Popular Culture
Over a decade after the film's release, the on-court trash-talking and comical mother-insults between players seen prominently in the opening game and continuing throughout White Men Can't Jump provided the inspiration for the television show, MTV's Yo Momma which ran between 2006 and 2007, allowing competitors to trade disses with each other in order to win over the crowd and judges.
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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.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers another.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“The white dominant culture seemed to think that once the Indians were off the reservations, they’d eventually become like everybody else. But they aren’t like everybody else. When the Indianness is drummed out of them, they are turned into hopeless drunks on skid row.”
—Elizabeth Morris (b. c. 1933)