In Popular Culture
- The 1950s edition was briefly parodied in a Merrie Melodies cartoon, Wideo Wabbit, featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, as Fudd's pursuit of Bugs lands him in a re-enactment of Custer's Last Stand.
- On one of the "Classic 39" episodes of The Honeymooners, Art Carney as Norton---hearing Jackie Gleason as Ralph say he had a plan to get wife Alice (Audrey Meadows) to give him the money to go on the Raccoon Lodge convention---launched into this soliloquy parodying You Are There's famous catchphrase: May 3, 1953. Ralph Kramden . . . in search . . . for money . . . for capital . . . to enter his No-Cal Pizzeria . . . He says, "I have a sure-fire plan of getting the money, it can't fail!" . . . Alice Kramden says, "No!" . . . unquote . . . all things are as they were then, except you are there!
- The series was parodied on The Ernie Kovacs Show as "Vas You Dere?" The cast performed a lampoon of the stabbing of Julius Caesar, presented as a carnival act.
- The series was parodied on The Electric Company in a sketch titled You Weren't There. "You weren't born yet, you were out of town, or you just weren't paying attention," says the narrator.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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“He was one whose glory was an inner glory, one who placed culture above prosperity, fairness above profit, generosity above possessions, hospitality above comfort, courtesy above triumph, courage above safety, kindness above personal welfare, honor above success.”
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