is a fictional character and claims he is real, parodying how young children deny that the cartoon characters they love are not real. "The Wedding Show (Psyche!)", a fifth-season episode, includes a Shaft-themed wedding for Will and his fiancée, Lisa. In The Simpsons episode 'One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish', Bart and Lisa sing the theme song from Shaft by Isaac Hayes. The censors originally objected to Bart and Lisa singing the theme from Shaft, but the producers had to show a clip from the Academy Awards when that song was nominated and performed on television to let the censors know it was suitable to show. In ER, in the fifth season Halloween episode 5, surgical resident Dr. Peter Benton dresses up as John Shaft and reveals to British surgical intern and previous trauma fellow Dr. Elizabeth Corday that when he was a kid he wanted to be Shaft. In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of Mitchell, Joel and the robots perform a variation of Isaac Hayes' Shaft theme during that film's opening credits. In Good Eats, Alton Brown performs a parody of the film's theme song about puff pastry. In the final Father Ted episode "Going to America", the song is played by an elated Ted, perking up a depressive priest in the process. It was noted by Quentin Tarantino during the 2012 Comic-Con panel that Broomhilda von Shaft and Django Freeman from his movie Django Unchained are intended as the great-great-great-great grandparents of John Shaft, from the Shaft'' movie series. See also List of American films of 1971 Notes References External links 1971 films 1970s action thriller films 1970s crime thriller films 1970s crime action films 1970s mystery films American action thriller films American crime thriller films American crime action films American detective films American mystery films Blaxploitation films 1970s English-language films Films about African-American organized crime Films adapted into television shows Films based on American novels Films based on crime novels Films directed by Gordon Parks Films set in New York City Films shot in New York City Films that won the Best Original Song Academy Award Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films American neo-noir films Shaft (franchise) United States National Film Registry films American vigilante films American exploitation films 1970s American films