The Bicycle in Popular Culture

In "Step Brothers," John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell play two losers still living at home with their parents well into their thirt...

It's been a while since examples of The Law have been added to this blog, but that is not due to any shortage of choices, as this comme...

Bicycling's image as the preferred mode of travel for perverts and losers seems to be showing some cracks. A story from September in...

There has been somewhat of a drought recently of material for the blog, until this great submission from an anonymous reader. Daily Ramblin...

Here's a recent post to thesuperficial.com that's a bit of an inversion of The Law . Owen Wilson rides his bike to a strip club in...

This film is a bit of a quandary, at least as far as The Law is concerned. Dan McKellar and Tracy Wright portray Dan and Linda, a dysfunct...

Jon Cryer plays Duckie in this chapter of John Hughes' extensive chronicles of coming-of-age in suburban Chicago. Duckie is a loser who...

Thanks for reader mindfrieze for pointing out Roll Film! , a service of the admirable Chicagoland Bicycle Federation. Greg Borzo and Brad S...

Owen Wilson plays amiable loser Randy Dupree in this soon-to-be-forgotten comedy. Dupree is a lazy, manipulative leech who can't keep ...

The opening scene of this beloved film, Kermit, the archetypal lovable loser , leaves for Hollywood pedaling his classy roadster, complete w...

In this fictional adaptation of Cops!, Thomas Lennon plays loser Lt. Jim Dangle, leader of the incompetent Reno police department. Lt. Dan...

A reader sent in a link to some photos of Jessica Simpson on the set of a film apparently in production entitled "Blond Ambition."...

In this episode of the Bob Odenkirk/David Cross sketch comedy show, David Cross plays "Grass Valley" Greg, a Silicon Valley carica...

In this film, Cate Blanchett plays a pottery teacher, bicycle commuter, and pervert Sheba Hart who is engaged in an affair with a teenage s...

Paul Reubens plays his character of Pee-Wee Herman in Pee-Wee's quest to reclaim his prized bicycle. Pee-Wee is a loser , if an endeari...

Jason Schwartzman as Albert Markovski and Mark Wahlberg as Tommy Corn both portray losers in this comedy. Albert is an insecure, self-doub...

Jackie Earle Haley plays Ronnie J. McGorvey, a convicted child molester, in this film of suburban ennui. Ronnie, a pervert and loser , trav...

Michael Bluth, played by Jason Bateman, is the loser protagonist of this cult hit TV show. As the most stable member of a family of self-s...

In this comedy Steve Carell stars as Andy Stitzer, the eponymous virgin. He is a loser who works in a big-box electronics store and rides ...

In this episode of the American version of the UK TV show created by Ricky Gervais, Jim Halpert, the lovable loser played by John Krasinski...