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=== [[Literature]] === |
=== [[Literature]] === |
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* Reagan is frequently disparaged by the narrator of John Irving's ''A Prayer for Owen Meany''. |
* Reagan is frequently disparaged by the narrator of John Irving's ''A Prayer for Owen Meany''. |
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* In [[Douglas Adams]]' posthumous collection ''[[The Salmon of Doubt]]'', a short story starring Zaphod ends with the revelation that Ronald Reagan [[Anvilicious|is an escaped alien-engineered weapon of mass political destruction]], and that the aliens responsible will have to make the Earth [[ |
* In [[Douglas Adams]]' posthumous collection ''[[The Salmon of Doubt]]'', a short story starring Zaphod ends with the revelation that Ronald Reagan [[Anvilicious|is an escaped alien-engineered weapon of mass political destruction]], and that the aliens responsible will have to make the Earth [[The End of the World as We Know It|'safe, perfectly safe']]. |
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** One of the [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Hitchhicker's Guide]] books themselves featured "Know-Nothing Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog", so named "due to a remarkable similarity to the American President". The dog's owner and his friends would play a game with the dog where they would shout "Commies!" repeatedly and watch as the dog went berserk. |
** One of the [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Hitchhicker's Guide]] books themselves featured "Know-Nothing Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog", so named "due to a remarkable similarity to the American President". The dog's owner and his friends would play a game with the dog where they would shout "Commies!" repeatedly and watch as the dog went berserk. |
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* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series, one of the characters, Susannah is transported from the America of 1964 into a fantasy world. When she meets Eddie, who came from 1987, she doesn't believe that Reagan is the president by then, and thinks he's just kidding. |
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series, one of the characters, Susannah is transported from the America of 1964 into a fantasy world. When she meets Eddie, who came from 1987, she doesn't believe that Reagan is the president by then, and thinks he's just kidding. |
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=== [[Real Life]] === |
=== [[Real Life]] === |
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* Although not technically fiction, Phillip Adams gave Reagan a [[Fan Nickname|Detractor Nickname]]: "Ronnie Raygun" |
* Although not technically fiction, Phillip Adams gave Reagan a [[Fan Nickname|Detractor Nickname]]: "Ronnie Raygun" — a reference to the Strategic Defense Initiative, which sought to put the United States at the front of technological arms race during the cold war by putting satellites in space to shoot down any nuclear missiles headed the US's way with [[Frickin' Laser Beams]], nicknamed the "[[Star Wars]]" project. |
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* The lack of good ''Saturday Night Live'' sketches about him has been rectified a bit by Dana Carvey's "Reagan Oracle" routine, portraying him as having masterminded every presidential election of the next twenty years at the end of his own term. |
* The lack of good ''Saturday Night Live'' sketches about him has been rectified a bit by Dana Carvey's "Reagan Oracle" routine, portraying him as having masterminded every presidential election of the next twenty years at the end of his own term. |
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