In Popular Culture
- The television show Yo Momma features contestants "playing the dozens."
- The Australian hip-hop outfit Butterfingers released a song called "Yo Mama" that made number 17 on the 2004 Triple J Hottest 100.
- The comedic film Monty Python and the Holy Grail presents maternal insult as a method of taunting prevalent since at least the High Middle Ages, combining it with its paternal equivalent in a French castle guard's exclamation "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"
- The Mexican film Y tu mamá también's title is an equivalent usage in Spanish ("and your mother too").
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