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The Rubik's Cube, a 1974 invention of Ernő Rubik of Hungary, fascinated people around the globe and became one of the most popular games in America in the early 1980s, having been initially released as the Magic Cube in Hungary in late 1977, and then re-manufactured and released in the western world as Rubik's Cube in 1980.〔(Rubik's World History )〕 As of January 2009 350 million cubes have sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game. It earned a place as a permanent exhibit in New York’s Museum of Modern Art and entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 1982.〔(Rubik's World Index )〕 The Cube retains a dedicated following, with almost 40,000 entries on YouTube featuring tutorials and video clips of quick solutions.〔 ==Film and television== The ability to solve a Rubik's Cube quickly is often used as a way of establishing a character's high intelligence, or superiority over another. In the 2009 adventure film ''Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'', the lead character uses the "Cube of Rubik" as a ruse to deceive and slow the villain's progress. ''Rubik, the Amazing Cube'' was a short-lived Saturday morning cartoon television series where the main character was a sentient Rubik's Cube. In the third season of ''Law & Order'', Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Logan (Chris Noth) arrest a man who is playing with a Rubik's Cube on a bench. In the ''South Park'' episode "The Ring", a 4x4x4 cube can be seen on the cover of a magazine and in "The Coon" a Rubik's 3x3x3 cube is seen. In "Cube Wars", an episode from the television series ''Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?'', the students play with a changeable 4x4x4 cube called the Wonder Cube which is similar to the Rubik's Revenge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cube Wars )〕 ''The Big Bang Theory'' features a tissue box that looks like a Rubik's Cube.〔http://www.thebigbangbuzz.com/2012/03/backstage-at-big-bang-theory.html〕 Rubik's Cubes were a feature of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, with the postcard introducing the Hungarian entry showing András Kállay-Saunders completing a Rubik's Cube and subsequently creating the Hungarian flag out of several cubes, honouring Ernő Rubik's Hungarian origins. In the 2014 computer-animated film ''Mr. Peabody & Sherman'' Albert Einstein appears with a Rubik's Cube and he can't solve it. Early drafts of the script for the cult movie The Big Lebowski stated that the main character, Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, had inherited an undisclosed amount of money from being an heir to the Rubik's Cube fortune, despite the fact Ernő Rubik was very much alive at that time. In the show How I Met Your Mother season 7 episode 14 Mickey (Lily's father) is wearing a Rubik's cube shirt. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rubik's Cube in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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