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| During gym class, Fish Out of Water reenacts the climax of ''King Kong'' by using paper versions of the Empire State Building and planes. Runt mentions " | | During gym class, Fish Out of Water reenacts the climax of ''King Kong'' by using paper versions of the Empire State Building and planes. Runt mentions "T'was beauty that killed the beast". | ||
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Film
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Cats Don't Dance | 1997/03/26 | King Kong is one of the animal actors on the Mammoth Pictures backlot Danny and Sawyer cross paths with on their way to the Little Ark Angel set. |
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Chicken Little | 2005/11/04 | During gym class, Fish Out of Water reenacts the climax of King Kong by using paper versions of the Empire State Building and planes. Runt mentions "T'was beauty that killed the beast". |
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Half Human | 1955/08/14 | Stop-motion homage directed by Eiji Tsuburaya |
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I Like Mountain Music | 1933/06/14 | |
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Japanese King Kong | 1933/10/05 | A lost parody of the original film featuring a man playing King Kong in a theater production. |
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King Klunk | 1933/09/04 | Parodied by Walter Lantz |
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The King Kong that Appeared in Edo | 1938/03/31 | |
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The Pet Store | 1933/10/28 | In this 1933 Mickey Mouse short, Beppo the Gorilla escapes from his cage in the pet shop and decides to imitate King Kong by carrying Minnie up towards a high shelf. |
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Ralph Breaks the Internet | 2018/11/21 | An insecure virus named Arthur replicates Ralph's insecurities, creating a legion of Ralph clones that rampage through the Internet. During the climax of the film, the Ralph clones combine into one giant Ralph named Ralphzilla, although this name is never spoken by the characters. Ralphzilla behaves like King Kong. He climbs the Google Building and swats at a Gmail chain email, carrying Vanelope with him in a recreation of the climax from the original 1933 King Kong film. The song that plays during this scene is even titled "Kling Kong". |
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Supercroc | 2007/04/3 | The back cover of the DVD mentions Godzilla and King Kong, although they do not appear in the film itself. |
Television
| Image | Series of origin | Episode(s) | Air date | Description |
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31 Minutes | "The Explosive Wizard" | 2004/06/19 | In the credits, Dante Torobolino the Explosive Wizard is seen flying through the universe with his jetpack, destroying Ultraseven, King Kong and the Heisei Godzilla. |
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The Amazing World of Gumball | various episodes | The character Hector Jötunheim has a strong resemblance to King Kong. | |
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The Muppet Show | "Shields & Yarnell" | 1979/11/23 | An oversized Quongo the Gorilla performs "It's Lonely at the Top" at the top of the Empire State Building. |
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic | "Secret of My Excess" | 2011/12/10 | A giant, monstrous version of Spike grabs Rarity, rampages around the town, then climbs up a mountain as the flying Wonderbolt ponies try to stop him. |
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The Simpsons | "Treehouse of Horror III" | 1992/10/29 | The King Homer segment is a direct parody of the 1933 film. |
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"HOMR" | 2001/01/07 | During Homer's fantasy sequence, a giant ape is revealed on stage like Kong in the 1933 film's presentation scene. | |
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"Jazzy and the Pussycats" | 2006/09/17 | The couch gag has Homer as an ape grabbing Marge and climbing the Empire State Building as biplanes try to shoot him, with a style matching the 2005 Peter Jackson remake. | |
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"Wedding for Disaster" | 2009/03/29 | During an argument, Homer calls Marge "Bridezilla" and Marge calls Homer "King Wrong." Maggie then imagines them both as Simpsonized versions of Godzilla and King Kong, respectively, that are fighting each other. | |
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Turbo Fast | "Skidzo-Brainia" | 2014/06/27 | Skidmark's song has the line "I can be King Kong", accompanied with a mix of Kong and Skidmark's designs on top of the Empire State Building. |
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We Bare Bears | "Adopted" | 2018/11/07 | Baby Grizz and Baby Ice Bear use an airplane to rescue Baby Panda from Carl the Gorilla on the roof of the mansion. |
Video Games
| Image | Game of origin | Release date | Description |
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Donkey Kong | 1981/07/09 | In the first appearance of two of Nintendo's flagship characters, Jumpman (Mario) must climb to the top of an under-construction skyscraper to rescue a Lady (later named Pauline) from the clutches of the massive gorilla Donkey Kong. Spawning numerous copycats including a King Kong themed one, Donkey Kong would become the focal point of a court battle between Universal and Nintendo over concerns of Donkey Kong infringing on Universal's King Kong trademark, which Nintendo won when pointing out the King Kong character's public domain status. |
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Scribblenauts Unlimited | 2012/11/18 | In Capital City, if you give the Gorilla a crown, throne, checkers and other objects, it will grow bigger and fight planes before being killed, referencing King Kong. |
Books
| Image | Book of origin | Author(s) | Publish date | Description |
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Kat Kong | Dav Pilkey | 1993/09/29 | Children's book parody by Dav Pilkey |
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A Day with Wilbur Robinson | William Joyce | 1990/04/15 | Tallulah Robinson's cityscape themed outfit includes a miniature King Kong climbing on the skyscraper hat. While Disney's 2007 film adaptation Meet the Robinsons would carry over Tallulah's character design, a pet monkey that played the mini-Kong role would not make it out of storyboards. |
Comics
Music
| Image | Song of origin | Artist(s) | Release date | Description |
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"Buvlja pijaca" | Riblja Čorba | 1982/11/29 | The cover art for the album features an edited image of Godzilla from Godzilla Raids Again fighting King Kong from the 1933 film King Kong. |
Miscellaneous
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Kaiju Yokai Dai Koshin (怪獣妖怪大行進) | Kaiju Yokai Dai Koshin (怪獣妖怪大行進), a special mini-magazine / feature included with the August 1967 edition of Kaiju Magazine (怪獣マガジン), featured an illustrated creature described as The strongest monster in history: a hypothetical combination made from the body parts of other monsters such as Godzilla, Rodan, King Ghidorah, King Kong, Daimajin, Alien Baltan, Red King, Gomora, Ragon, Ganma (a multi-eyed Hyakume yokai from the 1966 series Akuma-kun), and several unidentified monsters. |
Real life
- King Kong is the namesake of a small chain of burger and gyro restaurants in the Nebraska cities of Omaha and Lincoln, with Kong being used as a way to describe the large sizes of their burgers.
See also
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