Editing Robert Smith (musician) (section)

===Early television and film references===
An early "[[popular culture|pop culture]]" reference to the Cure is found in the eleventh episode of [[BBC2]]'s anarchic [[alternative comedy]] series ''[[The Young Ones (TV series)|The Young Ones]]'', from 1984. The series featured regular cameo performances from British rock and pop groups of the period, such as [[Motörhead]], [[The Damned (band)|the Damned]], and [[Madness (band)|Madness]]. As the episode's title "[[Sick (The Young Ones)|Sick]]" suggests, all four of the main characters (Vyvyan, Rick, Neil and Mike) are ill, prompting Vyvyan to send Mike to the pharmacy for medicine. Neil remarks: "I hope Mike hurries back with the cure!" to which Vyvyan replies, "No Neil, Neil, it's madness this week."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0752261/quotes |title=Memorable quotes for "The Young Ones Sick" (1984) |work=IMDb |access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref> The band Madness then performs a musical cameo. Rock biographers Bowler and Dray note that increasing popular interest in the Cure in America during the mid-late 1980s became "a pat shorthand for TV and film writers to indicate mixed up children – the [[Steve Martin]] film ''[[Parenthood (film)|Parenthood]]'' uses a bedroom poster of Robert to underline the point that 'this adolescent is confused and miserable'".<ref>Bowler, Dave, and Bryan Dray. ''The Cure – Faith'', (1995), Sidgwick & Jackson, pp. 126–127; {{ISBN|0-283-06229-0}}</ref>