with me?" Her incredulous response of "Why should I go out with you?" is met by a defiant "Because I'm black and I'm beautiful." Denise deadpans, "Well, so is Lola Falana, but you don't see me goin' out with her." In A Different World, Whitley Gilbert makes numerous references to Lola Falana throughout the series. In Wayans Bros. Marlon and Shawn attempt to pick up an elderly man in their "afrocab" and tell him that they have a old magazine with Lola Falana (you remember her from all those hilarious Bob Hope specials Marlon proclaims) as the centerpiece. They force the man into the cab after he declines and runs off, where Shawn and Marlon realize the magazine is gone. Shawn then says "those white guys sure love them some Lola Falana." The SCTV character Lola Heatherton, played by Catherine O'Hara, was derived from the names of Lola Falana and Joey Heatherton. The character spoofed both women, especially in their later career television variety show appearances in the 1970s. In Roxanne Shante's song "Have a Nice Day", she declares herself "A pioneer / like Lola Falana". In Barbershop 2: Back in Business, barber Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) admonishes his boss Calvin (Ice Cube) for making him take down his picture of Lola Falana from the wall of his booth. In Family Matters, Eddie (Darius McCrary) wants new high-tops that cost $70, but Carl (Reginald VelJohnson) "would not pay $70 for shoes if Lola Falana was in them." In Marvel Comics's Tomb of Dracula #58 (published in July 1977), the vampire hunter Blade says "That's why I was watchin' that clock like it was a Penthouse pin-up of Lola Falana!" In the Sanford and Son episode "The Escorts" (season 5, episode 19) Fred (Redd Foxx) is hired by Lola Falana and returns from her home exhausted and disheveled with her dog on a chain. Rapper Esham recorded a song called "Lowlafalana" in 1997. A recurring sketch on In Living Color, "Miss Black Person USA," takes place at the fictional Lola Falana Recreational Center in Detroit. In an early episode of Family Guy, Peter Griffin flashes back to a time when he confused his girlfriend, Leslie Uggams, with Lola Falana. In an August 2019 interview with Vulture, actress Niecy Nash named Falana as her earliest inspiration: "I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was 5 years old and I