The Muppet Show opening, with Gonzo swinging at the "O" in Muppet Show, and having bad things happen (i.e. breaking the "O" or the gong-beater exploding) might also be a parody.
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In general usage, "Gonzo" refers to Gonzo journalism, a style of first-person confrontational journalism developed by Hunter S. Thompson in the early 1970s.
Blue Submarine No. 6, manga series by Satoru Ozawa, which was subsequently developed into a four episode OVA series by Gonzo.
The Muppets Kitchen with Cat Cora: Gonzo, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Beauregard, Randy Pig
Fumoffu was directed by Yasuhiro Takemoto and produced by Kyoto Animation, which replaced Gonzo as the series producer, and became the first anime TV show from this studio.
Another speculation is that the word may have been inspired by the 1960 hit song "Gonzo" by New Orleans rhythm and blues pianist James Booker.
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Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with "telling it like it is", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham—in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.
Mr. Gray has asserted that the character concept for Gonzo was derived from a character proposal by Grant Morrison, which was to have been an update of Bozo the Iron Man, but the final concept became very different from the inspiration.
"Dr. Gonzo" can be seen on DVD on the 2 disc Back to the Future set in a special music video made for the movie, featuring "Doc Brown" Christopher Lloyd.
Johnny appears in Muppets from Space (1999), after the cancellation of Muppets Tonight where he is seen roommates with Sal Minella, he has a quick scene with a few lines of dialogue at Gonzo's party, when Sal cuts the cake meant for Gonzo's family, and Gonzo gets mad, they pretend not to have done so and go around asking who cut the cake.
The band were then invited to play a special MTV2 show - Gonzo On Snow with Million Dead, Jetplane Landing and a few others on the 24 March 2004 (by this time the video for their next release, 'Massachusetts Murder Medallions' was receiving airplay on MTV2).
La Jerga: Periodismo Gonzo Independiente (Independent Gonzo Journalism) is a free, bilingual (Spanish and English), gonzo newspaper established in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in April 2003, that has been publishing consistently monthly for the past four years.
The late Gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson wrote that he believed himself to be the resurrected Lono while on assignment in Hawaii for Running magazine with artist and friend Ralph Steadman.
World famous 'Gonzo' illustrator Ralph Steadman lives in Loose, and the 'Beechgrove Garden' (BBC Scotland) presenter Carole Baxter was born in Loose
Pepe is also a schemer, willing to betray or at least take advantage of his friends: he allied with Ms. Bitterman in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie and works with Rizzo to trick Gonzo into building a Jacuzzi in Muppets From Space.
It is a gonzo-esque quest to find the Holy Grail by punk rock legend Rat Scabies, the one-time drummer of The Damned, with whom Dawes strikes up a friendship when the two become neighbours in the London suburb of Brentford.
While formerly associated principally with Gonzo, he transitioned to being more often a sidekick to Pepe the King Prawn.
According to interviews with DV8 writer Warren Ellis, Bob's surname is a homage to famed gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
In 1970, Bill Cardoso (editor of The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine), wrote Thompson praising the "Kentucky Derby" piece in Scanlan's Monthly as a breakthrough: "This is it, this is pure Gonzo. If this is a start, keep rolling."
Founded in late 2005, Vouyer Media produced gonzo DVDs shot in widescreen HD.
The Lost Gonzo Band in several forms and with myriad varying members continues as Walker's backing to this day.
William Shatner's Gonzo Ballet is a feature-length documentary film about a ballet by Margo Sappington called "Common People", which was set to the music of William Shatner and Ben Folds from their album Has Been.