Action News in Popular Culture
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- In an early episode of The Simpsons, a local station is shown using the Action News branding plus a similar intro—but portrays the show as having more action and explosions instead of being faster paced.
- In Ray Stevens' 1974 hit "The Streak", he plays an "Action News reporter" on the scene of three different streaking events, every time interviewing the same person (also played by Stevens) who keeps warning his wife, "Ethel", not to look—"but it's too late." At the end of the piece, the streaker is joined by "Ethel", much to the husband's horror.
- In the South Park episode "Quest for Ratings", the kids change the name of their school news program from "Super School News" to "Sexy Action School News" and add other outrageous elements in an attempt to get higher ratings from their rival program.
- The 2004 comedy film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy parodies 1970s culture, particularly Action News.
- The comic strip This Modern World, by "Tom Tomorrow," regularly depicts reporters from "Action McNews."
- DJ Sega from the Philadelphia-based record label Mad Decent created a dance remix of the Action News intro song.
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—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
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—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
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—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)