Cultural references to accountants

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Cultural references to accountants have appeared in popular music and in film.

[edit] Popular music

There are at least three cultural references to accountants in popular music:

• Joe Walsh's Life's Been Good has the rhyme "I go to hotels, tear out the walls/I have accountants pay for it all" describing the narrator's eccentric behavior.
• Bowling for Soup's 1985 has the rhyme "One Prozac a day/Husband's a CPA" describing a woman's ordinary life.
• Notorious BIG's Juicy has the rhyme "Phone bill about two G's flat/No need to worry, my accountant handles that" exemplifying largesse spending.

[edit] Film

An article by Sacha Molitorisz lists at least seven films about accountants (or, in the case of Hook, former accountants)[1]:

• Two films named The Accountant
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
• The Producers (1968)
• Midnight Run (1988)
• Hook (1991)
• Nick of Time (1995)
• The Producers: The Movie Musical (2005)

[edit] References

• Molitorisz, Sacha: The numbers men - accountants in film, Jan. 31, 2003.