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"
Hermann Loves Pauline people, such as "They Died Too Young" book series. The band had trouble playing the track live and stopped playing it altogether until the "Phantom Power" tour when they realised that trying to play along to a click track was the cause of the problem. "Hermann ♥'s Pauline" was released on CD, cassette and 7" on 12 May 1997 and reached number 26 on the UK Singles Chart. The cover art is the first in a series of five Pete Fowler paintings commissioned by the band for "Radiator" and its singles. Fowler's art was inspired by "Hermann ♥'s Pauline" and