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* ''Louisiana Purchase'' has an entire song explaining how the show is '''not''' a [[Roman à Clef|thinly veiled satire of a certain politician]], but a work of utter fiction, set in New Orleans, "a city we've invented so that there would be no fuss./If there is such a place/It's certainly news to us."
* ''Louisiana Purchase'' has an entire song explaining how the show is '''not''' a [[Roman à Clef|thinly veiled satire of a certain politician]], but a work of utter fiction, set in New Orleans, "a city we've invented so that there would be no fuss./If there is such a place/It's certainly news to us."
* Serves as the basis of Ray Cooney's farce, ''Tom, Dick and Harry''
* Serves as the basis of Ray Cooney's farce, ''Tom, Dick and Harry''
* In ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'', Seymour claims that Mushnik is visiting his sister in Czechoslovakia, when in reality Seymour killed Mushnik.
* In ''[[Little Shop of Horrors (theater)|Little Shop of Horrors]]'', Seymour claims that Mushnik is visiting his sister in Czechoslovakia, when in reality Seymour killed Mushnik.
* ''[[Gilbert and Sullivan|Utopia Limited]]'': Nearly anything that the Flowers of Progress, and to a lesser degree Lady Sophy, say about England.
* ''[[Gilbert and Sullivan|Utopia Limited]]'': Nearly anything that the Flowers of Progress, and to a lesser degree Lady Sophy, say about England.



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  • Jake's song from the musical for the Evil Dead movies. He claims to be a pro basketball player, to have won an Oscar for directing Platoon, to have written Jackie Chan's autobiography, and to have created the phrase "fo' shizzle, my nizzle!"
  • Louisiana Purchase has an entire song explaining how the show is not a thinly veiled satire of a certain politician, but a work of utter fiction, set in New Orleans, "a city we've invented so that there would be no fuss./If there is such a place/It's certainly news to us."
  • Serves as the basis of Ray Cooney's farce, Tom, Dick and Harry
  • In Little Shop of Horrors, Seymour claims that Mushnik is visiting his sister in Czechoslovakia, when in reality Seymour killed Mushnik.
  • Utopia Limited: Nearly anything that the Flowers of Progress, and to a lesser degree Lady Sophy, say about England.

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