film Django Unchained, the main character Django, a freed slave, chooses to wear an outfit identical to that worn by Gainsborough's subject in The Blue Boy. It inspired the 1980s Garbage Pail Kid "Blue Boy George" (fifth series). In 1985, the picture was referenced in the song "Art is for Your Heart" on the Muppet Babies episode "The Muppet Museum of Art", with Gonzo wondering about the painting and Kermit stating the subject's possible preference for green clothing. The painting is also seen in the movie Batman (1989) as hanging in Gotham museum, and again in the Joker (2019) movie hanging in smaller form in the Joker's apartment. The painting is seen hanging in Vincent Ludwig's office in the film The Naked Gun. In the movie Ghostbusters 2 (1989), the character Janosz Poha contrasts a large portrait of the fictional 16th-century sorcerer Vigo the Carpathian with Gainsborough's Blue Boy. A split-second image in Teacher's Pet shows a parody of the painting featuring Leonard. Over the credits of Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, a parody of the painting featuring Gus dressed in this outfit is shown. It appears as an in-game item in the Animal Crossing series. The Blue Boy inspired pop artist Robert Rauschenberg to pursue a painting career. It is often paired with a painting by Thomas Lawrence called Pinkie that sits opposite to it at the Huntington Library. On Mr. Toad's Wild Ride in Disneyland California, before exiting your car, you can spot a painting of Toad posing while dressed all in blue holding a feathered hat. This is a Toad-themed reproduction of Gainsborough's oil painting The Blue Boy. The Blue Boy painting is a heavily-used prop in the 1929 Laurel and Hardy comedy “Wrong Again”. See also Pinkie (painting) References Citations Further reading External links Portraits by Thomas Gainsborough 1770 paintings 18th-century portraits Collection of the Huntington Library