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In the comedy Peep Show, the character Jeremy Osborne ponders "Do you think he really wondered, Sting, if the Russians loved their children too?" to which Mark Corrigan replies "No, it’s a rhetorical question like, 'can you feel the force?' or 'do they know it's Christmas?'."
A parody of the song appeared in the satirical TV show Spitting Image which featured increasingly abstract concepts for the sake of rhyming, and referenced Sting's previous career as a schoolteacher.
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