Influence On Popular Culture
A popular urban legend circulated during the era of the show's greatest popularity to the effect that the cast and crew of Green Acres ate Arnold. The story is false, however it persisted long after Green Acres went off the air; moreover, as noted above, there was more than one Arnold.
In the 1994 film Pulp Fiction, the character Jules (played by Samuel L. Jackson) refers to Arnold, saying a pig would have to be "ten times more charming" than Arnold for him to cease considering it a filthy animal.
The 1995 theatrical film Gordy was originally conceived in the early 1970s by Green Acres creator Jay Sommers and writer Dick Chevillat as a vehicle for the Arnold Ziffel character. Both are given writing credit for the film, although Sommers had died some ten years before the release of Gordy.
The band Anthrax dedicated their cover of Black Sabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" to Arnold Ziffel on their I'm the Man EP.
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