Playland (New York) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

Film
  • The 1984 film The Muppets Take Manhattan features a scene filmed in Playland, although the scene is set in Michigan.
  • Playland was the amusement park featured at the end of the 1988 movie Big starring Tom Hanks. The scenes of his date with Susan and at the end of the film where the "Zoltar the Magnificent" fortune teller machine returns the adult Tom Hanks to his original childhood age/state of being were filmed on Playland's boardwalk .
  • Playland appears in a scene from the film Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close.
  • The park is featured in the Woody Allen film Sweet and Lowdown (1999) starring Sean Penn.
  • In 2004, the Playland beach was used for the film Tenderness with Russell Crowe, released in 2008.
Television
  • "BET Now" taped a series of episodes from around the park including the pool, beach, boardwalk, Double Shot and Carousel on Friday July 25, 2008. The episodes aired the week of July 28, 2008.
  • The third episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark, "The Tale of Laughing in the Dark", takes place in an amusement park called Playland, however, it was not filmed at the actual park.
  • The Naked Brothers Band made a free live appearance at Playland on Friday, August 24 at 6pm on the Music Tower Stage. They were taping an episode for the second season of their Nickelodeon show.
  • Mariah Carey filmed 1995's "Fantasy" music video, including appearances on the Boardwalk, the Dragon Coaster and the parking lot.
  • In 1980, the entire amusement park was used for a storyline on one of Procter & Gamble's soap opera's that they produced - CBS's/ABC's The Edge Of Night.
  • On How I Met Your Mother, Marshall accepts a job at a law firm in "I'm Not That Guy" where his only client will be Tuckahoe Funland, which is a parody of Rye Playland.
  • On ABC's Pan Am, a scene was filmed at Playland although set in Brazil.

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