Poetry in Pop Culture

The poem "Casey at the Bat" by baseball player Ernest Thayer is parodied in an episode of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, in which the character Cindy recites a poem and the ending of it is identical to "Casey at the Bat." She changed the name of the town in the poem to the name of her town, Retroville, and the last line was also different. The last line was instead "cause Jimmy is an idiot!"

The episode of Spongebob titled "Enemy-in-Law," the character Plankton falls in love with Mr. Krabbs' mother. Mr. Krabbs was very against this because he thought Plankton only wanted the secret recipe for Krabby Patties, but the two characters dated anyways. In the end, Mr. Krabbs was right, and Mrs. Krabbs throws Plankton through a window. As he is flying through the window, Plankton quotes Alfred Lord Tennyson and says, "Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all."