Mother Nature - Popular Culture

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• In the early 1970s, a television ad featured character actress Dena Dietrich as Mother Nature. Vexed by an off screen narrator who informs her she has mistaken Chiffon margarine for butter, she responds with the trademarked slogan: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature” (underscored by thunder and lightning).
• Mother Nature is featured in The Year Without a Santa Claus voiced by Rhoda Mann. This version is the stepmother of Heat Miser and Snow Miser.
• Mother Nature appears as a recurring character in The Smurfs voiced by June Foray.
• Progressive rock band Kansas recorded the song Death of Mother Nature Suite as a protest against industrialization.
• Mother Nature is featured in Happily Ever After voiced by Phyllis Diller. She is depicted as the most powerful force of good in this movie, having complete control over nature, as well as the ability to create creatures from potions she makes in her sanctuary. She gave the Dwarfelles each power to help her keep nature in check. When they bring Snow White to her sanctuary, she holds Thunderella accountable for not mastering her powers and scolds the Dwarfelles for misusing their abilities. Upon Lord Maliss's attack on Snow White in Mother Nature's garden, Mother Nature surrounds her corporeal self with massive amounts of electrical energy and blasts Lord Maliss out of the air. She then creates a divide in the land with a flick of her hand so he can not get to them. She is then seen in the end magically transporting herself to Lord Maliss's castle following his defeat where she was pleased at the Dwarfelles for working together to help defeat Lord Maliss and allows them to attend the wedding of Snow White and the Prince. Mother Nature also ends up taking Lord Maliss's henchmen Scowl the Owl and Batso the Bat in as apprentices.
• Mother Nature is a recurring character in The New Woody Woodpecker Show voiced by B.J. Ward. She is depicted as a fairy who often makes sure that Woody Woodpecker is doing his part in nature.
• Mother Nature is a supporting character in The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause portrayed by Aisha Tyler. She is shown as the head of the Council of Legendary Figures which also consists of Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Cupid, Father Time, Sandman, Tooth Fairy, and Jack Frost.
• Mother Nature appears in A Miser Brothers' Christmas (a sequel to "The Year Without a Santa Clause"). Besides Heat Miser and Snow Miser, she is also shown to be the mother of Earthquake, Thunder and Lightning, the Tides, and North Wind. After Santa Claus was injured during one of the Miser Brothers' feuds (with some part of North Wind's henchmen secretly sabotaging Santa's new sleigh), she and Mrs. Claus make the Miser Brothers work at Santa's workshop to make it up to her.
• Mother Nature is featured in John Hancock written by Bo Bissett. She is referred to as Tara, a tribute to her name in Roman Mythology which is Terra or "Terra Mater.
• Mother Nature is a recurring character featured in Stargate SG-1. She is portrayed as an ascended Ancient called Oma Desala.