In Popular Culture
Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured a running gag about how Nelson almost always became imperiled by his air supply being cut off in one way or another, one of the MST3K characters reciting the line, "By that time, my lungs were aching for air." "Mike Nelson" is also the name of one of Mystery Science Theater 3000's head writers/hosts.
In American Desperado, co-authored by Jon Roberts (né John Riccobono) and award-winning journalist/author Evan Wright, Roberts shares in Chapter 3 that he missed his "Sea Hunt and Bonanza, favorite TV shows", when his mother sent him to Palermo to live with his father, Nat Riccobono. (Roberts confides in the book that Riccobono - a mobster and illegal alien - had been deported to Sicily following the Apalachin Meeting.)
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