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The D Train
The D Train is a 2015 comedy-drama, the directorial debut of Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul, starring Jack Black and James Marsden in a reunion bromance that premiered at Sundance and grossed $774,780 worldwide.
The D.E.N.N.I.S. System
The D.E.N.N.I.S. System is a fictional six-step seduction and manipulation method by Dennis Reynolds in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, introduced in the season 5 episode 10 of the same name, aired November 19, 2009, and later a widely used pop-culture shorthand.
The D.O.C.
The D.O.C., born Tracy Lynn Curry in 1968, is a Dallas-born rapper whose 1989 platinum debut No One Can Do It Better was cut short by a car crash that crushed his larynx; he became Dr. Dre's ghostwriter.
The D'Amelio Show
The D'Amelio Show is a Hulu reality docuseries (2021-2024, three seasons, 28 episodes) following TikTok stars Charli and Dixie D'Amelio and parents Heidi and Marc, produced by IPC, cancelled after season 3.
The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code is Dan Brown's 2003 thriller, the second Robert Langdon novel, in which a Louvre murder launches a Grail hunt recasting Jesus's bloodline through Mary Magdalene; it sold tens of millions of copies, drew scholarly debunking of its "FACT" claims, and survived a 2006-2007 copyright suit.
The Da Vinci Code (film)
The Da Vinci Code (2006) is Ron Howard's film adaptation of Dan Brown's novel, starring Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon and Audrey Tautou. It opened Cannes 2006, grossed $217.5M in the US, and scored 25% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Daddies
The Daddies (French: Les papas) is a 2016 acrylic-on-canvas painting by Cree artist Kent Monkman that reimagines The Fathers of Confederation, inserting his alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
The Daemon Lover
The Daemon Lover (Child 243, Roud 14), also called James Harris or The House Carpenter, is a traditional ballad in which a woman leaves her carpenter husband for a returning, often demonic, sailor lover; their ship sinks. First printed as Laurence Price's 1657 broadside A Warning for Married Women.
The Dæmons
The Dæmons is a 1971 five-part Doctor Who serial (Season 8, story 59) by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts as Guy Leopold, in which the Master summons the alien Azal at Devil's End; restored in 1992 after tape wiping.
The Daily Bugle
The Daily Bugle is Marvel's fictional New York news organization, employer of Peter Parker and nemesis outlet of J. Jonah Jameson; known from Marvel Mystery Comics #18, the MCU's TheDailyBugle.net, and the 2019–2022 TikTok/YouTube web series with J.K. Simmons.
The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World
The Daily Life of a Middle-Aged Online Shopper in Another World is a Japanese isekai series about a man who uses an online shopping site to connect his fantasy world to modern Japan.
The Daily Life of a Part-time Torturer
Gōmon Baito-kun no Nichijō (The Daily Life of a Part-time Torturer), a four-panel dark-comedy manga by Yawora Tsugumi serialized on Young Animal Web since December 18, 2022, set in a legalized-torture world where Spirytus Inc. part-timers Sero, Shiu, Mikke, and Hugh work; adapted into a 12-episode Diomedéa anime aired January-March 2026.
The Daily Life of the Immortal King (仙王的日常生活)
The Daily Life of the Immortal King (仙王的日常生活) is Ku Xuan's 2017 Qidian comedy web novel about overpowered student Wang Ling, adapted by Bilibili and Haoliners into a five-season donghua marked by a Saiki K. plagiarism controversy.
The Daily Show
The Daily Show is Comedy Central's late-night satirical news program, premiered July 22, 1996, created by Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, hosted by Craig Kilborn, Jon Stewart (1999-2015), Trevor Noah, and Stewart again since 2024, now Mondays only through December 2028.
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Dalek Invasion of Earth is a six-part 1964 Doctor Who serial by Terry Nation, the first Dalek sequel, set in occupied 22nd-century London, notable for location filming, the Thames Dalek scene, and Susan's departure.
The Dali Thundering Concept
The Dali Thundering Concept, known since 2025 as DALI, is a French progressive metal band from Paris formed in 2010, known for concept albums like Savages (2018).
The Damn Truth
The Damn Truth: Montreal, Canada hard rock band (Lee-la Baum, Tom Shemer, PY Letellier, Dave Traina); four albums including Now or Nowhere (2021) and self-titled 2025 record produced by Bob Rock.
The Damned (1963 film)
The Damned (1963) is Joseph Losey's British science fiction film for Hammer, based on H.L. Lawrence's The Children of Light, about radioactive children in a secret bunker; released cut in 1963, retitled These Are the Damned in the US.
The Damned (1969 film)
The Damned (La caduta degli dei, Götterdämmerung), Luchino Visconti's 1969 Italy–West Germany melodrama about the von Essenbeck steel family amid the Nazi rise, noted for its X rating, Night of the Long Knives sequence, Jarre score, and Oscar-nominated screenplay.
The Damned (2024 Palsson film)
The Damned (2024) is Thordur Palsson's debut folk horror film, set in 1871 in Iceland's Westfjords, starring Odessa Young as widow Eva, whose crew lets shipwrecked sailors drown and is then haunted by a draugr; premiered at Tribeca, released January 2025, distinct from Minervini's Civil War film of the same name.
The Damned (band)
The Damned are an English punk band formed in London in 1976, first UK punk band to release a single ("New Rose"), an album (Damned Damned Damned), and tour the US; later pioneers of goth rock led by Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible.
The Damned United
The Damned United is a 2009 British sports drama directed by Tom Hooper, scripted by Peter Morgan from David Peace's novel The Damned Utd, dramatizing Brian Clough's 44-day tenure at Leeds United in 1974, starring Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, and Colm Meaney.
The Damned Yard
The Damned Yard (Prokleta avlija) is a 1954 short novel by Ivo Andrić, winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize, set in an Istanbul prison in the last years of the Ottoman Empire.
The Dan Band
The Dan Band is a Los Angeles comedy cover band formed in 2000, fronted by Dan Finnerty, known for profanity-laced covers of female pop hits and cameos in Old School, Starsky & Hutch, and The Hangover.
The Dan Patrick Show
The Dan Patrick Show is Dan Patrick's national sports and pop culture talk show, airing weekdays 9 a.m.–12 p.m. ET, syndicated by iHeartMedia's Premiere Networks on 360-plus stations and simulcast on Peacock since 2020, with his staff the Danettes.
The Dana Carvey Show
The Dana Carvey Show was a 1996 ABC prime-time sketch comedy created by Dana Carvey and Robert Smigel, canceled after seven episodes following the infamous Bill Clinton breastfeeding sketch, but staffed by Louis C.K., Colbert, Carell, and Charlie Kaufman.
The Dance (Fleetwood Mac album)
The Dance is Fleetwood Mac's 1997 live reunion album, recorded 23 May 1997 at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank for MTV by the classic Rumours lineup of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood. Released 19 August 1997 on Reprise, it topped the Billboard 200, went five-times Platinum, and added four new songs to classics like The Chain and Landslide.
The Dance Class
The Dance Class (La Classe de danse) is an 1874 painting by Edgar Degas of ballet master Jules Perrot conducting a class, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Dance of Dragons
"The Dance of Dragons" is the ninth episode of Game of Thrones season 5 (2015), written by Benioff and Weiss and directed by David Nutter. It features Shireen Baratheon's sacrifice and Daenerys's first dragon flight.
The Dance of the Eunuchs
The Dance of the Eunuchs is a poem by Kamala Das that opens Summer in Calcutta (1965), depicting eunuchs dancing to celebrate births they can never have.