What creative works have you read/heard/see only after having them referened in other creative works

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A different Iron Maiden album, Somewhere in Time, led me to start researching Alexander the Great when I was a kid.

22

I’ve watched lots of old movies solely because Remington Steele referenced them. So far, the only one I’ve felt burned by was The Lost Weekend. God, what a turd.

23

I bought a Kansas best of album and the Heavy Metal soundtrack after hearing both used in South Park episodes.

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Beau Geste, after seeing all the references to Fort Zinderneuf in the “Foreign Legion” Peanuts strips. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that I’m mad for Ronald Colman.

My favorite: Snoopy is surrounded by Woodstock and his (her?) fellow bird recruits.
Snoopy: Men, you are now in the famous French Foreign Legion. You will now choose your noms de guerre.
Birds (excitedly): Cheeep cheep cheeeep! Cheep cheep!
Snoopy: No, you can’t all be Gary Cooper.

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I read some of G. K. Chesterton’s* Father Brown* mysteries after Jorge Luis Borges referenced them in an essay or two (and maybe even in a short story, can’t remember.) I didn’t find them as compelling as ol’ J. L. had.

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I saw **Evil Dead II **because of High Fidelity.

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I listened to Bill Hicks’ standup after seeing it referenced in Preacher. I also didn’t realize that “Come Sail Away” was a real song when Cartman sang it on South Park.

28

Same here. Hearing the Weird Al parody is what made me want to check out out Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing,” and to this day I can’t listen to it without thinking of the Beverly Hillbillies (for those of you not in the know, the parody consists of the Beverly Hillbillies theme sung to the tune of “Money for Nothing”).

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I read Bester’s “The Demolished Man” after hearing Harlan Ellison reference it in a commentary on “Sci-Fi Buzz” on the Sci-Fi Channel back in the day.

30

I didn’t read any of the Travis McGee books until I heard Incommunicado by Jimmy Buffett.