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In The Vampire Diaries episode " The New Deal", as Damon and Elena enter the building, Damon says, "Come on, Stef.

In the Seinfeld episode "The Pool Guy", Newman yells "oly oly oxen free!" before doing a cannonball and nearly drowning Ramon the pool guy.

In the 1948 film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Hank Martin, transported back to the 6th century in Camelot and posing as a magician sorcerer to the king, uses the phrase as a pseudo magic charm or spell, to call back the light of the sun during the last moments of an eclipse, after having threatened to blot it out forever.

In the 1999 video game Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time, Bugs Bunny calls out the phrase whenever the super-jump ability is activated.

#Oly oly oxen free#

In the 1986 film, Police Academy 3: Back in Training, Bud is searching for Eugene Tackleberry and calls Ollie Ollie Oxen Free as a desperate attempt to get his brother-in-law to come out of hiding.In the Halo franchise, specifically the books, "Olly Olly oxen free" is a signal used by the Master Chief and his Spartans.The 2017 film XXX: Return of Xander Cage, Toni Collette's character says it to signal a truce after a faux tactical raid designed to re-recruit Xander.The punk band Authority Zero released an album called Ollie Ollie Oxen Free in 2021.

In the Peanuts comic strip for October 3, 1955, Lucy hollers "Olee Olee Olsen Free-O!" Violet informs her chagrined friend that it should be "Ally ally out are in free!".On Victoria Williams' 1994 album Loose, the song "Polish Your Shoes" features the line "Olly olly oxen free, but be careful.".In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1962 novel Mother Night, the phrase’s use among children is referenced, as the narrator desires to hear an analogous message to come out of hiding.At the very end of Peter, Paul and Mary's recording of " It's Raining", they speak the more straightforward version of the phrase: "All-ee, all-ee in free.".Oxenfree is a 2016 videogame by Night School Studio.Olly Olly Oxen Free (1978) is a film starring Katharine Hepburn,.

In Lost in Space, season 3 episode 4 "Hunter's Moon" the Robot calls out "Olly Olly Oxen Free" when it is searching for Will Robinson.Various songs are named "Olly olly oxen free", or a variant thereof, including songs by: the Ted Weems orchestra (sung by a young Perry Como) Terry Scott Taylor, on his 2004 album Imaginarium: Songs from the Neverhood the metalcore band Sworn In, on their 2015 album The Lovers/The Devil and Amanda Palmer, on her 2012 album Theatre Is Evil.Another variant is "Ollie Ollie in come free." In literature and the arts "Ollyoxalls" is one such variant, said to be used in Portsmouth, England. Others speculate the phrase may be a corruption of a hypothetical and ungrammatical German phrase alle, alle, auch sind frei (all, all, also are free). The Dictionary of American Regional English says the phrase may be derived from all ye, all ye outs in free, all the outs in free, or possibly ”calling all the outs in free” in other words, all who are out may come in without penalty. " Olly olly oxen free" is a catchphrase or truce term used in children's games such as hide and seek, capture the flag, and kick the can to indicate that players who are hiding can come out into the open without losing the game that the position of the sides in a game has changed (as in which side is on the field or which side is at bat or "up" in baseball or kickball) or, alternatively, that the game is entirely over.