EastEnders in popular culture featuring Ali Osman, Alan Jackson, Pete Beale and Nick Cotton and Kat Moon. An episode of "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps" entitled "War, Hurrgh!" contains references to Peggy and Grant Mitchell, Angie Watts and Pat Butcher. The episode also ended with the same theme music as "EastEnders". Another episode, "Speedycruise!" referred to Pauline and Martin Fowler, and the episode "Finger Sniffing" also refers to Peggy. Also, in the episode "When Janet Met Johnny", Donna sings the line "Don't stay in watching "EastEnders"." Also, in an episode of "Pulling", the character of Donna asks "Who am I
Pauline Fowler who became a byword for downtrodden haggery." Lucy Mangan, the culture critic from "The Guardian" newspaper, summed up the character: "Pauline Fowler is surely one of the oddest soap creations ever. She is a character without humour, charisma or indeed any redeeming features who became progressively, unrelentingly miserable ... She was presumably intended to be the anchoring force for "EastEnders", but because of the writers' unprecedented decision to break with traditional narrative rules and give her not a single redeeming feature, she became more of a sucking chest wound than the heart of the show." This opinion is perhaps shared