"Beginning of the End" has become somewhat infamous because of its notoriously poor production values and unrealistic plot. The movie was parodied in the 11th season of the hit animated television program "The Simpsons" in the episode "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)." In that episode, Homer Simpson grows giant vegetables using radioactive materials, and automatically assumes that any animal eating the food will become monstrous. Homer even attempts to recall "Beginning of the End" as evidence of his claim, although he misremembers the title as "Grasshopperus" and the star as Chad Everett (another blond, all-American actor similar to Peter Graves).