Madame Tussauds in Popular Culture
- Madame Tussauds is the focus of Steve Taylor's song "Meltdown (at Madame Tussauds)" in which the song talks about someone turning up the thermostat and causing the wax figures to melt.
- The Doctor Who episode "Spearhead from Space" features a scene at Madame Tussauds.
- Tussauds appeared in an episode of Living TV's paranormal programme Most Haunted.
- The museum was featured on the History Channel's series, Life After People: The Series.
- Several sculptures from the London branch appear in the music video "Pop!ular" by singer/songwriter Darren Hayes.
- On 3 November 2009, the museum's New York City branch was featured in a segment on NBC's The Today Show in which weatherman Al Roker posed in place of his lifelike wax figure for two hours and startled unsuspecting visitors, who were at first led to believe they were viewing Roker's wax counterpart. In 2010, Ozzy Osbourne attempted a similar publicity stunt to promote his Scream album.
- In the song "My Object All Sublime" from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan, the title character sings of punishments fitting the crime, including:
- The amateur tenor, whose vocal villainies
- All desire to shirk,
- Shall, during off-hours
- Exhibit his powers
- To Madame Tussaud's waxwork.
- Madame Tussauds features in the film Shanghai Knights.
- Mr. Hannay tells Pamela that his uncle is featured in Madame Tussaud's murderer section and that one day she will be able to take her grandchildren to Madame Tussaud's to see him as well in Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps.
- Marie Tussaud is mentioned in The Scarlet Pimpernel.
- Madame Tussauds sculptures are used in the cover of Rick Wakeman's album "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" appearing Richard Nixon in the background.
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