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InWith the modernemergence worldof [[Entertainment#Industry|entertainment industry]], fun is sold as a consumer product in the form of games, novelties, television, toys and other amusements. [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist]] sociologists such as the [[Frankfurt School]] criticise mass-manufactured fun as too calculated and empty to be fully satisfying. [[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 |chapter=The Semantics of Fun |author=Mark Blythe, Marc Hassnzahl |pages=91–100 |title=Funology |publisher=Springer |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-4020-2966-0}}</ref>