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Woody Allen 's Oscar-winning Annie Hall (1977) featured McLuhan in a cameo as himself. In the film, a pompous academic is arguing with Allen in a cinema queue when McLuhan suddenly appears and silences him, saying, "You know nothing of my work."

The character "Brian O'Blivion" in David Cronenberg 's 1983 film Videodrome is a "media oracle" based on McLuhan.

In 1991, McLuhan was named the "patron saint" of Wired magazine and a quote of his appeared on the masthead for the first ten years of its publication.

McLuhan's perspective on the cycle of cultural identity inspired Duke Ellington 's album The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse.

He is mentioned by name in a Peter Gabriel –penned lyric in the song "Broadway Melody of 1974", on Genesis 's concept album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway: "Marshall McLuhan, casual viewin', head buried in the sand."

McLuhan is jokingly referred to in an episode of The Sopranos titled " House Arrest ".

Despite his death in 1980, someone claiming to be McLuhan posted on a Wired mailing list in 1996. The information this person provided convinced one Wired writer that "if the poster was not McLuhan himself, it was a bot programmed with an eerie command of McLuhan's life and inimitable perspective."

McLuhan is the subject of the 1993 play The Medium, the first major work by the Saratoga International Theater Institute and director Anne Bogart. The play was revived by SITI Company for a farewell tour in 2022.