Television
- There is an episode of King of the Hill entitled "To Kill a Ladybird".
- In one of the episodes of the TV series Smallville ("Hug", season 1) Lex refers to Clark as "Atticus" due to the fact that Clark is trying to help a seemingly guilty man. Lex explains he is in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. When Clark asks Lex how the book ends, Lex pauses and replies "The ending's not important, it's the journey".
- An episode of the American situation comedy Frasier was titled "To Kill a Talking Bird".
- In one episode of The Simpsons Homer says, "I'll have to read Marge's book and I swore never to read again after To Kill a Mockingbird gave me no useful advice on killing Mockingbirds! It did teach me not to judge a man by the color of his skin, but what good does that do me?" Another episode is a pun title of an Itchy And Scratchy Cartoon called "To Kill a Talking Bird". Also, in "Bart to the Future", Bart Simpson's failed band is called the Tequila Mockingbirds. In the 2/15/09 episode, Homer is at a prom with a girl, but sees Marge, and tries to sidetrack the other girl so he can dance with her. He tells her he forgot that he had an English paper due on Monday, and asks her to read "To Kill a Mockingbird", and find out the relation between Boo Radley and Southern Gothics.
- In Everybody Loves Raymond, Debra wrote her college thesis on To Kill a Mockingbird, prompting Robert to suggest to Raymond that he buy her a first edition copy of it for Christmas.
- In an episode of 8 Simple Rules Rory has to do a book report on the book, and tries to find the part where the mockingbird is killed (unaware that there actually isn't one). In another episode, Paul impersonates Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird in response to a poker buddy's impression of John Wayne.
- The 3rd episode of the 2010 TV series Pretty Little Liars the name was changed to, "To Kill A Mocking Girl", the novel was also taught at Rosewood High by Ezra Fitz throughout the first season.
- In the NewsRadio episode "Big Brother" from Season 4, Bill, Jimmy and Joe stage a fake trial in the office to determine Lisa's recent romantic involvements. When she protests, Dave says, "I really don't care. The only people who care are my friends Atticus Finch, Scout and Boo Radley over there."
- In the television sitcom Dog with a Blog, Stan is seen reading To kill a Mockingbird with Avery.
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“Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents- to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.”
—Ellen Galinsky (20th century)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“Photographs may be more memorable than moving images because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Television is a stream of underselected images, each of which cancels its predecessor. Each still photograph is a privileged moment, turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)