Prog in unexpected public places.

I love the constant prog references in Mystery Science Theatre 3000. I just saw an episode where a military officer was walking down the hall of a research building, and Crow quipped “Hey, he just walked past Robert Fripp’s room!” In another episode, Crow and Tom Servo were lamenting that Gypsy doesn’t like ELP. They just couldn’t figure out why. In another they were rambling on about Jethro Tull and started mimicking the opening riff from Aqualung.

RockHound wrote: I was watching Mystery Science Theater the other day and the bots were discussing ELP and Tull. Lots of prog references on that show!

I used to hang out with Trace (Crow / Dr. Clayton Forester). In fact he was my boss for a while, back when he had an ordinary job. He was a blast.

stegor wrote: There have been a few prog references in the Netflix series Loudermilk - about an ex-music critic, now an addiction support group leader. Quite a few scenes take place in a record shop so it's kinda fun to look around to see what's on display. There's been a couple of Jethro Tull jokes. One was directed at Ben, who wrote a kids' song about a lion in the forest but Loudermilk, being a pedantic jerk, points out that lions don't live in the forest, they live in the savannah. "What about the Wizard of Oz?" "They just used forest because nothing rhymes with jungle". "What about "Bungle". Loudermilk: "Jethro Tull tried that and it didn't work out very well". "Hey I love that song". Loudermilk: (eye-roll).

There have been a few prog references in the Netflix series Loudermilk - about an ex-music critic, now an addiction support group leader. Quite a few scenes take place in a record shop so it's kinda fun to look around to see what's on display. There's been a couple of Jethro Tull jokes. One was directed at Ben, who wrote a kids' song about a lion in the forest but Loudermilk, being a pedantic jerk, points out that lions don't live in the forest, they live in the savannah. "What about the Wizard of Oz?" "They just used forest because nothing rhymes with jungle". "What about "Bungle". Loudermilk: "Jethro Tull tried that and it didn't work out very well". "Hey I love that song". Loudermilk: (eye-roll).

A very unexpected appearance of Heart of the Sunrise in a shіtpost video
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/909853

I get to bring in 'Thick as a Brick' to a creative Writing class, and Happy the Man's Crafty Hands to a Pre-Calc class

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Maybe this doesn't count but in my case the unexpected place was in my dream. I had a dream last night where I heard "leap of faith" by IQ in a chinese restaurant (or maybe it was more like a chinese take out place). In the dream the world was more open to prog in public.

Cool!

Prog cropped up again in Billions, this time a character quoting lyrics from Thick As Brick in response to another character who was quoting Jerusalem. (in a much earlier episode they had a argument about Rush's best album)

Not sure if this counts, but I had the ability to use King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man and a Plague of Lighthouse Keepers In a school project

Awesoreno wrote: I am a fan of this let's-play channel called Game Grumps, and one of their members, Dan, is a prog fan. I have heard him reference Tarkus, Gentle Giant (multiple times, he even sang Aspirations live with KERRY MINNEAR), The Architect by Haken, and his favorite band is Rush. He talks about the latter a lot. I'm too lazy to find some of these clips, but here's one I JUST saw and HAD to post because it's more obscure than the aforementioned. Play the video from 22:17 - 24:17, and you'll hear him talk about Gilgamesh! He even tries to hum some of it.