Editing The Pirates of Penzance (section)

===Other references===
[[File:1887SorcererRuddigoreWallpaper.jpg|right|thumb|Wallpaper showing characters from ''Pirates'' and other Savoy operas]]
Other notable instances of references to ''Pirates'' include a ''[[New York Times]]'' article on 29 February 1940, memorialising that Frederic was finally out of his [[indenture]]s.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1940/02/29/archives/frederic-goes-free.html?sq=%2522Pirates%2520of%2520Penzance%2522%25201940&scp=3&st=cse "Frederic Goes Free"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 29 February 1940, p. 18</ref> Six years previously, the arms granted to the [[Penzance|municipal borough of Penzance]] in 1934 contain a pirate dressed in Gilbert's original costuming, and Penzance had a rugby team called the Penzance Pirates, which is now called the [[Cornish Pirates]]. In 1980, [[Isaac Asimov]] wrote a short story called "The Gilbert & Sullivan Mystery" (later retitled "The Year of the Action"), concerning whether the action of ''Pirates'' took place on 1 March 1873, or 1 March 1877 (depending on whether Gilbert took into account the fact that 1900 was not a leap year).<ref>[http://www.asimovreviews.net/Books/Book303.html "The Year of the Action"] in ''[[Banquets of the Black Widowers]]'' (1984); first published as "The Gilbert & Sullivan Mystery" in ''[[Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine]]'', 1 January 1981</ref> The plot of [[Laurie R. King]]'s 2011 novel ''Pirate King'' centers on a 1924 silent movie adaptation of ''The Pirates of Penzance''.<ref>[http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9970915-pirate-king "''Pirate King''"], Goodreads.com, accessed 13 July 2013</ref>

The music from the chorus of "With cat-like tread", which begins "Come, friends, who plough the sea," was used in the popular American song, "[[Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here]]." "With cat-like tread" is also part of the soundtrack, along with other Gilbert and Sullivan songs, in the 1981 film, ''[[Chariots of Fire]]'', and it was pastiched in the "HMS Yakko" episode of ''[[Animaniacs]]'' in a song about surfing a whale.<ref name=MUGSS>[https://web.archive.org/web/20061013163848/http://www.mugss.org/society/gands/culture/ "G&S Pop culture references"], Manchester Universities Gilbert and Sullivan Society, accessed 30 November 2011</ref> In the case ''[[Pierson v. Ray]]'', which established the doctrine of [[qualified immunity]] for police officers, the [[United States Supreme Court]] held that "[a] policeman's lot is not so unhappy that he must choose between being charged with dereliction of duty if he does not arrest when he had probable cause, and being punished with damages if he does."<ref>Schwartz, Joanna C. (2017). "How Qualified Immunity Fails", ''[[Yale Law Journal]]'', Yale Law School. Retrieved 26 February 2020</ref> State courts have cited the same song for other purposes: "Where does this extraordinary situation leave the lower... Courts and State Courts in their required effort to apply the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States...? Like the policeman in Gilbert and Sullivan's ''The Pirates of Penzance'', their 'lot is not a happy one.'"<ref>''Wagonheim v. Maryland State Board of Censors'', 255 Md. 297, 321 (1969); and ''In re Stevens'', 119 Cal.App.4th 1228, 15 Cal.Rptr.3d 168 (2d Dist. 2004) ("a felon's 'capacity for innocent enjoyment' is just as great as any honest man's.")</ref>