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== Fan
* One ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' fanfic featured several Princes. One was called "The Prince Formerly Known as Artist", probably referencing the theatre adaptation mentioned below.
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== Live
* ''The Show Formerly Known as
* On ''[[Lost]]'', in between the point where Ben went by Henry Gale and where people started using his real name, Sawyer referred to him as "The Artist Formerly Known As Henry Gale".
* ''[[Roundhouse]]'' had a ''Cinderella'' parody with TAFKAP as the Prince. His name was announced as holding a cardboard sign with the symbol up and the sound effect of the first electronic riff plus 'uhn' in Prince's "Kiss".
* On an episode of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' Ryan Stiles was pretending to be a frog: "The frog formerly known as Prince."
* On ''[[30
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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* [[WCW]], near the end, had The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Iaukaea, which was former island boy Prince Iaukaea now doing a parody Prince gimmick.
** An angle that was dropped once the ''real'' Prince dropped the unpronounceable symbol shortly after the gimmick started. This led to a mock press conference to announce that "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Iaukaea" was changing his name to "The Artist."
* Meanwhile, after [[Goldust]]'s [[Heel Face Turn]] didn't go so well, [[
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Ansom of ''[[Erfworld]]'', after having his views on royalty changed by the events at Gobwin Knob, insists that he is "merely a warlord formerly known as Prince."
* ''[[8-
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* In ''[[Sinfest]]'' during a usual squabble between [[Vitriolic Best Buds|God and Dragon]] -- "[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209172541/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1999 What are you, the artist formerly known as Buddha?]"
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== Western Animation ==
* Used twice by ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''; one of the puppies in the ''101 Dalmatians'' parody is called "The Puppy Formerly Known as Prince", while "Lisa's Wedding" calls him "The Artist formerly known as [https://web.archive.org/web/20070302164738/http://z.about.com/d/altreligion/1/0/h/S/2/stafkap.jpg *unpronounceable symbol*]".
** There's also one of the flashback episodes (possibly "Lisa's First Word"),{{verify}} set during a time when "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince was currently known as Prince."
* In an episode of ''[[House of Mouse]]'' [[Donald Duck]] tries to become a celebrity and changes his name to the "Artist Formerly Known as Donald."
** And Mickey ended the episode by calling himself "The Mouse Currently Known As Mickey".
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** In another episode, "The Frog Princess," the title character entreats the prince to help her cook, and when he refuses on the grounds that he is a prince and thus can't cook, she sings him a song that includes the lyrics, "You could be the prince formerly known as helpless."
* "The Artist Formerly Known as Spot" from ''[[101 Dalmatians|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]''.
== Real Life ==
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