References To Blue Nun in Popular Culture and Media
As well as being comedy character Alan Partridge's wine of choice, Blue Nun is mentioned in almost every episode of BBC current affairs program This Week.
On the BBC television series Life on Mars (series two, episode four) Blue Nun is mentioned as the wine which will be served at a party hosted by a wife-swapping couple of which the sleazy husband is a murder suspect.
In the comic strip, Achewood, two cats named Roast Beef and Ray get drunk on Blue Nun during a road trip, describing it as "the wine so bad it made the news".
On the Beastie Boys album Check Your Head there is a musical interlude called the Blue Nun in which a narrator describes a party held in Peter Sichel's comfortable study in his New York townhouse in which the guests compliment the wine. Peter Sichel was chairman on the Blue Nun company until it was sold in 1995.
On The Beatles song "Long, Long, Long" off the White Album, rattling noises by a Blue Nun wine bottle are heard as a result of a bottle resting on top of a Hammond Organ played by Paul McCartney when he played a certain note. It is accompanied by a Ringo Starr drum roll.
Heston Blumenthal experimented with carbonating Blue Nun using a Sodastream machine in one episode of his novelty cuisine series Heston's Feasts. The programme showed interviews which gave the impression that people either preferred the carbonated wine to genuine champagne or could not tell the difference.
In the television series, Phoenix Nights (season 1, episode 4), Brian Potter (main character) offers his love interest some Blue Nun. Phoenix Nights is a television series devised and written by British comedian Peter Kay. Brian Potter is the owner/operator of a struggling working men's club in Bolton.
Afro Celt Sound System, in their song 'Rise above It', from the album Seed refer to dancing at gigs with blue nun. According to the lyrics of the song, heart burn going cheap is the reward for dancing at gigs with a blue nun.
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