Let's see how many D&D references we can find in music and popular media?

[Pika...]

Sure they are mostly going to be cynical/insulting to the community, but let's be honest in that many of us take pride in that. We are the type of people who can take the jokes and laugh as well.

This is the one I just saw which got my attention to just how often it's mentioned if you just keep an eye out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4lZvJV6nFU&NR=1

[FirebirdFlying]

I wouldn't say it's popular media, but it is music…

I Put My Low Stat, by Mary Crowell.

She's got another one about AoOs, too, and prolly more.

[hamishspence]

In the Time On Our Hands episode of Only Fools and Horses, Rodney, when Del is coaxing him to reveal his feelings about Cassandra's miscarriage, uses the phrase:

"Suddenly Happy Families became Dungeons & Dragons."

[Godskook]

Steven Lynch has a song called D&D. There might be a reference or two hidden in the lyrics *somewhere*.

[Lysander]

There's the 1982 made for TV Tom Hanks vehicle Mazes and Monsters, which stands in direct opposition to D&D. I suppose that counts as a reference.

There's also Dungeons & Dragons the movie, which probably defames D&D by how bad it is more than Mazes and Monsters did.

[The Dark Fiddler]

This is the one I just saw which got my attention to just how often it's mentioned if you just keep an eye out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4lZvJV6nFU&NR=1

Strange thing is that Al actually said he's never played D&D.

[Mystic Muse]

In "That seventies show" THere's an episode about a radio station guy who Eric thinks is awesome but turns out to be a nerd.

at the end it has the owner of the station, the previously mentioned person and Alice cooper playing D&D.

[Nich_Critic]

Not to cheat or anything but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon...opular_culture

[Siegel]

There is a Futurama Movie dedicated to D&D and the memorial of Gary Gygax.

Benders Game

[Susano-wo]

Yes! White and Nerdy is awesome, as well as the D&D skit. There's always Ready to Roll by..I cant remember. [Google tells me its Flashlight Brown].
lets, see, there is the fact that Vin Diesel is openly Gamer [wrote the forward tothe special edition 3.5 PHB, in fact)
Also, in the excellent [heh, spell-check suggested eccentric...which is also true] movie SLC Punk, there is a quite funny late-movie Dnd reference.
And the last one I can think of off the top of my head, environmental activist Derrick Jensen has a bit, where, while describing why he's not a Star Wars Nut, though he did go see the movie, he explains [paraphased]"I'm not a nerd. I mean, I was too busy playing Dungeons and Dragons to go see things like Star Wars"

[Zom B]

When I first heard of him, I thought the rapper D12 was some sort of reference to D&D...unfortunately I was mistaken. But what would hardcore nerd rap sound like?

[Mystic Muse]

Oh yeah, There are also references in Angel and you can see them playing a game or two in Buffy the vampire slayer.

[Beelzebub1111]

There's the two Gamers movies.

[Prime32]

Dexter's Laboratory had an episode called D&DD, where Dexter is the worst DM ever.

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy has a ridiculous number of references to it, including appearances by an army of dark elves lead by a spider queen, and the line "No, not my Monster Manual!"

[raitalin]

When I first heard of him, I thought the rapper D12 was some sort of reference to D&D...unfortunately I was mistaken. But what would hardcore nerd rap sound like?

Something like this.

Weezer references 12 sided die in their song "In the Garage."

[Lin Bayaseda]

When I was in Niagara Falls last year, I saw a gangster-rapper type of limo pulling out of one of the casinos with customized license plates "NO DND 4"

Even gangster-rapper dudes hate 4th edition. It's that bad.

[faceroll]

Stephen Colbert talks about D&D occasionally on the Colbert Report, and he was talking about it with Conan or someone on one of those talk shows.

Something like this.

Weezer references 12 sided die in their song "In the Garage."

And a dungeon master's guide.

[Zom B]

When I was in Niagara Falls last year, I saw a gangster-rapper type of limo pulling out of one of the casinos with customized license plates "NO DND 4"

Even gangster-rapper dudes hate 4th edition. It's that bad.

I've considered getting a customized plate to show off my nerdery.

DNDPLYR
IMALICH
NAT20
NOSAVE

[Kobold-Bard]

Steven Lynch has a song called D&D. There might be a reference or two hidden in the lyrics *somewhere*.

D&D

I love this song.

[WalkingTarget]

There is a Futurama Movie dedicated to D&D and the memorial of Gary Gygax.

Benders Game

Hell, Gary Gygax was a guest star (as himself) in one of the Anthology of Interest episodes (along with Nichelle Nichols, Al Gore, and Deep Blue).

[bosssmiley]

When I first heard of him, I thought the rapper D12 was some sort of reference to D&D...unfortunately I was mistaken.

Rapper? I thought D12 was Eminem's buddies as a collective mass?

But what would hardcore nerd rap sound like?

MC Frontalot

D&D in popular media. Has no-one mentioned the 800lb gorilla in the room yet?

Spoiler

Show

WoWcraft. Their primetime adverts with Ozzy & Mr T are about as mainstream as D&D culture gets.

And yes, it does apply. It's quite simple: without D&D, no WoWcraft. And without D&D Tolkers would still be a semi-obscure cult author from the 60s-70s pulp revival. RPGs turned LOTR from a campus classic into a meerkating juggernaut.

[faceroll]

MC Frontalot is hip hop, not rap, and definitely not hardcore rap. Hardcore rap would be stuff like NWA or Wu Tang.

[Dyllan]

MC Frontalot

Isn't that about text adventures, especially Adventure (predecessor to Zork)? Although there are many correlations there, I don't think that's D&D.

[DementedFellow]

On a recent episode of Lost, Sayid was brought back to life by drowning him.

[Lvl45DM!]

One of the funnier Simpsons quotes
"We played Dungeons and Dragons for four hoursThen i was slain by an elf"

and that old show reccess had the Daggers and Dragons game for the Pale kids

[AustontheGreat1]

Marcy's Playground has a song called "Cloak of Elvenkind". If thats what your looking for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFG5Dd6EF1k

[Mystic Muse]

In the video game "Bully" There are kids playing "Gremlins and grottos"

[waterpenguin43]

Take a quick look at those dog-things in Avatar, just personally, and I'm not sure if this counts, but they look suspiciously similar to displacer beasts to me!

[Katana_Geldar]

xkcd's tribute to Gary Gygax

[anubistheta]

When I first heard of him, I thought the rapper D12 was some sort of reference to D&D...unfortunately I was mistaken. But what would hardcore nerd rap sound like?

Slightly unrelated, but I think MC Chris has a more rapper like sound than MC Frontalot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJvxEjGpIqU
Also, he has an album entitled Dungeon Master of Ceremonies.