Editing Up with People (section)

== In popular culture ==
Music critics cite Up with People as a stylistic influence for [[R.E.M.|R.E.M's]] tongue-in-cheek "[[Shiny Happy People]]" and the corresponding music video due to its over-the-top and colorful musical spectacle.<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Defense of… R.E.M.'s 'Shiny Happy People' |url=https://diffuser.fm/in-defense-of-shiny-happy-people/ |access-date=2019-08-07 |website=Diffuser|date=10 November 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |date=2002-08-31 |title=In 1991, R.E.M. (and guest vocalist Kate Pierson of the B-52's) scored a top 10 hit with the buoyant "Shiny Happy People. |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/74471/hairspray |magazine=Billboard |access-date=2019-08-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Warren |first=Robert |date=2014-08-21 |title=The 50 dorkiest songs you secretly love |url=https://www.salon.com/2014/08/21/the_50_dorkiest_songs_you_secretly_love_partner/ |access-date=2019-08-07 |website=Salon}}</ref> In two episodes of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', "[[Bart vs. Thanksgiving]]" and "[[Selma's Choice]]", the show parodied the group as "Hooray for Everything," a group of "clean-cut young go-getters" that performs ridiculous songs such as a cover of "[[Get Dancin'|Get Dancin]]" dedicated as a "salute to the Western hemisphere, the dancingest hemisphere of all."<ref>{{Cite web |date=1998-05-26 |title=02x07 - Bart vs. Thanksgiving |url=https://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=431&t=21880 |access-date=2019-08-05 |website=Forever Dreaming Transcripts}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=1994-09-10 |title=Bart vs. Thanksgiving |url=https://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/7F07.html |access-date=2019-11-26 |website=[[The Simpsons Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Degli-Esposti |first=Cristina |title=Postmodernism in the Cinema |publisher=Berghahn Books |year=1998 |isbn=1-57181-105-2 |location=New York, United States |pages=68}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Greene |first=Nick |date=2015-06-09 |title=17 Simpsons Cultural References Explained for Younger Viewers |url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/65277/17-simpsons-cultural-references-explained-younger-viewers |access-date=2019-08-05 |website=Mental Floss}}</ref> The TV show ''[[Cheers]]'' had a character, Loretta, who sang with the fictional group "The Grinning Americans" (a favorite group of another character, Cliff, and his mother). The creators of ''[[The Book of Mormon (musical)|The Book of Mormon]]'', a musical that satirizes the [[Latter Day Saint movement|Latter-Day Saint movement]] cited Up with People as an inspiration for the cartoonishly joyous style of several of the songs in their musical performance, which sends up the clean-cut image of [[Culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Mormon culture]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pressley |first=Nelson |date=2013-07-05 |title='Book of Mormon' creators discuss the musical |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/book-of-mormon-creators-discuss-the-musical/2013/07/03/8bb84d6c-e259-11e2-8657-fdff0c195a79_story.html?noredirect=on |access-date=2019-08-07 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Evans |first=Everett |date=2013-09-05 |title=The many graces of 'Book of Mormon' |url=https://www.chron.com/entertainment/arts-theater/article/The-many-graces-of-Book-of-Mormon-4789869.php |access-date=2019-08-07 |website=Chron}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gross |first=Terry |date=2011-05-09 |title='Book Of Mormon' Creators On Their Broadway Smash |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=136142322 |access-date=2019-08-07 |website=NPR}}</ref>  In the musical ''[[Ride the Cyclone]]'', the character Ocean Rosenberg discovers an Up with People record in her left-of-center humanist parents' record collection at age 8 and starts her on her journey to become the most successful girl in town.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Richmond |first1=Jacob |last2=Maxwell |first2=Brooke |date=May 4, 2023 |title=Ride the Cyclone cast script / vocal book |url=http://www.broadwaylicensing.com |access-date=November 22, 2023 |website=Broadway Licensing}}</ref>