Trivia / Tintin: The Shooting Star

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  • In the Urbanus story De Pretparkprutsers (The Theme Park Saboteurs) Urbanus is sent to an insane asylum, where one of the lunatics inside is Philippulus the prophet.
  • Belgian comic strip artist Kamagurka once drew a funny review of the first pages of the story.
  • The story is referenced on the album cover of X'Ed Out by Charles Burns.
  • The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo episode When You Wish Upon a Star Creature uses the gag of someone believing in the existence of a Giant Spider and being scared by it, only to find out that it was just a small spider on the other side of the telescope (this may have been an unintentional reference, though).