In Popular Culture
Both the arm-wrestling scenes (parodied by Bart as King David arm-wrestling with sheep to "Winner Takes It All") are used in the eighteenth episode of the tenth season of The Simpsons.
The Cartoon Network show, Regular Show features an episode named "Over the Top" which features a plot about arm wrestling.
The film is referenced in an episode of "Viva la Bam".
In Nickelodeon's live-action popular show iCarly's episode "iGot a Hot Room", the film is referenced.
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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.”
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“We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle- class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.”
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