Steamboat Willie - in Other Media

In Other Media

Steamboat Willie themed levels are featured in the video games Mickey Mania (1994), Kingdom Hearts II (2005), and Epic Mickey (2010).

The fourth season episode of The Simpsons, "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" features a short but nearly frame-for-frame parody of the opening scene of Steamboat Willie.

In the 1998 film Saving Private Ryan, set in 1944, a German POW tries to win the sympathy of his American captors by mentioning Steamboat Willie, even mimicking the sound of the boat whistle from the film. The unnamed character appears in the credits as "Steamboat Willie".

The opening scene was parodied towards the end of Aladdin and the King of Thieves. Genie, having been swallowed by the giant turtle which carried the Vanishing Isle upon its back, came back out of the turtle's mouth in the steamboat from this film and was even in Mickey's form, whistling Turkey in the Straw.

In a 2008 movie of the TV series Futurama called The Beast With A Billion Backs the opening is a parody of Steamboat Willie.

In the Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl anime, one of the episodes "Steamboat Willies", is a play on the title.

Since the release of Meet the Robinsons (2007), the scene of Mickey at the wheel of the steamboat whistling has been used in the production logo for Walt Disney Animation Studios films. A modification was used for Tangled to mark that film as the 50th milestone in their main films, the text saying "50TH ANIMATED MOTION PICTURE" with the Mickey scene in the "0". The scene was also depicted in the film poster (above right). The same scene is also depicted on the hologram of authenticity on the spine of recent Disney DVD releases.

This cartoon was featured in Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse.