^ House M.D. S03E07 "Son of a Coma Guy" ~09:40

Harmy wrote: but the prequels not being very good is a common pop-cultural theme. They are often used as an example of a bad movie

'How I Met Your Mother' recently did a highly ironic reverse negative TPM joke.

The response to this line of questioning is that the media is currently controlled by OT aged people, in the next 5-10 years there might be a shift away from negative PT references. The cartoons and kid shows often lift visual stuff from the PT, comedies lean negative, the pro-PT references tend to be Palpatine/Sidious related. I've got a list of 5k SW references, TPM shows up 58 times, Jar-Jar 38. Most references still go back to SW.