Bethesda Terrace - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, the fountain is the spot where Younger Brother would come to pick up prostitutes.
• The fountain and terrace are featured in the October 1, 2008 episode of Lipstick Jungle.
• In Gossip Girl, the terrace is a sanctuary for Serena van der Woodsen when she is troubled.
• The statue plays a part in the play and movie Angels in America by Tony Kushner. (Kushner's assertion in the film and original script that the statue commemorates American Civil War dead is actually incorrect. In the most recent edition, this statement has been changed.)
• Bialystock prays for Bloom to reconsider at the fountain in The Producers by Mel Brooks.
• They Might Be Giants shot their 1988 music video They'll Need a Crane at Bethesda Terrace and fountain.
• The fountain is the setting for the final scene between Didi and Sexton in Neil Gaiman's Sandman spin-off story Death: The High Cost of Living.
• The 1973 movie Godspell opens at the Bethesda Fountain.
• The starting point of the first episode of The Amazing Race is at Bethesda Fountain.
• In Stuart Little 2, the scene where Falcon is killed is located at Bethesda Fountain.
• The fountain is referenced as the place Alan Swann bathes nude in My Favorite Year.
• R&B group Total filmed the video for their song Can't You See at the fountain.
• In the 1996 movie Ransom, the Terrace is the place where Tom Mullen's (Mel Gibson) son Sean is kidnapped during a science contest.
• The fountain and terrace are featured as Lincoln Park in the video game Mafia II.
• In the video game Grand Theft Auto IV, a car chase ends with a car crash into the fountain, and a foot chase into the Lower Passage.
• The terrace is the grounds of a boss fight in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of the video game Alone in the Dark.It is also the starting point for Delta in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 on the map Liberation

• The fountain is the setting for the dance number "That's How You Know" in the 2007 Disney film Enchanted.
• The fountain is featured in the 1992 movie Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
• The fountain is featured in the 2003 movie Elf.
• The statue is featured on the cover art for the 2008 Bauhaus album Go Away White.
• The fountain is featured in the Season 1 finale of Rubicon.
• The fountain is the scene of a ransom drop in the Season 4 episode Censure of Law & Order.
• A variation of the fountain called The Eternal Fountain was used during the performance of Alejandro, on pop performance artist Lady Gaga's second worldwide tour "The Monster Ball Tour" in which it shot flames and bled.
• The fountain and terrace are featured in the movie "Friends With Benefits".
• In 1992, Tevin Campbell filmed the video Can We Talk from his album Tevin in the lower passage of the terrace.
• The lower passage appears in the video for The Lonely Island song "I Just Had Sex" Featuring Akon
• There are multiple references to the statue and the fountain (pool) in the poem "House of Poured-Out Waters" by Jane Mead.
• Street musicians often use the terrace.
• At the end of The Avengers (2012 film), Thor and Loki, along with the rest of the cast in the background, stand on the terrance before returning to Asgard with the tesseract. The angel statue can be briefly seen in the distance.
• Portions of the 5th episode of season 7 of Doctor Who, The Angels Take Manhattan, were filmed at the terrace.