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  • In the episode "Branch Wars" of The Office, Pam, Oscar, and Toby have a meeting of the "Finer Things Club," in which they discuss A Room with a View.
  • The Dream Theater song "Space-Dye Vest" on the album Awake contains a quotation from the movie.
  • In the episode "A Messenger, Nothing More" of Gilmore Girls, Rory shows Lorelai a clip from A Room with a View to demonstrate her time in Europe with her grandmother.
  • The title of the Divine Comedy album Victory For The Comic Muse is taken from a line in the book.
  • At the start of Divine Comedy's "Death of a Supernaturalist" (on "Liberation") is a sample of film dialogue taken from the 1985 Merchant Ivory adaptation; featuring Julian Sands and Daniel Day-Lewis (George Emerson and Cecil Vyse respectively). Songwriter and founder of the band Neil Hannon has often claimed that both the film and book had a profound influence on much of his work and cites them as all-time favourites.
  • On the first season of the U.S. reality show 'The Mole', one challenge refers to 'A Room with a View'.
  • The 2011 young adult novel Queens of All the Earth, written by Hannah Sternberg, is "a new-millennium update of A Room with a View."

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