Talk:Dungeons & Dragons in popular culture

message: Drum and Bass DJ Dieselboy released an album called "The Dungeon Master's Guide." Does that merit mention?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.51.28.76 (talk) 17:37, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dieselboy Album 

message: D&D was the topic of its episode Dungeons & Christwagons, the flash cartoon can be found on newgrounds.com
Also I think I read somewhere that the anime Record of the Lodoss War and video game Final Fantasy 1 was based on D&D.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.77.109.214 (talk) 05:46, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retared Animal Babies 

message: When in Steven Lynch's song "D&D" do they portray Dungeons & Dragons players as "metalheads" and marijuana smokers, as stated in this article? I know he does mention rock music briefly in the line "...and the stereo's a-pumpin' Zeppelin", but he does not imply that the players in question are "headbangers", nor did he ever reference marijuana use. In all earnestness, these remarks do not even fit into the common D&D stereotype. Unless the interpretation of the lyrics shown in this article can be verified, I believe that the statement should be removed. The Bone III (talk) 00:59, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steven Lynch Song 

message: Should it be mentioned that the anime and manga The Slayers was based off of a D&D game?  I forgot where I read it, but the article said that the manga was thought up during a D&D campaign between the creators and friends before anyone wrote anything down and eventually spawned the show.   Facebookery (talk) 11:04, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Slayers

message: Also, in tv shows, you should add that Eric Foreman from that 70s shaw plays, as he was once playing dnd with alice cooper(when he was high)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.202.0.118 (talk) 03:07, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: That 70s Show

message: In the Bully videogame, there a was a game of Grottos and Gremlins, I think.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.204.96.174 (talk) 02:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bully

message: The nerds are playing D&D when Shrek visits the high school. I think.Annihilatron (talk) 15:47, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Shrek3

message: The Yu-Gi-Oh! manga had several chapters about a game called "Monster World" which used two ten-sided dice for resolution of effects.
In the popular internet cartoon Homestar Runner, there is a character named "D&D Greg".
--75.163.170.120 (talk) 01:27, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yu-Gi-Oh! and Homestar Runner 

message: Missing two references: 
"Saturday Night Live" Emilio Estevez Hosts/Pearl Jam (1994) Season 19, Episode 18: Skit "Geek, Dweeb, or Spaz"
Nightmare on Elmstreet Part 3: One kid in the mental hospital thinks he is a wizard.
Also link to "Steam Tunnel Incidents"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.197.135.216 (talk) 19:12, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  SNL and Nightmare on Elmstreet 

message: The debut album by rap band the Dream Warriors, "And Now the Legacy Begins" features the song "Twelve Sided Dice" which alludes to Dungeons and Dragons. This includes reference to himself as a cleric, and the lines "What's the answer / Dungeon Master"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.175.183.12 (talk) 08:36, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: So... add it? 67.175.176.178 (talk) 14:51, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dream Warriors 

message: I added this book and created a section for books. Here we have a very successful autobiographical attempt at conveying the gaming world in the late 70's, from a writer noted for other works than fantasy, etc.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:25, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elfish Gene 

message: I could not find a reliable cite that the rap group Insane Clown Posse ever played D&D. There was only a mention of the game in their lyrics, which doesn't confirm that they ever played, and a note in a blog discussion (which is not considered reliable). At most, they could be added to the music section.—RJH (talk) 14:44, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  No cite 

message: It is difficult to see how to reconcile the current content of this article with the tag at the top without performing wholesale removal of many entries. A good number of the bullets contain unsourced mentions of D&D in a single episode of a show. How can these be regarded as anything but trivial? It might be time to take a backhoe to this page and toss out all of the trivial entries.—RJH (talk) 16:09, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like you have added a lot of properly sourced information to an article which had very little sourcing at one point.  You will probably eventually want to remove some of the not likely to be sourced information to this talk page. 204.153.84.10 (talk) 17:18, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks. Hopefully the section tags will prompt those who are interested into finding suitable sources. If not, then they can be migrated here, or to a trivia sub-page.—RJH (talk) 22:05, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I created a trivia sub-page and moved the unreferenced entries there. If this causes undue pain, please discuss. Thanks.—RJH (talk) 18:07, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivial entries 

message: If there isn't a WP:RS for this already, there will be soon.  I've seen several blogs/reviews for the episode "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" which aired last night.  Unfortunately, I missed it myself, but the concept is supposed to be that the characters spend the whole episode playing D&D. 129.33.19.254 (talk) 00:23, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see WP:TRIVIA: "Avoid creating lists of miscellaneous information." To be relevant, this article needs to focus more on the higher-level impact of D&D on popular culture. Adding in trivia just trivializes the content.—RJH (talk) 17:25, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not saying that it's not trivia at the moment, what I'm saying is that this seems significant enough to the popular culture impact of D&D as a whole that eventually reliable sources will emerge, and at that point we should definitely be saying something about that. 108.69.80.49 (talk) 19:01, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

text: Here, most of what you'll find on a Google search for "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" and "Community" is blogs so far, but this is from The Onion's "A.V. Club" segment:  and there may be more out there. 108.69.80.49 (talk) 19:07, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, if and when it has a significant cultural impact, I'm sure it will be documented in a reliable source. At that point we can certainly add it in. Per WP:USERG, Blogs are considered suitable only if the information is from a professional writer or journalist. Thanks. Regards, RJH (talk) 16:21, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's currently included in the article, with two sources. 129.33.19.254 (talk) 17:12, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Neither of which appear to satisfy Wikipedia's requirements for reliable sources. Regards, RJH (talk) 17:42, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community 

message: Not sure if the Ronna Jaffe book/movie Mazes and Monsters should be in this article. Apparently the "working title" for the movie was "Dungeons and Dragons" but was dropped to avoid trademark infringement. 75.80.20.99 (talk) 20:07, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Not necessarily, since they don't specifically mention D&D in the book and movie.  It's already well-covered at Dungeons & Dragons controversies. 129.33.19.254 (talk) 20:19, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mazes & Monsters 

message: The following are lacking a reliable reference:
* In The Dresden Files, a fantasy detective series by Jim Butcher, the protagonist Harry Dresden along with Billy Borden and his werewolf gang, The Alphas, indulge in frequent games of Arcanos, similar to Dungeons and Dragons.
* The comic strip FoxTrot has featured Dungeons and Dragons numerous times.
* The comic FoxTrot uses Dungeons and Dragons. Several arcs are based on Jason's love of D&D.
** There's a few odd mentions of this on the web and a page from the comic, but I couldn't find a reliable, independent source that definitively confirms either of the above in their entirety. RJH (talk)
* Code Monkeys - in the episode "Todd loses his Mind", Todd, a zealous D&D player, goes temporarily insane after his fantasy game is canceled and (in a parody of D&D controversy such as Mazes and Monsters) he adopts the identity of his D&D character, kidnaps actress Molly Ringwald, harasses Gygax (voiced again by himself), and tries to destroy the game developer he works at.
* Dayglo Abortions' song 'the Spawn of Yog-Sothoth' directly references the statistics listed in the origonal Deities and Demi-Gods, prior to the Lovecraftian and Melnibonean methology being removed from the printing due to copywrite issues.
Regards, RJH (talk) 03:37, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lacking a reference 

message: On the recently removed addition about his playing D&D, I found a clip from "Little Games" of Magnum playing some generic fantasy computer game, but there's nothing to indicate it has anything to do with D&D. I haven't found anything about the other episode. —<B>Torchiest</B> talkedits 17:42, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magnum PI