Popular Culture References
Season 1 episode 15 of "The Carol Burnett Show" featured a comedy skit that parodied "Born Free." It aired Jan. 1, 1968 and starred Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, and Tim Conway.
Season 5 episode 6, "Far Away Places" of the AMC period drama Mad Men has the character of Peggy Olson skip work to catch a matinee of Born Free.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“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)
“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you’d never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)