Line #51 ReferencedBy/TheJungleBook1967


1	Being the last animated film personally supervised by Creator/WaltDisney himself, ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' has had its fair share of parodies and homages in media.
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4	* "Bare Necessities" plays as the background music in a 2021 [=DashPass=] commercial.
5	* A 2008 PSA for the National Health Service's "Smokefree" campaign has "I Wan'na Be Like You" playing over a montage of children imitating their parents, but the song [[LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand slows to a stop]] when it gets to a girl pretending to smoke a cigarette like her mother.
6	-->"If you smoke, your children are more likely to smoke, too. Smoking: Don't keep it in the family."
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9	* In the "Pomp and Circumstance" segment of ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'', the snake that tries to eat the mice towards the end of the segment resembles Kaa. In addition, Colonel Hathi and Winifred appear as the two elephants.
10	* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'', Mowgli and Baloo are among the many Disney characters who enter the theater to see the titular movie after Timon's mother rewinds it.
11	* ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': The "Enchanted Place" ending [[RecycledAnimation reuses some animation]] of Mowgli walking around the jungle from the film, with Christopher Robin in place of Mowgli.
12	* In ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'', a poster for the movie can be seen in the baseball field during Goob's baseball game.
13	* In ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', a poster for the movie can be seen on the Disney Animation booth in Oh My Disney.
14	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'': Some shots of Penny running through the swamp during an unsuccessful escape attempt are [[RecycledAnimation re-used animation]] from a scene of Mowgli running through the jungle.
15	* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' [[RecycledAnimation reuses a lot of animation from the film]]:
16	** Little John not only looks similar in appearance to Baloo, but was also voiced by the same actor, Phil Harris. The scenes of Baloo dancing with King Louie were also clearly used as the basis for the shots of Little John dancing with Lady Kluck during the "Phony King of England" song.
17	** Sir Hiss looks similar in appearance to Kaa, and his hypnotic eyes use the exact same pattern of colors as Kaa's did.
18	** Nutsy and Trigger share the same animation models as the [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]]-esque vultures.
19	** The elephants in the film look similar to the ones in ''The Jungle Book''.
20	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', in the Naturalist Club, there are bears seen scratching their backs using trees just like Baloo.
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23	* ''ComicStrip/OffTheMark'': In [[https://www.offthemark.com/cartoon/leisure-hobbies/movies-theatre/2008-02-24 this strip]], the characters from the movie see the [[{{Pun}} Baloo]] [[Music/BlueManGroup Man Group]].
24	* ''ComicStrip/{{Mutts}}'': [[https://mutts.com/product/strip-083111/ This strip]], part of a storyline in which Jules dreams of visiting India, shows him dancing with a Baloo-esque bear and commenting, "The bear necessities are getting pretty bare."
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26	[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
27	* Chloe from ''Literature/UnidentifiedSuburbanObject'' has a pet ball python named Kaa.
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30	* ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'': In the audience at the soccer match, there's a snake who looks very much like a pink version of Kaa.
31	* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'': [[Film/TheJungleBook2016 The 2016 live-action incarnation of Baloo]] appears at a convention singing "Bare Necessities". Dale recognizes him [[WesternAnimation/TaleSpin as his former Disney Afternoon co-star]] who is back on top thanks to the success of the 2016 live-action film.
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34	* In ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', a ''TV Funhouse'' sketch spoofing the "Disney Vault" features a scene from a fake direct-to-video sequel, ''Jungle Book 3.0: Jungle Blog''.
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37	* Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees recorded their own rendition of "Trust in Me" for their 1987 CoverAlbum ''Through the Looking Glass'' (whose title, incidentally, is derived from [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland another property]] that Disney [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland adapted]]).
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40	* In ''VideoGame/DuckTales'', Kaa appears as an enemy in the Amazon level.
41	* In ''VideoGame/LandOfIllusion'', the giant snake in the first stage, The Forest, resembles Kaa.
42	* In ''VideoGame/TheLuckyDimeCaper'', Baloo appears as [[AdaptationalVillainy the boss of the Northern Woods]].
43	* In ''Mickey Mouse 3: Dream Balloon'', Ziggy the Vulture appears as [[AdaptationalVillainy the boss of the second level]].
44	* In the American version of ''VideoGame/MickeyMousecapade'', Kaa appears as a boss in the woods level.
45	* In ''VideoGame/{{Quackshot}}'', Shere Khan appears as the boss of the Maharajah level, and Kaa appears as an enemy in the Maharajah, Hideout, and Island levels.
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48	* ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'' features an alternate beginning to the film, wherein Raksha and her children eat baby Mowgli instead of raising him as one of their own. All of Bagheera's friends [[NiceJobBreakingItHero reprimand him for his actions]], except Shere Khan, who is actually glad that Mowgli is dead. During the closing credits, Baloo sings a song to the tune of "Bare Necessities" about wolves eating people, and in TheStinger, Kaa is seen ensnaring and hypnotizing WesternAnimation/{{Winnie the Pooh\|2011}}, and the two characters note [[ActorAllusion how similar their voices sound]]. [[note]]Since Disney uses the same voice actors for both characters, Sterling Holloway, and later Creator/{{Jim Cummings\|VoiceActor}}.[[/note]]
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51	* In an episode of ''WebVideo/ConsoleWars'', Pat and Dan are contacted by an FBI agent to take the places of King Louie and Mowgli after the two died in a waterskiing accident. Along the way, they see whether the [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] or the Platform/SegaGenesis had the better [[VideoGame/TheJungleBook licensed game based on the movie]]. [[spoiler:In the end, King Louie and Mowgli's death is revealed to be a hoax by Officer Pastrami.]]
52	* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'':
53	** In his "[[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS1E38 Top 11 Disney Villains]]" video, Shere Khan is placed in the #8 spot.
54	** In "[[Recap/TheNostalgiaCriticS6E23 The Worst Christmas Special EVER!]]", the Critic notes that the bear from ''WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree'' looks similar in appearance to Baloo, and he sings a sinister version of "The Bare Necessities".
55	--->'''Critic!Bear:''' Bare Necessities! Your asses are my recipes! The simple Bare Necessities of DEATH!
56	** In his review of the ''[[Anime/SonicTheHedgehogTheMovie Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' OVA, the Critic says that he's seen stranger things online than the various works of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] on Website/DeviantArt, and gets a message on his phone not to Google Kaa. The Critic questions why, and is horrified by what he sees.
57	** In his review of ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'', the Critic perturbed by the scene of Anastasia holding her huge foot up to the camera, and he wonders if it's [[{{Fetish}} a highly-searched image]] along with Kaa and [[WesternAnimation/PeterPan Tinker Bell's butt]]
58	* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': In "Cody's Bad Word!", when Junior and Joseph accuse Cody of being racist towards black people, they ask him to name his favorite king in history, expecting him to say Martin Luther King. Junior mentions King Louie as one of his examples.
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61	* In the ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' episode, "Home is Where the Bark is", Mowgli makes a cameo appearance as one of the passengers riding on the subway train that Lucky, Cadpig, and Roly ride atop.
62	* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': In "The Return of Malcho", the guards defeat Malcho by tying a weight to a his tail and dropping him off a ledge a la Kaa falling out the tree. In a later scene, Malcho slinks away swearing revenge with his tail bent out of shape as he complains about his spine.
63	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In the ''Dial M For Monkey'' segment, "Simion", the titular villain undergoes a HeelFaceTurn when Monkey gives him a banana. During his speech to Monkey, he paraphrases King Louie by saying "I wanna walk like you, talk like you, ooo-ooo-ooo-woo-woo!"
64	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short, "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS2E8MumbaiMadness Mumbai Madness]]", King Louie and the Vultures make cameo appearances.
65	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
66	** "I Wanna Be Like You" is parodied as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hobrhai7E0E With a Dart]]".
67	** "Tour de Ferb": the tiger that has been attacking the Tjinder family for generations in bike races has a near-identical design to Shere Khan.
68	* In the sketch, "[[Film/TheBourneIdentity The Baloo Identity]]" from the ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' episode, "Batman Forever 21", Baloo is seen in the jungle with Mowgli and Bagheera, when he has dreams of [[WesternAnimation/{{Talespin}} his former life as a bush pilot]].
69	* The CouchGag for the ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E19FlandCanyon Fland Canyon]]" is a tribute to the films of Walt Disney, and is animated by Disney animator Creator/EricGoldberg. In Homer's scene, Homer is depicted as a Baloo-like bear who stacks a pile of his [[TrademarkFavoriteFood trademark favorite foods]] and shoves them in his mouth as a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong sound-alike]] of "Bare Necessities" plays. He is even drawn in the "sketchy" Xerox art style like the Disney movie.
70	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmallOne'': The scene where the farmer boy kicks and tosses a stick is RecycledAnimation of Mowgli doing the same thing.
71	* Towards the end of the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode, "The Thing", when [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick release Smelly (Squidward trapped in concrete) into the wild amongst similar-looking creatures, [=SpongeBob=] paraphrases Baloo at the end of the film by saying, "But he's with his kind now, where he belongs, and on that note, let us go back to where we belong.".

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