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** So, in fact, did Collingridge, although the election was called immediately after he entered office, whereas Major waited eighteen months until April 1992. The result in the series - a 20-seat Conservative majority - was also pretty prescient of the 1992 election, moreso because some people assumed at the time Labour would actually win.

** And the American series variant. Anyway, the wife of a top elected official who ignores her husband's affair, rides into high level politics on his coattails, with public backlash when she fails? Hmm.

* The set of CTU in the hit series ''[[24]]'' inspired the design of a new Joint Counter-Terrorism Center in Washington, DC.

** Well it was Donald Rumsfeld's favorite show.

* Less than a year after ''[[Better Off Ted]]'''s Veridian Dynamics had its problems with their photosensitive scanners not recognizing black people stories came in about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM HP's webcams] doing the same thing.

** But this is a variant of the real world mental illness called Munchhausen's Syndrome, which has been known since at least 1951.

** A pair of better examples cropped up during the first half of the 2011 season. The episode "Missing Pieces" {{spoiler|in which a mother claims that her car was stolen with her young son still buckled into his car seat}} bears more than a passing resemblance to the [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/sky-metalwala-law-order-svu_n_1086268.html Sky Metalwala] case. Another episode, "Personal Fouls," {{spoiler|which revolves around a well-respected coach who uses a children's charity to molest young boys}} originally aired a few weeks before the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160405070134/http://gothamist.com/2011/11/09/did_law_order_svu_predict_the_joe_p.php Penn State molestation] story broke. However, according to [[The Other Wiki]], this one was actually based on a ''[http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2009/10/09/sp-fleury-tell-all.html different]'' sports abuse case.

* In the song, "One Piece at a Time" by [[Johnny Cash]], the narrator works on an assembly line putting together Cadillacs. Since he can't afford such an expensive car, he decides to get it "one piece at a time" by sneaking parts of the car out in his lunch box and his friend's mobile home over a period of almost twenty years to avoid suspicion. While this plan failed in the song (when the car was finally put together, [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/One_piece_at_a_time.jpg was an odd-looking mess] since it used parts from so many different models), an automotive assembly line worker in Chongqing, China [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Bike+stolen+part+by+part%3b+CRIME.-a0206316588 successfully put a motorcycle together this way over the course of five years beginning in 2003], though the thief got caught shortly after finally putting it together.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=sN5tpSjOyOo "Linus and Lucy" was played on Elton John's Red Piano]. Remind you of [[Peanuts|Schroeder]]?

* [[Weird Al]]'s music video for "White and Nerdy" featured a throwaway joke about vandalizing the Wikipedia page about Atlantic Records. That page has now been vandalized enough times in that manner that its talk page prominently features a warning telling people to cut it out.