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  • A Citroën C5 commercial from 2001 used "Oxygène 2" as the background music.

Films — Live Action

Live-Action TV

  • In the series finale of Father Ted, the title character namedrops Jarre when suggesting something that Eugene can attend to entertain himself.
  • The Adventure Call sketches in Limmy's Show feature bits and pieces of Oxygène.

Music

  • Eroc's instrumental single "Wolkenreise" ended up so similar to "Oxygène 4" in its triplet-based style that the Grobschnitt drummer decided to quote Jarre's big hit at the end.
  • "What Time Is It? (Zeitgeist 2000)" by Harleckinz is based on "Oxygène 2".
  • Technically speaking, Jarre's own collaboration partners on the Electronica albums. If something sounds like him, it quite likely was whoever he has collaborated with on the respective track, imitating his style, rather than himself.
  • "Toxygene" by The Orb references Oxygène without reusing anything from it.
  • In Frank Zander's song "disco planet (wir beamen)", the narrator encounters an alien named Oxygen 4.

Video Games

  • An achievement in Carrion is named "Jean Michel Jar".
  • Deus Ex: Nihilum references Jarre's 1987 live album In Concert Houston/Lyon with a computer login at Dynamene Station.
  • Rock Star Ate My Hamster includes a Jarre parody named John-Michael Jarrs as a hireable artist.
  • Rob Hubbard's "Thalamusik", created for the loading screen for Sanxion, is a musical tribute to "Zoolook". His contributions to this video game can be heard here.

Professional Wrestling

  • Volk Han uses a part of "Second Rendez-vous" as his theme tune.

Other

  • It may seem like Swatch used the alarm sequence from Chronologie for their first MusiCall series. Actually, however, the MusiCall watches were there first, Jarre composed the alarm sequence for them, and then he sampled a MusiCall watch for Chronologie.

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