Pop Culture Shakespeare References

[Coito ergo sum]

Let's see how many pop culture Shakespeare references we can manage. Cheesiest reference wins a gold star.

I will start with Star Trek:

I thought it was extremely cheesy for Star Trek 2, the Wrath of Khan to belabor the Moby Dick metaphor with overt, almost profane, quoting from the book during the movie...but, nothing could have prepared me for the vulgar assassination of the Bard in Star Trek VI, the Undiscovered Country. First off, the title is taken from Hamlet's most famous soliloquy - ...the undiscovered country from whose borne no traveler returns...." And, then they have Klingon character constantly quoting Shakespeare throughout, knocking the viewer over the head with it over-and-over-and-over again.

I like pop culture references and allusions in things - even in Star Trek, like when Kirk plays the part of Petruchio in a take-off on The Taming of the Shrew in a Star Trek t.v. episode - but that was done discreetly, without bludgeoning the audience over the head with it.

So, not limited to Star Trek - what are your favorite Shakespeare references in pop culture? Preferably, what are the cheesiest Shakespeare references...?

[Bella Fortuna]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134697/

[Coito ergo sum]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134697/

Nice....

[Feck]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"What fools these mortals be." (Creatures of Light and Darkness, Roger Zelazny.)

[Coito ergo sum]

Forbidden Planet was an adaptation of The Tempest...LOL. Great movie...

Brave New World - title comes from Miranda in The Tempest.

Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, alludes the As You Like It line about "all the world's a stage...."

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Pound of flesh"

[Coito ergo sum]

"Pound of flesh"

Oooo!! Oooo!!!

Merchant of Venice!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Pound of flesh"

Oooo!! Oooo!!!

Merchant of Venice!

Correct. Redundant. But correct.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Python's parrot - "Shuffled off this mortal coil"

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"A rose by any other name" in about a million books and movies.

[Coito ergo sum]

"To Be Or Not to Be" - title of a movie
I bet there is a pop culture reference to every line in Hamlet's most famous soliloquy. Here are some:

"What Dreams May Come" - movie title
Star Trek - "The Undiscovered Country" - movie title
"Slings and Arrows" - television series from 2003 to 2006
"Outrageous Fortune" - movie title
"Shuffle off this mortal coil" - is a line in the movie Dogma by the demon.
"Great Pith and Moment" - an obscure movie...

[Pappa]

I was at the butcher's on Saturday. I asked for a pound of beef mince. He stared at me for a few moments and said, "Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?".

[Coito ergo sum]

Did you put him to the test?

[Pappa]

Did you put him to the test?

I tickled him, but he didn't laugh.