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- In the I Love Lucy episode "Don Juan and Starlets" (first aired February 14, 1955), Fred asks "Say, Ethel wants to know if we're still going to Knott's Berry Farm today." Lucy replies "The only knots you'll see today will be on Ricky's head." "I wanted to ask you about Knott's Berry Farm and tell you Ricky spent the night at our place."
- In Disneyland Dream Knott's Berry Farm is featured in the 1957 home movie.
- In Jailhouse Rock (1957) starring Elvis Presley involved three montage scenes of Knott's when his character Vince Everett contracts an escort to 'be seen with on the town' as an exhibition of his playboy nature and they instead behave like hick tourists.
- In The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show (first aired November 3, 1962) episode of ABC's western variety program was taped at Knott's Berry Farm.
- The TV movie Anatomy of a Seduction (1979) included both stock footage of the Corkscrew with its original all white paint job and newly shot on-ride footage of the actors with its blue tracks/white supports paint livery.
- In the 1982 movie Poltergeist, Steve Freeling asks "So. What side of the rainbow are we working tonight, Dr. Lesh? Is this your Knott's Berry Farm solution?"
- In The Simpsons episode, "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" (first aired September 25, 2005), a cutaway gag features animated representations of characters from The O.C. enjoying Knott's Berry Farm, then getting robbed by Snoopy forcing them to make an ATM withdrawal at gunpoint.
- The opening sequence of Knocked Up (2007) featured several of the park's attractions.
- BrainRush (first aired June 20, 2009), a Cartoon Network TV quiz show was filmed as contestants compete while riding aboard Knott's Berry Farm roller-coasters.
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