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In the episode "Bart vs. Thanksgiving", Bart complains about the crass commercialism of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade while watching television.

Rosana Melo

Rosana Melo (born October 24, 1973 in Assis, São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian popular singer who rose to prominence in 2005 participating in the TV show Gente que Brilha on SBT.

Spaghetti taco

Spaghetti Tacos were first seen in iCarly (Season 2), spaghetti tacos quickly became a food pop culture phenomenon.


Dawn Okoro

Dawn Okoro (b. 1980, in Houston), is an artist who paints figurative art works inspired by fashion and popular culture.

Far right in Croatia

In the world of popular culture, the pop/folk/rock singer Marko Perković (Thompson) caused a scandal when the media obtained a copy song Jasenovac i Gradiška Stara allegedly sung by him.

Galactosomum

The genus is inaccurately known as a species in popular culture, due to its mention by Luis Sera in Resident Evil 4 via a note in the Castle sewers as an example of a parasite which controls, or alters, the behavior of the host.

LIVE from the NYPL

Since 2005, guests such as Tina Brown, Spike Lee, Umberto Eco, Jay-Z, Salman Rushdie, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Werner Herzog, and many others have appeared in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building to talk about subjects such as literature, art, popular culture, philosophy, and music.

Michel Jeury

He began writing science fiction under the pseudonym of Albert Higon and penned two space operas for the Rayon Fantastique imprint of publishers Hachette and Gallimard: Aux Étoiles du Destin Destiny's Stars (1960), featuring a cosmic battle between the alien races: the T’Loons and the incomprehensible Glutons, and La Machine du Pouvoir The Machine Of Power (1960), which won the 1960 Jules Verne Award.

Ministers Island

By the time of Van Horne’s death in 1915, the island had been transformed into a small Xanadu, sporting a sandstone mansion furnished in the most lavish late Edwardian manner, manicured grounds, scenic roads, greenhouses turning out exotic fruits and vegetables, as well as a breeding farm producing prize-winning Clydesdale horses and Dutch Belted cattle.

Mudmen

In addition, the band's music has been featured in popular culture—their single "Lost", from their self-titled debut, was featured in a promotional video for the NBC television show The Black Donnellys, and their single "Animal" was featured in the soundtracks of the video games Burnout 3: Takedown and MX vs. ATV UnleashedThe Campbell Brothers "founding members" appear on the Bob and Dougs 24 anniversary special and have music featured on don cherry's hockey video's 9,19,20.

Pervo-Kris

There are also many parodies of pop culture i.e. reality TV shows such as "Date My Mom", "So You Think You Can Dance" etc. and riffs on South Park, Manga, serial killers and more.

Q. Allan Brocka

His next works were iconic documentaries of popular culture, Porno Valley, a reality show featuring pornographic actresses from Vivid Entertainment and Camp Michael Jackson about the encampment of fans and media outside the court trial of pop-music star Michael Jackson.

Searchin'

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).

Shibuhara Girls

Shibuhara Girls is a MTV Japan/MTV Asia reality mini-series that centers around the lives of a group of young aspiring Japanese women as they seek stardom in the popular pop culture and fashion districts of Tokyo, Japan; Shibuya and Harajuku.

Six Ugly

Its packaging features several references to American popular culture, such as the Universal Monsters and the band's name being written in the Coca-Cola font, along with the EP's sound being more akin to contemporary western metal than the band's previous releases.

Smoky Dawson

He was widely touted as Australia's first singing cowboy complete with yodel, in the style of Gene Autry: Dawson had an extraordinary long and prolific career, releasing his first single in 1941 and his last album in 2005, aged 92, making him the worlds oldest recording artist (although now surpassed by the forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn).

Snorg Tees

Snorg Tees is an American company based in the US state of Georgia, specialising in T-shirt designs that reference popular culture or make humorous assertions about the wearer.

The Duplex

A number of strips is devoted to the current media events (mainly related to the U.S. pop culture, such as American Idol show) or everyday life (such as popularity of Tivo video recorder and universal remotes).


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1903 New York Highlanders season

Given the media's penchant for citing popular culture, that nickname was also possibly influenced by the then-current and hugely popular America-centric George M. Cohan Broadway play, "Little Johnny Jones", and its centerpiece song, "Yankee Doodle Dandy".

Armand de Brignac

An appearance in the Jay-Z music video of "Show Me What You Got" prior to the launch of the Armand de Brignac brand sparked wide discussion on sites covering hip-hop and popular culture, following his public fallout with the makers of Cristal.

Carrie Bickmore

A running joke throughout the segment was Bickmore's quirky introductions in which she added a quip, often playing off of social trends, music and popular culture, for example: "Good evening. I'm Carrie Bickmore and don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?" In 2007, Bickmore returned to the show with a more important role.

Catocala lacrymosa

This moth has achieved some fame in popular culture by being figured in several works of the American rock band Evanescence, most notably their album The Open Door.

Charles Radcliffe

Its treatment of popular culture has since been hailed as path-breaking: the critic Jon Savage has said that one piece by Radcliffe "laid the foundation for the next 20 years of sub-cultural theory."

Community Charge

In popular culture, the punk band The Exploited featured the song "Don't Pay The Poll Tax" in their album The Massacre.

Double the Fist

The show parodies many things about popular culture, primarily being a spoof of shows such as Jackass; whereas they perform stunts designed to injure and/or humiliate an individual, the Fist team do things that would obviously kill them.

English Canadian

Although it has many Francophone officers, in popular culture the mountie has been typically represented by an anglophone, such as Dudley Do-Right, Benton Fraser or Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

Fantasy

Work in this area ranges widely, from the structuralist theory of Tzvetan Todorov, which emphasizes the fantastic as a liminal space, to work on the connections (political, historical, literary) between medievalism and popular culture.

Feminism in culture

In a film from popular culture although not in women's film, an early reference to the "feminist movement" is heard from Katharine Hepburn in the 1942 movie Woman of the Year.

Gawilghur

In popular culture, the campaign to take Gawilghur forms the background of the novel Sharpe's Fortress by Bernard Cornwell, the third in a series of books covering the eponymous hero's time in the British army in India during the Napoleonic era.

Georges Henri Rivière

In 1929 and 1930, Rivière was on the editorial board of Documents, to which he also contributed articles, such as “The Ethnographical museum of the Trocadéro" (1929, issue 1), as well as chronicles on popular culture such as “Religion and ‘Folies-Bergère’” (1930, issue 4), and profiles on jazz musicians such as Eddie South and Hayman Swayze.

Helen Hall

A former Vice-President at Christie's, Helen now works with private collectors, auction houses, museums and institutions all over the world to research, appraise, authenticate and value iconic objects, manuscripts, clothing and instruments in the history of Popular Culture.

Houghton College

Robert Beckford, a British academic theologian and a reader in black theology and popular culture at Oxford Brookes University

Hugh Ferriss

Ferriss also influenced popular culture, for example Gotham City (the setting for Batman) and Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Hurra Deutschland

Puppets from the German popular culture entered the ensemble to public appraisal, such as entertainer Thomas Gottschalk, singer Heino and tennis player Boris Becker.

I spy

The game and its wording are well known in western popular culture, for example the title of the 2002 horror film My Little Eye uses part of the wording from the game.

Ideological diversionism

These corruptions included, but were not limited to, homosexuality, western popular culture like The Beatles, laziness, and intellectualism.

John Mullan

Eighteenth-century Popular Culture: A Selection (ed. with Christopher Reid) (Oxford University Press, 2000) ISBN 0-19-871135-2

Jung Da-yeon

Jung Da-yeon is a South Korean diet writer and fitness guru widely known as a Korean popular culture figure under the moniker momjjang ajumma (Korean: 몸짱 아줌마).

Keeping up with the Joneses

A good illustration of the phenomenon in popular culture is a 2009 American film The Joneses written and directed by Derrick Borte.

King Clancy

In popular culture he is referred to in the TV series How I Met Your Mother in the episode of Old King Clancy.

Lower Manhattan

As reflected in popular culture, "downtown" in Manhattan has historically represented a place where one could "forget all your troubles, forget all your cares, and go Downtown," as the lyrics of Petula Clark's 1964 hit "Downtown" celebrate.

MetroPCS

MetroPCS's TV commercial series (from 2010 to 2011) features two Indians "Ranjit" played by veteran actor Anjul Nigam and "Chad" who make fun of American popular culture, which received mixed reviews.

My Living Doll

According to The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, My Living Doll is the source of the science fiction phrase "Does not compute" in popular culture.

Nick Digilio

The Nick Digilio Show can currently be heard on WGN Radio in Chicago (720 AM) where Digilio discusses popular culture, current events, all things Chicago, and other hot topics including why the Flavor Bowl from KFC is the best fast food item ever produced, and the fact that there actually once was vegetable flavored Jell-O.

No soap radio

Over the years the joke has become widely known and entered popular culture in other forms, including a shower radio labeled "No Soap-Radio!" on a The Simpsons episode ("Homer the Heretic"), a popular podcast named after the joke, and a band with the name appearing at the Crazy Horse on a The Sopranos episode ("Pie-O-My").

Patois

The hip hop group Das Racist released the album Shut Up, Dude as a free mix-tape in March 2010; the fifth track on this album is "Fake Patois", which engages issues of authenticity in popular culture.

Paul Dickson

Paul Dickson (born in Yonkers, New York) is a freelance writer of more than 50 non-fiction books, mostly on American English language and popular culture.

Peter Applebome

Tara McPherson, a professor of popular culture at the University of Southern California, calls Applebome a "prominent liberal journalist".

Peter Nazareth

Nazareth attracted major media attention for teaching that university's popular course "Elvis as Anthology," which explores the deep mythological roots of Elvis Presley's roles in popular culture.

Riaan Cruywagen

In the mid-2000s, following the contract renewal issue, Cruywagen was once more the focus of popular culture in South Africa for a time, when a number of e-mail and internet jokes originally referring to Chuck Norris and David Hasselhoff were modified by using his name in their place.

Rockstar Weekly

In late 2009, RockStar Weekly made the shift to a broader based music and popular culture website (while maintaining coverage of heavy metal bands) and published a special edition magazine for fans of the popular American Idol Season 8 contestant Adam Lambert.

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

He is probably best known in popular culture, particularly to English-speaking audiences, for playing the archetypal mad scientist role of C.A. Rotwang in Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

Ruya

In popular culture, Ruya is first used to describe tennis star Rafael Nadal on the Baidu Rafa Post Bar (rafa Bar of Baidu Tieba).

Shigeru Sugiura

Sugiura closely followed popular culture and thus his manga were also influenced by such contemporary fads as Godzilla, pro wrestling, and American science fiction films.

Soledad Reyes

In her 2009 essay, From Darna to Zsazsa Zaturnnah: Desire and Fantasy and Other Way, Reyes compared two Filipino superheroines existing in contemporary Philippine popular culture and literature, namely Darna and Zsazsa Zaturnnah.

Tamarkin

Jeff Tamarkin (b. 1952), an editor, author and historian specializing in music and popular culture.

The Irony of Fate

The film is traditionally broadcast in Russia and the former Soviet republics every New Year's Eve, and is widely regarded as a classic piece of Russian popular culture: Andrew Horton‏ and Michael Brashinsky likened its status to that held by Frank Capra's 1946 It's a Wonderful Life in the United States as a holiday staple.

The Son Also Draws

Much of the episode's humor is structured around cutaway sequences that parody popular culture, including references to Happy Days, Nova, One Day at a Time, and The More You Know.

They Came for Good

The film covers American Jew's entrepreneurial spirit from the mostly-Jewish peddlers selling goods on the back roads of the South to those who run the general stores that will one day grow into nationwide chains like Macy’s, Sears, Gimbels, Sterns and Filene's, Jews were major purveyors of commercial good in this country and, thus, major contributors to popular culture.

TKO-HQ

The band's collection of interests and influences is integral to their stage presence and live atmosphere, claiming popular culture references from Bruce Springsteen to Chewbacca.

Tony Hannan

Tony Hannan (born 11 June 1963 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England) is an author, journalist and publisher who specialises in British popular culture.

TRON command

The TRON command entered popular culture when it was used as the name of the 1982 Disney movie, "TRON." It has been subsequently included in a sequel movie, "TRON: Legacy," a television series, "TRON: Uprising," and two video games, "TRON: Legacy," and "TRON: Evolution."

Vicky Gilpin

Gilpin writes book reviews for FreshFiction.com, writes articles for HerLife Magazine, and is a scholar of vampires, popular culture, sexuality, weight studies, religious studies, and literature.

Walter McConnell

The individual forms presented in these works include such imagery as animal sculptures, Christmas trees, figures from popular culture, religious icons and faux Ming vases.

What Comes Around

The lyrics made some references to popular culture, by mention: Phil Rizzuto, Rapunzel, Dolemite, Geraldo Rivera, skinheads, the song "Beat on the Brat" by the Ramones, and Doris the Finkasaurus.

WPWC

On September 16, 2012, WPWC started producing "Pivot Point with Maya Rockeymoore," a live public affairs radio show dedicated to aging issues and their intersection with politics, public policy, and popular culture.