Giant Squid in Popular Culture - Film and Television

Film and Television

• A menacing giant squid briefly appears in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
• The Doctor Who episode The Power of Kroll (1978) features a carnivorous monster resembling a giant squid (the largest monster ever seen in the series) which lives at the bottom of a swampy lake, and is worshipped by the natives (despite the fact that it sometimes eats them).
• In the Futurama episode The Deep South, Fry and Umbriel cheer at a fight between a sperm whale and a giant squid. This could be a reference to the Apollo 18 album.
• In the Family Guy episode Death Is a Bitch, a giant squid appears as an uninvited and threatening guest in the Griffin home that they choose to "just ignore and pretend it doesn't exist."
• The title of the film The Squid and the Whale refers to the popularly imagined combat between sperm whale and giant squid, specifically as depicted in the diorama at New York's American Museum of Natural History, which the main character visits in the last scene of the movie.
• The Beast, a 1996 film (with William Petersen, Karen Sillas) is about a giant squid terrorizing a Pacific NW Island, based on Peter Benchley's novel.
• At the end of Rugrats Go Wild, Nigel Thornberry & the Rugrats see a live giant squid.
• An episode of the TV show Invader Zim which was unaired in the United States called "Zim Eats Waffles" shows Dib watching Zim battling a "Giant Flesh-Eating Demon Squid" to the disbelief of his colleagues.
• The Squid becomes a contender in Animal Face-Off against the sperm whale
• In the The Replacements episode The Means Justify the Trend, a giant squid can be seen attacking a submarine.
• The documentary series The Future Is Wild depicts certain species of squid evolving into land-based, air-breathing forms culminating in the 12-foot (3.7 m) tall, 8 ton "Megasquid" 200 millions years in the future. Other squid species include an ocean-dwelling, 120-foot (37 m) long "Rainbow Squid" capable of highly sophisticated optical camouflage and color alterations, and the small, arboreal "Squibbon", highly agile terrestrial squid which spend their lives swinging through the branches of massive lichen trees of the future. It is implied that the Squibbon may someday evolve into Earth's next sapient life form.
• The giant squid was #3 in the Most Extreme episode Body Parts because it has the largest eyes of any living animal. It was #5 in another episode-Monster Myths, because it's not a sea monster and can't sink ships
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (a re imagining of the franchise in the 90's) featured an entire episode dedicated to the giant squid, although the squids in the episode were as large as buildings.
• A giant squid and a colossal squid both made an appearance in Wild Kratts.
• On the Cartoon Network show The Secret Saturdays, a show about a family of cryptozoologists, the parents (Solomon "Doc" and Drew Saturday) are telling their son, Zak Saturday briefly in one episode about how they spent their last anniversary in the stomach of a Giant Squid. This is impossible, as neither a giant squid nor even a colossal squid can swallow a human whole. However, as they are cryptozoologists, this may be a reference to the massive kraken, a huge squid that pulled down ships and could have swallowed them. It could also be referencing Giant Octopi.