Cultural References
Herb is still identified, nearly three decades after WKRP's initial run ended, as the stereotype for "unprofessional, bribe-taking desperate salespeople" with sales professionals being advised not to wear plaid sports coats so as to avoid being associated in customers' minds with the untrustworthy Mr. Tarlek.
An Ann Arbor, Michigan-based rock band of the 1980s and 90s was called The Herb Tarlicks, a double pun on the character's name and guitar "licks".
Canadian band Rheostatics paid tribute to Herb Tarlek in their song, "The Tarleks", in which Bonner reprised his famous role in the music video.
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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.”
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