Billy with his Bowler Hat appears in Saw during Amanda's Reverse Beartrap tape for less than one second. Bandura (1965) used a similar experimental set up to the one outlined above to test vicarious reinforcement. The experiment had different consequences for the model’s aggression to the three groups of children. On season 30 of Dancing with the Stars, the Halloween/horror-themed episode featured Amanda Kloots performing while costumed as Billy. The show, however misidentified the character being portrayed as "Jigsaw". Bandura, Ross, and Ross (1961) tested 36 boys and 36 girls from the Stanford University Nursery School aged between 3 to 6 years old. Bandura (1961) conducted a controlled experiment study to investigate if social behaviors (i.e., aggression) can be acquired by observation and imitation. Sample

A graffiti-style painting of Billy's face can be seen on a wall in James Wan's film Death Sentence. Experimental pop artist Eric Millikin created a large mosaic portrait of Billy out of Halloween candy and spiders as part of his "Totally Sweet" series in 2013. [6] [7]

References

In Scary Movie 4, Billy the Puppet appears in the film as the main antagonist. As a parody of the first two Saw films, he appears on a television screen to give instructions to Dr. Phil and Shaquille O'Neal, who are imprisoned in the bathroom, which is slowly filling with nerve gas. In the 2007 film Dead Silence, one of the puppets, who appears on the film's poster and wears the same outfit as Jigsaw's puppet, is named Billy. A graffiti-style painting of Billy's face can also be seen on a wall. In Saw 0.5, the proof-of-concept short film prior to the original film being produced, Billy is seen on a television set by David, telling him about the reverse bear trap that was hooked into his jaws, and explaining that the key to remove it is in the stomach of his "dead cellmate" (who is actually a heavily sedated man) lying in the room. After he disembowels the man and frees himself, Billy comes into the room on his tricycle to congratulate him. In the experimental conditions, children were individually shown into a room containing toys and played with some potato prints and pictures in a corner for 10 minutes while either:

Experiments can be replicated. Standardized procedures and instructions were used, allowing for replicability. In fact, the study has been replicated with slight changes, such as using video, and similar results were found (Bandura, 1963).

Vicarious Reinforcement Bobo Doll Study

Eager to finally put an end to Jigsaw's games Kerry took the video from Troy's crime scene and a bunch of photos and files home to continue her research. While she was watching the video over and over Boys were more likely to imitate same-sex models than girls. The evidence for girls imitating same-sex models is not strong. Cumberbatch (1990) found that children who had not played with a Bobo Doll before were five times as likely to imitate the aggressive behavior than those who were familiar with it; he claims that the novelty value of the doll makes it more likely that children will imitate the behavior. During the 1960s, Albert Bandura conducted a series of experiments on observational learning, collectively known as the Bobo doll experiments. Two of the experiments are described below: Aim In the Internet series Annoying Orange, Billy appears in "Annoying Saw" and "Annoying Saw 2: The Annoying Death Trap", both in which Orange refers to him as " Clownface", " Emo Clown", and " Donald Trump".

For Saw II, Billy was redesigned with mechanical features that could be manipulated by a remote control, including his unhinged jaw and his eyes. [3] Rapper Hopsin's album Raw depicts Hopsin on a tricycle with his face painted to look like Billy. The album's title itself can be interpreted as a spoof of the film's title. Before the releases of Saw III and Saw IV, Billy was used in videos to promote the films on YouTube and MySpace. Billy is in the video game Dead by Daylight as a prop as part of the Saw chapter. He appears sitting on the character-specific prop boxes that appear in maps when the player chooses "The Pig", a licensed character from Saw (who is Amanda Young in her Jigsaw apprentice reliefs).It was then possible to match the children in each group so that they had similar levels of aggression in their everyday behavior. The experiment is, therefore, an example of a matched pairs design.