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{{quote|"''Welcome to the American Museum of Pop Culture, with artifacts dating as far, far, back... as six months ago.''"|'''Joel McHale''', ''[[The Soup]]''}}
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* ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' when they hear the fanfare from Strauss' "[[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]". Although some people just go [[Ric Flair|"Woooooooooooo"]] in response to that one.
** In Germany this may be known from commercials of a certain beer brand. (Seriously, they already used it for decades, and still use it... talk about [[Brand Recognition]]!) They even [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAMQPiUcTyo dared to remix it]
** Russians are mostly familiar with this theme through the game show ''[[wikipedia:What
* As famous as the 1932 classic ''Freaks'' is, many more people are familiar with the parodies and allusions to its "One of us! One of us!" scene out of context. What's more, in these parodies, the phrase often comes off as ''threatening'', the direct opposite of how it's played in the film (although the recipient sees it as such).
* Due to his habit of [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|pastiching]] rather obscure movies, [[Quentin Tarantino]] is perhaps responsible for more
* Speaking of Chiba, anyone who's seen the 1976 classic ''Karate Warriors'' knows that people had been merging slow motion captures seamlessly into jump cuts decades before ''[[300]]'' came around.
* "Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!" Despite being quoted ([[Beam Me Up, Scotty|albeit, incorrectly]]) and parodied in pop culture for decades, most people have no idea this line is a reference to the Humphrey Bogart film ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'', often attributing its origins to ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' instead. However, without the understanding that the line in the latter film is intended to be a parody of the former, the joke itself does not make sense. (The actual, original quote from the film goes, "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!")
** Some don't even attribute it to ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''. It also pops up in ''[[UHF]]'' as "We don't need no stinkin' badgers!"
** The line is only misquoted in regards to ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre''. It ''is'' correct in the ''Blazing Saddles'' context. So people ''are'' quoting ''Saddles'' but they may not understand where the joke comes from to begin with.
* The new ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' movie has instantly recognizable [[Power Trio|characters]], themes and
* Many people associate the line "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubblegum." with [[Duke Nukem]] rather than with "Rowdy" [[Roddy Piper]]'s character in ''[[They Live!]]''.
* The Valkyries rode helicopters ([[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', [[Richard Wagner]]'s "[[Ride of the Valkyries]]").
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* "Ask not for whom the bell tolls." You've heard that pithy phrase, usually said when someone else is in trouble, but who said it? How about "No man is an island" ? Well, they both came from the same paragraph of the the same essay, but missing the context.
{{quote|"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."|Excerpted from ''Meditation XVII'' by [[John Donne]] (1623 - he was contemplating his own death at the time)}}
* The [[Jekyll and Hyde]] trope is significantly more popular than ''[[The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'', the novel that spawned it. When many people think of Jekyll and Hyde, their notions are colored by the
* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' - 42 is the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
* [[Casabianca|"The boy stood on the burning deck]]/Whence all but he had fled..."
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* Or "The Final Countdown" without thinking of [[Ring of Honor|Bryan Danielson]]
* "[[Ride of the Valkyries|Flight of the Valkyries]]"? Oh, you mean Daniel Bryan's current theme music, right?
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is absolutely the king of this, being both [[Troperrific]] and jam-packed with [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to damn near everything under the sun. From music/bands, novels, films and TV shows, and other video games, from the popular to the extremely obscure, if you name a piece of media, chances are pretty good that ''WoW'' has referenced it. This naturally leads to a great deal of [[Older Than They Think]], particularly for the younger and more...[[Fan Dumb|culturally]] [[Fan Boy|unaware]] in the fandom. This even applies to the ''[[Warcraft Expanded Universe|Warcraft franchise]] itself'', since the MMO contains many [[Mythology Gag|mythology gags]] which are [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to the older RTS games, and other Blizzard games. Just look at [http://www.wowwiki.com/In-jokes_and_references this list] for examples. Beyond the references, gameplay elements themselves are victims to this, since WoW is the 800
** Similarly with ''[[Starcraft]]'' when ''[[Dawn of War]]'' came out there were plenty of ''Starcraft'' fans accusing it of ripping off ''Starcraft''.
*** Interesting example in that Dawn of War's source material is older than Starcraft, but it's gameplay mechanic is not, making this [[Fan Dumb]] half of the time.
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* Many Western gamers assume that ''Guitar Freaks'' (or any long-running Japanese rhythm game) ripped off ''[[Guitar Hero]]''. ''Guitar Freaks'' has been around since 1999; ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' wasn't released until 2005.
* People unfamiliar with the ''Touhou'' series will automatically assume that "U.N. Owen was her?" is called "McRolled" all thanks to a viral video much to the annoyance of fans who hate that name.
** Even worse, someone posted a remix of "U.N. Owen Was Her?" as John Stump's "Death Waltz", causing much confusion between both songs.<ref>The remix is merely really complex, while the actual Death Waltz is impossible to play and entirely unrelated to "U. N. Owen"</ref>
* The main character in ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]'' is named Red. But he's often called Ash by people more familiar with the anime.
** It's less incorrect if the person in question is referring to the main character of ''Yellow'', which [[Recursive Adaptation|incorporates many elements from the first season of the anime]].
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{{quote|'''Phoebe:''' Oh, you like Wagner.
'''Liz:''' No, I like Elmer Fudd. }}
** ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' also stole heavily from "The William Tell Overture" by Rossini, to the point where almost every major theme in the piece has been used in some cartoon. For a lot of those, it's via another
*** And Rossini suffers again in ''Rabbit of Seville'', this time with the overture for the Barber of Seville.
** How many people can listen to Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 and ''not'' be thinking of a cartoon at the same time?
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