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== In popular culture == In the [[music video]] for [[Queen (band)|Queen's]] "[[I Want To Break Free]]", [[Brian May]] is awakened by a 1960s Goblin teasmade. The ''[[Happy Ever After (British TV series)|Happy Ever After]]'' episode "Tea For Two" featured a malfunctioning gifted Teasmade. In the 1986 [[Art of Noise]] single "[[Paranoimia]]," an insomniac [[Max Headroom]] hears an off-screen ringing sound and wonders if it's his Teasmade, but ultimately ignores it because he "can't stand tea". In the episode of the British sitcom ''Mr Bean'' titled "The Trouble With Mr Bean", the title character, played by Rowan Atkinson, uses a 'Heath Robinson' style adapted teasmade to wake himself up out of bed by piping the boiling water onto his toes. In episode 6, '[[Edwardian Farm#Episodes|February]]', of ''[[Edwardian Farm]]'' (of the ''[[BBC historic farm series]]''), [[Peter Ginn]] purchases a [[Victorian Era|Victorian]]/[[Edwardian Era]] ''Teasmade'', as one of a number of inventions of the time period. In Season 3, Episode 2 of ITV series [[Endeavour (TV series)|''Endeavour'']] (2016), a Goblin Teasmade figures prominently as the source of an explosion which kills a person. In S1 E2 of [[The Kennedys (TV series)|''The Kennedys'']] (2015, BBC), instead of proposing marriage to Jenny, Tim offers to buy her a Teasmade. [[Richard Osman]]'s ''[[Richard Osman's House of Games|House of Games]]'', a British quiz show that first aired in 2017, offered a teasmade personalised with Osman's silhouette as a prize on Thursdays in series 1 and 2.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/showbiz-tv/richard-osmans-house-games-set-13930367|title=Richard Osman's House of Games set to return to BBC |author=James Rodger|date=22 November 2017|website=|publisher=Birmingham Mail|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=2023-05-07}}</ref> The 1986 [[Robert Barnard]] short story ''[[iarchive:deathofsalespers00barn/page/n8/mode/1up|Breakfast Television]]'' features a Teasmade as the murder weapon.
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