enormous psychological problems and I’m going to take them out on you.”
What’s your favorite instance of Michael in popular culture?