Appearances in Popular Culture
Fozzie was featured on the #10 Valvoline Pontiac of Mike Wallace (who was filling in for the car's regular driver Johnny Benson) in the 2002 Tropicana 400 in an advertising campaign in which he and his fellow Muppets were featured on a select few race cars.
Fozzie also appeared alongside his fellow Muppets in the Halloween 2011 episode of WWE Raw, where he and Gonzo encountered Jack Swagger, Dolph Ziggler and Vickie Guerrero backstage.
Dirty South rapper Waka Flocka Flame's name is derived from Fozzie's catchphrase, "Wocka Wocka!".
OPI, the nail polish company created an OPI Muppets Collection, Holiday 2011. Warm and Fozzie is a color in that collection that is bronze with dark gold tones shimmery foil color.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, appearances, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
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“The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.”
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“The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.”
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