How Are Things in Glocca Morra? to the perfect sentence: "Last night, I dreamt of Glocca Morra...again." (The reference parodies: "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again", the famous first line of Daphne du Maurier's "Rebecca.") The song is referenced in the "Sports Night" episode "Celebrities" (Season 2, Episode 15) and the song title is directly used as the title of an episode from Season 1 (Episode 17). When Goody Rickles (Don Rickles' sillier look-alike) comically mangles the name of the deadly compound "Pyrogranulate" in the comic book "Jimmy Olsen" 139, by Jack Kirby, what comes out is "Pyro-Glocca-Morra". In an episode of "All
George du Maurier curate [a humble class of clergyman]. whom he has condescended to invite to breakfast: "I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones." The curate replies, "Oh no, my Lord, I assure you – parts of it are excellent!") In an earlier (1884) cartoon, du Maurier had coined the expression "bedside manner" by which he satirized actual medical skill. Another of du Maurier's notable cartoons was of a videophone conversation in 1879, using a device he called "Edison's telephonoscope". In addition to producing black-and-white drawings for Punch, du Maurier created illustrations for several other popular periodicals: "Harper's", "The Graphic", "The