Popular Culture
Reddy was parodied in an episode of the television show Roseanne, "That's Our Rosie", in which a doll version was used in a fake commercial for a utilities company that was pitched by Dan and DJ in the manner of the early days of television in the 1950s, when shows featured the performers promoting their sponsor's products.
A brief animated clip of Reddy appears in the Star Wars short film parody Hardware Wars.
The Facilities Maintenance arm of Temple University in Philadelphia typically applies Reddy's image to vehicles equipped to perform high voltage maintenance work within the university.
On the first album by The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh referred to himself as Phil "Reddy Kilowatt" Lesh. He also used an image of Reddy Kilowatt on Phil Lesh and Friends tour posters and has subsequently used the alias Reddy Kilowatt regularly on Grateful Dead related message boards and on music sharing sites.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)