This is a list of popular culture and external references to C.S. Lewis' most popular work The Chronicles of Narnia. Direct and indirect references to The Chronicles of Narnia are common in books, television, songs, games and graphic novels due to the popularity of the book. Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an author and scholar. ... The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C.S. Lewis. ...

It should be noted that the word 'aslan' is Turkish for 'lion' and while it is likely that most references to leonine things/beings named 'Aslan' or something similar refer to the one from Narnia, this may not necessarily be the case.

Music

• The Swedish Christian progressive metal band, Narnia [1], is named after the series, as well as some of their songs and lyrics.
• The Roar of Love - a 1978 album by Christian band 2nd Chapter of Acts that tells the story of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in the shape of a musical play;
• Wood Between the Worlds - another 1978 album, by blind Christian musician Bob Ayala;
• Steve Hackett's song "Narnia" on the album Please Don't Touch (1978) is based on The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
• 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 it on the international scene. Their most famous song is "Crazy World".
• A song by the band Phish is titled "Prince Caspian" and features what may be "the sound of horse's hooves galloping under water" and the repeating lyric, "Oh to be Prince Caspian, afloat upon the waves... with nothing to return to but the demons in their caves."
• The singer Aselin Debison is named after Aslan the Lion. Though spelled differently, the two names are pronounced the same way.
• Marcy Playground produced a song called The Ballad of Aslan for their record Zog Bog Bean.
• A song by Spanish Christian musician Marcos Vidal is called "Aslan" [Nada Especial - Vida Music, 1993]. It talks about God's love, using the image of a lion and its roar.
• Singer/Harpist Joanna Newsom mentions Cair Paravel in her song "Bridges and Ballons" on her album "The Milk-Eyed Meander."

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TV Shows

• 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 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.
• In the television series Black Books, the character "Gus" (who is played by the actor who played the Witch's dwarf and Trumpkin in the BBC adaptations) asks for some Turkish Delight.
• An episode of South Park, "Here Comes the Neighborhood", includes scenes with a pride of lions. The leader of the lions is named Aslan, copying the voice intonation and general animated look from an earlier animated film, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
• In another South Park episode, "Chickenlover", Cartman pretends to have read the novel, and summarizes the plot, "a bunch of, uh, hippies, walk around and paint stuff. They eat lunch, and then they find a magical... camel... which they have to eat to stay alive."
• In yet another South Park episode, "Woodland Critter Christmas", the forces of good are represented by an unnamed mountain lion that dies and comes back to life.
• 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, and says, "Welcome to Narnia!" Peter responds with "Gimme back my sock, you goat-bastard!" before Mr. Tumnus runs quickly away with it.
• In an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Willow has a nightmare in which she is dressed as a nerd and giving an oral book report on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to a very uninterested class.
• In a Season 6 episode of Gilmore Girls, when pressed about her religious affiliation, Rory replies "I read The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe."
• Also in Season 6 of Gilmore Girls, episode 10, Christopher shows up to tell Lorelai that he has inherited a vast sum of money and can buy them anything like a castle: "Doesn't have to be in Ireland. It can be in Germany, Czech Republic, Scotland... Narnia."
• An episode of X-Men: Evolution was titled The Toad, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• An episode of Sabrina The Teenage Witch was titled "The Lyin', the Witch and the Wardrobe".
• On the ABC series Lost, one of the books in the hatch is The Magician's Nephew
• Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg from Saturday Night Live, 2005-06 season, did a skit called Lazy Sunday where they rapped about a trip to see The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe at a movie theater.
• The Doctor's TARDIS in the British television programme Doctor Who is, if only coincidentally, similar to the Narnian wardrobe. Some, typically American, press articles that serve as an introduction to the Doctor Who format, make an association between the two objects[2][3]. Though possible because of the earlier publication of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, the extent to which The Chronicles of Narnia actually inspired the creators of Doctor Who is unknown.
• In the Doctor Who anthology Short Trips: Companions, a story called "The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe" by Mark Michalowski appears. It attempts to explain the rather whimsical way in which Romana approached her regeneration in the serial, Destiny of the Daleks.

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Literature

• 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. The name "Terabithia" itself is very similar to [[Terabinthia|one of the foreign lands mentioned in Lewis's books, Terabinthia.
• In Roald Dahl's book Matilda, the character Matilda mentions that she loves the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
• The Discworld series of humorous fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett contain occasional references to wardrobes that lead to magical lands, although none of the wardrobes encountered thus far in the series are known to do so.
• The Pensieve which makes its first appearance in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is an anagram of Pevensie.

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Games

• The adventure game Simon the Sorcerer contains a scene in which the main character finds a stone table and says something like "it is perfect for Troll lunches and shaved lions".
• The second installment of the Simon the Sorcerer series, called "Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, The Wizard and the Wardrobe" contains several references to the original history. In it, the main character (Simon) is sent to a magical land where Calypso the Wizard, an old friend, lives. Simon falls into a trap which involves an enchanted wardrobe which appears right into his bedroom. Once the trap is set, he has to escape from his enemy, the evil Sordid the Sorcerer. In the end of the game he meets a lion called "Masala" who helps him flying through the lands. "I thought he would'n appear anymore", Simon says.
• One of the time portals in the Chrono Trigger console role-playing game is inside of a wardrobe (although is not certain if it was intentional or not).
• The Traveller role-playing game contains a leonine race known as the Aslan.

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Comics

• In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic vol. 2, #1, reference is made in a text fragment to the apple tree from The Magician's Nephew. A text piece in #2 refers to the possibility of making a wardrobe from it.
• In Fables comic vol. 1, it's mentioned that one of the worlds that fell to the Adversary was a land ruled by a lion whom the Fables residents considered to be a bit "holier-than-thou".
• In the graphic novel Associated Student Bodies, Jesus is depicted as an anthropomorphic lion (although it can be just a reference to one of Jesus's titles, Lion of Judah, instead of a Narnia reference).
• In the final issue of the Books of Magic series, Hunter travels from Fairie to Earth via Wardrobe.

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Other

• The expression "so far back in the closet they're in Narnia" is used humorously to describe a gay person who is deeply closeted, often to the extent of not realizing their own sexual orientation, or not admitting it to themselves. Such people are also sometimes referred to as "Narnians".
• Aslan is a Finnish Christian fundamentalist group which advocates reparative therapy for homosexuals, complete with a lionhead as their logo.
• Narnia is used as the theme of a ballet in Come a Stranger [Dicey's Song perspective of Mina], part of the Tillerman Cycle, by Cynthia Voigt.
• Cair Paravel Latin School in Topeka, Kansas, is a coeducational, non-profit, interdenominational Christian elementary and secondary school expressly named to honor C.S. Lewis.