Popular Culture
- On South Park, the boys are often shown riding Big Wheels, particularly in the episodes "Chickenlover", "Kenny Dies", "The Jeffersons" and "Cartoon Wars".
- On The Simpsons episode "Moe'N'a Lisa", the Rhode Island state trooper rides a Big Wheel (lampooning the small size of the state).
- VH1's mini-series I Love Toys ranks the Big Wheel as the 40th most popular toy.
- A yearly Big Wheel race takes place on Easter Sunday in San Francisco. Formerly raced down Lombard Street, the event moved to Vermont St in 2008 under threat of lawsuit.
- The character Stewie Griffin from Family Guy is often seen riding a Big Wheel.
- An annual Tulsa Big Wheel race is hosted by Tulsa Big Wheel Racers, LLC as a charity event in which the proceeds go to benefit the Tulsa, OK based cancer research non-profit charity "Cancer Sucks".
- In the Stanley Kubrick Film The Shining, Danny, the son of Jack Torrance rides through the long halls of the haunted hotel on a Big Wheel.
- During the 2008 Christmas Holiday Season, Lexus ran a commercial featuring the Big Wheel.
- In James Cameron's 1986 film Aliens, children are seen driving Big Wheels in a terraformed colony building. It was also featured in another Cameron film, Terminator.
- On Nitro Circus Travis Pastrana lands the longest backflip on a Big Wheel.
- In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the main character, Greg Heffley, is given a Big Wheel for Christmas by his friend Rowley.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the last two years is a half-hearted attempt to find a way back to a more balanced relationship between our biological selves and the world we have built. So women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)
“In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,—not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)