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* The opening to the ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' anime uses a similar motif in its opening sequence.
* In a [[Clip Show]] episode of ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'', one original scene has Mugen arguing with an old samurai master, with his spiked hair rising sun-like over the latter's bald head to the theme from ''2001''.
* In ''[[Skip Beat!]]'', episode 24, the music is played when Bo ([[The Hero|Kyoko]] in disguise) and [[Love Interest|Ren]] stares angrily at each other.
* Used in ''[[Sora no Manimani]]'' for a [[Mundane Made Awesome]] moment.
* Plays in episode 11 of ''[[Sora no Otoshimono]]'' when Tomoko is about to sneak into the girl's locker room.
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* Used in ''[[WALL-E]]'', when the Captain becomes the first human in centuries to {{spoiler|[[Pixar/Awesome|stand up]]}}.
* ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]'', complete with a giant bar of chocolate of similar dimensions taking the place of [[The Monolith]].
* In the Buzz Lightyear videogame at the beginning of ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2'', the hover-platforms over the bottomless chasm play this melody as Buzz leaps across them.
** Which fall immediately after the melody is finished.
* Disney's ''My Favorite Martian''.
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== Music ==
* [[Ray Stevens]]' "Thus Cacked Henrietta" is this song done entirely in [[Everything's Better with Chickens|chicken clucks]].
* There is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpJ6anurfuw=related a version] by the [[Dreadful Musician|Portsmouth Sinfonia]].
* Rush used it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrCSagPXkw as their intro tape] during their tours for Counterparts and Test For Echo.
* On at least one of her tours, Jann Arden would be backed by musicians from the orchestra of the city she was currently playing in. When she'd introduce them with her trademark humourous banter, she'd always ask the timpani player "can you play the '2001' theme on those things? Well of course you can, what else are they good for?"
* [[Dream Theater]] used it for intro music in at least one of their live shows, such as several gigs of the "Chaos In Motion" (the promotional tour for ''Systematic Chaos'') tour.
* Similarly, [[Green Day]] used this as intro music during their 2005 American Idiot tour.
* And let's not forget about the man who predated them all: [[Elvis Presley]], who used it as his entrance music starting around 1972.
* The motif is inserted into [[Doctor Steel]]'s song "Spaceboy."
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* Used in the eighth mission of ''[[Army Men]] [[RTS]]'', substituting a standing [[Mundane Made Awesome|PS2]] for [[The Monolith]]. To the Army Men, it's the equivalent of an infinite power source.
* It plays in ''[[Civilization]] II'', when the player gets the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y47nxo_uvA space ending].
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* The source mod ''[[Shotgun Sunrise]]'' uses this when lowering a keg of booze you need to retrieve.
* In [[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]'s [[Teen Girl Squad]] minigame in the second episode, the unlockable "alien" card will result in this exchange if executed at the right time:
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