Country Bear Jamboree - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The country bears made an appearance in the sing along songs videos Disneyland Fun and Campout at Walt Disney World.
  • The Simpsons has repeatedly referenced the show, with Homer even commenting "It's like a freakin' Country Bear Jambaroo around here!"
  • One of Terry Gilliam's animations from the British television series Monty Python's Flying Circus included Big Al as one of a menagerie of animals getting shot in a safari and thrown into a cocktail shaker (Season 3, Episode 10: "E. Henry Thripshaws Disease").
  • The television show The Critic has frequently parodied the bears and their show, including a reference where a Big Al look-a-like stands in for an audioanimatronic Bill Clinton. From the same show, the character Duke Phillips has his own personal Country Bear Jamboree that sings in praise of him, which he accidentally activates when denouncing the belief that all southerners are country bumpkins.
  • Fry Mentions the show in the Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs, criticizing Leela for not liking it. In the show's episode The Series Has Landed, the Goofy Gopher Revue is also reminiscent of the attraction.
  • A Goofy Movie contains an in-house parody of the show known as "Lester's Possum Park."

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