Influences On Popular Culture
In The Sopranos episode "College", Carmela Soprano and her priest, Father Phil Intintola, watch The Remains of the Day on Tony Soprano's stolen DVD player and skirt dangerously close to forsaking Phil's priestly and Carmela's marital vows, while Tony, Meadow, and AJ spend the night elsewhere. The next morning, Tony expresses suspicion after learning that Father Phil has spent the night, to which Carmela sarcastically responds, "Do I look like the friggin' thornbird over here?"
In the television show Reba there is an episode in which the character Barbra Jean has a crush on her reverend, whom she refers to as "Reverend Yummy-Pants". She sends him a copy of The Thorn Birds as a hint.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, influences, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Whoever influences the child’s life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child’s future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)
“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)
“We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)