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Tuesday, February 20, 2007Long Live the ‘King’
Beth McKenzie got the job of her dreams The New York-based band sounds like it's been taking in a lot of television on tour; the album, due out in April, is titled “Traffic & Weather.” By Michael Malone
Feb 20 2007 7:54AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (3) | Reader Commentsat 2/22/2007 12:40:11 PM, T Dog said: King of Queens was also mentioned in Weird Al Yankovic's song "Couch Potato" (parody of Eminem's "Lose Yourself") several years ago, but the reference wasn't exactly a favorable shout-out... at 2/22/2007 1:01:17 PM, Joe Gonyotz said: I watch the King of Queens everyday...Easily most underrated sitcom in history... Post a comment |
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True critical praise may have eluded King of Queens over the years, but the CBS sitcom appears to have scored some hipster-cred immortality. In its ninth and final season, King turns up in the first single on the upcoming album from power-pop hipsters Fountains of Wayne. The brains behind the ubiquitous “Stacy’s Mom” tune, FoW’s “Someone to Love” name-checks Doug, Carrie and the gang in the fourth stanza:
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