Legacy

Through the start of their fame, over the present time years after their break-up, Simon and Garfunkel also have a positive change for the popular culture as evidenced through the many references to them made in television, film, music as well as other areas of pop culture.

One of several earliest pop culture references or homages started in the late 1960s, if your comedy television show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In stood a running skit featuring members with the "Farkel" Family, including Fred & Fanny Farkel, "as well as the twins, Simon and Gar Farkel". In early '70s sitcom The Partridge Family, the two youngest Partridge children name their pet goldfish "Simon and Garfunkel".

In the episode of '90s sitcom Friends, the smoothness Ross Geller was convincing character Phoebe Buffay to inform him why she was mad at him by asking her a number of questions requiring an instant response; towards the question "Would you you like, Simon or Garfunkel?", Phoebe replies "Garfunkel". From the episode "Our Dear Leaders" of Scrubs, Lucy Bennett is the term for herself as "Garfunkel" being the other-in-command of her study group and mistakenly asks Drew Suffin to become her Micky Dolenz. In a episode of Monk, the title character Adrian Monk is upstaged by his now-famous assistant Natalie. This leads to him being called the Garfunkel on the pair, a pop culture reference the character doesn't understand.

The lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel songs continue to be referenced many times a tv personality, long after their initial popularity. With an episode of Generate income Met Your Mother, Marshall commissions a Venn diagram through which one section represents the "those who find themselves breaking his heart" while the other represents "those who find themselves shaking his confidence daily". The section the place that the two overlap is labelled "Cecilia". The end in the "Lady Bouvier's Lover" episode on the Simpsons contains on the list of series' many homages on the Graduate, and incorporates a parody of "The Sound of Silence" within the closing credits. ("Hello grandpa my old friend/your busy day is a a conclusion/what you are saying will almost always be sad and boring/they tell a tale that's worth ignoring".) In another episode, Mr. Burns spins around a lamp post singing, "Hello lamp post. What ya knowin'? I've go to watch your power flowin'", a mention of the the lyrics of "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)".

The episode "Bendin' from the Wind" of Futurama, in a double send-up of Simon and Garfunkel and Battlestar Galactica, features the singing duo "Cylon and Garfunkel" performing a rendition of "Scarborough Fair" that robot Cylon's singing is entirely monotone, and Garfunkel – who explains through the performance that he is the descendant of Art – states he gives Bender the check "over my dead career!".

In a episode of Saturday Night Live's "Celebrity Jeopardy" parody, there were a category entitled "Members of Simon and Garfunkel". The clue read, "Of Simon and Garfunkel, the one that is not Garfunkel." Once the Sean Connery character rang in, he wanted the question to become repeated and said responding, "I Garfunkeled your mother!" This is on the list of running gags with the parody. In another SNL skit, Will Forte and Jason Sudeikis pose as Bon Jovi opposite band, Jon Bovi, however when charged with sounding much like Bon Jovi, they assert, "Well, in case you didn't like that, you are going to love our new opposite folk rock band, Gimon & Sarfunkel."

In the episode of Flight of the Conchords, charge characters form a Simon and Garfunkel tribute band performing "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme". Garfunkel himself later appears inside episode. Inside the episode "Unnatural Love", the song "Carol Brown" is an homage to the Paul Simon song "50 Strategies to Leave Your soulmate".