Paul Bunyan - Popular Culture

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  • Bunyan is the subject of one chapter of the second volume of John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy.
  • Paul Bunyan is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed in 1941 by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden.
  • Bunyan is featured in the 1958 Disney animated short Paul Bunyan. Paul (voiced by the late Thurl Ravenscroft) is described as being "63 ax handles high". As the average ax handle is about eighteen inches long (45.72 cm), that would make Paul about 94.5 feet (about 29 meters).
  • Paul Bunyan was featured in the film Tall Tale portrayed by Oliver Platt.
  • He is mentioned in The Magnetic Fields song "Grand Canyon" from their album 69 Love Songs.
  • In the Simpsons episode "Simpsons Tall Tales", the story of Paul Bunyan is told, with Homer Simpson playing Bunyan.
  • In the 2006 animated film Hoodwinked!, one of the police officers refers to Kirk (Jim Belushi) as "Paul Bunyan". When Kirk is interviewed by Nicky Flippers, it is revealed that he is working on a callback for his appearance in a Paul's Bunion Cream commercial (a foot cream that "has the soothing formula to make the bunions head for the hills").
  • In That '70s Show Jackie Burkhart refers to Donna Pinciotti as Paul Bunyan
  • Dr. McNinja features a disease called "Paul Bunyan's disease", causing people to grow into axe-wielding giants. The eponymous doctor cures a lot of these cases, but also holds an anti-antidote which he may give to people when an army of giant lumberjacks comes in handy.
  • In Professional Wrestling, a move in which a wrestler puts his opponents legs on either side of the ringpost, then pulls them forcing the opponents' groin into the post is called a "Paul Bunyan."
  • In "Short Tall Tales", a story in an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Babe is depicted as a large female Ox in a white dress similar to the one Marilyn Monroe wore in The Seven Year Itch.
  • Paul Bunyan is mentioned in Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.
  • Paul Bunyan is seen on the first few seconds of the Gravity Falls Theme song
  • The 8th track of the album Danza IIII: Alpha and Omega by extreme metal band The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza is titled "Paul Bunyan and the Blue Ox."
  • In the Kick Buttowski episode "Dead Man's Roller Coaster" Paul Bunyan' statues holding letters appears in an abandoned parking lot.
  • It was in Phineas and Ferb in the episode My Chariot Race when Phineas was telling Isabella directions and Norm The Minitar had Babe's head attachment on.
  • In game three of the Assassin's Creed series when doing the Boston Brawlers missions, Paul Bunyan is one of the first men to fight.
  • On the spoken interlude track "Paul - Skit" from the Eminem album "The Marshall Mathers LP" Paul Rosenburg is credited as Paul "Bunyan" Rosenburg.

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