Cass Elliot British play and film "Beautiful Thing" feature her recordings, and one character reflects on her memories of Elliot. Elliot was the subject of a 2004 stage production in Dublin, "The Songs of Mama Cass", with Kristin Kapelli performing main vocals. The name “Mama Cass” is mentioned at the end of the 2009 film “The Proposal” The song "Mama, I Remember You Now" by the Swedish artist Marit Bergman is a tribute to Elliot. The Frank Zappa song "We're Turning Again" references the urban legend of Cass choking to death. "We can visit Big Mama, we can whap her on the
Kyōiku mama financial demands to complement the family budget, and by psychological demands to relate themselves to society. Child-rearing women in the 1960s inspired the media to produce the idiom kyōiku mama, which referred to "the domestic counterpart of sararii-man" (salaryman). This encompassed a major responsibility to "rear children, especially the males, to successfully pass the competitive tests needed to enter high school and college". No such idiom emerged that deemed men "education papas"; it was "mamas" who became a social phenomenon. The education system and larger political economy it serves influence why mothers become obsessed with children's education. Social prejudices influence