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* [http://www.buzzfeed.com/leefalhead/the-bechdel-test-1dq8 A Feminist Frequency video] shows a large number of popular Bechdel-negative movies. In a running joke, the commentator yawns, wanders away, comes back with an apple, and eats it, while the movie posters are still blinking steadily along in the background.
* Feminist Frequency discusses the test again [http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/02/the-2012-oscars-and-the-bechdel-test/ here]. She proposes that the test be modified so that the scene in question must last at least sixty seconds to pass. She also describes a variant of the test for people of color.
* Name Dropped in ''[[
* ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall
* Talked about in ''[[Extra Credits]]'' in the episode "[http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/diversity Diversity]".
* In [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s review of ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men: First Class]]'', she pointed out that it was one of the only superhero movies to pass the test. She then told her audience to go look up what the Bechdel Test was.
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{{quote|'''[[Deadpan Snarker|Subtitles]]:''' Did they just pass the Bechdel Test?}}
* ''[[Dumbing of Age]]'' named a strip after the trope and uses it to do a lot of [[Conversational Troping]] about it.
* ''[[Cracked.com]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Luke McKinney points out in [http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-4-best-moments-in-worst-movies-ever-made_p2/ The 4 Best Moments in the Worst Movies Ever Made] that the movie based on the video game ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' "physically beats the shit out of the Bechdel test" "within the first 10 minutes".
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