Popular Culture References
In the 1985 comedy film Fletch, Chevy Chase (after fainting in an operating room) asks a nurse, "do you have the Beatles' White Album? Never mind, just get me a cup of hot fat. And bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia."
In the "Film Club" round of the popular long running BBC Radio 4 panel comedy I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, regular reference is made to this film with one or more words changed to satisfy that week's theme of comedy film titles - usually by Graeme Garden.
In the episode of Futurama "Overclockwise", Mom tells the Hoverfish "Bring me the clock of Bender Rodriguez." In reference to the film.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
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“Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you ... take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.”
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