In Fiction and Popular Culture
- The Gingerbread Man is a fairy tale about a living gingerbread man that gets devoured by a fox.
- In Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's famous ballet The Nutcracker (1892), the eponymous hero leads an army of gingerbread men against the Mouse King and his fellows.
- The Gingerbread People are the main characters in the game Candy Land (1945).
- "Sweet Gingerbread Man" was a 1971 popular song first heard in the film The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, performed by the Mike Curb Congregation, with music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Marilyn and Alan Bergman.
- Gingerbread Man is a 1994 album by the avant-garde music group The Residents.
- The Gingerbread Man is a 1998 film directed by Robert Altman and starring Kenneth Branagh, Robert Downey Jr and Robert Duvall.
- Gingy (2001) is a talking gingerbread man character in the Shrek series of movies. He is derived from the children's story The Gingerbread Man.
- The Gingerbread Men were featured in The Muppet Show. In the "Don Knotts" episode, the Gingerbread Men sing the song "Sweet Gingerbread Man" as the opening number. The lead Gingerbread Man is a Hand-Rod Muppet performed by Frank Oz while the Full-Bodied Gingerbread Men were performed by Jim Henson, Dave Goelz, Richard Hunt, and Jerry Nelson.
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