Popular culture It's a Wonderful Life

it s wonderful life has been popularized in modern cultural references in many of mainstream media. due proliferation of these references, few examples suffice illustrate film s impact.

the sesame street muppets characters bert , ernie share names cop , taxicab driver in film. longtime muppets writer , puppeteer jerry juhl said believed there no connection , coincidence. episode elmo saves christmas (1996), featured clip film, pokes fun @ persistent reports of connection, having them @ each other in disbelief george calls bert , ernie name.
stephen jay gould s book wonderful life: burgess shale , nature of history takes main title film. book proposes evolution of life, rewound , replayed multiple times, yield different world each time, life without george bailey pottersville, not bedford falls.
in s hopeful life , christmas 2011 episode of raising hope, jimmy dreams how life family have been had daughter hope not been born, including separation parents, prostitution sabrina , accidental death maw maw, clarence of story. episode s climax has jimmy running down main street, shouting merry christmas, movie house! in odd coincidence, second time cloris leachman has played angel, having starred clara in 1977 tv remake happened 1 christmas.
in episode of mork & mindy, after mork disrupts 1 of mindy s dates, has orson show mindy (and family s) lives have been had not been part of it. after seeing how lives turned out, mork begs orson return him real world. when mindy recognizes him again, exclaims, oh, s wonderful life!
it s wonderful life features prominently in literature versions of tv series of red dwarf grant naylor, notably books red dwarf: infinity welcomes careful drivers , better life. in infinity, during five-week love affair kristine kochanski revealed s wonderful life favorite film of dave lister. in third , last part of book, named earth (later used title easter special return of red dwarf), under influence of better life game lister ends living in exact replica of 1940s bedford falls, eternally stuck on christmas eve, , known townsfolk george . encounters selection of more notable supporting characters film, , references film events , locations. in beginning of second book, better life, lister s bedford falls destroyed arnold rimmer, mental state has become erratic. unable cope things happening him, mind begins destroy life of around him, resulting in bedford falls altering more closely resemble pottersville.

antecedent

in 1997 review, film historian james berardinelli commented on parallels between film , classic charles dickens tale christmas carol. in both stories, man revisits life , potential death (or non-existence) of supernatural agents, culminating in joyous epiphany , renewed view of life.

spin-offs

the film remade 1977 television movie happened 1 christmas. lionel chetwynd based screenplay on original van doren stern short story , 1946 screenplay. remake employed gender-reversal, marlo thomas protagonist mary bailey, wayne rogers george hatch, , cloris leachman angel clara oddbody. leachman received second emmy nomination role. in significant departure earlier roles, orson welles cast mr. potter. following initial positive reviews, made-for-television film rebroadcast twice in 1978 , 1979, has not been shown since on national re-broadcasts, nor issued in home media.

in 1991, made-for-television film called clarence starred robert carradine in new tale of helpful angel.

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