In Popular Culture
The show has been good-naturedly lampooned for Lipton's paused and somewhat clipped delivery on Saturday Night Live, in which Will Ferrell portrayed Lipton interviewing himself as an annoyed guest, and on The Simpsons, where character Rainier Wolfcastle (a spoof of Arnold Schwarzenegger) shoots his interviewer and a dying Lipton croaks: "It has been both an honor and a privilege to eat your lead, sir."
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