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==In popular culture== {{More citations needed section|date=March 2022}} '''Stateroom scene''' * The Belgian singer [[Jacques Brel]] was inspired by the famous stateroom gag in the film when he wrote his song "Le Gaz" (1967) which depicts several men all crowding together in one room to meet a [[courtesan]] "for the gas."<ref>{{cite book| last=Todd| first=Oliver| title=Jacques Brel: Une Vie| url=https://archive.org/details/jacquesbrelunevi0000todd/page/424/mode/2up?q=%22le+gaz%22| year=1985| publisher=France Loisirs| location=Paris| isbn=978-2-7242-2291-3| language=fr| access-date=September 19, 2024}}</ref> * The 1st season, 23rd episode of ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'' titled "Bum Voyage" features an homage to the stateroom scene where Bob and a dozen cast members are crammed into Bob and Emily's stateroom with Howard Borden announcing that "The first one that makes a [[Marx Brothers]] joke gets it!" * [[Cyndi Lauper]] featured a similar overcrowded stateroom gag in her music video for the song "[[Girls Just Want to Have Fun (song)|Girls Just Want to Have Fun]]". * [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] also recreated the overcrowded stateroom gag in his music video for the 1991 song "[[All This Time (Sting song)|All This Time]]". *The [[Warner Bros.]] animated show ''[[Animaniacs]]'' also paid homage to the stateroom gag in the short "Hercule Yakko". *In the [[Disney Channel]] series ''[[The Suite Life of Zack & Cody]]'', a scene almost identical to the stateroom scene occurs in the Martins' closet. *An 8th-season episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' titled "[[The Pothole]]" features a homage to the stateroom scene in which the four main characters all cram into a small janitor's closet that [[Elaine Benes]] is using to get Chinese food delivered; they all end up spilling out after [[Cosmo Kramer]] spills ammonia. *Mystery writer Jeffrey Cohen paid tribute to the stateroom scene in his novel ''A Night at the Operation'' (2009). The book's title also parodies the name of the movie. '''Sanity clause''' *The British punk band [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]] used Chico's quote ("There ain't no sanity clause") as a title for [[There Ain't No Sanity Clause|a 1980 single]]. *''[[Detective Comics]] #826'' pays homage to the film. In it the [[Joker (comics)|Joker]] captures [[Tim Drake]], the third [[Robin (comics)|Robin]], and takes him on a mad spree in a car, running over anyone they encounter over the Christmas season. When the Joker plans to kill a street [[Santa Claus]], Robin distracts him by saying "You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus." The Joker laughs and they get in an argument over which [[Marx Brothers]] film is the source of the gag. Robin claims it is from ''[[The Big Store]]''. The Joker is distracted long enough for Robin to attack him and escape. The Joker himself uses the line in ''[[Batman: The Killing Joke|The Killing Joke]]''. '''General''' *The British rock group [[Queen (band)|Queen]] paid homage to this film by naming [[A Night at the Opera (Queen album)|their 1975 studio album]] after it. Their follow-up album, ''[[A Day at the Races (album)|A Day at the Races]]'', was also named after a [[A Day at the Races (film)|Marx Brothers film]]. *The film's script is credited as the basis for the 1992 film ''[[Brain Donors]]'', executive produced by [[David Zucker (filmmaker)|David Zucker]] and [[Jerry Zucker (film director)|Jerry Zucker]] of ''[[Airplane!]]'' and ''[[The Naked Gun]]'' fame. *In the 1990 film ''[[The Freshman (1990 film)|The Freshman]]'', "Rodolfo Lassparri" is the alias used on [[Matthew Broderick]]'s [[passport]]. *In the 1993 film ''[[Six Degrees of Separation (film)|Six Degrees of Separation]]'' (also released by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]), Kitty Carlisle appears in the small role of Mrs. Bannister; during production of the film, the idea of naming her character either Rosa Castaldi or Rosa Baroni was discussed as a tribute to her role in ''A Night at the Opera'' nearly 60 years earlier, but the idea never came to fruition. *The German power metal band [[Blind Guardian]] paid homage to this film by naming [[A Night at the Opera (Blind Guardian album)|one of their albums]] after it. *The demented main character played by veteran horror actor [[Bill Moseley]] in [[Rob Zombie]]'s films ''[[House of 1000 Corpses]]'', ''[[The Devil's Rejects]]'', and ''[[3 From Hell]]'' is named Otis B. Driftwood. He is the older brother of Baby Firefly, and stepson to Cutter "Captain Spaulding" Firefly. He takes over leadership of the family of killers following Captain Spaulding's prison execution in ''3 From Hell''.
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