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* Pop Cultural Osmosis Failure marches on: the question "[[Paul McCartney]] was in [[The Beatles|a band]] before [[Wings (band)|Wings]]?" has been replaced almost everywhere with "Paul McCartney was in a band?" ... except where it's been re-replaced with "Who's Paul McCartney?" Any of these are often heard as jokes, and occasionally heard as serious questions.
== "Wait, Y was based on a real X?" (previously called "Type 3") ==
=== Music ===
* ''[[Also Sprach Zarathustra]]'' is
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** the piece played during the air cavalry attack in the movie ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''; and
** [[Bryan Danielson|Daniel Bryan's]] [[WWE]] theme music.
*** Of course, like many examples from
* Basically the reason [[Covered Up]] and [[Sampled Up]] exist (just see the opening quote for the former entry).
=== Web Original ===
* In [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] and [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony's]] crossover review of "Warrior #1", Spoony mocks the Ultimate Warrior's disjointed speech patterns by quoting [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68mbFvenlaQ Col. Campbell's infamous line] from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' near verbatim (only adding a "Hoak Hogan" to keep with the theme). Months afterward, TGWTG fans who apparently never played MGS2 would often spout "I need scissors! 61!" when talking about the Ultimate Warrior, as if believing the line only came from that review.
== Type 4 ==
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