Elizabethan Collar in Popular Culture
The Elizabethan collar plays a role in the Pixar film Up, where it's used as a public humiliation device for a dog and is called the "Cone of Shame."
In Phineas and Ferb, Perry the Platypus is forced to wear one, which prevents him from going to his mission.
In Monsters, Inc., a monster named George Sanderson has to wear one after having his fur shaved off and being decontaminated.
In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Twilight Sparkle puts a collar on Celestia's pet phoenix Philomena to keep her from pulling her feathers out.
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