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* ShoutOut:
** ''WesternAnimation/MagicalMaestro'': After the singer's face is sprayed with ink, causing an unfortunate BlackFace gag, he starts singing in the voice of The Ink Spots, referencing the fact his own face is now full of ink.
** Redd Foxx, one of the co-stars of ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' and its spin-off ''Series/{{Sanford}}'', would often sing "If I Didn't Care", noting it as one of Fred's favorite songs. Whenever he sang "If I Didn't Care", Foxx had the royalties taken out of his own salary out of love for their music, and NBC choosing not to personally pay for the rights.
** The original trailer for ''Film/BladeRunner'' featured prominent use of "If I Didn't Care". The song quite blatantly clashes with the imagery.
** ''Series/{{Manhattan}}'': "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire'' plays during Charlie's atomic nightmare sequence.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The ''Treehouse of Horror XVII'' episode has Kang and Kodos invade Earth in the third segment, "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid". Jumping forward to three years later, Springfield is in ruins and the aliens wonder why they were not greeted as liberators, as they planned the invasion to rid Earth of "weapons of mass disintegration" which they refer to as "Operation Enduring Occupation" (in a clear reference to the war on Iraq). The segment ends with the camera pulling away from the smoking ruins of what was once Springfield, as "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" plays.
** A staple of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games:
*** ''VideoGame/Fallout1'': Setting the trend, the game's introductory cinematic begins with a close-up on a TV flashing classic 1950s images and icons, while "Maybe" plays. Slowly, the "camera" pulls out to reveal the TV set is in the midst of a landscape utterly devastated by warfare. For added irony, "Maybe" is played again in the ending. Y'know, [[spoiler:as the Vault Dweller is exiled from the home they just saved, and marches depressingly into the wastelands... alone.]]
*** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': The most famous of these by far, deliberately echoing the sequence from the first game. The camera focuses on a radio on a bus, as "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" cues up. It pulls back to reveal that the bus is a wreck, with debris scattered everywhere, and pulls further back to reveal that it's in the middle of the burnt-out ruins of Washington, D.C. The song cuts out as a ScareChord plays, announcing the arrival of a Brotherhood of Steel soldier in full PowerArmor. (Worthy of note: Black Isle wanted "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" for the original game's opening, but couldn't get the rights, which is why they used "Maybe".)
*** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': "It's All Over But the Crying" is used for the first half of the first trailer, following a dog investigating a bombed-out house, the image overlapping (through static) to scenes with the family that lived there JustBeforeTheEnd.
*** While not actually an Ink Spots song, the version of Music/JohnDenver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" featured in ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' adds the band's [[RecurringRiff signature guitar riff]] at the beginning of the cover by doo-wop group [[https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Spank Spank]].
*** Several other songs also feature on the in-game radio stations from ''3'' on: "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" and "Maybe" in ''Fallout 3'', "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', "It's All Over But the Crying" and all of the aforementioned songs in ''Fallout 4'', and all of the above plus "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)" in ''Fallout 76''.
** ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': The cold open to "The Grove", with "Maybe" playing on the soundtrack, is very much in the style of the original ''VideoGame/Fallout1'', going from a wholesome kitchen setting to reminding that there's a zombie apocalypse underway. You almost expect Creator/RonPerlman to narrate how war never changes when the opening credits roll.
** "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" was used as the credits theme for the animated short "Logorama".
** One mystery in ''VideoGame/KilledUntilDead'' has a prankster playing tricks on the suspects. One such prank is a fake Ink Spots record that drips literal spots of ink.
** ''WesternAnimation/MagicalMaestro'': After the singer's face is sprayed with ink, causing an unfortunate BlackFace gag, he starts singing in the voice of The Ink Spots, referencing the fact his own face is now full of ink.
** Redd Foxx, one of the co-stars of ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' and its spin-off ''Series/{{Sanford}}'', would often sing "If I Didn't Care", noting it as one of Fred's favorite songs. Whenever he sang "If I Didn't Care", Foxx had the royalties taken out of his own salary out of love for their music, and NBC choosing not to personally pay for the rights.
** The original trailer for ''Film/BladeRunner'' featured prominent use of "If I Didn't Care". The song quite blatantly clashes with the imagery.
** ''Series/{{Manhattan}}'': "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire'' plays during Charlie's atomic nightmare sequence.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The ''Treehouse of Horror XVII'' episode has Kang and Kodos invade Earth in the third segment, "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid". Jumping forward to three years later, Springfield is in ruins and the aliens wonder why they were not greeted as liberators, as they planned the invasion to rid Earth of "weapons of mass disintegration" which they refer to as "Operation Enduring Occupation" (in a clear reference to the war on Iraq). The segment ends with the camera pulling away from the smoking ruins of what was once Springfield, as "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" plays.
** A staple of the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games:
*** ''VideoGame/Fallout1'': Setting the trend, the game's introductory cinematic begins with a close-up on a TV flashing classic 1950s images and icons, while "Maybe" plays. Slowly, the "camera" pulls out to reveal the TV set is in the midst of a landscape utterly devastated by warfare. For added irony, "Maybe" is played again in the ending. Y'know, [[spoiler:as the Vault Dweller is exiled from the home they just saved, and marches depressingly into the wastelands... alone.]]
*** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': The most famous of these by far, deliberately echoing the sequence from the first game. The camera focuses on a radio on a bus, as "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" cues up. It pulls back to reveal that the bus is a wreck, with debris scattered everywhere, and pulls further back to reveal that it's in the middle of the burnt-out ruins of Washington, D.C. The song cuts out as a ScareChord plays, announcing the arrival of a Brotherhood of Steel soldier in full PowerArmor. (Worthy of note: Black Isle wanted "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" for the original game's opening, but couldn't get the rights, which is why they used "Maybe".)
*** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'': "It's All Over But the Crying" is used for the first half of the first trailer, following a dog investigating a bombed-out house, the image overlapping (through static) to scenes with the family that lived there JustBeforeTheEnd.
*** While not actually an Ink Spots song, the version of Music/JohnDenver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" featured in ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' adds the band's [[RecurringRiff signature guitar riff]] at the beginning of the cover by doo-wop group [[https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Spank Spank]].
*** Several other songs also feature on the in-game radio stations from ''3'' on: "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" and "Maybe" in ''Fallout 3'', "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie" in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', "It's All Over But the Crying" and all of the aforementioned songs in ''Fallout 4'', and all of the above plus "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow, and Me)" in ''Fallout 76''.
** ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': The cold open to "The Grove", with "Maybe" playing on the soundtrack, is very much in the style of the original ''VideoGame/Fallout1'', going from a wholesome kitchen setting to reminding that there's a zombie apocalypse underway. You almost expect Creator/RonPerlman to narrate how war never changes when the opening credits roll.
** "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire" was used as the credits theme for the animated short "Logorama".
** One mystery in ''VideoGame/KilledUntilDead'' has a prankster playing tricks on the suspects. One such prank is a fake Ink Spots record that drips literal spots of ink.
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** One mystery in ''VideoGame/KilledUntilDead'' has a prankster playing tricks on the suspects. One such prank is a fake Ink Spots record that drips literal spots of ink.
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* CaptainErsatz: While the first case of an imposter Ink Spots group dated back to 1940, the number of such groups exploded in the wake of the original group's disbanding in 1954 to the point the name had to be declared public domain in 1967. While the above-mentioned Deek Watson and Charlie Fuqua groups obviously have ties to the original group, the vast majority have no legitimate lineage to it whatsoever despite what their members may claim. Impostor groups often have a [[CoolOldGuy very old member]] who pretends to have been a member of the original group.
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* CaptainErsatz: While the first case of an imposter Ink Spots group dated back to 1940, the number of such groups exploded in the wake of the original group's disbanding in 1954 to the point the name had to be declared public domain in 1967. While the above-mentioned Deek Watson and Charlie Fuqua groups obviously have ties to the original group, the vast majority have no legitimate lineage to it whatsoever despite what their members may claim. Impostor groups often have a [[CoolOldGuy very old member]] member who pretends to have been a member of the original group.
