Erik (The Phantom of The Opera) - Popular Culture

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• The heavy metal band Iced Earth has a song called "The Phantom Opera Ghost" on an album titled "Horror Show"
• The heavy metal band Iron Maiden has a song called "The Phantom of the Opera"
• The symphonic metal group Nightwish performs a cover of 'The Phantom of the Opera', the title song in Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical.
• In Count Duckula, the episode "A Fright At The Opera" parodies The Phantom of the Opera.

• Universal Studios' attraction, Beetlejuice's Rock n' Roll Graveyard Revue, features the Phantom of the Opera as a rock star.
• In MAD Magazine's October 1990 issue, at the end of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles parody, "Teenrage Moolah Nitwit Turtles", The Phantom of the Opera, Ed Norton (a sewer worker from The Honeymooners, and The Beast from the 1988 series Beauty and the Beast, nag the Turtles about their making the sewers noisy and messy.
• The 1988 movie, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School shows The Phantom as being more like a ghost, and his daughter, Phantasma, plays the organ.
• In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Phantom appearance is the member of Les Hommes Mystérieux, an analogue of the League led by Fantômas.
• R.L. Stine's Goosebumps book series includes The Phantom of the Auditorium, where junior high school students put on the play, only to meet a mysterious student and have things go wrong.
• In Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series, the episode "The Phantomato of the Opera" shows the Phantomato, a disfigured tomato, rescuing Tara Boumdeay from the Killer Tomatoes, and she pulls his mask off as he plays for her.
• In Tiny Toon Adventures, "Toon TV", the video for "It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)", shows Buster Bunny as the Phantom and Babs Bunny as Christine as she takes off his mask.
• In The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Wedding", after Elizabeth Hoover and Seymour Skinner are invited to Lisa Simpon's wedding, they lament about the fate of Martin Prince, and he is shown dressed as the Phantom, with half his face disfigured, playing an organ in the school basement.
• The Phantom appeared in the Big Bad Beetleborgs episode "Phantom of Hillhurst." He is depicted as an old friend of Flabber.
• In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Something Smells", SpongeBob plays dramatic music on an organ while wearing a cape, only to turn around and reveal his mask to be Groucho glasses.
• In the Monster High franchise, it is known that the Phantom himself teaches a music class. His fictitious daughter, Operetta, is also in attendance at the school.
• The Japanese rock band, B'Z has a song called 'love phantom'. At the end of the song, it features a woman singing like Christine did at the end of the song 'Phantom of the Opera'
• In the Disney show Phineas and Ferb, viewers see Phineas as the Phantom on the episode "Roller Coaster: The Musical!" When he is singing the song "Hey Ferb". Viewers will also see him in a half-faced mask, with a cape and clothes like the Phantom's in the 2004 movie production, as he and Ferb are riding on a small boat(Much like the one in the mirror) through a dark tunnel.
• In Happy Feet Two, Mumble's son is named Erik, and sings opera.
• In an episode of Glee, Kurt initially intends to sing "Music of the Night" for his NYADA audition. He begins his audition with the song playing Erik and Rachel playing Christine. Halfway through, he has a change of heart decides to sing a song that represents him better.