E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) break into the house to obtain the last Tomacco is a reference the film "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) and the zombies' attack. A farmer is shown using an elephant to measure his corn plants' height; this is a reference to the song "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" in the musical "Oklahoma!", which features the line "the corn is as high an elephant's eye". The Southern colonel's accent is similar to the Warner Bros. character Foghorn Leghorn and he uses Foghorn's phrase "Sir, I say sir!", while the mudflap on his RV features a picture of him in a
Beauty Is in the Street book's relevance in 2012 after the Occupy movement and "Time"'s naming "the protester" as its Person of the Year in 2011. Alex Bec of the art blog "It's Nice That" noted that despite the events of May 1968 having been well documented, ""Beauty is in the Street" blew everything before it out of the water." Fíacha O'Dubhda of "Eye" described the book as one "that immerses the reader in the process through which spontaneous design and production were used to document, illustrate and instigate" the events of May 1968. Beauty Is in the Street Beauty Is in the Street: A