<Li> In the film Against the Sun, one of the sailors, Aldrich, shoots an albatross that lands on the crew's emergency life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, prompting the character of Chief Dixon to remark "I can't believe you actually shot an albatross ." </Li> <Ul> <Li> In the "Super Trivia" episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Master Shake says to both Meatwad and Frylock that they're "albacores around my neck" like "the Rime of the Marinade ." which Frylock corrects by replying "that's Albatross!" </Li> <Li> In The Ice Dream, an irreverent Australian talk show covering the 2002 Winter Olympics, the hosts said that a curse had been put on Australia's Winter Olympic team after Cedric Sloane skewered a seagull in a cross-country skiing event at the Oslo Winter Olympics, which could only be lifted by the team winning a gold medal . </Li> <Li> A portion of the poem was recited by Wonder Woman as the body of the Viking Prince and his longship were sent into the Sun, during the Justice League Unlimited episode: "To Another Shore", at the same time that the Martian Manhunter leaves the Watchtower . </Li> <Li> In episode 90 of Pokémon, "Stage Fight", a trainer aboard a ship recites the opening stanza of the ballad to her Raichu . </Li> <Li> In the third to last episode of the Australian television series SeaChange, Max compares the failure of his relationship with Laura to the Mariner shooting down the Albatross . This episode is entitled "Love in the Time of Coleridge". </Li> <Li> In the episode of the Simpsons entitled "Boy Scoutz' N the Hood", Homer incorrectly recalls the verse "Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink" as rationale for drinking seawater while stranded at sea . </Li> <Li> In episode XLV of Samurai Jack, "The Scotsman Saves Jack," the characters encounter a sailor who tries to recite for them his harrowing tale . The Scotsman is uninterested, but is convinced to at least hear the name of his story, which is revealed to be "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ." </Li> <Li> Monty Python performed a sketch (Series 1, Episode 13, Albatross) which figured John Cleese as a cinema usherette with a tray hung around her neck containing an albatross instead of the more normal choc ices . </Li> <Li> In the Firefly episode "Objects in Space", the character River Tam (Summer Glau) was nicknamed "Albatross" and in Serenity was subsequently referred to as an albatross by the Operative . </Li> <Li> At the end of the SeaQuest DSV episode "Hide and Seek", Roy Scheider can be heard reciting one of the last stanzas of this poem over the closing scene . </Li> <Li> In the episode of Only Fools and Horses, "Sleeping Dogs Lie" Rodney remarks regarding his Uncle Albert "I've said it before, I'll say it again: that man's a right Jonah . I reckon that when he boarded his last ship, the crew shot an albatross for luck ." </Li> </Ul> <Li> In the "Super Trivia" episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Master Shake says to both Meatwad and Frylock that they're "albacores around my neck" like "the Rime of the Marinade ." which Frylock corrects by replying "that's Albatross!" </Li> <Li> In The Ice Dream, an irreverent Australian talk show covering the 2002 Winter Olympics, the hosts said that a curse had been put on Australia's Winter Olympic team after Cedric Sloane skewered a seagull in a cross-country skiing event at the Oslo Winter Olympics, which could only be lifted by the team winning a gold medal . </Li>

Do today's heroes look anything like the heroes in these ancient tales