twooffour said:
So there's plenty of that kinda stuff, but I think I haven't seen any of those Simpsons/South Park spoofs (which episodes would that be)
I haven't watched The Simpsons since around the time The Phantom Menace came out, so I can't help you there. But as for South Park, just off the top of my head, in the season three epiosde "Jakovasours" they discover an extinct animal that talks like Jar Jar named Joon-Joon. This episode came out in 1999. The South Park movie (also from 1999) has an annoying Jar Jar quote randomly shoved into one scene. There is an episode called "Free Hat" where George and Steven plan on making a Raiders of the Lost Ark special edition theatrical rerelease, this episode heavily condemns the alteration of films (even though half the internet scratches their heads at us, it is nice to know Matt and Trey get it at least). Then there is the infamous "China Problem" episode, that takes the George Lucas "raped my childhood" thing and makes it literal. Both those episodes technically have Indiana Jones at the center of them, but they both reference Star Wars, the prequels, and the special editions pretty heavily. There are also PT references in the "Imagination Land" episodes.
None of the South Park ones are spoofs or parodies, but more harsh criticism of Lucas. Perhaps the Lucas criticism is more aimed at a minor sub-culture than pop culture, to be fair. But all the other prequel references and cameos throughout the series I think are decent example of the PT's influence in popular culture.
Even though Family Guy and Robot Chicken are Fox properties with Lucas sanctioned parodies and spoofs, I still think this flies as pop culture. Robot Chicken made the Star Wars special because its Star Wars clips were so popular, and since that was popular they made two more.