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* A [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]] advertisement, directed by [[Spike Jonze]], parodied a worst-case scenario of the Y2K bug. The advertisement featured a jogger who wakes up on New Year's Day, 2000, encountering technological malfunction and civil disorder around him, but not letting it get in the way of his run. [http://youtube.com/watch?v=WhF7dQl4Ico]

* A character in the videogame [[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]], explains how a shadow government of the United States, called the Patriots, used the Y2K scare to supply civilian and corporate operating systems with a "security code" that was used in a wider conspiracy to control the digital flow of information.

* AnA 1999 episode of the ''King of the Hill'' Christmas special [[Hillennium]] featured all of Arlen being frightened of the Y2K, except Hank. Hank soon gets caught up in Y2K hype.

* In an episode of [[My Name is Earl]], Earl and the gang become obsessed with the theat of Y2K.