In Popular Culture
The fair plays a major part in the seventh season episode of The Simpsons, "Bart on the Road", where Bart gets a fraudulent driver's license and he and three classmates go on a road trip to the fair after reading about it in an information guide in their rental car, having not noticed the guide book was extremely outdated. When they arrive, the fairgrounds are dilapidated and a wig store has been using the Sunsphere as a warehouse.
Read more about this topic: 1982 World's Fair
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