In Popular Culture
The track National Movie Review on the alternative hip-hop album Deltron 3030, included as part of the album's futuristic dystopian backstory, explains that the vintage movie of the day Strange Brew chronicles the heroic adventures of two latter-day renaissance men, or, to use the correct 20th century terminology, "hosers"'. The fictional reviewer awarded the film three thumbs up.
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