Madame Tussaud’s in popular culture

## Celebrity poses with their wax figures=

Many times celebrities pose like their wax figures as pranks and publicity stunts.

* On 3 November 2009, the museum's New York City branch was featured in a segment on NBC's *Today* in which weatherman Al Roker posed in place of his lifelike wax figure for two hours and startled unsuspecting visitors, who were at first led to believe they were viewing Roker's wax counterpart.
* In 2010, Ozzy Osbourne did similarly in New York to promote his *Scream* (2010) album.
* NBA players Carmelo Anthony and Jeremy Lin pranked fans during the unveiling of their statues at the New York and San Francisco museums, respectively.
* In 2015, Arnold Schwarzenegger posed as the Terminator statue in the Hollywood museum, to promote a charity event.
* Ant and Dec pranked Olly Murs by tricking him into using a machine that will "scan every part of Olly's face and body to create the most accurate wax figure ever" as a part of their annual Undercover segment on their show, Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

## Television

* The Madame Tussaud’s in Las Vegas was featured in *Life After People*, in the episode “Sin City Meltdown”. 3 days after people, the power goes out. The emergency lighting keeps the figures visible, but that only helps bugs see the figures melt.

## Films

* Some sequences of the film *Housefull 3* were shot in the Madame Tussauds, London.
* Parts of the film *Fan* (2016) were shot at Madame Tussauds, making it the first Indian film to be shot there.
* Madame Tussauds features in the film *Shanghai Knights* (2003).

## Games

* Marie Tussaud is featured in an *Assassin's Creed Unity* side mission, where the player is tasked with retrieving the severed heads of which Madame Tussaud was commissioned to make replicas.

## Literature

* There is a brief reference to Madame Tussaud's work in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Mazarin Stone"
* In Jules Verne novel *Around the World in Eighty Days*, his author says that the only thing the wax figures sculpted by Madame Tussaud lack is speech.
* In Elizabeth Bowen's novel *The Death of the Heart* (1938), Portia and Eddie have tea at Madame Tussaud's and Portia is disappointed that the waitresses are real and not made of wax.
* In the novel *Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster* (2016) by Karen Lee Street, Madame Tussaud meets twice with Edgar Allan Poe and C. Auguste Dupin at her exhibition halls.

## Music

* In Gilbert and Sullivan's song "My Object All Sublime", from *The Mikado* (1885), the title character sings of punishments fitting the crime, including:

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* Madame Tussauds is the focus of Steve Taylor's song "Meltdown (at Madame Tussauds)", which describes someone turning up the thermostat and causing the wax figures to melt. Taylor wrote the song as "a new metaphor to ask [the] same question" as Jesus, "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?"
* The Beatles had their wax figures featured along with cardboard cutouts of various famous people]] in the cover art for *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* (1967).
* Several sculptures from the London branch (including George Bush and Tony Blair) appear in the music video "Pop!ular" by singer-songwriter Darren Hayes.
* Madame Tussauds sculptures are used on the cover of Rick Wakeman's album *The Six Wives of Henry VIII*. A waxwork of Richard Nixon also appears in the background.

## Stage productions

* Marie Tussaud is mentioned in *The Scarlet Pimpernel* (first run on stage in 1903, first publication 1905).