History Main / KlingonsLoveShakespeare

** Visser One and Ax both independently thought ''Franchise/StarTrek'' was BasedOnATrueStory. Ax was perplexed about how humans were aware of one real alien race where the female's BizarreSexualDimorphism looked exactly like the Klingons, though he [[SpottingTheThread Spots the Thread]] when the film gets space travel wrong because True FTL is impossible. That same fact years earlier spooked Visser One into almost not invading Earth at all, because she thought Humans were capable of true FTL, which would make them able to defend against the yeerks. It should be pointed out that Ax later states that Humans are the only race he encounters that are bipeds, so he may have been trying to be funny about the Klingons.

* While most different races in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' hate each other and want to kill each other, and even the comparatively multicultural Tau Empire generally maintains a certain level of segregation between different castes and client races in order to maintain the specializations required for their unique roles, some Orkz are shown to have a fondness for various aspects of human culture. The Blood Axe clan in particular have picked up such un-orky ideas as "stealth" and "tactics" instead of [[AttackAttackAttack just shooting everything that moves]]. Early editions had Stormboyz as discipline-obssessed and PuttingOnTheReich, while some orks actually worship the Chaos god Khorne. Beyond that, though, all Orkz, apart from the luddite Snakebitez, have an appreciation for human war machines and fancy hats and will try to capture them in working order wherever possible.

May have been a consequence of AliensStealCable. Compare FanOfThePast, which can serve a similar narrative purpose. Related to GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff. Can sometimes lead to GoingNative. Compare AlienCatnip when the subject is actually addictive. Aliens latching onto our pop culture can be because there's NoSuchThingAsAlienPopCulture. See also FantasticAnthropologist.

* In the ''Literature/{{Foreigner}}'' series TabletopGame/{{poker}} has become popular among the alien ''atevi''. Given that the atevi are [[GoodWithNumbers extremely good at both card counting and calculating probabilities]] they're ''much'' better at it than humans.\\\

* Several Asgardian's of ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'' comicbook family expressed extreme fondness of Series/GameOfThrones. Up to thinking that one of the worst things about the afterlife is that it limits access to new episodes.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' does this with the Martians; they are nigh-universally fond of mid-20th century American sitcoms, which even gets used as a plot device here and there.

* Captain Kanril Eleya of ''Fanfic/{{Bait and Switch|STO}}'' has a taste for certain Klingon foods (though she considers gagh gross), and has been seen playing a holonovel based on 21st-century Earth science fiction (the ''Literature/StarCarrier'' books, specifically). In ''Fanfic/TheWrongReflection'' it's revealed that she has posters on her old bedroom wall for ''Film/TheFifthElement'' and ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. Asked by her operations officer-slash-boyfriend Gaarra why she likes Earth sci-fi, she shoots back with why does he like Trill mystery novels.
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has, as a side-note, the reveal that Asgardians are more or less addicted to coffee, with it being speculated that Fury could extract concessions from Asgard on various issues by restricting the coffee supply.
* ''Fanfic/ReimaginedEnterprise'':
** Cardassians love Creator/GeorgeOrwell, used to explain the inconsistencies in stated Cardassian history in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''--it was subject to an InternalRetcon--and the use of Orwellian themes in the famous "[[TwoPlusTortureEqualsFive There are four lights]]" scene.
** The TropeNamer is also explored, with the Klingons first discovering Shakespeare on a data disk they accidentally pilfered from the ''Enterprise'' while taking prisoners. A season later, we learn the new regime has been distributing Shakespeare's collected works throughout the Empire under the guise of being [[InTheOriginalKlingon rediscovered traditional Klingon literature]].
* ''Fanfic/LegacyOfChRihan'' has an offhand mention that the Romulans developed a taste for tomatoes after they got their hands on some when they were allied to the Federation during the Dominion War.
* During the ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10874272/3/A-Bit-of-Imperative A Bit of Imperative]]'', a curious [[EldritchAbomination Kyubey]] tries playing ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and finds it "rather interesting".

* In ''Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn'', Rokynians -[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonian]] survivors settled in planet Rokyn- have a fondness for Earth's flicks and movies.
* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''
** During the ''[[MindMeld melding-of-minds]]'', [=TuV'k=] experiences a flashback memory of his days as a FormerTeenRebel at the Martian Scholarium. The students are loudcasting Terran pop music in the [=PsiDome=] causing the scholars to flee the city, and [=TuV'k=] is wearing skinsuit jeans and a [[FlyingCar floaterbike]] jacket printed with words in Terran-English: MarsNeedsWomen.
** The Briori have been using their PortalNetwork and SpacePirates to raid other worlds for slaves and technology, and as a consequence the collection of alien esoterica has become a trend among the Briori and their clients. This comes in handy when the crew use some vids from their library to bribe one of the Briori into letting them steal the components of a spacewarp drive.
--->'''Chakotay:''' The Caretaker wasn't joking when he said his people were obsessed with collecting esoterica. Turns out the Briori are crazy about alien cultural works.
--->'''Janeway:''' Cultural works? You mean Plato, Shakespeare, Ayn Rand?
--->'''Chakotay:''' Well... more like game shows, soap operas and baseball commentary. And there was a [[Recap/StarTrekS2E17APieceOfTheAction documentary on Chicago Mobs of the 1920's]] that they really seemed to like.
* Skeletor in ''Fanfic/YinYang'' has a thing for Earth horror movies, as he's seen watching and enjoying ''Film/BrideOfFrankenstein'' in private during Chapter 21.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Eternals}}'' the Great Machine - the Celestial computer that’s been integrated with the planet earth - mentions that it loves ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. Apparently it’s also seen ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''.

** ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'': Pegasi on a whole have taken an immense love and interest in the sport of Quidditch. [[spoiler:In the sequel, Changelings have a profound appreciation for [[RugbyIsSlaughter Rugby.]]

** ''Fanfic/IfWishesWerePonies'': Pegasi on a whole have taken an immense love and interest in the sport of Quidditch.

** Grunt does enjoy other aspects of Earth culture, though. One tidbit in the game you can uncover is a peculiar interest in classical Earth literature (particularly Hemingway), and his web browsing history shows when he learned about Earth Dinosaurs and immediately ordered several dinosaur toys for his quarters.

** Grunt does enjoy other aspects of Earth culture, though. One tidbit in the game you can uncover is a peculiar interest in classical Earth literature (particularly Hemingway), and he collects action figures and plays war with them.

** He enjoys a SpotOfTea as much as an actual Englishman.

* ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'': In one novel, it turns out that the Klingons consider ultra-violent 80s-style action movies like ''Film/{{Rambo}}'' and ''Film/TheTerminator'' to be the funniest comedies ever made. Another novel features a Klingon who's a huge fan of FilmNoir and Creator/AlfredHitchcock.

* On ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' M'Gann/Miss Martian has apparently been [[AliensStealCable watching a human sitcom]] called ''Hello, Megan!'' since it aired in the 70's. This helps to explain her GirlNextDoor mannerisms and CatchPhrase.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Eternals}}'' the Great Machine - the Celestial computer that’s been integrated with the planet earth - mentions that it loves ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor enjoys quite a lot about Earth culture, to the point where he's considered by his fellow Gallifreyians to have [[GoingNative gone native]].[[note]]They do like cats, though.[[/note]]

** On Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine, a whole episode revolves around Vulcans enjoying baseball, which is actually becoming an obscure sport on Earth. It could be that Vulcans love the sport for the same reason it's the GameOfNerds... but the episode largely implies that the Vulcan captain who introduced it to his fellow Vulcan crew was only doing so because he and Sisko have a rivalry and he wanted an opportunity to beat Sisko at his own beloved game and rub his face in it. The rest of the crew start to take a shine to it, particularly Odo, who was asked to be the umpire and by the time of the game could quote line and verse the rulebook to Sisko; and Rom, despite being terrible. The latter is actually a case of IronyAsSheIsCast, as the actor playing Rom actually had a minor league career and was quite good... if you watch carefully, he's fielding and batting with his left hand, which the actor ad-libbed so he wouldn't outplay his character's ability.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor enjoys quite a lot about Earth culture, to the point where he's considered by his fellow Gallifreyians to have [[GoingNative gone native]].

** The Ferengi on Deep Space Nine enjoy various human foods. Rom loves sausage and pancakes. Nog enjoys Root Beer. Quark disapproves of it, calling it a "cloying, bubbly, sickly sweet force bent on corrupting the core of Ferengi culture," but admits that if you drink enough of it, you come to enjoy it. He notes that this is precisely the case with the Federation.

*** The same episode has Bashir admit that the driving literature movement among Humans is adapting Alien Literature to a human setting.

** In the episode 'Carbon Creek' from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' has a Vulcan who liked to watch TV; namely, "''Series/ILoveLucy''".

May have been a consequence of AliensStealCable. Compare FanOfThePast, which can serve a similar narrative purpose. Related to GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff. Can sometimes lead to GoingNative. Compare AlienCatnip when the subject is actually addictive. See also FantasticAnthropologist, NoSuchThingAsAlienPopCulture.

*** Quite a few of the Autobots like particular things about Earth. Jazz and Blaster love our music. Hound and Beachcomber love nature. Tracks loves cities. And several of the 'Bots apparently have a fondness for a TV soap opera called ''As The The Kitchen Sinks.'' This is balanced by a few like Mirage and Huffer who don't like Earth much at all.

*** Knockout is a fan of human automobiles, choosing his alternate mode based off of aesthetics and performance (to paraphrase Knockout, he's not just an automobile, he's an automobile enthusiast). He even enjoys competing in human street racing and watched horror movies at drive-in theaters. This interest in human culture is particularly rare for a Decepticon.

** On Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine, a whole episode revolves around Vulcans enjoying baseball, which is actually becoming an obscure sport on Earth. It could be that Vulcans love the sport for the same reason it's the GameOfNerds... but the episode largely implies that the Vulcan Captain who introduced it to his fellow Vulcan crew was only doing so because he and Sisko have a rivalry and he wanted an opportunity to beat Sisko at his own beloved game and rub his face in it. The rest of the crew start to take a shine to it, particularity Odo, who was asked to be the Umpire and by the time of the game could quote line and verse the rule book to Sisko; and Rom, despite being terrible. The latter is actually a case of IronyAsSheIsCast, as the actor playing Rom actually had a minor league career and was quite good... if you watch carefully, he's fielding and batting with his left hand, which the actor ad-libbed so he wouldn't out play his character's ability.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s Coneheads are fond of American culture, and humanity in general, to the point of pretending that Earth has an incredibly powerful defense laser network and faking their own death so as to stay here instead of invading. Their daughter, on the other hand, was born and raised here, and she absolutely hates her parent's homeworld.

** Vulcans, or at least Spock, seem to have a working knowledge of Earth history. In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Spock quoted an old Vulcan proverb: "Only Nixon can go to China."
*** In the episode 'Carbon Creek' from ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' has a Vulcan who liked to watch TV; namely, "''Series/ILoveLucy''".
*** On Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine, a whole episode revolves around Vulcans enjoying Baseball, which is actually becoming an Obscure Sport on Earth. It could be that Vulcans love the sport for the same reason it's the GameOfNerds... but the episode largely implies that the Vulcan Captain who introduced it to his fellow Vulcan crew was only doing so because he and Sisko have a rivalry and he wanted an opportunity to beat Sisko at his own beloved game and rub his face in it. The rest of the crew start to take a shine to it, particularity Odo, who was asked to be the Umpire and by the time of the game could quote line and verse the rule book to Sisko; and Rom, despite being terrible. The latter is actually a case of IronyAsSheIsCast, as the actor playing Rom actually had a minor league career and was quite good... if you watch carefully, he's fielding and batting with his left hand, which the actor ad-libbed so he wouldn't out play his character's ability.

This doesn't have to be precisely li
mited to aliens, as the trope can also apply with any race, species, or society that have a culture which is otherwise very different from humans.