The Great Escape

:For the "Married... with Children" episode, see The Great Escape (Married... with Children episode).

The Great Escape in popular culture

• In The Simpsons episode "A Streetcar Named Marge" (1992), Maggie plots a "Great Escape" from the Ayn Rand School for Tots.
• In Red Dwarf episode "Queeg", Lister and The Cat begin whistling the tune as a plan is set in motion to oppose the demanding backup computer, Queeg.
• In the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption, a prisoner is seen dispersing debris from a tunnel operation in the exercise yard in the same manner as the inmates of Stalag Luft III.
• The animated film Chicken Run (2000) contains many references.
• English football fans enjoy whistling the theme tune during matches.
• The Great Escape is also the name of a 1995 album by British band Blur. It reached #1 in the UK charts.
• Former Monty Python cast members Michael Palin and Terry Jones parodied The Great Escape in their Ripping Yarns series, in an episode entitled "Escape from Stalag Luft 112 B", about a prisoner whose myriad, overly perfectionist escape plans take so long to complete that the war ends before he is able to go through with any of them.
• Naked Gun 33 1/3 featured a parody of the Great Escape, hiding the dirt in various madcap and otherwise zany ways.
• The Great Escape is also the title for two different video games. One published by Ocean in 1986 http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi?regexp=^Great+Escape%2c+The$&pub=^Ocean+Software+Ltd$ and another one from SCI http://www.thegreatescapegame.com/.
• In football, "The Great Escape" has become a meme for a club's improbable escape from relegation. In recent days, the term has been widely used in association with the escape of West Bromwich Albion from near-certain relegation from the English Premier League in the 2004-05 season. In fact, after Albion's final match and the assurance of their safety in the Premiership, the theme tune was played over the sound system at The Hawthorns while ecstatic fans stormed the pitch.
• In the UK, it is a commonly-held misconception that the film has traditionally been shown on terrestrial television at Christmas. In fact, while it has often been broadcast on or around public holidays (particularly Easter), it has been shown during the christmas holidays only twice: in 2001 and 2004.
• The video game "Metal Gear Solid 3" has a reference in a radio transmission