In Popular Culture
Both the arm-wrestling scenes (parodied by Bart as King David arm-wrestling with sheep to "Winner Takes It All") are used in the eighteenth episode of the tenth season of The Simpsons.
The Cartoon Network show, Regular Show features an episode named "Over the Top" which features a plot about arm wrestling.
The film is referenced in an episode of "Viva la Bam".
In Nickelodeon's live-action popular show iCarly's episode "iGot a Hot Room", the film is referenced.
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“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
—Auguste Rodin (1849–1917)
“Cynicism makes things worse than they are in that it makes permanent the current condition, leaving us with no hope of transcending it. Idealism refuses to confront reality as it is but overlays it with sentimentality. What cynicism and idealism share in common is an acceptance of reality as it is but with a bad conscience.”
—Richard Stivers, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline, ch. 1, Blackwell (1994)