Popular Culture
- A 1972 parody, "Marvin Stanley Pigeon," was published by Thomas Meehan in The New Yorker: "Marvin Stanley Pigeon was no ordinary pigeon. While other pigeons spent their time grubbing for food, Marvin Stanley Pigeon worked away on his book on the window ledge outside the Manuscript Room of the Public Library in Bryant Park. He wanted to get his novel done in time for Macmillan's spring list."
- In The Brady Bunch Movie (1995), Mike Brady (Gary Cole) is reading it in bed with Carol (Shelly Long).
- The Sea Captain on The Simpsons uses the title as an exclamation when his ship is about to hit a lighthouse in the 1997 episode El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer.
- The story is referenced in the line, "we relive in Seagull's pages", in the second track of the 1973 Yes album, Tales from Topographic Oceans.
- Jonathan Livingston's passion for flying is illustrated in the song "Martı" (Seagull) by Turkish-Armenian singer Yaşar Kurt.
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