Leonardo DiCaprio (b. 1974) is an actor who started his career as a child appearing in TV commercials before playing recurring roles in the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara and the primetime sitcom Growing Pains. He has since appeared in a number of films including What's Eating Gilbert Grape (with Johnny Depp), Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, Titanic, Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can, Inception (with Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and many others.
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- Kermit the Frog spoofed DiCaprio as Amphibio De'Frogio in a German postcard parodying Titanic.
- In the Farscape episode "PK Tech Girl," when talking about the legendary (and now derelict) ship Zelbinion, John Crichton says "Yeah, well, just ask Leonardo DiCaprio. Even the big ones go down."
- DiCaprio is listed among CDE's "Key Demographic Analysis of Top 100 Things in Popular Culture" in The Muppets.
- In a September 17, 2015 interview with E!, Miss Piggy is asked if she'd swipe left or right on DiCaprio on Tinder. She swipes right and says, "He's such a man of mystery to me. I wanna know more about him."
- Miss Piggy's agent tries to get her a date with DiCaprio in The Muppets episode "Little Green Lie".
- The day after DiCaprio won an Oscar for The Revenant, Miss Piggy posted a photo of him to Instagram with the caption, "The ultimate #MCM [Man Crush Monday]: #Oscars-winner #LeonardoDiCaprio!! I hope he remembers how good I look with a little bit of gold."
- Uncle Deadly tweeted about the actor attending the Academy Awards that he was, "wearing a very posh and understated tux. It would go well with a little bit of gold accentuation."[1]
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