The webcomic "Jersey Circus" is a mashup of artwork from "The Family Circus" and dialogue from the reality show "Jersey Shore". It juxtaposes the innocent artwork of the comic with the often adult dialogue from the show to parody both media phenomena. The 1999 novel "The Funnies", by J. Robert Lennon, centered around a dysfunctional family whose late patriarch drew a cartoon similar to "The Family Circus". Lennon later said, although there was a "resemblance", he did not "know anything about Bil Keane and made up my characters from scratch." The cartoon has been the subject of gags on many television sit-coms including episodes of "Pinky and the Brain", "Mystery Science Theater 3000", "The Simpsons", "Drawn Together", an episode of "Family Guy" ("Dog Gone") and the movie "Go (1999 film)". In the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" book series, there is a comic the main character despises called "L'il Cutie" which shares similarities to "Family Circus", including a child saying naively innocent things, the writer inspired by his child, and the son working on the comic as an adult. Some "Pearls Before Swine" strips include appearances by the "Family Circus" characters or parodic "Family Circus" strips. In one series of strips, Rat is captured by "Family Circus" fans after poking fun at the "Family Circus". In the week of June 27, 2005, Stephan Pastis portrayed the cartoon Keane family inviting Osama Bin Laden into their house. Bin Laden is captured by the police while following Billy's dotted lines, and the whole family is imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for harboring a terrorist. The 2016 graphic novel "The Fun Family" by Benjamin Frisch tells the dark story of the family of the creator of a "Family Circus"-like strip.