Cultural References
Additional videos featuring the Rally Monkey show her edited into popular films and TV shows such as Gilligan's Island, Shrek, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Brady Bunch Movie, Signs, Jurassic Park, The Price is Right, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Scream, Dumb and Dumber, National Lampoon's Vacation, Night at the Museum, The Natural, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Spaceballs, Poltergeist, Borat, The Sandlot, Psycho, Jaws and The Ring. The Angels started selling plush monkeys that fans bring to games.
ESPN did a "SportsCenter" commercial in which it showed one of the executives having to make "budget cuts," leading to the release of the monkey. The monkey pleaded by raising the "It's Rally Time" sign. The commercial is available on NFL 2K5.
In one installment of the popular comic strip Get Fuzzy, the strip's protagonist, Bucky Katt, attempts to travel to Anaheim to eat the Rally Monkey after seeing it on television, as part of a running gag focused on Katt's irrational desire to eat a monkey.
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