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* National Space Council chairman Quayle [[Artistic License Astronomy|failed astronomy forever]]: "[[Mars (useful notes)|Mars]] is essentially in the same orbit [as Earth]....Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."

** The thing about that quote is, every single one of those statements is true, [[From a Certain Point of View]]. Mars's distance from the sun ''is'' similar to Earth's, at least when compared to (say) Mercury or Jupiter. People ''did'' think they saw canals on the Martian surface when they first studied it. There ''is'' water on Mars, frozen in the permafrost, and water molecules ''do'' contain oxygen atoms which can be liberated by electrolysis (and, hence, breathed, without the need to carry your own oxygen supply to Mars from Earth). Presumably, a NASA person told him all this information, and he simply presented it in a fantasically wrong way.

** Home of the Quayle Quails!!

* Used to terrify [[Bloom County|Bill the Cat]] into sweating, producing the core ingredient for [[G-Rated Drug|cat-sweat hair tonic]].

* Apparently he lettered the word "ransome" in chapter 12 of [[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]].

* The short lived 1988 show ''[[Mann And Machine]]'' set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] often made references to 'President Quayle'.

* A puppet of him made frequent appearences on ''[[D.C. Follies]]''.

* In the TL-191 series by [[Harry Turtledove]], Jake Featherston's Confederate vice-president is an amiable nonentity called Don Partridge, a [[Shout-Out]] to Quayle who spends most of his time making up ribald jokes. The last book suggests that his demeanour was at least in part an act, though.

'''Super Dave:''' That's enough from you, Mr. Vice President. }}

* The ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode ''Legion'' mentions several future supergeniuses whose surnames are ironically those of people known in the present for being stupid, including (impressionist Bobby) Davro and (Dan) Quayle.

* In the [[Eerie Indiana]] episode "No Brain, No Pain" that came out during the Bush-Quayle years, one character threatens to destroy another character's brain, saying he's about to get "vice-presidential".