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==In popular culture== {{Main|Entertainment}} With the emergence of entertainment industry, fun is sold as a consumer product in the form of games, novelties, television, toys and other amusements. [[Marxism|Marxist]] sociologists such as the [[Frankfurt School]] criticise mass-manufactured fun as too calculated and empty to be fully satisfying.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}} [[Bill Griffith]] satirises this [[dysphoria]] when his cartoon character [[Zippy the Pinhead]] asks mechanically, "Are we having fun yet?" In [[The Beatles]] song "[[She's Leaving Home]]" fun is called "the one thing that money can't buy."<ref name="Sem">{{citation |author=Mark Blythe, Marc Hassnzahl |title=Funology |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QKYPdcI-av8C&pg=PA91 |pages=91β100 |year=2004 |chapter=The Semantics of Fun |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-4020-2966-0}}</ref>
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