In Popular Culture
- In the episode "Dammit Janet!" of the animated television series Family Guy, Lois Griffin finds her husband, Peter, and son, Chris, taking down the Christmas decorations on the roof by throwing rocks at them. She is concerned about what the neighbors will think. The scene cuts to an animated version of Gladys looking through her window and telling Abner, who is watching a pornographic film, that "the Griffin boy just killed a plastic reindeer".
- In an episode of The Hogan Family, Jason is trying to convince Sandra he saw something. When she warns him he is "beginning to sound like Gladys Kravitz", he notes "Yeah, but she was always right!"
- In the episode of The Simpsons entitled "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore", Gladys Kravitz has a statue in the TV Museum inside the "Hall of Nosy Neighbors" (next to Ned Flanders).
- American rock band The Tories released a song called "Gladys Kravitz" as the first single from their debut album Wonderful Life in 1998. The song is a character study of a prototypical gossip who is compared to the character from the Bewitched series.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrote a letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed spinach for her, with lots of butter.... I was impressed by Shirley Temple as a little girl my age who had power: she could write a piece for the newspapers and have it printed in her own handwriting.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure.... But the experiment of uniting free states and slaveholding states in one nation is, perhaps, a failure.... There probably is an “irrepressible conflict” between freedom and slavery. It may as well be admitted, and our new relations may as be formed with that as an admitted fact.”
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)