Line #50 ReferencedBy/TomWaits


1	References, shout-outs, parodies, spoofs, homages,... to Music/TomWaits.
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3	[[AC:{{Film}} - {{Animation}}]]
4	* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' - Cpt. Hook can be seen playing "Little Drop of Poison" from ''Music/OrphansBrawlersBawlersAndBastards''. Later on, Hook sings Music/NickCave's "People Ain't No Good".
5	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'' - "Underground" from ''Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}}'' plays over a creepy factory scene.
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8	* "Soldier's Things" from ''Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}}'' plays during the last scene of ''Film/{{Jarhead}}''.
9	* "Earth Died Screaming" from ''Music/BoneMachine'' is used in Creator/TerryGilliam's ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'' to chilling effect.
10	* ''Film/EnronTheSmartestGuysInTheRoom'' featured "What's He Building In There?" from ''Music/MuleVariations'' at the beginning and "God's Away on Business" from ''Music/BloodMoney'' over the end credits.
11	* "Dead and Lovely" from ''Music/RealGone'' is used at the beginning of ''Wristcutters: A Love Story''
12	* "All the Word is Green" from ''Music/BloodMoney'' and "Green Grass" from ''Music/RealGone'' feature in ''Film/TheDivingBellAndTheButterfly''.
13	* ''Film/Hellboy2004'' - ''Music/HeartattackAndVine'' is playing when we first meet the adult HB.
14	* ''Film/FightClub'' - When they first go into the bar basement, you can hear "Goin' Out West" from ''Music/BoneMachine'' playing.
15	* ''Film/RomeoIsBleeding'' - The title was inspired by the song of the same name from ''Music/BlueValentine''.
16	* "Invitation To The Blues" from ''Music/SmallChange'' is used during the opening credits from ''Film/BadTiming''.
17	* ''Film/JojoRabbit'' uses Music/BoneMachine's "I Don't Want to Grow Up" during the Hitler Youth camp montage.
18	* ''Film/{{Smoke}}'': "Downtown Train", from ''Music/RainDogs'', plays in the scene when Paul and Rashad meet up with Auggie at a bar. Later, over the first part of the closing credits, when we see the Christmas story Auggie tells Paul earlier play out, "Innocent When You Dream" (from ''Music/FranksWildYears'') plays.
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21	* The book ''Literature/SandmanSlim'' has "Alice" from ''Music/{{Alice\|TomWaitsAlbum}}'' as a song haunting the protagonist (whose murdered girlfriend was named Alice). At one point, his worst enemy makes a jukebox play it just to taunt him.
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24	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': References to Tom Waits were a RunningGag on this show.
25	** ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S04E16FireMaidensOfOuterSpace'': Joel quotes "Step Right Up" from ''Music/SmallChange'' in a sketch.
26	** ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E16AlienFromLA'': Upon Wanda's arrival in Atlantis, Mike and the Bots start singing "Underground" by Tom Waits from his album ''Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}}''.
27	** ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E10TheFinalSacrifice'': When Mike Pipper shows up, Servo quips "I'd like to sing something from ''Music/BoneMachine''".
28	* The second episode of ''Series/{{Bunheads}}'' has a ballet piece set to "Picture In A Frame" from ''Music/MuleVariations''
29	* ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', the drug-themed, proto-''[[Series/TheWire Wire]]'' episode "Bad Medicine" opens with "Til the Money Runs Out" from ''Music/HeartattackAndVine'' and ends with "Cold Cold Ground" from ''Music/FranksWildYears''
30	* In an episode of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' Beth sings "Hold On" from ''Music/MuleVariations'' at the end.
31	* ''Series/{{NCIS}}''- Ziva is singing a Tom Waits song at the beginning of the season six opener. Yes, that is actually Creator/CoteDePablo singing.
32	* As mentioned above, as the opening song of ''Series/TheWire'', sung by a different person or group for each season (and by himself for season 2).
33	* Jordon sings "Innocent When You Dream" from ''Music/RainDogs'' in an episode of ''Series/CrossingJordan''.
34	* The first episode of ''Series/ThePunisher2017'' plays the song "Hell Broke Luce" from ''Music/BadAsMe''.
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37	* During a 1974 live concert Music/FrankZappa namedrops Waits while performing "Stink-Foot": "Get your shoes and socks on, people, it's right around the corner, over by Tom Waits' restaurant." During that time period Waits was opening act for Zappa.
38	* Music/{{Muse}} used a recording of "What's He Building in There?" to open concerts around the ''Origin of Symmetry'' era. A snippet of it can be heard on the second disc of ''Hullabaloo Soundtrack'' by rewinding from the first track, though not all CD players will support this (ripping the album as a disc image in Exact Audio Copy or X Lossless Decoder, then altering the start of the first index in the resultant .cue sheet will also work). On later versions of ''Hullabaloo Soundtrack'', the "What's He Building in There?" recording is part of the first proper track on the disc, "Dead Star".
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41	* ''Radio/TheMuseumOfEverything'': His voice is imitated in this sketch show, where he plays the part of a museum curator.
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44	* ''WebComic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'': [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=1727 Tom Waitsfield]] is a take on the opening lines of "The Piano Has Been Drinking".
45	* ''Webcomic/JackDavidHopkins'': "God's away on business" plays during the second part of Susan's Run.
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48	* ''TV Tropes'' has used quotes by Waits on the following pages:
49	** BeneathTheEarth
50	** Quotes/GladiatorGames
51	** Quotes/{{Hellevator}}
52	** Quotes/InsaneProprietor
53	** RedemptionInTheRain
54	** SleptThroughTheApocalypse
55	** SymbolicHeroRebirth
56	* ''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows'': In his ''Your Love is my Drug'' review, a snippet of ''[[Music/TomWaits The Piano Has been Drinking]]'' from ''Music/SmallChange'' plays after Todd drunkenly passes out.
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59	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Tom Waits was "special guest voice" in the episode "Homer Goes to Prep School", where he voiced the character Lloyd rather than play himself.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': A cutaway gag from ''Creator/SethMacFarlane's Cartoon Cavalcade'' features Music/BobDylan and Music/TomWaits meeting each other backstage, while Waits introduces ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} to him. They all get into an argument over Dylan not playing "Blowin' In The Wind", then UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli comes in to complain that Dylan didn't play "Hurricane" either. For those wondering what the joke is here: all of them speak [[TheUnintelligible in undecipherable voices]].

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