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The Two Noble Kinsmen is the only one of Shakespeare's plays that has never been adapted for film or television.
In The Simpsons' Season 15 episode "Co-Dependent's Day," after Moe unthinkingly gives away a rare 1886 bottle of Chateau Latour, he proceeds to dry his tears with another priceless collector's item, an original manuscript of The Two Noble Kinsmen.
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