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* "Trust?" by Music/LimpBizkit features this: "Maybe Freddy Krueger will step into your dream and burn you like a demon and leave your ass screamin'."

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has supporting character Carrie Krueger, who is named after
Freddy Krueger and [[Literature/{{Carrie}} Carrie White]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has supporting character Carrie Krueger, who is named after
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* One of the supporting characters on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has the last name Krueger. Her first name, meanwhile, is Literature/{{Carrie}}.

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* One of the supporting characters on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has the last name Krueger. Her first name, meanwhile, supporting character Carrie Krueger, who is Literature/{{Carrie}}.named after
Freddy Krueger and [[Literature/{{Carrie}} Carrie White]].
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Bringing nightmares to the popular culture since the eighties, ''Elm Street'' has been refenced in many places; usually with "A Nightmare on X" titles, clothing with green and red stripes or CaptainErsatz-versions of the series main villain, Freddy Krueger.

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Bringing nightmares to the popular culture since the eighties, ''Elm Street'' has been refenced referenced in many places; usually with "A Nightmare on X" titles, clothing with green and red stripes or CaptainErsatz-versions of the series main villain, Freddy Krueger.



* A [[TheGreys grey alien]] appears in a vision wearing a red and green striped shirt in ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'', giving a creepy smile.

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* A [[TheGreys grey gray alien]] appears in a vision wearing a red and green striped shirt in ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'', giving a creepy smile.



** The sixth ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E6TreehouseOfHorrorVI Treehouse of Horror]]'' HalloweenSpecial had a segment titled "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace", where Groundskeeper Willie became a Freddy-like figure after buring to death.

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** The sixth ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E6TreehouseOfHorrorVI Treehouse of Horror]]'' HalloweenSpecial had a segment titled "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace", where Groundskeeper Willie became a Freddy-like figure after buring burning to death.

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* One of the characters on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has the last name Krueger. Her first name, meanwhile, is Literature/{{Carrie}}.

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* One of the supporting characters on ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has the last name Krueger. Her first name, meanwhile, is Literature/{{Carrie}}.
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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare Cape Feare]]", Bart is scared because he received some death threats by mail. He suspects everybody. At one point Ned Flanders approaches him with a scissor knife hand much like Freddie Krueger, but it turns out he was using it to trim his garden hedge.

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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare Cape Feare]]", Bart is scared because he received some death threats by mail. He suspects everybody. At one point Ned Flanders approaches him with a scissor knife hand much like Freddie Freddy Krueger, but it turns out he was using it to trim his garden hedge.
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* One of the enemies in the Graveyard stages of ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}'' featurs an enemy who doesn't just have HockeyMaskAndChainsaw, but who also wears a green and red striped t-shirt.

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* One of the enemies in the Graveyard stages of ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}'' featurs features an enemy who doesn't just have HockeyMaskAndChainsaw, but who also wears a green and red striped t-shirt.

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* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the Pocket Pyro cosmetic item has this for its description:
-->Loneliness is the world's deadliest silent killer. Next to carbon monoxide. But cuddle up to this adorable firebug, hold your breath, and you'll be free to concentrate on loud killers like car crashes and Freddy Krueger.
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* ''Music/DMX'' uses the counting rhyme from the movies in "X is Comin'" but replaces "Freddy" with "X".

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* ''Music/DMX'' ''{{Music/DMX}}'' uses the counting rhyme from the movies in "X is Comin'" but replaces "Freddy" with "X".
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* The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Lawnmower Dog" features a Freddy parody called Scary Terry.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Lawnmower Dog" features a Freddy parody called Scary Terry. Rick even lampshades it by noting that Scary Terry appears to be "some sort of legally safe knock-off of a 80's horror character".
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* In ''Film/EvilDead2'', one shot of the basement shows [[CameoProp Freddy Krueger's glove hanging on a wall]]. This is a returned ShoutOut, as a clip from ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' was used in the original ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', because Evil Dead featured a poster for ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes.'' Recursive Shout-Outs, anyone?

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* In ''Film/EvilDead2'', one shot of the basement shows [[CameoProp Freddy Krueger's glove hanging on a wall]]. This is a returned ShoutOut, as a clip from ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' was used in the original ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', because ''The Evil Dead Dead'' featured a poster for ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes.''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977.'' Recursive Shout-Outs, anyone?
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** In ''Cape Fear'' Bart is scared because he received some death threats by mail. He suspects everybody. At one point Ned Flanders approaches him with a scissor knife hand much like Freddie Krueger, but it turns out he was using it to trim his garden hedge.

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** In ''Cape Fear'' "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare Cape Feare]]", Bart is scared because he received some death threats by mail. He suspects everybody. At one point Ned Flanders approaches him with a scissor knife hand much like Freddie Krueger, but it turns out he was using it to trim his garden hedge.



** Freddy himself appears in the episodes "Imaginationland" and “Insheeption".

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** Freddy himself appears in the episodes "Imaginationland" "[[Recap/SouthParkImaginationland Imaginationland]]" and “Insheeption"."[[Recap/SouthParkS14E10Insheeption Insheeption]]".
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* In ''VideoGame/DragonFable'', during the "Valtrith Tomb" quest, there is a monster called "Ghost of Frederick" who looks almost exactly like Freddy Krueger.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "Lawnmower Dog" features a Freddy parody called Scary Terry.
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* In ''Film/EvilDead2'', one shot of the basement shows [[CameoProp Freddy Krueger's glove hanging on a wall]]. This is a returned ShoutOut, as a clip from ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' was used in the original ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984''.

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* In ''Film/EvilDead2'', one shot of the basement shows [[CameoProp Freddy Krueger's glove hanging on a wall]]. This is a returned ShoutOut, as a clip from ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' was used in the original ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984''.
''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', because Evil Dead featured a poster for ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes.'' Recursive Shout-Outs, anyone?
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* One of the three horror-character lookalikes in that Sledge Hammer confronts in the issue of [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] ''Series/SledgeHammer'' comic is a talon-fingered Crazy Teddy, whose "nightmares are insane".

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* One of the three horror-character lookalikes in that Sledge Hammer confronts in the first issue of [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] ''Series/SledgeHammer'' comic is a talon-fingered Crazy Teddy, whose "nightmares are insane".

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* A [[TheGreys grey alien]] appears in a vision wearing a red and green striped shirt in ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'', giving a creepy smile.

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* One of the three horror-character lookalikes in that Sledge Hammer confronts in the issue of [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] ''Series/SledgeHammer'' comic is a talon-fingered Crazy Teddy, whose "nightmares are insane".
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* ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'': Brad Jones reviewed ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' in 2014 with his character bewildered that Freddy isn't ''funny in this film''.

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* ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'': Brad Jones reviewed ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' in 2014 with his character bewildered that Freddy isn't ''funny in this film''.

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* ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'': Brad Jones reviewed ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' in 2014 with his character bewildered that Freddy isn't ''funny in this film''.


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* One issue of ''Franchise/RoboCop: The Future of Law Enforcement'' features a string of crimes perpetrated by people who have been hypnotized to believe they are fictional characters. One of these people is a man dressed as Freddy Krueger, who tried to hijack a security truck.
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*** He also appeared in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV the fifth one]], as one of the "ghouls" dragging Homer out of the storeroom.
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* [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=243 This]] ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'' strip shows Garfield having a nightmare about being eaten alive by an armchair. He wakes up, only to find Jon dressed as Freddy Krueger.
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* One of the enemies in the Graveyard stages of ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}'' featurs an enemy who doesn't just have HockeyMaskAndChainsaw, but who also wearsa green and red striped t-shirt.

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* In ''Film/EvilDead2'', one shot of the basement shows [[CameoProp Freddy Krueger's glove hanging on a wall]]. This is a returned ShoutOut, as a clip from ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' was used in the original ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984''.
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* In ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'', the film's director Creator/WesCraven, who also directed the original film, [[CreatorCameo cameos]] as Fred the janitor who wears a fedora and a sweater with green and red stripes.

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* In ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'', the film's director Creator/WesCraven, who also directed the original film, ''Elm Street'', [[CreatorCameo cameos]] as Fred the janitor who wears a fedora and a sweater with green and red stripes.



* One of the enemies in the Graveyard stages of ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}'' featurs an enemy who doesn't just have HockeyMaskAndChainsaw, but who also wearsa green and red-striped t-shirt.

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Bringing nightmares to the popular culture since the eighties, ''Elm Street'' has been refenced in many places; usually with "Nightmare on X Street" titles or CaptainErsatz-versions of the series main villain, Freddy Krueger.

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Bringing nightmares to the popular culture since the eighties, ''Elm Street'' has been refenced in many places; usually with "Nightmare "A Nightmare on X Street" titles X" titles, clothing with green and red stripes or CaptainErsatz-versions of the series main villain, Freddy Krueger.






* Comicbook/DoctorStrange faces off with Freddy-lookalike named Eddy in a ''Comicbook/MarvelComicsPresents'' story "A Nightmare on Bleecker Street".

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* Comicbook/DoctorStrange faces off with Freddy-lookalike named Eddy in a ''Comicbook/MarvelComicsPresents'' story "A Nightmare on Bleecker Street".Street".

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* Freddy's killings are mentioned during the opening of ''Film/BehindTheMaskTheRiseOfLeslieVernon''. Furthermore, the house featured in [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984 the original movie]] is shown and there's a shot of three little girls in white playing jumprope.
* In ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'', the film's director Creator/WesCraven, who also directed the original film, [[CreatorCameo cameos]] as Fred the janitor who wears a fedora and a sweater with green and red stripes.

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* In ''Literature/CalLeandros'' book ''Blackout'', one of the horror ShoutOut aliases that Cal uses is "Calvin F. Krueger".

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* ''Series/WeirdScience'' has an episode titled "Nightmare on Chett Street".
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E18KilledByDeath Killed by Death]]" has a monster called Der Kindestod, who is sometimes referred to as "Der Krugerstod".
* ''Series/EerieIndiana'''s second series (subtitled ''The Other Dimension'') had an episode titled "Nightmare on Eerie Street".

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* ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' has a story titled "Nightmare on Twig's Street: The Dweam Swayers", with an antagonist named Twiggy Krueger.
* The fifth boss in ''VideoGame/CrimeFighters'' has gloves similar to Freddy's.
* One of the enemies in the Graveyard stages of ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}'' featurs an enemy who doesn't just have HockeyMaskAndChainsaw, but who also wearsa green and red-striped t-shirt.

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* Some of the pre- and post commercial segments in the Halloween episodes of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' feature Linkara dressed as Freddy Krueger.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** The sixth ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E6TreehouseOfHorrorVI Treehouse of Horror]]'' HalloweenSpecial had a segment titled "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace", where Groundskeeper Willie became a Freddy-like figure after buring to death.
** Freddy himself appeared during the CouchGag of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E4TreehouseOfHorrorIX the ninth one]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
** Freddy himself appears in the episodes "Imaginationland" and “Insheeption".
** One of the episodes bears the name "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E12ANightmareOnFaceTime A Nightmare on Facetime]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010'' had an episode titled "Nightmare on Pound Street".

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* Comicbook/DoctorStrange faces off with Freddy-lookalike named Eddy in a ''Marvel Comics Presents'' story "A Nightmare on Bleecker Street".

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* Comicbook/DoctorStrange faces off with Freddy-lookalike named Eddy in a ''Marvel Comics Presents'' ''Comicbook/MarvelComicsPresents'' story "A Nightmare on Bleecker Street".
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* One of the three horror-character lookalikes in [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] ''Series/SledgeHammer'' comic is a talon-fingered Crazy Teddy, whose "nightmares are insane".
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange faces off with Freddy-lookalike named Eddy in a ''Marvel Comics Presents'' story "A Nightmare on Bleecker Street".

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