on January 20, 1998. References and uses in popular culture "Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse", an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, was named for the song. The song's title was also played on for The Simpsons episode "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge". The 2013 musical Kinky Boots contains the line "Papa's got a brand new shoe" in the song "Everybody Say Yeah" (music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper). Towards the end of one of the mixes of Public Enemy's 1994 song "Give It Up", Flavor Flav is heard to say "Papa's got a brand new bag." The same line is also heard in the rap part of Color Me Badd's 1991 single "Color Me Badd" and Big Daddy Kane's 1989 song "Warm It Up, Kane". In 1990, the song was featured in an episode of The Wonder Years (season 3, episode 15), "The Tree House". Later it was featured in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire. A remix of the song was played in the official Season 6 trailer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019). In the Eminem song “Just Lose It” one of his lyrics is “Poppa’s got a brand new bag of toys…” References External links AllMusic review 1965 songs 1965 singles Funk songs Songs written by James Brown James Brown songs The McCoys songs Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band songs Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients King Records (United States) singles 1965 neologisms Quotations from music