In Popular Culture
The novel was adapted into a television mini series of the same name in 1994. Examples of references in other television productions include one in The Simpsons episode "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?": Lisa Simpson lists it as one of the books she would receive from the Greater Books of the Western Civilization. In the Doctor Who episode "The Unquiet Dead", after expressing his admiration for Dickens' other works, The Doctor criticizes the work saying, "Mind you, for God's sake, the American bit in Martin Chuzzlewit, what's that about? Was that just padding? Or what? I mean, it's rubbish, that bit."
In cinema, the CGI movie Barbie in a Christmas Carol features a snotty cat named Chuzzlewit, who is the pet of Barbie's character, Eden Starling. John Travolta's character quotes from the novel in A Love Song for Bobby Long.
The novel features prominently in Jasper Fforde's novel The Eyre Affair.
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