Film and Television
The ability to solve a Rubik's Cube quickly is often used as a way of establishing a character's high intelligence. The films Brick, Armageddon, Nói the Albino, Chameleon Street, The Pursuit of Happyness, Dude, Where's My Car?, WALL-E, Let the Right One In, Let Me In, My Name is Khan, 3 Idiots, There's Something About Mary and Karthik Calling Karthik and the television shows The Carrie Diaries (TV series), Doctor Who, Everybody Hates Chris, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Seinfeld, and The Simpsons include sequences which depict this.
Characters are frustrated by the Cube in the films UHF, Being John Malkovich, The Wedding Singer, And The Band Played On, and Hellboy.
In the film Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), the lead character uses the "Cube of Rubik" as a ruse to deceive and slow the villain's progress.
Rubik, the Amazing Cube was a short-lived Saturday morning cartoon television series where the main character was a sentient Rubik's Cube. In the third season of Law & Order, Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth) arrest a man who is playing with a Rubik's Cube on a bench. In the South Park episode "The Ring", a 4x4x4 cube can be seen on the cover of a magazine. In "Cube Wars", an episode from the television series Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?, the students play with a changeable 4x4x4 cube called the Wonder Cube which is similar to the Rubik's Revenge. The Big Bang Theory features a tissue box that looks like a Rubik's Cube.
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