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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Tintin]]'' used a
** Also, Tintin was given a newspaper that had astronomical tables printed in it. Good thing they didn't give him the sports section.
* Parodied in the [[Don Rosa]] comic story "The Once and Future Duck", where [[Donald Duck]] is about to be executed by (the historical) King Arthur, and he orders his nephews to wow Arthur by predicting an eclipse. After protesting [[This Is Reality|"That only works in old movies and comic books, Unca Donald!"]], they reply "You have two options: get them to pack up camp and move to Madagascar, or stay here and convince them to delay the execution for 237 years!" Don is instead saved from execution when Gyro beeps the horn on his truck and scares the whole camp silly.
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(And is, by Scepticks, thought to be
Suspicious in its frequency.) }}
* Subverted in ''[[Amelia Peabody|The Last Camel Died At Noon]]'', an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[King Solomon's Mines|King Solomons Mines]]''. A family of [[Adventure Archaeologist|adventure archaeologists]] are in a lost civilization and looking to impress the natives. The wife asks her husband if a
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[Darkwing Duck]]''. Darkwing was to be executed by a group of medieval peasants for witchcraft, but noticed that the time of the execution coincided exactly with a solar eclipse and decided to threaten the peasants that he would block the sun if they didn't release him. Unfortunately, the newspaper dates were wrong and he ended up standing on the gallows for 24 hours, pretending to put out the sun, before it actually went dark. Peasants = amazed.
** And it was probably parodied there because it had already been played straight on that show's predecessor, ''[[DuckTales]]''. Scrooge McDuck went into a South American country on the deadline day to resign a lease on the company he owned there, but, like Darkwing, he found himself scheduled to be executed by the local dictator instead. His nephews, who had inadvertently caused this predicament by tricking
*** The exact same plot was later [[Recycled Script|recycled]] for the ''[[Tale Spin]]'' episode "The Time Bandit".
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' plays a lesser version where the eclipse comes in a few ''months''.
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