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== In popular culture == * [[The Beatles]] participate in a game of curling during one scene of their 1965 film ''[[Help! (film)|Help!]]''. The villains booby-trap one of the curling stones with a bomb; George sees the "fiendish thingy" and tells everyone to run. The bomb eventually goes off after a delay, creating a big hole in the ice. * The 1969 [[James Bond]] film ''[[On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)|On Her Majesty's Secret Service]]'' features scenes of curling. * ''[[Men with Brooms]]'' is a 2002 Canadian film that takes a satirical look at curling.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263734/ |title=Men With Brooms IMDB Entry |website=[[IMDb]] |access-date=8 February 2018 |archive-date=6 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206122528/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263734/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A TV adaptation, also titled ''[[Men with Brooms (TV series)|Men with Brooms]]'', debuted in 2010 on [[CBC Television]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Glennon |first=Morgan |title=Men With Brooms: Requiem for an Obscure Canadian Sitcom |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/morgan-glennon/men-with-brooms-requiem-f_b_1185292.html |work=[[Huffington Post]] |access-date=7 August 2012 |date=5 January 2012 |archive-date=19 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319181657/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/morgan-glennon/men-with-brooms-requiem-f_b_1185292.html |url-status=live }}</ref> * The ''[[Corner Gas]]'' episode "Hurry Hard" involves the townspeople of Dog River competing in a local curling [[bonspiel]] for the fictitious "Clavet Cup". The episode also features cameos by Canadian curlers [[Randy Ferbey]] and [[Dave Nedohin]]. * In [[Louise Penny]]'s mystery novel ''[[A Fatal Grace]]'', published in 2007, the main character investigates a murder at a local Christmas bonspiel.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Stasio|first=Marilyn|date=June 10, 2007|title=Bodies of Evidence|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/books/Crime-t.html|access-date=April 24, 2021|archive-date=24 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424182150/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/books/Crime-t.html|url-status=live}}</ref> *"[[Boy Meets Curl]]" is a 2010 episode from ''[[The Simpsons]]'': [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] and [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] form a [[mixed curling]] team with [[Agnes Skinner#Agnes Skinner|Agnes]] and [[Seymour Skinner]], which is chosen to play in the [[2010 Winter Olympics]] in [[Vancouver]], where they win the gold medal. *''[[The Move of the Penguin]]'' is a 2013 Italian comedy film where an unlikely team tries to qualify for the [[2006 Winter Olympics]] held in [[Turin]]. *The 2014 Canadian drama film ''[[Sweeping Forward]]'' centres on a group of troubled young women who are recruited to train and compete as a curling team. * In 2021, the sitcom ''[[The Great North]]'' aired the episode "Curl Interrupted Adventure" in which two characters join a curling league.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=March 28, 2021|title=Curling in The Great North|url=https://www.si.com/curling/blog/curling-in-the-great-north|access-date=April 24, 2021|magazine=Sports Illustrated|archive-date=24 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424182152/https://www.si.com/curling/blog/curling-in-the-great-north|url-status=live}}</ref>
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