Cultural References
- The character is referenced in the musical Reefer Madness.
- The song "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)" by Tom Waits has the line, "As the bouncer is a sumo wrestler creampuff Caspar Milquetoast".
- In the 1954 film Carmen Jones (based upon the musical of the same name), Sgt. Brown (Brock Peters) flirts with the vixenish factory worker Carmen Jones (Dorothy Dandridge). When her boyfriend Joe (Harry Belafonte) objects, Brown insultingly refers to him as "Lieutenant Caspar Milquetoast". A fight ensues and Brown is beaten into unconsciousness by Joe, a soldier under his command.
- Casper Milktoast, a rock band which was active in Wisconsin from 1993 to 1998, took their name from the character.
- United States v. Gartmon, a case in the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit (1998), says that avoiding prejudicial evidence doesn't "provide a shield for defendants who engage in outrageous acts, permitting only the crimes of Caspar Milquetoasts to be described fully to a jury.”
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