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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“The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives—has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
—Carl Bernstein (b. 1944)
“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)