Monongahela River - Popular Culture References

Popular Culture References

• William Attaway's novel Blood on the Forge (1941) is set, in part, on the Monongahela River.
• The Monongahela River was immortalized in the spoken introduction to actor/comedian Guy Marks' parody hit "Loving You Has Made Me Bananas" of 1968.
• Monongahela River is the title of a song from Melanie's 1974 album As I See It Now.
• The Monongahela is mentioned in the choruses of The Oak Ridge Boys' 1988 song "Gonna Take a Lot of River (Mississippi, Monongahela, Ohio)", along with the Mississippi and the Ohio.
• The Monongahela Valley is referenced in the Bruce Springsteen song "Youngstown" on his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad.
• "Monongahela" is uttered in 1995 on the television show Seinfeld as one of Kramer's famous random expressions. The episode is the 23rd of the 6th season, "The Face Painter". The reference occurs around the 4th-5th minute of the show.
• The Monongahela River was mentioned a number of times in the late 1990s series Remember WENN, which was set in Pittsburgh, particularly in the season 3 episode "And How" when the world premier of the fictional film Drums Along the Monongahela is taking place in that city.
• It is also credited (incorrectly) by Michael Douglas in the 2000 film Wonder Boys for washing away his unsaved book manuscript after Robert Downey Jr. crashes his car into a bowling alley. (This scene actually took place northwest of the Monongahela River along the Ohio River in Rochester, Pennsylvania.)
• Montana Diaz Herrera/Sally Lerner (Ayda Field) of the 2007–2008 television show Back to You has trouble pronouncing the name "Monongahela" when she has to mention it in her weather forecast.
• It is featured in the downloadable content pack for Fallout 3, The Pitt, albeit with highly irradiated waters.
• "Flames Along the Monongahela" was a track on Peter Lang's album Lycurgus
• "Monongahela Dusk", a historical novel by John Hoerr, is set in the 1930s-40s in McKeesport, a former steel-producing city in the Monongahela Valley.
• In Assassin's Creed III, there is a battle sequence that is similar to the actual battle between Major Braddock and the French and their Native American allies during the French and Indian war. The actual battle took place near the Monongahela River, but in the game the battle is near an unspecified river.