 Media as diverse as the anime series Red Garden , the daytime drama Passions and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer graphic novels have all parodied Wicked 's songs and characters . At the start of the second of three episodes of the miniseries , Tin Man ( another adaptation of Baum 's Ozian universe ) , protagonist DG refers to her father as " Popsicle " vice the more common names " Pop " or " Pappi " , echoing Galinda in her letter home at the start of " What is this Feeling ? " . Also , in the second episode of the ABC Family drama series Huge , one of the characters wears a " Shiz University " athletic Dept T @-@ shirt , while Wicked and its " long lines " have been mentioned in the Nickelodeon series iCarly . The Broadway musical Shrek the Musical parodies the show 's Act I finale with " What 's Up , Duloc ? " ; character Lord Farquaad re @-@ enacts " Defying Gravity " by proclaiming " No one 's gonna bring me down " followed by the legato belt while atop his castle . 
