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Underwood in Pop Culture

  • The Between the Lions episode "Clickety Clack, Clickety Clack" used an Underwood typewriter.
  • In the 1991 Coen brothers film Barton Fink, John Turturro's character Barton uses an Underwood typewriter in response to Jack Warner's comment that screenwriters are "Schmucks with Underwoods."
  • "Actors? Schmucks. Screenwriters? Schmucks with Underwoods." – attributed to Jack Warner
  • In the 2000 film, He Died with a Felafel in His Hand directed by Richard Lowenstein, the character Danny (Noah Taylor) defends his use of an Underwood to a pair of debt collectors.
  • In the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Catch Me If You Can, Carl Hanratty shows Frank Abagnale a forged check, which he says was made with "a stencil machine and an Underwood".
  • An Underwood typewriter is featured on Fionn Regan's 2006 album The End of History.
  • The poem Underwood Girls by Pedro Salinas is a modernist description of the typewriter's letters as an ode to the potential of words and potential of creationism in the language through the work of the symbols.
  • An Underwood typewriter is used by the main character in the 2001 musical film Moulin Rouge!
  • William Faulkner used an Underwood typewriter.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald used an Underwood typewriter.
  • Jack Kerouac used an Underwood Portable Typewriter when he wrote On The Road.
  • An Underwood typewriter is also used by Joan Crawford's character, Blanche Hudson, in the 1962 film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
  • David James Duncan features a scene in his book The Brothers K in which the main character places a piece of wood on top of an Underwood No.5 to make it type better.
  • In To Kill a Mockingbird, the character "Mr. Underwood" is known to type on a typewriter all day long.
  • A book entitled Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings was printed by the Viking Press in 1991 and is an anthology of American Beat writer Jack Kerouac's early work.
  • An Underwood typewriter is featured in the Australian cartoon film Mary and Max, in which Max, in New York City, used an Underwood to write to Mary, in Australia.
  • In the video game BioShock, all typewriters in the game bear the comical name "Below Tree," of course referencing the famous Underwood brand.
  • KPH Consulting started their business in a garage with only one Underwood typewriter.
  • The stop-motion animation film Mary and Max features a fully functioning miniature Underwood typewriter prop.
  • An Underwood typwriter was used in the opening sequence of the Sherlock Holmes – Game of Shadows movie.
  • In the episode "Media Blitz" of Parks and Recreation, Ron Swanson finds and restores an Underwood No. 5.
  • U.S. rock band Pearl Jam's album Backspacer (2009) is titled after Underwood's back spacer key built in most of the typewriter models.

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