1970s At the end of another
Schoolhouse Rock! song, "Tyrannosaurus Debt" (
Money Rock), the Bill runs off after the tour guide saying, "Feeding time is ALL the time!" This made Bill one of the only characters to appear on more than one of the main
Schoolhouse Rock! cartoons. (Mr. Morton and Interplanet Janet appeared in two direct-to-video episodes.)
1980s A Season 1 episode of the
Knight Rider TV series, in which a senator requires protection after attempts on her life, is entitled
Just My Bill.
1990s The hip hop group Groove B. Chill sang the tune with new lyrics: "We're Groove B. Chill/and we're sitting here on top of the hill" in its song "Top of the Hill", from the group's 1990 album
Starting from Zero. In one of the commercials made by the now-defunct retail store
Mervyn's as part of its renowned "Open, Open, Open" campaign, a woman and the Bill are waiting outside at one of the store's locations. An employee walks to the front to open the automatic door, but opens a smaller version of it for the Bill to enter, much to the woman's chagrin. At the close of this commercial, the woman wakes up as if it is a dream, while her child watches the "I'm Just a Bill" video on the TV screen. The song was covered by
The Folk Implosion as "Deluxx Folk Implosion" for
Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks in 1996. The sketch was parodied in
The Simpsons episode "
The Day the Violence Died" (1996), in which
Krusty the Clown presents "I'm an Amendment to Be", also performed by Jack Sheldon, depicting a Constitutional amendment's attempt to ban
flag burning. The sketch was later briefly parodied in another
Fox produced animated series,
Family Guy. In the episode, "
Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington" (2001), an anthropomorphic legal bill sings on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building until he is stabbed and stuffed into a garbage bag by a sanitation engineer. Jack Sheldon provided the voice of the amendment in both parodies. The video is referenced in the animated comedy series
Johnny Bravo. In the episode, "Red Faced in the White House" (1997), when Johnny walks past the
United States Capitol, he sees Bill sitting on the steps, just like in the
Schoolhouse Rock! segment. In this case, however, it is announced that the Bill will not be made into law and a man comes out and destroys the Bill with a flamethrower.
Dee Bradley Baker provided the voice of the Bill.
2000s The song was featured prominently in the Disney made-for-TV movie
Mail to the Chief (2000) starring
Randy Quaid. A few lines from
Deluxx Folk Implosion's cover of the song can be heard in the 2003 movie
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, and is included in the film's official soundtrack. The Board of Education character from the
Drawn Together episode "Foxy vs. the Board of Education" is a parody of the Bill. In the February 12, 2006, episode of
Inside the Actors Studio, when
James Lipton asked
Dave Chappelle what he wanted to hear when he arrived in heaven, Chappelle answered, "Congratulations, Bill, you're a law." In the January 16, 2011, issue of the comic strip
Prickly City, Winslow, who is a long-time fan, discovers that the Bill (in this case an oversized piece of legislation) likes to smoke and drink, and proceeds to tell Winslow that if he wants to get an autograph that he'll need to pay $100 and has to be bribed with laundering money through political action committees. When Winslow reminds him of what the Bill represents in the song, the Bill responds, "I'm just a Bill! A thirsty Bill. Who's a guy gotta bribe to get a drink freshened up around here?"
2010s The song was parodied in the
Mad segment "GleeVR", in which
Garfield sings "I'm Just a Cat", which sounds similar to the song. The Bill appears in the
Robot Chicken episode "Robot Fight Accident" (2013), with a few other
Schoolhouse Rock! characters (voiced by
Seth Green). The sketch was parodied in the opening sketch of
Saturday Night Live on November 22, 2014, called "How a Bill Does Not Become a Law". The Bill, played by
Kenan Thompson, is an immigration bill singing a slightly altered version of the song to the boy (
Kyle Mooney). However, President
Barack Obama (
Jay Pharoah) pushes the bill down the Capitol Hill steps several times while explaining to the boy that it is far easier to utilize an
executive order (
Bobby Moynihan), as a critique on Obama's frequent usage of executive orders during his term. The executive order introduces itself by singing: "I'm an executive order, and I pretty much just happen."
Stephen Colbert parodied the opening of the song in a segment on
The Late Show on March 27, 2017, in response to the withdrawal of the
American Healthcare Act in the US House of Representatives the prior week. The May 16, 2017, episode of
Jimmy Kimmel Live! featured an animated parody of the segment, titled "I'm Just a Lie", satirizing the
Trump administration's use of "
alternative facts". The fourth season premiere of
Black-ish, ("
Juneteenth"), which aired on October 3, 2017, included an animated parody titled "I'm Just a Slave", with the music performed by
Aloe Blacc and
The Roots. In January 2018, the character Bill was used in an editorial cartoon by syndicated cartoonist Greg Kearney dealing with the issue of the Kansas state legislature's use of anonymous introduction of legislation. In October 2019, Homsar, a character in
Homestar Runner, dressed up as the Bill in the series' annual
Halloween special.
2020s In the
Animaniacs 2020 reboot, Dot Warner throws the Bill into a printing press while singing about the First Ladies, in this case
Rosalynn Carter and
Florence Harding. In March 2021,
Southern Ohio Medical Center parodied the song titled "Just a Vaccine", which traces the path of a vaccine from development to distribution. It highlights the extensive testing undergone by COVID vaccines to make sure they're safe and effective, as well as explaining how vaccines work. In 2023,
Funko released three Pop! Vinyl figurines of the Bill, Schoolhouse Rocky, and the Conductor from "
Conjunction Junction" to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the
ABC TV series
Schoolhouse Rock! with a limited edition chase variant of the Bill as a law. In May 2025, on
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (May 21, 2025),
Colbert aired a parody of
Schoolhouse Rock! called "Trump's Big Beautiful Bill Song". It featured a singing "Bill" on the Capitol steps with a boy, satirizing
Trump's tax cuts and their impact on
Medicare. The sketch turned darkly comedic, ending with the boy angrily rejecting Bill and setting him on fire. In October 2025, an
AI-generated parody of the song was created as part of
Andrew Cuomo's 2025 mayoral campaign that acted as part of a smear campaign against the
Democratic nominee
Zohran Mamdani (who ended up winning the election). In it, the bill meets Mamdani and becomes shocked upon Mamdani's supposed underqualification to be the
Mayor of New York City. The ad was harshly criticized for not being made with consent or permission from either Mamdani or
The Walt Disney Company, as well as artifacts such as the AI making the bill appear pregnant. ==2007 reference to the segment in the United States Senate==