Pizza

:This article is about the food item. For the programming language, see Pizza programming language. For the Australian television show, see Pizza (Australian television).

Pizza in culture

Pizza is a common food in animated television series; reflecting the popularity of the food, as well as the ease of drawing it over and over. Television series that feature pizza parlours as regular locations include Goof Troop and The Weekenders (As part of a running gag, the pizza parlor had a different name, and theme in each episode). The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are also regular consumers of pizzas.

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Animated television series - Goof Troop - The Weekenders - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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In the film Splendor in the Grass, set in 1929, the character Bud Stamper visits a New Haven pizzeria (see also apizza) as a freshman at Yale University, and has to ask the waitress, "What is pizza?" In the 1920's, pizza would have been an unknown food to a non-Italian Midwesterner.

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Splendor in the Grass - 1929 - New Haven - Apizza - Yale University

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Pizza plays a prominent role in other films, such as "Mystic Pizza," the Patrick Dempsey classic "Loverboy" and Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing."

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Pizza has also been used in computer games, one example is Pizza Tycoon.

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Computer games - Pizza Tycoon

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