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** An Italian pop band founded in 1994 is named "dirotta su Cuba" ("hijack towards Cuba")
** In [[PDQ Bach|PDQ Bach's]] ''The Abduction of Figaro'', Captain Kadd, after his [["I Am" Song]], says he's "taking this ship to Cuba." The other characters have to remind him that he's not on a ship ("What do you mean, I'm not on a ship?").
** The "hijacked to Cuba" meme depended on the Cuban régime being willing to take in hijacked craft. Their initial post-Revolution stance was favourable to the hijackers, but quickly soured. Attempt to hijack anything to Cuba now and expect to be arrested upon arrival... killing the trope.
* Many old movies and plays about the fashionable upper classes—for instance, ''[[The Women]]''—will have characters travel to Reno, Nevada (almost never Las Vegas, because that town, though closer to Hollywood, developed relatively late) so they can obtain painless divorces. Reno businessmen went out of their way to attract those seeking Nevada divorces with specialist lawyers and affordable extended-stay hotels. This trope disappeared due to the liberalization of divorce laws in other U.S. states.
** At the time of this trope, divorce wasn't considered a polite topic of conversation, so this could be used as a complete euphemism. Here's a middle-class example from the original ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' (having nothing to do with the main plot):
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