Parking - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The song Big Yellow Taxi, originally written and performed by Joni Mitchell, includes the line, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
  • The Talking Heads song (Nothing But) Flowers laments, "Once there were parking lots. Now it's a peaceful oasis."
  • The Monopoly board game includes a space called Free Parking. Under a common house rule, a player who lands on this space wins a jackpot consisting of a collection of fines and taxes that have been placed in the center of the board (rather than having been paid to the Banker, as they would under the official rules). Parker Brothers released a card game by the same name as a spin-off of this space.
  • A popular parlance for sexual activity in public, derived from the cultural phenomenon of "parking" as depicted in many shows and movies about the 1950s 60s and 70s.
  • In an episode of Seinfeld titled The Parking Space, George Costanza says, "You don't understand. A garage. I can't even pull in there. It's like going to a prostitute. Why should I pay, when if I apply myself, maybe I could get it for free?"

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