USA Today Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==In popular culture== [[File:Wondercon 2014-7627 (14009701513).jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.75|''USA Today'' Hill Valley edition, at [[WonderCon]] 2014]] * In 1986, the [[humor magazine|satirical magazine]] ''[[The Harvard Lampoon]]'' published an issue that featured a parody of ''USA Today''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1986/09/16/playing-on-the-parody/70b382a2-e5e4-4e45-8e94-4eea8e56bd53|title=Playing on the Parody|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=September 16, 1986|access-date=March 13, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/09/16/USA-Today-target-of-Harvard-Lampoon/4225527227200|title=USA Today target of Harvard Lampoon|agency=[[United Press International|UPI]]|date=September 16, 1986|access-date=March 13, 2024}}</ref> * A futuristic 2015 edition of ''USA Today'' ([[Hill Valley (Back to the Future)|Hill Valley]] edition) is seen in the film ''[[Back to the Future Part II]]'' (1989). As a tribute to the movie, the newspaper ran a recreation of the front page, featuring the exact headlines portrayed in the movie (except for a piece mentioning a future [[state visit]] by "Queen [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Diana]]", the Princess having [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales|died in 1997]]), on October 22, 2015, when the protagonist [[Marty McFly]] (played by [[Michael J. Fox]]) travels to October 21, 2015, and reads the following day's edition of the paper.<ref>{{cite news | title=Fans race to get 'Back to the Future' paper | url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/22/back-to-the-future-newspaper-success/74418826/ | first=Lindsay | last=Deutsch | newspaper=USA Today | publisher=[[Gannett]] | date=October 22, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://qz.com/529772/this-is-the-cover-of-usa-today-on-back-to-the-future-day/ | title=This is the cover of USA Today for "Back to the Future" day | first=Adam | last=Epstein | work=[[Quartz (publication)|Quartz]] | date=October 21, 2015}}</ref> * A 1991 episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' ("[[Homer Defined]]") featured a parody of the paper ("U.S. of A. News"), whose lead story was "#2 is #1", in reference to pencils. Lisa criticizes the paper's blandness, but Homer retorts that "Hey, this is the only paper in America that's not afraid to tell the truth, that everything is just fine."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-02-06-usatoday_x.htm | title=1 brush with fame for USA Today | work=USA Today | date=February 7, 2003}}</ref> * A 2010 episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' ("[[A Clockwork Origin]]") featured a parody of the paper ("USB Today").<ref>{{citation | url= https://theinfosphere.org/USB_Today| title= USB Today - the Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki}}</ref> The paper was also parodied on the 2007 [[Direct-to-video|direct-to-DVD]] special "[[Bender's Big Score]]" as "USA Toady", possibly as a reference to the character [[List of Futurama characters|Hypnotoad]].<ref>{{citation | url= https://theinfosphere.org/USA_Toady| title= USA Toady - the Infosphere, the Futurama Wiki}}</ref> * The 1990 film ''[[Total Recall (1990 film)|Total Recall]]'' featured a parody "Mars Today" newspaper in the film's Mars setting. * The 2004 [[mockumentary]] film ''[[C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America]]'', directed by [[Kevin Willmott]], featured a parody of the newspaper titled ''CSA Today'', in the film's fictional [[alternate history]] setting that the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] had won the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite AV media|title=C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America|medium=Film|location=United States|year=2004|publisher=Hodcarrier Films/IFC Films}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page