Other Uses
Despite its origin as a utilitarian safety warning, mind the gap has become a stock phrase, and is used in many other contexts having nothing to do with subway safety. For example, it has been used as the title of at least two music albums by Scooter and Tristan Psionic, a film, and a novel, as the name of a movie production company, a theatre company, and a board game. At least four non-fiction titles use "Mind the Gap" as their primary title – the books are about generations, class divides, social science policy and the origins of human universals. It is used in many video and mobile games, including Portal, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Halo, Where's My Water, Amazing Alex and Armadillo Run, and in animated series such as The Clone Wars, usually in an ironic context. It is also the title of a Noisettes song on their album What's the Time Mr. Wolf?. The phrase is used in the songs "Deadwing" by Porcupine Tree, "Bingo" by Madness, "Someone in London" by Godsmack, and "New Frontier" by the Counting Crows.
It was a prominent utterance by the subterranean cannibal killer of the 1972 movie Death Line. The phrase is also featured in the soundtrack of the game Timesplitters: Future Perfect in the Subway level.
The phrase was used as the name for a campaign in December 2010 to lobby the UK Government to allow Gap Year students to defer their university place and not pay the higher tuition fees in September 2012.
The Karotz wi-fi rabbit occasionally says "Mind the gap!" at random as part of the 'mood' setting.
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