Big Wheel (tricycle) - Popular Culture

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• On South Park, the boys are often shown riding Big Wheels, particularly in the episodes "Chickenlover", "Kenny Dies", "The Jeffersons" and "Cartoon Wars".
• On The Simpsons episode "Moe'N'a Lisa", the Rhode Island state trooper rides a Big Wheel (lampooning the small size of the state).
• VH1's mini-series I Love Toys ranks the Big Wheel as the 40th most popular toy.
• A yearly Big Wheel race takes place on Easter Sunday in San Francisco. Formerly raced down Lombard Street, the event moved to Vermont St in 2008 under threat of lawsuit.
• The character Stewie Griffin from Family Guy is often seen riding a Big Wheel.
• An annual Tulsa Big Wheel race is hosted by Tulsa Big Wheel Racers, LLC as a charity event in which the proceeds go to benefit the Tulsa, OK based cancer research non-profit charity "Cancer Sucks".
• In the Stanley Kubrick Film The Shining, Danny, the son of Jack Torrance rides through the long halls of the haunted hotel on a Big Wheel.
• During the 2008 Christmas Holiday Season, Lexus ran a commercial featuring the Big Wheel.
• In James Cameron's 1986 film Aliens, children are seen driving Big Wheels in a terraformed colony building. It was also featured in another Cameron film, Terminator.
• On Nitro Circus Travis Pastrana lands the longest backflip on a Big Wheel.
• In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the main character, Greg Heffley, is given a Big Wheel for Christmas by his friend Rowley.