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List of King Kong homages and parodies

Name Image Appearance(s) Description Trivia
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
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Kat Kong (1993) Children's book parody by Dav Pilkey

Film

Image Film of origin Release date Description
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The Pet Store 1933 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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Chicken Little 2005 During gym class, Fish on Land reenacts the climax of King Kong by using paper versions of the Empire State Building and planes. Runt mentions "It was the beauty that killed the beast"

Television

Image Series of origin Episode(s) Air date Description
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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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"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 TBD TBD During a singing segment when mentions "I can be King Kong" a Skidmark King Kong was shown in the sequence
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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

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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