Cedar Point - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

Cedar Point has been mentioned in several movies, TV shows, and books:

• In Bob Greene's book Be True to Your School: A Diary of 1964, Greene and two friends, who all live in suburban Columbus, Ohio, take a trip in August to Cedar Point.
• In the movie Knute Rockne, All American, Knute worked as a lifeguard on the beach at Cedar Point, where he and his college roommate Gus Dorais worked on the forward pass, which was first used in a scrimmage game on the Cedar Point beach.
• Characters in the movie Edge Of Seventeen work at a restaurant at Cedar Point. Though the movie is set in the 1980s, the only shot featuring the park was filmed at a distance and clearly shows the Raptor, which was built in 1994.
• The 2004 movie Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: Infestation From Mars is set in Sandusky and contains numerous scenes set at the park. Cedar Point is integral to the movies's plot. Some Cedar Point executives appear in the movie in cameo roles. Employees and guests who were there on filming days appeared as extras in scenes involving large crowds throughout the park.
• In Cinda Williams Chima's book "The Warrior Heir," the main characters take a field trip to Cedar Point with their high school class.
• In an episode of the show 8 simple rules, Bridget (Kaley Cuoco) and Kerry (Amy Davidson) talk about going to Cedar Point to visit their father, Paul (John Ritter).
• In episode two of season one of Travel Channel's Bert the Conqueror, Bert takes the Foursome Fearsome Challenge in which he rides the four fastest and tallest coasters in the park in under an hour.
• In episode four of season two of Travel Channel's Off Limits, Don works on Mean Streak and Millennium Force with the maintenance crew.
• In Travel Channel's Insane Coaster Wars, Millennium Force and Top Thrill Dragster are respectively featured in the Extreme Heights and Speed Demon episodes.
• The cartoon Metalocolypse mentions Cedar Point vaguely in an episode during Season One. The band's manager asks two superfans where they are from and they respond, "Sandusky, Ohio". The manger says, "There's an amusement park out there, right?" to which the fans respond, "Yes. There is an amusement park out there"
• In 2010, Cedar Point was mentioned in an episode of the popular Fox hit, Glee. A Cheerleader talks about selling season passes from Cedar Point to raise money for her Cheerleading squad.
• In Travel Channel's Insane Coaster Wars 2, Magnum XL-200 and Maverick are respectively featured.