Pop Culture
The building was featured in the films Earth Girls Are Easy, Mars Attacks!, The Golden Child, Into the Night, Stripped to Kill, Problem Child 2, Breathless, Californication, California Girls, 2012, Iron Man 2, "Get Shorty", Volcano, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Escape from Petropolis, and Love Letters. It has also been featured in the music videos for Randy Newman's "I Love LA" and The Prodigy's "Wind It Up". As well as in the music video for Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Californication." Similar buildings with giant donuts, under different names, are featured in the video games Midnight Club: Los Angeles, Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as well as in "Marge vs. the Monorail", an episode of The Simpsons.
The iconic structure was shown on the History Channel series Life After People, showing what would happen to the building without human repair.
The building's famous donut can be spotted in the scene changes of the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious.
In the episode "Pier Pressure" of Arrested Development, in a sequence showing Buster's medical trial for THC, medical marijuana, a picture is shown of Buster standing next to Randy's Donut on the roof attempting to eat his way through it.
In the film Iron Man 2, the protagonist Tony Stark is seen eating donuts while reclining inside the donut sign.
In the film 2012, the donut sign can be seen rolling through the streets during an earthquake.
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