In the 1949 film
You're my Everything, the song is performed as a
minstrel show in a dream in a
movie-within-a-movie. It is a fantasy sequence on a candy-themed boat and the entire crew is in
Blackface.
Tiny Tim presented a version of the song in his first appearance in
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in January 1968. In the
George R. R. Martin novelette "A Peripheral Affair," published in the January 1973 edition of Asimov’s
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a spaceship appears with the name "Good Ship Lollipop." In February 1974, the song was parodied on an episode of
The Brady Bunch, the episode being "The Snooperstar" in which Cindy becomes convinced that Mike's fussy client Penelope Fletcher (
Natalie Schafer) is a
talent scout and is trying to make her into the next
Shirley Temple.
Helen Mirren sings it in 1980's
The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu. The moniker "Good Ship Lollipop" was famously used by
Chicago Outfit underboss Ernest "Rocky" Infelice and his inner circle to refer to the Cicero Crew, which he ran in the mid-to-late 1980s with his second in command, Salvatore "Solly D" DeLaurentis. It is unknown as to how the crew gained the nickname. In the 1988
Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "
The Arsenal of Freedom", Commander Riker is able to outwit an artificially intelligent hologram masquerading as the captain of another starship by claiming that he is from the Lollipop, which Riker refers to as "a good ship". When the hologram asks about the weapon systems of the Lollipop, it is exposed as a fraud. In October 1992,
The Simpsons used the original recording in "
Treehouse of Horror III", in which Shirley Temple was seen singing it during her concert before being devoured by
King Homer, in a sketch parodying
King Kong. In May 2000, the same show parodied the song in "
Last Tap Dance in Springfield". It was being sung as "On the Spaceship Lollipop" by Vicki Valentine (voiced by
Tress MacNeille), herself spoofing Temple. In the 2007 film
Shrek the Third,
The Gingerbread Man is heard singing the song after Captain Hook threatens him. ==Other recordings==