- If you're reading a Neil Gaiman book, and you run across some lyrics, they'll work just fine if you sing them to the tune of Lehrer's "Traditional Irish Folk Song". Examples include the "Kings Under the Hill" song from The Books of Magic and "The Voyage of the Fantastick" from Marvel 1602.
- "Damned Spot" by Julian Rathbone, an account of the death of Christopher Marlowe served with a large side of Anachronism Stew, has a scene where Marlowe is asked for career advice by the young William Shakespeare, and gives him the same advice Lehrer had Lobachevsky give his protege in "Lobachevsky".
- In Operation Chaos by Poul Anderson, there's a sequence where the protagonists turn to the mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky for advice, which includes several shout-outs to Lehrer's song.
- In Annette, Adam Driver's character, Henry McHenry directly quotes a stanza from "National Brotherhood Week".
- In Speed, Howard, the Big Bad, says to Jack, "Be prepared! That's the Boy Scout's marching song."
- In the Crusade episode "The Needs of Earth", Captain Gideon repeats Lehrer's joke about keeping humble by remembering Mozart's achievements.
Music
- 2 Chainz samples "The Old Dope Peddler" in his song "Dope Peddler" on Based On a T.R.U Story.
- In And Shine Heaven Now's Catholicon storyline, the Pray Pray Revolution finals between a teenage Enrico Maxwell and Saint Tail was set to "The Vatican Rag". Enrico claims he won but there's enough context clues to know he lied. The following Sunday Strip featured Erin's mother, a theology student, discussing all the references
in "The Vatican Rag".- Erin: And now you can appreciate how clever Tom Lehrer is.
