In "Sex and the City" season 3, "Cock-a-doodle-doo", Miranda compares her lonely and repetitive take-out orders to a "Cathy" cartoon, and Carrie asks her never to refer to "Cathy" again, indicating Cathy's status by 2000 as a symbol of an earlier generation's sad, contemptuous view of single women. (Miranda: "I'm sitting home with my cat, ordering the same thing almost every night. The only thing sadder would be a Cathy comic pasted on my refrigerator door." Carrie: "Never say Cathy comic to me again").