In Popular Culture
The 1933 popular song "My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii" included the Hawaiian name in its refrain, and a song of this title was included in the film High School Musical 2.
The fish's name was also included in a scene from the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall, pronounced quite well by Da'Vone McDonald.
The species also features in an episode of the animated underwater children's TV series The Octonauts, where the characters repeatedly learn how to pronounce its Hawaiian name.
Bugs Bunny uses the fish's name in "Wackiki Wabbit" to heckle a pair of starving castaways intent on catching him.
It is also the main character of a childerens book called "Humu:The Fish That Changed His Colors." were he meets a magic whale and wishes to be the color of sand.
In Top Cat Episode 1 "Hawaii here we come" Benny the Ball wakes TC up to ask him what a humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa is.
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