People (Real)

Mentions of real people, living and dead.

Central theme

• Absolutely Bill's Mood - Bill Krauss, the original "Third Giant"
• Announcement A - Donovan Leitch
• Au Contraire - David Bowie, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jodie Foster, J. S. Bach, Mahatma Gandhi
• Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space)
• Brooklyn - Marty Markowitz
• Budnitz #1 - Judy Budnitz
• Dashiki Lover - A whole bunch of interesting people
• The Day - Marvin Gaye and Phil Ochs
• Demarais Parker
• Don't Worry Kyoko - Yoko Ono's daughter
• The Edison Museum
• Flansy Stays In The Picture - A. J. Schnack
• Irving Plaza - Washington Irving
• James K. Polk
• John Lee Supertaster
• Kendra McCormick
• Lincoln, Washington, And That Jefferson Guy
• Meet James Ensor
• The Mesopotamians - Sargon, Hammurabi, Asurbanipal, Gilgamesh
• Mr. Hughes Says - Based on a line from Motto by Langston Hughes - monopuff.org
• Oprah
• People Died Today
• Robert Lowell
• Rosa Parks, C'est Moi
• Scott Bower
• She Thinks She's Edith Head - Edith Head (imdb.com) - won 8 Oscars (34 nominations) for costume design. Helen Gurley Brown - author (Sex and the Single Girl) long time editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and cut one of the worst spoken word albums ever.
• Theme From McSweeney's Issue 6 - Thank Yous - pretty much everyone listed
• Tippecanoe and Tyler Too
• Tom Cruise Makes Me Nervous
• Tom Landry, Existentialist, Dead At 75
• Town To Town - Tom Vu
• Vestibule - Pennsylvania's Senator Arlen Spector
• Walt Whitman
• What Bothers The Spaceman - Bill "Spaceman" Lee was an eccentric pitcher for the Red Sox and Expos during the '70s and early '80's. Dock Ellis pitched for a variety of teams during the late '60's and '70s. Probably most famous for claiming he pitched his 1970 no-hitter for the Pirates on LSD.
• Wicked Little Critta - Bobby Orr and John Havlicek were Hall of Fame players for the Boston Bruins and Celtics respectively in the late '60's and '70's.
• XTC Vs. Adam Ant

Briefly mentioned

• Cells - Dwight David Eisenhower
• Chainsaw Dick - Tom Wolfe
• Cut The Strings - Isaac Newton
• Damn Good Times - David Lee Roth
• Disappointing Show - Joseph Stalin
• Happy Doesn't Have To Have An Ending - Peter Tork
• It Was A Very Good Year - Margaret Thatcher and Joey Heatherton
• King Weed - Ted Koppel
• Marshie - Milton Berle
• "Monongahela" - Johnny Banana, the alcoholic, gun-toting owner of The Electric Banana
• New York City - Bob Dylan
• No One Knows My Plan - Plato is "the Greek guy" who "made the allegory of the people in the cave"
• Rest Awhile - Ruy López
• She's Actual Size (New Live Version) - Stevie Wonder
  • and various drummers:
    • Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown Band)
    • Gene Krupa
    • Mitch Mitchell (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
    • "that angry guy from Grand Funk Railroad": likely referring to Don Brewer
    • Buddy Rich
• The World's Address - Albert Einstein and Copernicus
• They Might Be Giants (Song) - Dr. Benjamin Spock
• Trucker's Coffee - Ken Kesey
• Violin - George Washington
• Yellow Submarine - Kurt Hoffman
• Your Own Worst Enemy - Sonny Geraci

Honorable Mention

• The guys pictured on the album cover of Lincoln are Linnell's and Flansburgh's grandfathers. General Hospital is Flansburgh's grandfather. That's his name. Seriously. (Louis T. Linnell and General Ralph Hospital.)

(Although their is some confusion about this; in some places, Louis T. is listed as his great-grandfather, not his grandfather.)

See also

• People (Imaginary)
• Presidents
• References To Other Songs Or Musicians