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2* ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'': Harold becomes attracted to Sybil after seeing her as one of the performers of "Three Little Maids From School are We".
3* ''Film/TheProducers'': One of the actor/singers auditioning for the ShowWithinAShow "Springtime for Hitler" performs "A Wandering Minstrel, I" until he's cut off.
4* ''Film/TopsyTurvy'' is all about the creation of the show, as well as how it gets rehearsed and performed.
5* In ''Film/WhoeverSlewAuntieRoo'', Aunt Roo sings and dances to "Willow, tit-willow" for the party guests.
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8* ''Literature/The13Clocks'': Xingu, a traveling minstrel, describes himself as Nanki-Poo does: "a thing of threads and patches". Like Nanki-Poo, he's also royalty in disguise.
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11* In one episode of ''Series/{{Blackadder}} Goes Forth'' Blackadder tries to listen to a recording of ''The Mikado'' (specifically, the song "A Wandering Minstrel, I"). It isn't going well because his location is being bombed.
12* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': During a radio prank from Bulldog, Frasier Crane admits that he acted in an all-made production of the show when he was at Oxford, noting that "people still ask to see my Yum-Yum". He then sings "Three Little Maids", much to his embarrassment when he finds out he was being broadcast on the radio, which gives his dad Martin a good laugh.
13* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': In the fourth season episode "Apocrypha", Profaci refers to Hendricks (leader of a religious group) as "the Grand Poobah".
14* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': On a first season episode (hosted by Creator/ValerieHarper), Rowlf and (a reluctant) Sam perform "Tit-Willow".
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17* In the ''Radio/LandOfTheLost1943'' episode "The Magic Curtain", Lucy [=DeLacy=]'s musical number[[note]]It's somewhere between an IAmGreatSong and a VillainSong[[/note]] is set ToTheTuneOf "Three Little Maids From School Are We"
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20* The Eastern Kingdom of Mikado is an important location in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV''. In a reversal of ''The Mikado'' being superficially set in Japan to satirize British culture, the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado is superficially Medieval European, but [[spoiler:is located in the far future ruins of Japan, is populated with the descendants of Japanese citizens]], and anglicizes Japanese names (i.e. the founder King Aquila was named Akira, Kiccigiorgi Forest is named after Tokyo suburb Kichijoji).
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23* ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'': The titular trio perform "Three Little Maids" in a Japanese kabuki theater.
24* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': The Warner Brothers and their sister Dot perform "Three Little Maids" as an audition to Mr. Director in "Hello, Nice Warners".
25* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The extended DVD version of the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS6E4And5StewieKillsLoisAndLoisKillsStewie Lois Kills Stewie]]" features its own version of "I've Got a Little List", where Stewie takes jabs at everyone from Music/{{Shakira}}'s lyricist to the cast of Series/{{Entourage}}.
26* ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'': In ''The Goldbrick'', the goldbrick fairy's song is sung to the tune of "Tit Willow".

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