Do your players recognize the influences of an adventure during play?

[Gwaihir]

No, though any dragonlancy things raise eyebrows quickly.

I once ran an entire campaign based on Star Wars
Evil Emperor
Bad Henchmen
white armored lackies
magic officially illegal - few practitioners
Rebel alliance
main plot revolved around a surpressed order of Wizards.

sigh...perhaps if I'd given each PC a lightsaber.

 

[Mark Hope]

I once ran a Dark Sun game based on a Scooby Do episode. None of the players caught on until the very end, when the dastardly Templar Mandax was arrested and exclaimed "I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids and that dumb rasclinn!"