In Popular Culture
- In the episode "Dammit Janet!" of the animated television series Family Guy, Lois Griffin finds her husband, Peter, and son, Chris, taking down the Christmas decorations on the roof by throwing rocks at them. She is concerned about what the neighbors will think. The scene cuts to an animated version of Gladys looking through her window and telling Abner, who is watching a pornographic film, that "the Griffin boy just killed a plastic reindeer".
- In an episode of The Hogan Family, Jason is trying to convince Sandra he saw something. When she warns him he is "beginning to sound like Gladys Kravitz", he notes "Yeah, but she was always right!"
- In the episode of The Simpsons entitled "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore", Gladys Kravitz has a statue in the TV Museum inside the "Hall of Nosy Neighbors" (next to Ned Flanders).
- American rock band The Tories released a song called "Gladys Kravitz" as the first single from their debut album Wonderful Life in 1998. The song is a character study of a prototypical gossip who is compared to the character from the Bewitched series.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“... good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)