EastEnders in popular culture special episode of "A Question of Sport", "A Question of EastEnders", was screened in 2000 to mark the show's fifteenth anniversary. A sketch in a 1995 episode of "A Bit Of Fry And Laurie" is set in the Fowlers' kitchen, with Fry, Laurie, Imelda Staunton and Clive Mantle parodying the speech and mannerisms of the characters of Pauline Fowler and Pete Beale. The dramatic drums at the end of every episode were parodied by "SMTV Live" in a "Friends" spoof entitled "Chums". The name "EastEnders" is spoofed in a series of pornographic films called "RearEnders", which also spoof the "EastEnders"
Joe Macer husband, Arthur Fowler. Their marriage was an attempt to give the character Pauline a "new lease of life" and her wedding day was screened to coincide with "EastEnders"' 21st anniversary. Richard was openly opposed to her character remarrying, but she was eventually convinced by the executive producer and battled—successfully—for Pauline to keep her surname, Fowler. In July 2006 however, Wendy Richard announced that she would be leaving the show. She said she made the decision to leave when the producers of "EastEnders" revealed that Pauline was to remarry. Richard thought it was "disloyal" of Pauline to her beloved first husband