What I find interesting is the thread title being a pun from a 40 year old movie. Back in the 70s, there wasn't any interest in movies, music, etc. from the 30s. And there still isn't interest in 30s culture, but plenty in the 70s.
I wonder why.
I wonder why.
I find it unremarkable that people today quote SW.
Can you even think of a MB quote without looking one up? If I made a pun on one, would you recognize it?
If people still do quote Monty Python, I think it's a culty minority or people who study media. The same status as the Marx Brothers and other comedians of bygone eras.
But we can agree to disagree :)
I don't know, Hawkeye Pierce did a pretty good impression of Groucho Marx.
I think it's down to numbers: There are a Hell of a lot more people born who know about the 1970s alive now compared to people who knew about the 1930s alive in the 1970s. It was a Baby Boom, after all.
a) 70s culture was a brief moment where geek culture was also pop culture, e.g. Monty Python. So geeks will forever adore that moment
b) mass culture underwent a big shift when TV emerged, so that people after TV cannot easily understand culture before TV
c) the disillusionment and paranoia of the 70s is especially relevant today
spanish inquisition was flying circus, not holy grail
but my theory is that the vcr, and now the internet, has a lot to do with it, just like you'd expect references to books to increase with the printing press and general increase of literacy