Let's list 'deep throat'/ATPM takeoffs.

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Since ‘deep throat’ of the Nixon investigations, Mark Felt, has finally unmasked himself, let’s see how many tributes or recreations of the ‘deep throat’/all the president’s men mystique we can identify in television, movies, novels, etcetera. Specifically, I’m thinking mysterious sources who meet in deserted parking garages to pass along cryptic clues, but you can make claims based on other similarities if you want.

I’ve got two to start off with:

  • Smithers leaking clues to Sideshow bob’s landslide re-election to Bart and Lisa simpson in Sideshow Bob Roberts He even tells them “You’re on the right track – follow the names.”

  • “Lois and Clark” had a one-time appearance of a mysterious source called ‘Sore throat’

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Smoking Man from “The X-Files”

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Lisa Miller on Newsradio when Dave was trying to nail down various budget accounts.

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Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams in Dick.

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I seem to remember Trading Places having such a scene, but I haven’t seen that movie in years.

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Getting the information on the orange crop.

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Family Guy, Lois and Peter’s secret meeting with Meg during the 6-month Reality Show debacle.

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Not only that, Jimmy James claimed to be Deep Throat on more than one occasion. He was also DB Cooper. Busy guy.

Mr. Felt’s claim is more credible, IMHO.

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The feature-length Fairly OddParents episode “Channel Chasers” (which I still think is one of the best dang things ever shown on television) featured Vicky the evil babysitter’s little sister Tootie helping Timmy’s parents find him under the guise of the not-at-all-mysterious “Deep Toot.”

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I believe Mad Magazine’s takeoff on* All The President’s Men* had Alfred E. Neuman as Deep Throat. Of course, I read it more than 25 years ago, so I could be mistaken. It feels right, though.

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This part of Wikipedia has a short list of fictional Deep Throats.

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The first season of the show had a character named Deep Throat whose role was more like Felt’s - he was a conspiracy insider who passed info along to Mulder.

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How can we forget the Watergate send-up from Futurama, which actually involved Nixon’s head in a re-election campaign?

And of course, “Deep Thought” in the Hitchhiker series was also a reference to “Deep Throat”, though that might have been meant as more a reference to the pornographic than the political.

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Thanks. This link reminds me that I was wrong about A. E. Neuman in Mad; it was Gerald Ford (“Strep Throat” in the parody). That’s much funnier, now that I think about it.

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All the Sith Lord’s Men- the Jedi are alerted to Palpatine’s true actions by a mysterious cloaked black and red striped being who meets them in docking lots and who refers to himself as Darth Thorota.

All of President Roosevelt’s Men Journalists Nellie Bly and Upton Sinclair are warned about corruption in Teddy Roosevelt’s White House by a figure who meets them in livery stables and who calls himself Deep Twain. (Stars Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain as Deep Throat.)