In Popular Culture
The ALF episode Fight Back involves Willie Tanner appearing on the show after revealing a ripoff car mechanic that kept messing with his car so that he would keep coming back. The secret videotape shows Willie monologuing at Sam (the mechanic) for his role in ruining the American spirit and economy. After the secret videotape handled by ALF and Jake is edited for broadacst and shown on the show, ALF remarks, "They left my best stuff on the cutting room floor!"
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode The Marios Fight Back guest starred David Horowitz in a parody of Fight Back!, with the Mario brothers introducing a new drain-cleaning product with unintended consequences.
Read more about this topic: Fight Back! With David Horowitz
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“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)
“With respect to a true culture and manhood, we are essentially provincial still, not metropolitan,—mere Jonathans. We are provincial, because we do not find at home our standards; because we do not worship truth, but the reflection of truth; because we are warped and narrowed by an exclusive devotion to trade and commerce and manufacturers and agriculture and the like, which are but means, and not the end.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)