I came back to mention the Blues Traveler music video.
Not only is Dorothy’s dress better, but the Dorothy inside it is MUCH better. Hubba hubba.
There is a Law & Order episode titled “Surrender Dorothy” and another episode where homeless finds a dead little girl and cries “Wake Up Dorothy”
The SDMB has a poster with the alias “SurrenderDorothy”
You guys know that there’s a huge list in IMDb, right?
One reference that’s missing is from Ally McBeal. They played the Miss Gulch music whenever Ling appeared.
Yeah, but I’m not a member over there.
My contribution is The Far Side had a comic where a lobster is saying “Auntie Em, Auntie Em!..There’s no place like home!..There’s no place like home”, while the chef is transferring the [DEL]tasty[/DEL] poor crustacean to a pot of boiling water.
I can’t think of TWOO without thinking of that panel.
In the episode of Big Bang Theory where Kripke doses Sheldon with helium just before his NPR radio appearance, Raj does the “We represent the Lollipop Guild” bit instead of consoling him.
Oh, Blue Jays fans, they’re Canadian, eh? 
Actually, Gary Larson had a much better TWOO joke in his pre-Far Side strip, which I read in his book “The Prehistory of the Far Side.” In that panel, you have Dr. Frankenstein, monster nearby, looking out the door of his castle at Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion, and he tells them, “Sorry, I just used up my last heart and brain…maybe try the Wizard down the road.”
My daughter was Dorothy one Halloween and she was as adorable as can be.
What?!?
Mago de Oz (Wizard of Oz), here covering Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
My brother was fond of telling the story of the saxophonist in Paris who was so distraught about not being able to remember how “Somewhere over the Rainbow” went, he flung himself out the window of his high-rise apartment.
As he lay on the pavement below, the last thing he heard was the ambulance coming to pick him up: “Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do…”
The ELO album “Eldorado” pictures the ruby slippers and the Wicked Witch’s hands on the cover.
The movie* Wild At Heart *is fill of TWOO references.
From the movie After Hours:
Marcy: My husband was a movie freak. Actually, he was particularly obsessed with one movie, “The Wizard of Oz.” He talked about it constantly. I thought it was cute at first. On our wedding night, I was a virgin. When we made love - you’ve seen the movie, haven’t you?
Paul: “The Wizard of Oz”? Yeah.
Marcy: Well, whenever he - you know, when he came…
Paul: Yeah.
Marcy: …he would scream out, “Surrender Dorothy!” That’s all! Just “Surrender Dorothy!”
Paul: Wow.
Marcy: Instead of saying something normal like, “Oh, God,” or something normal like that. I mean, it was pretty creepy! And I told him I thought so, but he just, he just couldn’t stop, he just, he just couldn’t stop, he just… couldn’t stop.
Polydor Records Australian branch is called “Emerald City.”
My favorite example of Wizard of Oz reference showing up in everyday life is the graffiti on the I-495 bridge near Washington DC. As you come around a corner the Washington LDA Temple comes into view suddenly, the bridge in front of it by line of sight. Painted on the side of the bridge is:
SURRENDER DOROTHY
The first time I saw it, I burst out laughing. I’d lived in Salt Lake City, and was familiar with LDS Temples and their modern-gothic love of spires. And I must have immediately thought of the Wizard of Oz when I saw the temple spires, just before I read the graffiti and realized that someone else thought that, too.
Apparently in the wake of the Trump presidency, another sign reading “Surrender Donald” has gone up on a different bridge:
Later on, when Ralphie is waiting in line for Santa, WWoW tries to engage with him but is rebuffed with an, “I’m busy.”
If For Love of the Game, Billy Chapel strikes out his good friend and says “I’ll miss you most of all, Scarecrow.”
After reading this it just occurred to me that the My Little Pony character who calls herself “The Great and Powerful Trixie” is a reference to this as well.:smack:
Looks like there are quite a few in The Simpsons.
But the one that I remembered right away was Mr. Burns’ guards doing the march and song of the Winkie Guards in the episode “Rosebud”.
Back in 1969, MAD Magazine did satire called The Guru of Ours, in which Dorothy really did take a “trip” and meet a lot of bizarre characters.
CAST:
Liza Minnelli as Dorothy
Tiny Tim as Auntie Em
Dustin Hoffman and Abbie Hoffman as Students at Munchkin University
Pat Boone as The Square Man
George Hamilton as The Snob Man
Michael J Pollard as The Punk Man
Ed Sullivan as The Guru
“Someday with an insane glow,
I’ll get high,
and I’ll freak out until my
brain starts to petrify.”