Popular Culture
- Johnson County was the setting of the TV show Married to the Kellys.
- Overland Park is the setting for The United States of Tara.
- Blue Valley Northwest High School students were featured in the series High School Confidential, centered in south Johnson County.
- Mission Hills is the setting for The ABC Family show Switched at Birth
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“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)