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In Gilda Radner's concert movie Gilda Live, her character Lisa Loopner performs "The Way We Were" on the piano. Loopner says of the movie "It's about a Jewish woman with a big nose and her blond boyfriend who move to Hollywood, and it's during the blacklist and it puts a strain on their relationship."
The Simpsons had an episode called "The Way We Was", although its plot is unrelated to the movie.
In his autobiography If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, cult star Bruce Campbell recalls a roommate who had a poorly functioning record player. Campbell writes A tinny "The Way We Were" kept me awake.
In Season Five Episode 14 of Gilmore Girls Lorelai calls Luke after they've broken up and tells him that she was thinking about "The Way We Were" and reminded him of how Katie called Hubbell after they'd broken up and asked him to come sit with her because he was her best friend and she needed her best friend.
In Season One Episode 20 of That '70s Show Kitty Forman says that "The Way We Were" was a nice movie, after Eric explains a scene in Star Wars.
In Season Two Episode 18 of "Sex and the City", Carrie uses "The Way We Were" as an analogy for her relationship with Big. The girls proceed to sing "The Way We Were (song)", and later, when Carrie bumps into Big outside his engagement party, she quotes a line from the film.
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