title of which parodies Budweiser’s "This Bud's for You" ad campaign), Neil Young says he "ain't singing for Spuds" in the title track. The dog also appears throughout the music video for the song. The commercial's use of skinny females as a standard of beauty inspired Sir Mix-a-Lot to write "Baby Got Back" in retort. An issue of MAD Magazine in the late 1980s had a study of how cultural standards are going downhill, as one example, tracing how America's favorite dog went from Lassie to Benji to Spuds MacKenzie. A story arc in the comic strip Bloom County involved a drunken Spuds admitting her female gender to Opus and eventually checking into the Betty Ford Center, where she roomed with Mr. Ed. Appears in the Family Guy episodes "Brian Writes a Bestseller" and "A Fish Out of Water". Tone Lōc's song "Funky Cold Medina" lists Spuds McKenzie as one of the dogs trying to get into his house. George Clinton's song "Why should I dog U out" mentions Spud (Sic!) among other dogs. In The Golden Girls episode "Larceny and Old Lace", Sophia Petrillo is dating a man named Rocco (played by Mickey Rooney), whom she met in a police lineup. According to her daughter Dorothy Zbornak, Rocco was arrested for "spray-painting something obscene" on a billboard of Spuds MacKenzie. Sophia's response is that because "the dog they use in those ads is really a female, Rocco was just making Spuds anatomically correct". In the ALF episode "Baby Love", ALF suggests to name the baby Rin Tin Tanner, or Spuds if it is female. See also List of individual dogs References 1980s television commercials 1983 animal births 1993 animal deaths Advertising and marketing controversies Advertising campaigns American television commercials Anheuser-Busch advertising Beer advertising Corporate mascots Deaths from kidney failure Dog mascots Drink advertising characters Individual dogs Male characters in animation Super Bowl commercials