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==In popular culture== A March 1996 episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', "[[Bart on the Road]]", features the Sunsphere.<ref name="January 3, 2007">{{cite news |title=Sunsphere remains pop-culture icon |first=M. Trevor |last=Higgins |newspaper=Chattanooga Times Free Press |date=January 3, 2007}}</ref> [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] and three friends ([[Nelson Muntz|Nelson]], [[Martin Prince Jr.|Martin]], and [[Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]]) travel to Knoxville to visit the World's Fair, only to learn they are over a decade too late. In the episode, the Sunsphere has become a dilapidated storage warehouse for a wig store called the Wigsphere.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-sunsphere-knoxville-tennessee | title=The Sunsphere }}</ref> Nelson then throws a rock at the Sunsphere, causing it to topple over and land on top of their rental car, destroying it and stranding them in Knoxville.<ref name="January 3, 2007"/> The Sunsphere has also been called "The Lord's Golf Tee".<ref name="coffey">{{cite web |last1=Coffey |first1=Don |title=Knoxville, Tennessee - Localzine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MC0EAAAAMBAJ&q=Sunsphere&pg=PA62 |website=CMJ New Music Monthly |access-date=21 November 2022 |date=May 1997}}</ref>
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