In J.D. Salinger's short story, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period, the main protagonist likens the interactions between him and his step-father Bobby as a ghastly little after-you-Alphonse relationship.
Alphonse Daudet | Gaston Lachaise | André-Gaston Prételat | Alphonse Mucha | Alphonse Merrheim | Gaston Maspero | Gaston Leroux | Gaston, Duke of Orléans | Alphonse de Lamartine | Gaston Waringhien | Gaston Bachelard | Cito Gaston | Prince Gaston, Count of Eu | Gaston Salvatore | Alphonse Juin | Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr | Gaston Planté | Gaston Miron | Gaston Litaize | Gaston Briart | Gaston Berger | Alphonse Royer | Alphonse Milne-Edwards | Alphonse Legros | Raleigh and Gaston Railroad | Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou | Louis-Alphonse Boyer | Gaston Modot | Gastón Mazzacane | Gaston Lenôtre |
The gophers' mannerisms and speech were patterned after Frederick Burr Opper's comics characters Alphonse and Gaston, which in the early 1900s engendered a "good honest laugh".