In Popular Culture
In the 2005 TV comedy series Loufa kai parallagi, which satirizes life in YENED during the Regime, a character named "Mastronikos" is portrayed as a loud wide-eyed Greek American always trying to imitate American television, with unintentionally comedic results.
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