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* The Death Star attack in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]'' owes a lot to the climactic attack in the movie ''[[The Dam Busters]]'', both in the way it was filmed and in the characters setting up a precise run to the target. This is made clear when much of the pilot chatter ("Say about twenty guns..." and so on) is lifted verbatim from the earlier movie.
** Vader chokes an officer before he can complete saying "the rebel's [[The Hidden Fortress|hidden fortress]]"
* ''[[Pandorum]]'' does this with ''[[
* ''[[Office Space]]'' had the main character and his friends robbing their company by rerouting the fractions of pennies that get rounded down when taxes are deducted. They comment that this is what Richard Pryor did in ''[[Superman III]]''.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Jessica Fletcher of ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' seems to have been more than slightly [[Little Old Lady Investigates|inspired by]] Agatha Christie's [[Miss Marple]], especially since series star [[Angela Lansbury]] had previously ''played'' Marple in the movie version of ''The Mirror Crack'd''. The pilot of ''Murder She Wrote'' opens with a scene of the star little old lady ''solving'' the end of a movie mystery interrupted halfway, which is a direct lift from the opening of ''The Mirror Crack'd''. Said scene is not in the book.
* A case of internal borrowing: One ''[[LazyTown]]'' episode echoes the plot of the play it was based on when Robbie Rotten in disguise takes over illegally as mayor. Although other than the 'taking over from the mayor' aspect the episode is very different, both play and episode briefly have the real mayor in a bunny suit for no good reason. Only hardcore or Icelandic fans would get it, though, as the play is both in Icelandic and very difficult for a non-Icelander to acquire legally. Also, many of the songs used in ''[[LazyTown]]'' have the same tune (and general theme) as the songs used in the original plays.
* Season 5 Episode 17 of ''[[Numb3rs]]'' contains a a number of references to the Robot series of Isaac Asimov, from which it borrows the plot device "an A.I. that kills a human." The episode's title is "First Law" after the Asimov's First Law of Robotics. The company in which the death takes place is called "Steel Cave Industries" after one novel in the series, ''[[The Caves of Steel]]''. The name of the A.I. accused of murder is "Bailey" after the protagonist of that novel, Detective Lije Bailey. The scientist who is killed is named Daniel and gives his admin password as "Daniel Olivaw" after Lije Bailey's robot sidekick R. Daneel Olivaw. Presumably this scientist was the one responsible for naming the A.I. and the company created to fund its development, so his familiarity with these books gives an in-story explanation for all these references.
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