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** The ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' version of Midas is [http://qwantz.com/archive/001355.html even worse].
** Shel Silverstein also sent up this trope in his poem ''Squishy Touch'':
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''turned to gold, the lucky fellow.''
''Every single thing I touch''
''turns into raspberry Jell-O...'' }}
** Parodied in a Skittles commercial, in which an old black man has the power to turn everything he touches into Skittles. His coworker thinks this is awesome. He is harshly corrected.
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*** He then proceeds to answer his phone, turning it into Skittles, then hits the desk in frustration, with predictable results.
*** There was also a children's book that referenced this, ''The Chocolate Touch'', by Patrick Skene Catling (the main character's family name was Midas to complete the reference); the main character, a kid, somehow got the ability to turn everything that touched his lips to chocolate, and for some [[Fridge Horror]], the cover of the book has the kid kissing his mother on the cheek, and you can see that she's turned into chocolate from the head down to around her shoulders.
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