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- Pink Floyd's inflatable pig can be seen floating above Battersea Power Station in the 2010 movie Nanny McPhee Returns as the nanny and children make a motorcycle trip to London to locate the children's father.
- Pink Floyd's Inflatable pig can also be seen floating outside Battersea Power Station in the 2006 movie Children of Men.
- Inflatable pigs can sometimes be spotted floating around neighborhoods in 2004 video game The Sims 2.
- In the 1996 episode of The Simpsons entitled "Homerpalooza" a cannon fires an inflatable pig at Homer, which was claimed to have been bought at a Pink Floyd yard sale by Peter Frampton. Publicity for the UK release of The Simpsons Movie in 2007 also mimicked the original Animals cover shoot, with a giant inflatable version of the film's Spiderpig character flown above Battersea.
- During the "Isles of Wonder" short film shot by Danny Boyle and shown as part of the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the camera zooms down the length of the Thames River, from a small spring in the countryside all the way to the Olympic venue. During the fly-by, a pig can be seen floating above the Battersea Power Station
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