IOU - in Culture

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  • IOU: The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It is a book by leading economist Noreena Hertz.
  • Guitarist Allan Holdsworth's first studio album was entitled I.O.U.
  • "I.O.U." is a chart-topping song by Freeez.
  • The Kingdom of Lovely, an Internet-based micronation, uses the "Interdependent Occupational Unit" (abbreviated as IOU) as its currency.
  • I.O.U.S.A. is a documentary film about the US national debt.
  • In the film Saturday Night Fever, Tony Manero asks Annette if she has an "IOU", but means IUD (intrauterine device).
  • "IOU" is a song by the Canadian rock band Metric.
  • In the song "Lavender" from Marillion's album Misplaced Childhood, Fish sings "I.O.U. for your love" (written this way in the booklet)
  • In the song "Back & Forth" from Foo Fighters' album Wasting Light, Dave Grohl sings "I'm taking it back, all my IOUs", referencing back to a 2009 Foo Fighters song, "Word Forward", featured on the band's Greatest Hits compilation.
  • In 2012, episode three of BBC Sherlock, 'The Reichenbach Fall', James Moriarty uses the motif "IOU" as an ambiguous message towards the show's main character Sherlock Holmes.
  • The climax of the 1994 movie Dumb and Dumber ends with Lloyd (Jim Carrey) returning a suitcase full of I.O.U's in place of 1 million dollars in cash.
  • In the Shining Time Station episode "Schemer Alone", Schemer pays the people who he hired to work for him with nothing but IOUs, which did not go well with them when they found out.
  • In the DuckTales episode "Luck o' the Ducks" Scrooge McDuck asks for an IOU when asked to give a gift.
  • Daniel X Book 5, Secret branch of the FBI.
  • "I.O.U. One Galaxy" is a song from the album End Is Forever by the rockband The Ataris.
  • In "The Perfect Foil" episode of ""Murder She Wrote"" an IOU forms a central part of the story line

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