In Popular Culture
In the 1996 "War of the Coprophages" episode of the TV series The X-Files, a teenage boy claimed inhaling methane gas generated by burning manure allowed him to see "reality as it really is." He later dies from self-inflicted wounds.
The Spike program 1000 Ways to Die, aired a 2010 fictional story about a rock-n-roll musician named Cedric, whose recreational drugs run out while his tour bus is being repaired in the Mormon-heavy Provo. After a roadie suggests jenkem, Cedric goes on a bender, culminating in his death by asphyxiation while inhaling methane from a port-a-john.
A two part mini-documentary was made in 2010 by Australian documentarians ViveCoolCity, attempting to recreate and then use, Jenkem, purely from information that US media circulated during the Jenkem scare of 2007.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed and drawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,—those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)