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== [[Film]] / Live Action ==
* There's a quick gag in ''[[Annie Hall]]'' when Alvy is riffing on his Jewish background:
{{quote| '''Alvy''' ''(performing standup)''''':''' I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. When I was thrown out, my mother, who was an emotionally high-strung woman, locked herself in the bathroom and took an overdose of Mah-Jongg tiles.}}
* ''[[Lust, Caution]]'' begins with a Mahjong game, and the game is being played on several occasions throughout the film.
 
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== [[Music]] ==
* During the American fad, Eddie Cantor had a hit with "Since Ma is Playing Mah Jong", the [[Values Dissonance|unfortunately racist]] rant of a husband whose wife has become addicted to the game:
{{quote| ''Since Ma is playing Mah Jong,<br />
Pa wants all the Chinks hung....'' }}
::A recording of the song by the Memphis Five with Billy Jones is on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOhtalqFMtk here.]
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