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Post Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 2:32 pm 
 

benjoshua wrote in DD & Hollywood:The best TV episode about D&D was featured in the show "Community" with Chevy Chase.  The episode is actually entitled, "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" and you can see one of the maps from Q1 among other things D&D.  It represents D&D pretty good even though it takes some liberties.  It's funny and it mostly makes sense.

"Community" Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (TV Episode 2011) - IMDb



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Scalydemon wrote in DD & Hollywood:Here is the relevant scene from E.T. if anyone is interested. It seems to be sort of a D&D mash-up/hybrid

Dungeons & Dragons in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - YouTube



In the background of this scene, Jim Carroll's song "People Who Died" is playing on the radio.

The Jim Carroll Band "People Who Died" - YouTube

The lyrics sound not unlike a litany of killed player characters:

Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and just died

G-berg and Georgie let their gimmicks go rotten
So they died of hepatitis in upper Manhattan
Sly in Vietnam took a bullet in the head
Bobby OD'd on Drano on the night that he was wed
They were two more friends of mine
Two more friends that died

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Mary took a dry dive from a hotel room
Bobby hung himself from a cell in the tombs
Judy jumped in front of a subway train
Eddie got slit in the jugular vein
And Eddie, I miss you more than all the others,
And I salute you brother

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Herbie pushed Tony from the Boys' Club roof
Tony thought that his rage was just some goof
But Herbie sure gave Tony some bitchin proof
"Hey," Herbie said, "Tony, can you fly?"
But Tony couldn't fly, Tony died

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, and they died

Brian got busted on a narco rap
He beat the rap by rattin' on some bikers
He said, hey, I know it's dangerous,
But it sure beats Rikers
But the next day he got offed
By the very same bikers

Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
Those are people who died, died
They were all my friends, no wonder they died

  

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