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{{examples|Uses of ''
== [[
* 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.▼
* Used in episode 20 of ''[[Kaleido Star]]'', to present the first show that Yuri directs.▼
== [[Commercials]] ==▼
* "In the beginning, there was one. Now there's two -- Barqtoos II!" They had to up the tempo a bit in accordance with [[Viewers Are Goldfish|the short attention span expected of ad viewers]].
* Used in a radio ad for a hardware store in Montreal.
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(twin daughters lower oboes to the floor)}}
* Used for Master Builders Australia radio advertisements.
▲* 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.
▲* Used in episode 20 of ''[[Kaleido Star]]'', to present the first show that Yuri directs.
== [[Film]] ==
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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
** Which fall immediately after the melody is finished.
* Disney's ''[[My Favorite Martian (film)|My Favorite Martian]]''.
* Used in ''[[Magnolia]]'' to introduce [[Tom Cruise]]'s character. In this case, it is diegetic sound, chosen by his pompous character.
* ''[[Zoolander]]'' used it in comedy homage to 2001 when Derek and Hansel were trying to figure out how to turn on Mugatu's computer. As the computer's workings confound them, their behavior grows increasingly ape-like, culminating in Hansel grabbing an appropriately-shaped bone that just happened to be nearby to smash the machine.
* ''[[Being There]]'': Slight variation, with Deodato's funk-jazz version of
** May possibly double as a subtle [[Actor Allusion]] hearkening back to Sellers' arguably most famous role(s) in ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'', directed by Mr. Stanley '2001' Kubrick himself.
* Parodied in ''[[Spaceballs]]'' (of course): "''Spaceball One has become...'' [cut to kettle-drum player, who plays the obligatory measures] ''Mega Maid''"
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* Parodied near the beginning of ''[[History of the World, Part I]]'' (1981).
* Used early on in ''[[Planet 51]]'' when Charles Baker touches down from his spacecraft. He even ''[[Medium Awareness|hums]]'' it. And then [[Record Needle Scratch|he steps on a rubber ducky...]]
* Used in ''[[Casino]]'' as the the theme of a flamboyant [[Show Within a Show]] and as an element of a [[Gilligan Cut]] made after the protagonist is asked for discretion.
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Richard Dawkins]] once put together the Blind Watchmaker program as a sort of Cliff Notes evolution synthesizer. According to the book ''[[The Blind Watchmaker]]'', when he began producing little monochrome 2D insects instead of the trees that were all he'd been expecting, he immediately thought of this music.
== [[Live
*
* ''[[Doctors]]'' used it when Karen, who had been making efforts to eat healthily, finally snapped and tucked into a burger at a [[Greasy Spoon]] cafe.
* In ''[[Frasier]]'' Roz suggests using it in her space documentary, Frasier suggests a different tune saying Also Sprach Zarathustra is too commonplace or ''a bit on the nose'' as Frasier puts it.
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* 70s artist Deodato made a [http://www.lastfm.de/music/Deodato/_/Also+Sprach+Zarathustra funked up and jazzed up version] of this using the classical recording.
* In 1998, Blackout did a dance remix titled "Gotta Have Hope"
* In [[Don't Explain the Joke|2001]], Weirdo and Captain Tinrib made a [[Speedy Techno Remake|hard trance remix]]
== Other ==▼
* The old [[wikipedia:Lifespring|Lifespring]] Basic Training Program, back when they still gave it, used this music to convene every session.▼
* This was played for the unavailing of the [[Cool Plane|B-2]]. It was a sunny day and because of that nobody could see into the shadowed hanger that the plane was in, and as the song started the B-2 slowly rolled out into the light.▼
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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** Causing wrestling fans to have an urge to [[Memetic Mutation|WOOOOOOOOOOO]] every time they hear this song in any medium.
== [[Radio]] ==
* Used on [[Howard Stern]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tx4MnMaSmY show] to announce the entrance of a 600-pound woman.
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* ''[[Spore]]:'' At the end of the Creature stage, your creature gains sentience, and a general parody of the entire scene from 2001 occurs (although the stick falls back down and hits your creature on the head)
* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]:'' A similar theme accompanies the final boss as he descends from the heavens.
* The opening [[cutscene]] in ''[[Startopia]]'', being a parody of the first minutes of ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' (for example, there's a donut in the monolith), has a [[Suspiciously Similar Song]] version of
* It is also the subtitle of the third ''[[Xenosaga]]'' game. Ironically, the Song itself doesn't appear in the game.
* Reese Worthington hums the tune in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Skateboarding]]''.
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* ''[[LittleBigPlanet]] 2'' has a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkn6mzeW480 funk remix] of ''ASZ'' done by the Daniel Pemberton TV Orchestra.
* The source mod ''[[Shotgun Sunrise]]'' uses this when lowering a keg of booze you need to retrieve.
* In ''[[Strong Bad's
{{quote|'''Alien:''' GREE-TINGS, HU-MANS. WE COME FROM SPACE-SPACE TO TEACH YOU HOW TO BUILD PYRAMIDS.
'''Narrator Strong Bad''': (to the tune of Also Sprach Zarathustra) Deeeead, deeeead, deeead, DEAD-DEEEAD! Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead...
(A monolith falls on the girl you chose)
'''Teen Girl''': So artistic and boring! }}
* Parodied at the beginning of ''[[Saints Row the Third]]'', along with ''[[Star Wars]]''.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[Questionable Content]]'': Hannelore [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=707 mentions] one of the big drawbacks of living in a space station is having to listen to
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* Used in ''[[Daria]]'' as the soundtrack to Charles "Upchuck" Ruttheimer III's bizarre multimedia project.
* Used in the "Monolith" segements of ''[[The Electric Company]]'' revealing a letter dipthong or small word, subsequently pronounced by a deistic voice, directly referencing ''2001''.
* In ''[[My Little Pony:
▲== Other Media ==
▲* The old [[wikipedia:Lifespring|Lifespring]] Basic Training Program, back when they still gave it, used this music to convene every session.
▲* This was played for the unavailing of the [[Cool Plane|B-2]]. It was a sunny day and because of that nobody could see into the shadowed hanger that the plane was in, and as the song started the B-2 slowly rolled out into the light.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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