Cultural References
The British rock band Uriah Heep is named after the character.
In the episode The Old Man and the Lisa from Season 8 of the Fox television series The Simpsons, Principal Skinner and the Junior Achievers recycle newspapers at Uriah's Heap Recycling Center.
In the BBC television series Blake's 7, the computer character Slave was described by Peter Tuddenham, who voiced it, as "...a Uriah Heep type of character...."
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“At times it seems that the media have become the mainstream culture in children’s lives. Parents have become the alternative. Americans once expected parents to raise their children in accordance with the dominant cultural messages. Today they are expected to raise their children in opposition to it.”
—Ellen Goodman (20th century)