In Popular Culture
- In the Disney Sing Along Songs video Disneyland Fun, during "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," Splash Mountain was one of the thrill rides the kids rode on.
- In 1989, Ernest Goes to Camp aired during The Magical World of Disney. Prior to the movie, a special called Ernest at Splash Mountain aired. In it, Ernest was seen training for, and finally riding, the newly opened Splash Mountain. The end result had him bewildered and collapsing to the ground, leaving guests to step on him while boarding the attraction.
- The Roger Rabbit animated short Trail Mix Up makes several visual references to Splash Mountain. At one point, though very briefly, it can be seen that the log Roger and Baby Herman are riding in has a bumper sticker that reads "We Visited Splash Mountain."
- In Scary Movie 4, as Cindy is looking at pictures of the man and woman, a photograph of them going down the drop at Splash Mountain can be briefly seen.
- In an episode of The Golden Girls, Dorothy tricks Sophia into going to counseling by giving her a life jacket and telling her they are going to Splash Mountain.
- In an episode of George Lopez, he and his family visit Disneyland. He and Benny are shown taking the final descent on Splash Mountain.
- The attraction was parodied in My Life as a Teenage Robot where Jenny forces the robotic animals on the ride to leave the theme park and be free.
- Comedian Gabriel Iglesias mentions Splash Mountain in his stand up act Hot and Fluffy, where he talks about how he and his friend Mondo once flashed the camera during the descent. He also talks about how they were caught, but were mistaken for two large women because of how they appeared at the speed and angle at which they were going down the hill.
- Despite Disney's great attention to detail and audience management, the monitoring represented by both security cameras and the strobe cameras have not proven wholly successful at eliminating one of the most salacious phenomena of the Splash Mountain experience. Hoping to make illicit use of the in-ride photographs that Disney later sells to ride patrons, some riders briefly expose themselves (e.g., a woman baring her breasts) during the descent. Collected on a website called "Flash Mountain" in the mid-to-late 1990s, the shots continue to circulate online. The "Flash Mountain" controversy at both Disney parks was used as a segment and was seen on TMZ on May 5, 2009.
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