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* ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' episode "Ship Ahoax". When Ginger tells Gilligan's fortune, she says to look for a ship when "the moon is blue". Sure enough, that night the moon is colored blue and a ship passes by the island.
* In ''[[Terra Nova]]'', the moon is shown to be huge. It's 85 million years in the past, which, as they explain, means the moon is closer and looks bigger; but this doesn't quite work. The moon would have been about 3,000 kilometers closer...that's less than one percent of its current average distance, around 380,000 kilometers. The moon's distance varies by nearly 40,000 km ''every month'' due to its eccentric orbit. To a normal person, the moon 85 million years ago would have looked exactly the same.
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'': In "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon", Ernie is shown sitting on a small crescent-shaped
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' plane of Mirrodin has four moons, one for each color of magic except green. During the Convergence, each one hangs right over the appropriate section of the plane, too. During the day. It helps that Mirrodin has no sun, either. Oh, and then there's the Fifth Dawn, which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
** On Mirrodin, the terms "Moon" and "Sun" are used pretty much interchangeably, and with good reason. Though they orbit around the planet like moons, they are made of flaming balls of magic and supply the primary light source like suns. Oh, and the "stars" in
▲** On Mirrodin, the terms "Moon" and "Sun" are used pretty much interchangeably, and with good reason. Though they orbit around the planet like moons, they are made of flaming balls of magic and supply the primary light source like suns. Oh, and the "stars" in Mirrodins sky are actually insects. That make rain. Mirrodin is not so much an example of a Weird Moon and more a Weird Cosmos that happens to ''contain'' moons.
** The game itself also includes the cards [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=blood%20moon Blood Moon], [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=pale%20moon Pale Moon], [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=chaos%20moon Chaos Moon], and [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=108818 Bad Moon].
** Dominaria, the primary setting, used to have two moons: the Mist Moon, which has an atmosphere (hence the mist) and Griffins (among other things) living on it, and the Null Moon, also known as the Glimmer Moon, which [[That's No Moon|is a space station]] and was destroyed in the Apocalypse.
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