Referenced By / The Cure (Band)

Films - Live-Action

• Ant-Man when Scott Lang and Darren Cross fight in Darren Cross's suitcase (It Makes Sense in Context), Scott activates Siri on Cross's iPhone. Cross screams, "I'M GOING TO DISINTEGRATE YOU!" leading to Siri to start playing "Disintegration".
• Boys Don't Cry is named after a Cure song, a Cover Version of which appears on the soundtrack.
• Just Like Heaven is also named after the Cure song of the same name, and a Cover Version of which also appeared on the soundtrack, albeit the lyrics are Gender Flip.

Literature

• Naomi from Harmonic Feedback has a poster of The Cure in her room, one of the few bands that she and Drea both like.

Live-Action TV

• One Tree Hill
  • In Season 3's mid-season premiere, Peyton gushes about the Disintegration album whilst talking to her biological mother.
  • In the Season 5 finale, Peyton paints the lyrics to "Love Song" on the River Court as a declaration of love to her ex-boyfriend, Lucas.
  • In an early Season 6 episode, Peyton becomes distressed over moving in with Lucas after discovering he doesn't actually like the Cure. Later in the episode, after splitting the house down the middle over a dispute over which bedroom they should sleep in, Peyton weaponizes this knowledge and starts blasting "Fascination Street" throughout the house to try and get Lucas to cave in.
  • A late Season 6 episode features a subplot of Lucas and Peyton going on a post-graduation road trip to see the band, before losing one of their tickets in the process. "Pictures of You" also plays behind the final scene of the episode, as Peyton teases Lucas over his pretending to like the band whilst he protests that he only ever said that he likes kissing Peyton to the Cure's music.
  • The following episodes are named after the Cure's songs:
    • "To Wish Impossible Things"
    • "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea"
    • "The Same Deep Water as You"
    • "Pictures of You"
• In a third season episode S.W.A.T. (2017), Luca asks Street and Chris what one item they would buy if money wasn't an issue; Chris states that she'd buy an original printing of the Disintegration album

Music

• The band Boys Don't Cry were actually named after Spoken Word in Music from "I'm Not In Love" by 10cc, and not the Cure album or song of that name. However, it was a common enough misconception that they were that the band played with it by titling an instrumental album track "The Cure".
• The blink-182 song "San Diego" directly name drops the Cure in the chorus.