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* The opening scene of the musical ''[[Damn Yankees]]'' has one {{smallcaps| [[Title Drop]]}} in dialogue (what Joe says when Meg asks him if the Washington Senators won the game he was watching) and another in the song "Six Months" ("Those damn Yankees! Why can't we beat 'em?")
* ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' is both the title of [[Oscar Wilde]]'s play, and what one of the main characters announces that he has learned in the very last line of that play.
* "There are no [[Angels in America]]" re: the lack of spiritual or ethnic history in the nation's
** Although, in the context of this play, there {{spoiler|are totally angels in America}}, and Louis is, as Belize says "so full of piping hot crap that the mention of [his] name draws flies" in the monologue/monolith in which he makes the above statement.
* In the opening scene of ''[[The Music Man]]'', one of the salesmen on the train calls Professor Harold Hill a "music man" during the "Rock Island" [[Patter Song|patter]].
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{{quote|Got a dream, boy? Got a song?
'''Paint your wagon''' and come along! }}
** And in the [[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]] parody, its
{{quote|'''Lee Marvin''': Gonna paint your wagon,
Gonna paint it fine,
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* In the last line of the Brandon Thomas comedy "Charley's Aunt", Jack(who had been [[Disguised in Drag|impersonating Charley's aunt]] so Charley could tell his sweetheart's father that he had a chaperone) gratefully tells Dona Lucia(Charley's real aunt) that from now on, "I will gladly cede to you the title of ''Charley's Aunt''."
* ''Phone rings, door chimes, in comes [[Company]]''
* [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''You Never Can Tell'' has no less than five [[Title Drop
* Several characters in ''Dog Sees God'' title drop the scene titles, and Beethoven mentions in The Vipers Nest that it's said "a dog sees god in his master." Interestingly, the play also drops the title of another Charlie-Brown themed work in the final monologue, as CB reads a letter from his mysterious pen pal CS (Charles Shultz) who tells him that despite his struggles, he is [[Peanuts|a good man]].
* "The sight is dismal, and our affairs from England come too late. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing, to tell him his commandment is fulfilled, that ''[[Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead]]''."
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