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In February 2003, the reggae cover-band group Easy Star All-Stars released a cover album of The Dark Side of the Moon entitled Dub Side of the Moon, which features instructions on how to synchronize the record with The Wizard of Oz.
On the DVD commentary track of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, Jack Black states at one point that "if you start playing Dark Side Of The Moon at this point in the film ... it doesn't sound very good at all!", and "If you play this film next to The Wizard Of Oz, you'll probably end up watching Wizard instead" before laughing.
In 2000, it was referred to on the animated TV series Family Guy in the episode "The Story on Page One". Luke Perry says Shannon Doherty told him about it, but he thought she was "just being a bitch."
In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005), Pepe the King Prawn (as Toto) says "Those of you who have Dark Side of the Moon, press play now."
In The Angry Video Game Nerd's 2008 episode on the video game adaptation of The Wizard of Oz, all the episode's events are synced up to Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon if one plays the first four songs of the album in sync to this episode, a reference to the connection between the album and the 1939 film.
In 2010, the How I Met Your Mother episode "Blitzgiving" has Marshall and Ted mention a time they watched The Wizard of Oz while listening to The Dark Side of the Moon, which inspires them to do the same thing with Apocalypse Now and Weird Al Yankovic's Greatest Hits.
Another reference appeared in the Supernatural episode "Dream a Little Dream of Me". Dean asks Sam if they should, "Dim the lights and sync up Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon?" Sam asks why, prompting Dean to wonder what Sam did in college.
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