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Pop Culture references
On an episode of Late Show with David Letterman, Will
Ferrell sings "Music of the Night", with mostly
incorrect lyrics, after stating, "I don't have it
totally down" and "I don't know the name of it."
A picture of the Lon Chaney Phantom is used at least
once on Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The villainous "Phantom of Vaudeville" and his
ventriloquist dummy, Elmo, as featured on The Ghost
Busters may be a reference to the Phantom, as both are
masked, and, as Kong notes, "the only way to send a
Phantom back is to unmask him."

Asia Argento in Phantom
Of The Opera
In one episode of Kappa Mikey, the Phantom is
parodied as "The Phantom of the Studio", using a mask
because someone wrote "fart" on his forehead.
In the episode of the Suite Life of Zack and Cody
entitled "Arwinstein," At London's Halloween Party, one
guest is dressed as the phantom of the opera with the
full mask.
A statue of Red Death can be seen a few times in the
background by the door.
A bust of Lon Chaney as the Phantom can be seen twice
near the stage.
When Arwinstein kidnaps Carey and brings her to
Arwin's secret room, it is similar to the scene Down
Once More/Track Down This Murderer from the Phantom of
the Opera movie.
In the episode "Cookin' With Romeo and Juliet" of the
Suite Life of Zack and Cody, there is a man wearing the
Phantom's half-mask in the ballroom scene.
The Phantom of the Opera (adaptations) -
High School Musical
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