Talk:Dungeons & Dragons in popular culture/trivia

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Comics and books

• Unforgotten Realms web series; a spoof of Dungeons & Dragons set in a similar fantasy world.
• 8-Bit Theater webcomic. The character Red Mage views the world as a version of Dungeons & Dragons and plays by the rules as a munchkin.
• Penny Arcade, the main character Tycho plays. Recently, the character Gabe has also begun to play.
• Donald Duck Pocket (comic in Holland), a pocket called, "De zwarte Bol" (the black orb) is about the characters playing D&D
• FoxTrot, Jason and Marcus are occasionally seen playing.
• Something Positive, webcomic. The main characters play both in the present time and in flashbacks to high school. Also, the character Mike Dowden was introduced as the stereotypical 'bad geek' Dungeons and Dragons player.
• Goblins, a webcomic which follows a party of goblin adventurers.
• User Friendly, the main characters are discussing the improvements of the 4th edition.
• Simulated Comic Product, a webcomic, shows Dungeons & Dragons monsters playing a game that emulates modern office life in "Dexterity Roll".
• In The Dresden Files, a fantasy detective series by Jim Butcher, the protagonist Harry Dresden along with Billy Borden and his werewolf gang, The Alphas, indulge in frequent games of Arcanos, similar to Dungeons and Dragons.
• The comic strip FoxTrot has featured Dungeons and Dragons numerous times.

Film and television

• The movies The Gamers (film) & The Gamers: Dorkness Rising are based entirely based around D&D, both feature the main characters playing D&D.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("Smashed" and "Chosen" episodes).
  • Along with scattered references throughout the series (e.g. Season 6 Episode 9 where Xander accidentally picks up a manual during "research mode"), the final episode, Chosen, of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has several of the insomniac heroes playing what appears to be a game of D&D on the eve of the apocalyptic battle.
• The final episode of Freaks & Geeks entitled "Discos and Dragons", in which the Geeks invite bad-boy Daniel Desario to play the game with them. He accepts after seeing Harris reading the Monster Manual during school.
• SLC Punk! features a scene where the main characters are preparing for what appears to be a game of D&D.
• On the G4 animated show, Code Monkeys, one of the game programmers, Todd, plays Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Gygax guest starred in an episode and in an episode before that, the two main characters, Dave and Jerry, have to dress up like characters from Dungeons & Dragons.
• In the X-Files episode "Jose Chung's From Outer Space", abductee Blaine Faulkner says that he "didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons & Dragons without learning a little something about courage."
• In the movie Airheads, Chester 'Chazz' Darvey played by Brendan Fraser makes a Dungeons & Dragons reference when explaining the details of his life in his old high school days.
• SpongeBob SquarePants, a season 3 episode is titled "Mid-Life Crustacean" which includes SpongeBob, Patrick and Mr. Krabs playing what appears to be a game of Dungeons & Dragons complete with costumes, character sheets and polyhedral dice (except here it is called P and P)
• SpongeBob SquarePants, a season 4 episode is titled "Dunces and Dragons" which includes SpongeBob, Patrick, and medieval versions of other characters.
• Craig from Malcolm in the Middle claims to have a level 14 elven cleric.
• Dexter and his friends in Dexter's Laboratory play a game similar to Dungeons & Dragons in episode "D & DD" called "Monsters & Mazes".
• In the Drawn Together episode "Hot Tub", during a game of pool, Spanky calls Xandir (who is a gay parody of fantasy video games) "Dungeons and Douchebags".
• In the Drawn Together episode "Captain Hero and the Cool Kids", Wooldor and Xandir say "When Captain Hero was here, Dungeons and Dragons used to be a lot less about ****Jobs and a lot more about Trolls".
• Brent in Corner Gas episode "Happy Campers" is more interested in playing D&D in a basement than go camping with his father.
• In the Lizzie McGuire episode "Gordo and the Dwarves" Gordo becomes obsessed with a game similar to Dungeons & Dragons to the point where he joins a club of hardcore gamers.
• In an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place Zeke and Justin play a game called Dungeons and Gargoyles with the many models during fashion week.
• In an episode of Scrubs JD was playing D&D when he first met Turk.
• An episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is titled "Dungeons & Dragons"
• The film A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors has a scene wherein a few of the kids in the sanitarium play D&D, and one even takes on the title of "The Wizard Master" as his Dream Warrior persona.
• An episode of That 70's Show shows Alice Cooper playing Dungeons & Dragons with two DJs from a radio station (played by Howard Hessman and Curtis Armstrong).
• Code Monkeys - in the episode "Todd loses his Mind", Todd, a zealous D&D player, goes temporarily insane after his fantasy game is canceled and (in a parody of D&D controversy such as Mazes and Monsters) he adopts the identity of his D&D character, kidnaps actress Molly Ringwald, harasses Gygax (voiced again by himself), and tries to destroy the game developer he works at.

Music

• Jumpsteady's song "Dungeon Master"
• Musician/comedian Stephen Lynch's song called "D&D", which mocks the typical stereotype of a Dungeons & Dragons player—a metalhead male that eats snack food, drinks pop, lives in his mother's basement, and does not have a girlfriend.
• The Weezer song, "In the Garage", starts with the lyrics, "I've got a Dungeon Master's Guide/I've got a twelve-sided die," both references to Dungeons & Dragons.
• Marcy Playground's song "A Cloak of Elvenkind" from their self-titled debut album.
• Nerdcore rapper MC Chris has a CD called Dungeon Master of Ceremonies, which contain numerous references to the game, including a sketch where a heckler threatens to make MC "12-sided die".
• Deaf Pedestrians's song "Hail to the Geek".
• Owen Pallett's album He Poos Clouds is roughly based around the concept of the eight schools of magic from Dungeons & Dragons.
• Mindflayer's identity and albums are based upon obscure Dungeons and Dragons references.
• The song "D and D" by 3OH!3 is about Dungeons and Dragons.
• Ghost Mice's song, "Critical Hit"
• Sterling Say's song, "Instakill"
• The Arrogant Worms song "Great to Be a Nerd" includes the lyrics, "We hate watching sports 'cause we're reading Carl Sagan, / But we'd watch the Olympics if they played Dungeons & Dragons!"