While watching Brooklyn 99, the new Andy Samberg show, I notice in the background of the police psychologist’s office a curious blue-spined book. The trade dress of O’Reilly books makes them instantly identifiable from a distance, even when blurry (which means the branding people got it right). I had to look at it on pause for a few seconds to convince myself I wasn’t seeing things.
![](https://www.programmingperl.org/images/brooklyn99.png)
Nope, that’s definitely Programming Perl, Third Edition. Miyagawa then pointed me toward a much more in focus appearance in the TV show Chuck. This time the book is bedside and by itself. Some light bedtime reading?
![](https://www.programmingperl.org/images/chuck.png)
You can tell that it’s the third edition because each has a distinctive look, which I showed in “20 Years of Programming Perl”. Seeing a specific book I’ve worked on, even in an edition prior to my involvement, is almost as good as seeing the Camel in The IT Crowd:
![](https://www.programmingperl.org/images/it_crowd.png)
Dude!! that is so awesome!!! It’s great to see Perl still making it’s mark in Modern Culture 😀
The mod_perl Cookbook was once in a Cracker video too. You can see it quite clearly around the 0:40 mark. It made Geoff’s day when I brought it to his attention.
Two and a half men, 9×19, “Palmdale, Ech”.
Walden asks Jake & Eldrige what languages they use: “Java, Perl, C++?”
The Simpsons, 23×11, “The D’oh-cial Network”
Lisa, while writing the code for shutdown springface social network, write at last line:
… reduce size subcategory listing rss+perl merge dock exit all