User:Cohozilla/Sandbox/King Kong in popular culture
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List of King Kong homages and parodies
| Name | Image | Appearance(s) | Description | Trivia |
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Ping Pong |
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I Like Mountain Music (1933) | ||
King Klunk |
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King Klunk (1933) | Parodied by Walter Lantz | |
Beppo the Gorilla |
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The Pet Store (1933) | Parodied by Walt Disney | |
Snowman |
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Half Human (1955) | Stop-motion homage directed by Eiji Tsuburaya | |
| Kat Kong |  |
Kat Kong (1993) | Children's book parody by Dav Pilkey |
Film
- The Pet Store - 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.
- Chicken Little - During Gym class, Fish on land reenacts King Kong with him being King Kong using paper versions of the Empire state building and planes. Runt mentions "It was the beauty that killed the beast"
Television
- The Muppet Show - The Shields and Yarnell episode features a performance of "It's Lonely at the Top" by an oversized Quongo the Gorilla on top of the Empire State Building.
- Turbo Fast - During a singing segment when mentions "I can be King Kong" a Skidmark King Kong was shown in the sequence
- We Bare Bears - In The climax of the episode Adopted, Baby Grizz and Baby Ice Bear use an airplane to rescue Baby Panda from Carl the Gorilla on the roof of the mansion.
- The Amazing World Of Gumball - A character named Hector Jötunheim has a strong resemblance to that of King Kong.
Video Games
Books
Comments
Music
Miscellaneous
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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