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The song's notable gimmick was in citing specific law-enforcement figures from popular culture, such as Sherlock Holmes, Charlie Chan, Joe Friday, Sam Spade, Boston Blackie, Bulldog Drummond, and the Northwest Mounted Police (The Mounties).
According to the author Thunderwing's personality is based on that of Joe Friday, but he comments that RoboCop and Judge Dredd also seem to fit Thunderwing.
Yarborough was probably best known for his roles as Doc Long in the West Coast cast of Carlton E. Morse's I Love a Mystery and Sergeant Ben Romero, Joe Friday's original partner, on Dragnet.
When detectives Joe Friday and Bill Gannon arrive at MacArthur Park, they find a boy with his head buried in the ground.