Family Feud/The Feud In Popular Culture

Sesame Street had a spoof of Family Feud, called "Family Food", featuring a family of muppet contestants and Richard Dawson himself, teaching about the concept of a full, healthful meal.



In 2012, Burger King had a short-lived promotion game called The "Family Food" Sweepstakes, where you had to collect game pieces by scratching off the Top Answer for a chance to win a Nintendo 3DS Family Pack, a Kindle Fire, a 2013 Ford Explorer, a $10,000 BBQ Makeover, Trips to a taping of the show, Southwest Airline Airfare for a year, $100,000 in cash and more.



Cartoon Network's MAD series parodied Family Feud as Batman's Family Feud with the set resembling the 1988-1994 Combs' era, with Steve Harvey as host (who would incidentally go on to host the actual show since 2010).



A 1998 episode of Histeria! called "The U.S. Civil War Part II" had a Feud spoof called The Uncivil War hosted by Lydia Karaoke (voiced by Nora Dunn) where Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and General Sherman were pitted against Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson to find out the reason behind the civil war.



A 1994 episode of The Critic, “Marty's First Date”, has a movie poster for Family Feud: The Movie with the last names of "Sheens & Bridges" in the backdrops. Jay Sherman (voiced by Jon Lovitz) responded, "It stinks!"

Pookie Poo, an Internet Cartoon from the late 90's, did their spoof of Feud based on the 1999-02 version called Nutty Family Fools; the host for it was Loogie (obviously a spoof of Louie Anderson).



Other cartoons that parodied Family Feud include: Baby Blues, Robot Chicken, Sealab 2021, Drawn Together and Archer.

A 1979 episode of the short-lived ABC sitcom Angie featured an episode of Family Feud as an "on the road show" with Richard Dawson and Gene Wood respectively appearing as themselves.

In 2002, Old Navy made a series of commercials called "Family Fleece" (featuring actress Morgan Fairchild), a parody of the Feud where families showed off the clothes that were for purchase.

In 2001, a Diet Dr. Pepper commercial parodied Family Feud as Crime Family Feud. The commercial starts with the showing of the Anderson/Karn era-like logo as it cuts to a survey board with the top six answers on it after which a John O'Hurley look-alike host reads the question: "Name a Popular Family Activity." Then the guy on the left side of the face-off podium hits the button and answers, "Racketeering!" as the host says, "Show me Racketeering!" as it reveals itself as the number two answer with 18 people out of 100 agreeing in the survey. Finally, the announcer says that, “Not everything can be as good as the original, but Diet Dr. Pepper is. It tastes more like regular Dr. Pepper.” as it then cuts to a woman in the studio audience drinking a Diet Dr. Pepper along with a guy sitting on the right side of her saying the show’s actual catchphrase, "Good answer!"

Comedy Central did a Feud spoof promo based on "The Fast Money Round" for its January “Stand-up Month”. In 2005, the promo starts with the host asking, "Name Something You Find In The Desert." Then a black overweight female contestant named Iris standing beside him answers, "Prostitute Bones!" It was revealed as the third answer with 0 people agreeing in the survey while a buzzer sounds. Then the next question read by the host was "Something You Learn In College"; then Iris says, "Bisexuality!" It was revealed as the fourth answer with 0 people agreeing in the survey with a buzzer sounding again. Finally, the last question was "A Month That's Popular for Stand-Up Comedy." Then Iris answers, "January!" The host shouts, "Show us January!" The fifth answer revealed itself with 100 people agreeing in the survey. Everybody in the studios celebrates their victory as it shows a montage of comedians that appeared in the month; at the end Iris pushes the host away yelling, "Get off me!"

Feud was also given a homage in Dinosaurs as the Sinclairs went on "Family Challenge" (not to be confused with the short-lived, 1995-1997 Family Channel game show of the same name), a parody of Feud. The family went on there to get a new 90-inch TV after the old one got broken. They didn't manage to win the 90-inch TV, but got a 13-inch TV instead.

The FOX animated series Family Guy, has also spoofed the Feud a few times. In a 1999 episode called "Da Boom", the Griffins encounter another band of survivors that try to make them answer a question as a parody of the show. In a 2006 episode called "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story" Peter Griffin becomes the host of the show as he "inappropriately" cops a feel from one of the female contestants. a 2010 episode called "Big Man on Hippocampus", the Griffins appear on an episode of Feud, as hosted by Richard Dawson; the set resembles the original ABC run and re-creates Dawson's then-practice of kissing the female contestants. The Griffins win the front game and reach Fast Money, where Lois gives all five No. 1 answers to score 199 points. Peter plays the second half but botches the family's chances of winning on the first question; he had refused to pass on the first question, "Name something you sit in," for which he stubbornly wanted to be credited with "chair," which Lois had already given. Afterward, Peter gets into an argument with Dawson and the two get into a fight, with Peter bumping his head on the set. In a 2011 episode called "Stewie Goes For a Drive", a cutaway gag of The Price is Right is featured but the music in the background however is reminiscent to that of the Feud.

Another FOX animated series American Dad!, has also referenced the show in the 2012 episode called "Old Stan in the Mountains", where Steve Smith finds an aged Stan Smith with a knife that Stan intended to stab Steve with after he believes that he and Hailey are out to kill him on Mount Kilimanjaro. Steve misinterprets Stan's intentions and thinks he was out to whittle some wood and carves him a totem pole of the five hosts of Family Feud which included: Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Richard Karn and Steve Harvey but omitting John O'Hurley.

A 2013 episode of Fox & Friends, featured the cast playing a Family Feud-like mini-game called Survey Says (for which in turn, the title itself is based on the show's most popularly well-known catchphrase of the same name) along with its props and software provided by The Game Show Source as part of The Great American Game Show week featuring Louie Anderson (who has previously hosted the syndicated version from 1999 until 2002) returning to host this particular episode.