In Popular Culture
- A Harry Turtledove short story about an alternate history WWII where Fyodor Tolbukhin leads Russian partisans against the occupying German forces is named "The Phantom Tolbukhin" in a play on Juster's book.
- Comedian Adam Carolla frequently mentions The Phantom Tollbooth as the only book he's ever read.
- In the first episode of the third season of the Sam & Max games, Sam mentions that they had "wasted too much time poking around that tollbooth."
- In episode two of the first season of Parks And Recreation, Amy Poehler's character Leslie Knope starts reading The Phantom Tollbooth to filibuster her own meeting.
- In episode 13 of New Girl, Schmidt states that The Phantom Tollbooth is one of his desert-island books. Cece says that she also loves the book, to which Schmidt replies, "Of course you do. You're a human being."
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)