History ReferencedBy / Hamlet

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In the Shakespeare themed shot "A Witch's Tangled Hare" Bugs meets a man who looks a lot like The Bard. Witch Hazel says she recognizes him, but they haven't seen each other in a while because Crubish had the wrong apartment number (2B). The poet and Witch Hazel leave talking about who made the mistake of saying "2B" and the cartoon closes with Bugs Bunny quoting the famous line from Hamlet - "To be, or not to be".

* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', there are references to an all-elcor production of ''Hamlet'' on the Citadel. The elcor are an alien race who express emotions in ways that are undetectable to humans, such as pheromones and extremely subtle visual cues. The director states that the idea behind an all-elcor cast was to challenge the audience by stripping out all the emotional subtext and leaving the audience to judge the characters on the merits of their actions alone.

* "Words, words, words" is used "Martin's Laughing Song" in LeonardBernstein's adaptation of ''{{Literature/Candide}}''.

* An exchange on ''SaluteYourShorts'' is inspired by Hamlet's observation that "a man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm" and therefore that "a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar."

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* In ''[[Film/ThePinkPanther The Return of the Pink Panther]]'':

* The chairman of Apocalypse, Inc. says "Neither a borrower nor a lender be" in ''Film/TheToxicAvenger Part II''.

* An issue of ''[[Comicbook/{{X-Men}} Uncanny X-Men]]'' from 1975 has the speech ("To sleep, perchance [[BadDreams to dream]].") in its opening narration.

* ''TheDeparted'':

* Eric from ''Creator/MorecambeAndWise'' decided to do Hamlet's soliloquy because drama makes more money than comedy. After Ernie interrupting him, he eventually starts: "To be or not to be. That is the question. ... Thank you." He bows and leaves. Ernies then explains that there's more to it than that, so Eric goes back to doing comedy (after the skull comments that the entire thing was rubbish).

* There is a ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode called "The

* In ''Advance Wars: Dual Strike'', Sonja can give the speech ("What piece of work") verbatim, then muses that she said something meaningful and asks someone to write it down.

* "To thine own self be true" was used in ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong''

* An exchange on ''SaluteYourShorts'' is inspired by Hamlet's observation that "a man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm" and therefore that "a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar."
-->'''Pinsky:''' Think about it. When you die they stick you in the ground and it's the worms that eat you up!
-->'''Z.Z.:''' Then somebody digs up the worms that ate you and use to catch fish which somebody else eats.
-->'''Donkeylips:''' So wait a second guys, when we had fish sticks the other night, I could have eaten a fish, that ate a worm, ''that ate Elvis?''
-->'''Z.Z.:''' You could be burping up the King as we speak!

* ''TheDeparted'':
** Before an operation, Captain Queenan tells Collin that "readiness is all."
** Costigan quotes Hawthorne. Dignam isn't impressed: ''[fart noise]'' "What's the matter, smartass, you don't know any fuckin' Shakespeare?"

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* "To thine own self be true" was used in ''MerrilyWeRollAlong''

* Eric from ''MorecambeAndWise'' decided to do Hamlet's soliloquy because drama makes more money than comedy. After Ernie interrupting him, he eventually starts: "To be or not to be. That is the question. ... Thank you." He bows and leaves. Ernies then explains that there's more to it than that, so Eric goes back to doing comedy (after the skull comments that the entire thing was rubbish).

* In "Show Me" from ''MyFairLady'', Liza interrupts Freddie's romantic song verse with "Words! Words! Words! I'm so sick of words!" Reference to "Words, words, words".

* In ''MassEffect'', there are references to an all-elcor production of ''Hamlet'' on the Citadel. The elcor are an alien race who express emotions in ways that are undetectable to humans, such as pheromones and extremely subtle visual cues. The director states that the idea behind an all-elcor cast was to challenge the audience by stripping out all the emotional subtext and leaving the audience to judge the characters on the merits of their actions alone.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', a clear reference appears in "Jack's Lament":
-->''And since I am dead, I can [[AlasPoorYorick take off my head]]/ To recite Shakespearean quotations.''
* "What piece of work is a man" was done awesomely in ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}''. Especially since [[spoiler: they were saying it ironically]], though Coraline and unfamiliar viewers wouldn't know it at the time.

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* Des [=McGrath=] in ''Film/TheLastDaysOfDisco'' says the "To thine own self be true" speech.

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* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'': Archie Kennedy is a great fan of the bard, and he paraphrases Osrick's "a hit, a very palpable hit" when he reports that Lt. Bush's heated shot was successful.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', "Jack's Lament]]": "''And since I am dead, I can [[AlasPoorYorick take off my head]]/ To recite Shakespearean quotations.''"

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* Ned Martin, a radio announcer for baseball's Boston Red Sox in the 1960s and '70s, was fond of using Claudius' "O Gertrude, when sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions" when things went bad for the team.

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