Deep Throat (Watergate)

:This article is about the source of information for Watergate; for other uses of the term, see Deep Throat.

Popular culture references

Television:

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• In an episode of War of the Worlds television series, the rogue Quinn refers to himself as being Deep Throat when he meets secretly with reporter Cash McCullough to uncover the Blackwood Project. When Cash asks for his name, Quinn replies "Woodward and Bernstein didn't need a name." He later calls the two "ungrateful bastards."
• On NewsRadio, the character of Jimmy James (Stephen Root) claims to be Deep Throat.
• On Will & Grace, the character of Karen Walker implied she was Deep Throat . . . "only to one of them."
• On The X Files, lead character FBI agent Fox Mulder meets with an anonymous source called Deep Throat to get clues as to how to proceed with investigating cases.
• On The Simpsons, Waylon Smithers meets up with Bart and Lisa to reveal fraud in the Springfield mayoral elections. Lisa is proud of their being "just like Woodward and Bernstein", while Bart replies "Yeah, except their dad wasn't waiting in the car reading Archie comics." Smithers, lurking in the shadows as Deep Throat takes a drag from his cigarette and states that all he can reveal is, how he worked on the election campaign, but is interrupted by Homer Simpson, who turns on his car's headlights and shouts "Hey, Mr. Smithers!". An exasperated Smithers replies "Well, you might as well give me a ride home now". http://www.snpp.com/episodes/2F02.html

Film:

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• A significant part of the plot of the 1999 film Dick depicts the film's protagonists as Deep Throat.
• In , Helga Pataki, in an attempt to help Arnold save his neighborhood, speaks to him via walkie talkie while using an electronic voice changer and the pseudonym Deep Voice.

The printed word:

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• In the novel The Truth by Terry Pratchett, an individual code-naming himself "Deep Bone" passes inside information about an ongoing political scandal to newspaper journalist William de Worde (the novel contains numerous other references to the Watergate scandal in general).
• In the last panel of MAD magazine's parody of the film All the President's Men, "Strep Throat" is revealed to be Gerald Ford.
• In the comic book mini-series , Deep Throat was Undersecretary Scott, one of a number of aliases assumed by the Skrull spy Velmax, also the superhero Effigy.

Video games:

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In the video game Metal Gear Solid, a character claiming to be Deep Throat anonymously contacted protagonist Solid Snake at several points in the game with insider information about Snake's location.

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Music:

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Several days after the identity of Deep Throat was revealed, a USA Today reporter asked singer-songwriter Carly Simon for the answer to another three-decades-old mystery: Who was the subject of her 1970s mega-hit "You're So Vain"? Simon, who has refused to answer this question countless times, exclaimed with a laugh: "It's about Mark Felt!" http://www.carlysimon.com/vain/vain.htm

Related Topics:
USA Today - Carly Simon - You're So Vain

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