bed bath and beyond

Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) was formed in 1971 and today operates a chain of domestic merchandise retail stores across the United States. They feature medium to high quality domestic merchandise: items for the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, and dining room. The company is a member of the S&P 500 index and the NASDAQ-100 index.

The company's corporate headquarters are located at 650 Liberty Avenue, Union, New Jersey 07083.

Pop Culture

Many jokes have been made about the Beyond portion of the Bed Bath & Beyond name:

• The Fox animated sitcom Family Guy has several Bed Bath & Beyond jokes, which often revolve around working in or browsing on the Beyond portion of the store. One of the jokes involves Peter Griffin walking through an unmarked door with a "Beyond" section. When he walks through, he falls into this black space with equations in the background. At the end, he finds some coffee mugs.
• Bed Bath & Beyond is mentioned in the satirical song "America, Fuck Yeah" from the 2004 film Team America: World Police as one of the better things about the United States (although it receives a less enthusiastic response than other brand names such as Gap and McDonald's).
• In the Fox animated sitcom Futurama, there is one scene in the episode "Raging Bender" where Bender (after losing his last match in a robot fighting tournament) receives a gift certificate to Bed Bath & Beyond as a consolation prize.
• Bed Bath & Beyond is mentioned in comedian Jim Norton's live CD performance, Yellow Discipline. He says that, as a man, if you spend $1000 there, you get a letter congratulating you on being homosexual.
• In the film Old School, Will Ferrell’s character, Frank, a married man among college students, talks about his Saturday by saying “Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper; maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time.” This is meant to poke fun at the corporation's dominant suburban locations.
• Bed Bath & Beyond is sometimes included in the Food Network television show Good Eats. Alton Brown visits a BBB location and gathers useful gadgets.
• In the movie Killjoy 2, Killjoy says "Bed, Bath and Beyond the grave."
• The "Beyond" department is also used in Adam Sandler and Christopher Walken's 2006 comedy film Click. In this case, the door marked "Beyond" leads to a workshop helmed by Walken, with a door marked "Way Beyond" leading way to a massive storage unit, which contained the Universal Media Remote that he was looking for. Ironically, Sandler's character asked if there were any Universal Media Remotes, but there weren't.
• In the Simpsons episode The Cartridge Family, Homer buys a handgun at the "Bloodbath and Beyond" gun shop.
• The "Beyond" department joke is also used in the episode of Will & Grace entitled "Head Case" (Season 1, ep. 3). Will tries to make Grace feel better about her tiny bathroom by buying her shelves from the "beyond".
• Also, Season 4, episode 7 of Will & Grace is entitled "Bed, Bath & Beyond." In the episode, Grace is coping with breaking up with Nathan, and her friends try and get her out of her bed.
• In Spike TV, during an episode of "MXC" Kenny Blankenship mentions "Bed Bath & The Great Beyond"
• A punk rock rock band from various parts of America formed in 2005 under the name "Bloodbath & Beyond," possibly as a Simpsons reference rather than a deliberate allusion to the store.