Narnia

:For the town, see Narnia (town) — for the band, see Narnia (band).

External references

• Steve Hackett's song "Narnia" on the album Please Don't Touch (1978) is based on The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
• Peter, from the animated television show Family Guy, briefly visited Narnia when he plunged into the clothes dryer in pursuit of a lost sock. Upon landing, he was greeted by a small creature, who introduces himself as Mr. Tumnus, said, "Welcome to Narnia!", and ran quickly away with his sock.
• In an episode of Friends, Chandler gets defensive about his "nubbin" when Ross asks "if it does anything", and replies: "Why yes Ross, pressing my third nipple opens the delivery entrance to the magical land of Narnia."
• In Katherine Paterson's "Bridge to Terabithia," Leslie refers often to the Narnia books and lends them to Jesse to read so he can learn to act like a king.
• In the South Park episode "Richers invade South Park" the character Token, thinking he doesn't fit in anywhere else, goes to live with the lions at the zoo. There he encounters the lion's leader, the great lion Aslan, who agrees to let him stay if he can pull a joke thorn from his paw.
• In the British comedy series, The Young Ones (episode FLOOD) - Vyvyan enters a wardrobe whilst playing hide and seek and enters Narnia. (As he does so a member of the studio audience can clearly be heard saying "it's Narnia!") There he is met by the White Witch and her dwarf sleigh-driver. She offers him turkish delight but is repulsed by his bad breath. He lets on that he is looking for one of his housemates who was earlier frightened by a Lion (a lion-tamer was using his bedroom). This worries her and the dwarf says "It's the prophecy." She threatens Vyvyan to stay but he leaves. Later in the same episode landlord Mr Balowski briefly enters Narnia looking for the boys.
• Mike Scott of the Waterboys draws from the world of Narnia and C.S. Lewis in a number of his songs. "Further Up, Further In" from the album "Room to Roam" is a direct quote from "The Last Battle". Appearing in italics in the text of the book, Aslan proclaims it as he enters the new world. The song "A Church not made with Hands" from an early Waterboys album A Pagan Place begins with the words "Bye bye Shadowlands, the term is over".
• A Dublin rock band called Aslan have a loyal local Irish following although they have not made in on the international scene. Their most famous song is "Crazy World".