Real Life / Recycled In Space

Award Ceremonies

After the Golden Raspberry Awards soared into popularity (at first), it was copied by every wannabe Caustic Critic out there:
- The Golden Kela Awards FOR BOLLYWOOD!
- The Bunshun Kiichigo Awards (now discontinued) FOR JAPANESE CINEMA!
- The Stuffed Lion Award (now discontinued) FOR CZECH CINEMA!
- The Carbuncle Cup (now discontinued) FOR BRITISH ARCHITECTURE!
- The Naomi Awards (now discontinued) FOR BRITISH POP MUSIC!
The Radio Disney Music Awards were The Kids' Choice Awards BUT PRIMARILY MUSIC-FOCUSED!

Drink

Angel-in-us is Starbucks FROM SOUTH KOREA!
Inca Kola is Irn-Bru FROM PERU!
Ramune is Banta FROM JAPAN!
Tang is orange juice that only became popular after astronauts drank it IN SPACE!
Crystal Pepsi was Pepsi BUT CLEAR!
Pepsi's short lived soda Storm was like Sprite or 7 Up WITH CAFFEINE!
- And later, Mountain Dew ICE was like Storm but AS A MOUNTAIN DEW FLAVOR!
Coca-Cola Starlight, the first of Coke's limited-time "Creations" flavors, actually claimed to be SPACE FLAVORED!

Food

Geography and history

Byzantium is The Roman Empire IN THE EAST!
New Orleans' French Quarter is Paris IN AMERICA!
Argentina is Spain AS A LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLIC!
The Deep South is Northern England IN AMERICA!
- Or, given the English origins of its first European settlers, the South and West of England IN AMERICA!
In terms of its original British settlement, New England is East Anglia IN AMERICA!
- And Appalachia is the Anglo-Scottish border region IN AMERICA!^note
New England is The Deep South IN THE NORTHEAST!
New Zealand is Ireland/Canada IN OCEANIA!
Toronto is New York City IN CANADA!
Vancouver is Seattle IN CANADA!
Montreal is Paris IN CANADA!
Calgary is Fort Worth IN CANADA!
Chicago is New York City IN THE MIDWEST!

Science and Technology

The computer programming language C++ was originally called (and originally was) C....WITH CLASSES!
Hubble is a telescope... but IN SPACE!
- And it's repaired by space shuttles, which are airplanes IN SPACE!
The OCR Physics A level in England. A levels have two sections; AS and A2. When asked what was covered in A2, one troper's teacher replied, "It's basically AS module one IN SPACE."
Patents for common software algorithms aren't that novel and won't be easily obtained. However, you can instead obtain patents for common software algorithms ON THE INTERNET!^note
Space solar power. Gigawatt-scale solar-panel arrays didn't work out? Okay, let's try gigawatt-scale solar-panel arrays IN SPACE!
Space weather. It's weather. IN SPACE! Except it's actually life-threatening radiation.
This article/video describes the light show made when you explode an H-bomb. IN SPACE!
This sort of premise has been seen in venture capital investing, in which it becomes shorthand to describe some new idea as "X for Y" where X is some preexisting thing and Y is some new demographic. (For example, "Groupons for Moms".) Venture capitalist Ethan Kurzweil has written an article decrying this tendency as lazy and possibly detrimental to creativity.

Miscellaneous

St. Vladimir was King Manasseh IN RUSSIA!
Undergraduate math is made of this trope:
- Many universities have three semesters of calculus, where Calculus III is Calculus I and II IN 3D SPACE!
- After learning about vectors on a plane comes vectors IN SPACE!
- Similarly, multi-variable calculus is calculus IN 3D SPACE!
Zero-G Spot is, as the Laconic page says, sex IN SPACE!
- The Wikipedia equivalent, "Sex in space", is about Exactly What It Says on the Tin!
The Other Wiki has an entire template dedicated to topics... IN SPACE!
As described by Senator John Madigan: "Submarines are the spaceships OF THE OCEAN."
Elon Musk decided to use his SpaceX program to launch his personal Tesla roadster IN SPACE!
European Polecats are Ferrets IN THE WILD!
The Mummers Parade is the Rio Carnival IN PHILADELPHIA!

Recycled In Space / Real Life