This story is sometimes used as a metaphor as only one person can spoil all the others and that they used it in an episode of TV show "San Nen B Gumi Kinpachi Sensei (Master Kinpachi, Junior High school Third Year, Class B) is well-known.
この様子は比喩として使われる事もある（ドラマ『3年B組金八先生』でその喩えが使われたことはよく知られている）。