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2	* In ''Film/{{Butter}}'', Brooke makes a butter {{sculpture\|s}} with a red "A" painted in the middle.
3	* ''Film/CrazyStupidLove'': Robbie Weaver does a book report on ''The Scarlet Letter'', but due to being angry that his crush Jessica Riley rejected him, goes on a long rant that the "A" stands for "Asshole" and starts calling everybody assholes, getting him in trouble.
4	* ''Film/EasyA'': The plot of the movie is Olive, the main character, pretending she lost her virginity while her best friend was away for the weekend, and then being targeted by a group of Christian teens led by Marianne. This escalates when a [[ClosetGay closeted classmate]] asks her to pretend she had sex with him. Eventually, thanks to Marianne, Olive is targeted as a slut, which Olive embraces at first, even wearing a letter "A" sewn into her dress, since her class is reading ''The Scarlet Letter'' (there's also a TakeThat against [[Film/TheScarletLetter1995 the movie version]] starring Creator/DemiMoore).
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7	* ''{{Literature/Speak}}'': Melinda's English class reads ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'', with her teacher [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory believing that there's a symbolic meaning behind every last detail Hawthorne added.]]
8	* In ''Literature/TheresMoreThanOneWayHome'', Anna thinks that if she had to wear a scarlet "A" on her chest, people might think it was a monogram.
9	* ''Literature/EyeContact'': In high school, Cara read ''The Scarlet Letter'' to Kevin, who had trouble reading. She found the descriptive passages excruciatingly dull and tried to abridge the book for him.
10	* In ''Literature/TheNowhereGirls'', Rosina compares Lucy's social status [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming after her rape]] to Hester Prynne and asks Grace if she's read ''The Scarlet Letter''. Grace says, "I never read it. It was banned from my school library."
11	* In ''Literature/TheMermaidsDaughter'', Kathleen's father Robin is writing an opera based on ''The Scarlet Letter''. While he was reading the book, Harry kept interrupting Kathleen's phone calls with him to ask him what chapter he was on and what he thought of it.
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14	* ''Series/VeronicaMars'': In the third season episode "There's Got to be a Morning After Pill", when Veronica tries to find out who slipped a classmate [=RU86=] (which caused the classmate to miscarry), she goes to meet the classmate's father, a preacher, and gives her name as "Hester".
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17	* ''Webcomic/HarkAVagrant'': A [[http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=267 sketch filler titled "The Scarlet Letter"]] has everyone reactivity saying everyone else has to wear the first letter of an insulting word describing them.
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20	* The ''WebVideo/OddityArchive'' episode about the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_broadcast_signal_intrusion Captain Midnight]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption Vrillon signal hijackings]] opens on a musical of ''The Scarlet Letter'' - or rather, Ben Minotte singing over [[Film/TheScarletLetter1926 the silent version]] starring Creator/LillianGish.
21	* WebVideo/ScottTheWoz: In "Donkey Kong Barrel Blast \| The Curse", Rex calls Jeb "a f*ckin' CREEP!" and hands him a red "A".
22	-->'''Jeb''': What does the "A" stand for?
23	-->'''Rex''': You're '''a''' [[RepeatCut f*ckin' CREEP!]]

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