As the buzz surrounding Snakes on a Plane has built over the past year, it has spread around the world and back again. The film has inspired everything from fashion trendsetters to kindergarten classes. It has fueled an explosion of online fan websites and fan-created content to the point where a simple Google search on the film’s title returns more than 14 million hits. And it has even been referenced in some terrifying incidents in which life imitated art.

Here’s a look at some of the varied places (online and off) that Snakes on a Plane has surfaced in recent months:

snakesonablog.com - Twenty-six-year-old Georgetown law student Brian Finkelstein started this blog back in January 2006 to document his quest to attend the Hollywood premiere of Snakes on a Plane. In the months that followed it has evolved into the leading chronicle of all things Snakes-related.

Paducah, Kentucky – The assistant athletic director at Eastern Kentucky University finds a two-foot-long ball python in his rental car as he was leaving a baseball tournament. He saw the snake draped across the console of his car when he entered the car and, thinking it was a rubber snake as part of a practical joke, gave the snake a pat and put the car into drive. But as he drove toward the exit, the snake lifted its head. The man hit the brakes and started to get out of the car, but the snake was on the gear shift, forcing the man to keep his foot on the brake.

tagworld.com/snakesonaplane - Social networking site Tagworld features links to hundreds of fan-created songs that competed to be a part of the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack.

Kansas City, Missouri – A kindergarten teacher creates a children’s story based on Snakes on a Plane that his students have requested to hear every day. The class also sings along with the teacher’s Snakes on a Plane theme song and has made Snakes on a Plane coloring pages as a class project.

mcsweeneys.net/2006/4/10keinathnuske.html - McSweeney’s offers up a clever list of possible surprise endings to Snakes on a Plane.

Palo Alto, California – A lawyer and Stanford PhD. student publishes a lengthy essay for American Spectator magazine calling Snakes on a Plane a “great allegory for the Yale Taliban.”

beautifulcandy.blogspot.com/2006/05/snakes-on-mania.html - A 14-page dissection of the Snakes on a Plane phenomenon that compares it to everything from the Beatles coming to America, to the original release of Star Wars, anddeclares that “Snakes on a Plane is redefining a space in the pop culture history of fan worship.”

France – A fan launches a Snakes on a Plane blog which features a recurring Snakes on a Plane comic strip in French.

myspace.com/snakesonaplanemp3 - One creative fan has compiled a series of Snakes on a Plane prank phone calls and posted them for downloading here.

St. Louis, Missouri – A recreation hockey team changes their name from the Cobras to Snakes on a Plane Hockey and launches SoaPHockey.com to chronicle the ups and downs of their season.

youtube.com – A simple search for Snakes on a Plane on this popular video sharing site turns up nearly 200 homemade video clips including everything from homemade trailers, Snakes-inspired rap videos, and fake audition tapes.

Chicago, Illinois – Five people enter the Chiditarod – an urban Iditarod in which teams race around the city pushing shopping carts instead of sleds - as team Snakes on a Plane. They finish in 8th place out of 22 teams.

forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=253565 – Who needs Dungeons & Dragons when you can play Snakes on a Plane: The Role Playing Game? At this site, one fan outlines his creation of a Snakes-inspired role playing game.

Wellington, New Zealand – Newspaper detailed the winning entries in the Snakes on a Plane soundtrack contest.

media.filmforce.ign.com/articles/703/703744/imgs_1.html -- What better way to decorate your computer desktop than with one of the special Snakes on a Plane desktop wallpapers available at this site?

New York, New York – Fashion gurus at Women’s Wear Daily declare snakeskin a hot new fashion trend thanks to the buzz surrounding Snakes on a Plane in an article titled “Snakeskin on a Plane.”