In Popular Culture
- The film's final scene has been widely imitated and parodied. The television series Friends, Miranda, Killinaskully, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Psych, Reba, The Simpsons, Spin City, Scrubs, Spaced, South Park, The Office, Coronation Street, Chuck and the motion picture Diary of a Mad Black Woman are among the productions that have paid tribute to this scene.
- The TV series Xiaolin Showdown also satirized the training sequence in episodeo "The Return of Master Monk Guan".
- The Simpsons satirized the ending in the episode "Tales From the Fast Lane" with Marge meeting Homer at the plant, and Homer picking her up and walking out of the plant. It even features Lenny parodying Lynette with him saying "Way to go, Homer. Way to go!"
- The Simpsons also satirized the training sequence in "The Springfield Connection" with Marge having trouble climbing over the wall just as Casey Seegar did.
- In the Family Guy episode "Emission Impossible", Stewie and Bertram make Peter cry by playing "Up Where We Belong" and says "I love you, Lou Gossett Jr."
- The Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Pod People" referenced the character of "Mayo" and the line, "Don't you do it! I got nowhere else to go!" In the final segment of episode "The Undead", Bobo imitated Sgt. Emil Foley's sarcastic manner of saying, "Mayo...nnaise!"
- Wayne's World 2 has Chris Farley's character being trained as a roadie and when Wayne grills him for not measuring up and asking him why he's there, he responds like Mayo "I got no place else to go."
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“That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street, carried to the duke’s house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke’s bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)