 In one of Miller's television specials from the early 1980s covering censorship, he posed the hypothetical case of a heavy metal band, which he named "The Sick Puppies".Sick Puppies is now the name of a real band from Australia, playing grunge and alternative rock.In the late 1980s, Miller's caustic classroom comments at Harvard frequently topped the "Back Bench Quotation Poll," a feature in the Back Bench Reporter, one of the premier law school section newsletters of its day.