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Loch Ness Monster - The Loch Ness Monster and popular culture

The Loch Ness Monster is well known throughout the United Kingdom and the United States.

Loch Ness Monster - Literature

A Saint story titled "The Convenient Monster" written by Leslie Charteris featured the Loch Ness Monster. The story appeared in the 1962 collection Trust the Saint and was included in The Fantastic Saint (1982). The story was also made into an episode that first aired November 4, 1966, in the fifth season of the BBC television series starring Roger Moore as the Saint.

The 1981 Robert Anton Wilson novel Masks of the Illuminati has segments that take place in Inverness where the monster is mentioned prominently.

In the comic Sherman's Lagoon the Loch Ness Monster comes to the lagoon occasionally, usually to play golf. This depiction of the monster is as a plesiosaur wearing a Tam o'shanter.

Steve Alten wrote a book in 2005 called The Loch.

Loch Ness Monster - Music

The Loch Ness Monster is featured in Judas Priest's song Lochness, from their latest "Angel of Retribution" album.

Loch Ness Monster - Movies

In the 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes an explanation for a similar Loch dwelling monster is revealed as one clue of the story's mystery.

In the 1992 animated movie Freddie as FRO7 Nessie befriends an enchanted frog prince called Frederick who uses powers of telekenesis to free her tail trapped under a fallen boulder. She later helps him defeat an enemy invasion of Britain.

In John Landis' film Amazon Women on the Moon it was revealed that the Loch Ness Monster was actually none other than Jack the Ripper himself.

The cult-favourite film Napoleon Dynamite features a current events presentation given by Napoleon in which he tells the story of "Japanese scientists placing explosive detonators at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness to blow Nessie out of the water."

A film starring Director Werner Herzog entitled "Incident at Loch Ness" (2004) shows the director filming scenes around Loch Ness in an attempt to disprove the theories of the monster. His writer/producer continually tries to make a "blockbuster" film that Werner does not want. They eventually run afoul of the real Nessie to eerie results.

Ted Danson starred in the 1996 film Loch Ness in which he plays an American scientist trying to prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster.

The 2005 family film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit featured a character reading through a book of mythological monsters when the first creature it opens the book on, is none other than the Loch Ness Monster.

Loch Ness Monster - Television

In the 1975 Doctor Who serial Terror of the Zygons, the Loch Ness Monster is revealed to be an alien cyborg controlled by the extraterrestrial race known as the Zygons and is used in a bid for world conquest. When that scheme is foiled by the Doctor and its masters killed, the creature returns to its watery home. In the 1985 story Timelash (and somewhat contradictory to the previous adventure), the Loch Ness monster was revealed to be the Borad, a tyrant whose DNA got mixed with a dinosaur type monster.

The BBC television series Family Ness showed the adventures of a family of "Loch Ness Monsters" and their human friends, Elspeth and Angus McToot.

Another animated series, "Happy Ness: The Secret of the Loch" featured two groups of the creatures. The friendly Nessies included Happy Ness, Brave Ness, Forgetful Ness, Silly Ness and Bright Ness (representing intelligence), while the villains included Pompous Ness (their leader), Mean Ness and Dark Ness. A trio of human characters befriended the good Nessies, assisting them in occasional conflicts with the bad Nessies. Both groups wore Loch-ets, each capable of performing a "Ness Bless", making its target feel the same, temporarily, as the caster. For example, in one episode Forgetful Ness cast a Ness Bless on Pompous Ness, and she forgot all about who she was and what she was trying to do. The Ness Bless wears off after a time. Smaller (and less potent) Ness Bless-ettes can also be created and carried to another location to use, rather than being used directly from the Loch-ets. In addition, the Loch-ets protect the wearer from prying eyes, rendering them invisible to all but other Nessies and their trusted human friends. Pompous Ness tries on many occasions to steal the other Loch-ets from their owners, but always fails.

The television series The Simpsons included an episode (#224, 'Monty Can't Buy Me Love') on the Loch Ness Monster. Mr. Burns takes Homer, Groundskeeper Willie, and Professor Frink to Scotland to capture the creature. After failing to find the monster by manually searching the loch, Burns orders the loch drained. Sure enough, they find the monster and bring it back to Springfield. After a disastrous unveiling reminiscent of Kong's rampage in King Kong, Burns gives Nessie a job at a casino.

The television series Scooby Doo inspired a movie Scooby Doo and the Loch Ness Monster. The gang went to Scotland to solve the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster. It turned out that the monster was just a machine, though the existence of an actual one is hinted at in the ending. At bonus feature, National Geographic Inside Scoop, Scooby and Shaggy are hiding in the Mystery Machine, because they are afraid to go out, because there's the Loch Ness Monster. Shaggy and Scooby called Kid Y for the inside scoop of the Loch Ness Monster. In the end, Shaggy and Scooby asks the question to Kid Y that the Loch Ness Monster is real or not, and the answer is: maybe or maybe not, and Shaggy and Scooby decides that they will run away from the "Loch Ness Monster or not".

Of course, the Goodies also went to Scotland and captured the Loch Ness Monster. "A bid to trap the Loch Ness Monster to pacify a suicidal zoo keeper sees the Goodies travel to Scotland, where they have a close brush with the deadly Bagpipes spider among other trials." SEASON 2 1971-72 "LOCH NESS MONSTER"

Dojo the dragon from Xiaolin Showdown is related to Nessie, and hid the Shen-Gon-Wu called the Tangle Web Comb in the loch during one of his visits.

In an episode of South Park, Chef's father constantly complains that he is being harassed by the Loch Ness Monster trying to borrow three dollars and fifty cents (pronounced "tree-fiddy") from him.

An episode in the second series of the classic Japanese anime Lupin III titled "I Can Hear Nessie's Song" features the Loch Ness Monster, who comes out of the water when Fujiko sings. An evil doctor tries to use her singing to his advantage so he can capture the monster.

On the Shelley Duvall series "Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories" (1992), an animated series for kids, there was an episode titled "Little Toot and the Loch Ness Monster", which featured the character Little Toot, a steamboat who is circulating around the Loch Ness lake where he befriends the creature himself. The monster appears to be friendly and needs Little Toot's help to avoid capture from poachers. Comic actor Rick Moranis narrated the episode.

In an episode of the MTV series Celebrity Deathmatch, Nessie appears in a match aginst Bigfoot. After cutting Bigfoot in half with its tail it kidnaps Fran Drescher. Later it is revealed that Fran's laugh sounds exactly like the mating call of the Loch Ness Monster and they get married.

The Real Mckenzies made a song named Nessie which protests the capture and search for Nessie.

In the 1994 animated series Gargoyles, Goliath, Elisa Maza, and Goliath's daughter, Angela, encounter the Loch Ness Monster while traveling the world. Angela befriends the creature's child.

Loch Ness Monster - Media

The tabloid Weekly World News often reports on the creature, claiming that it has been captured or sold, or even that it is dead.

Loch Ness Monster - Games

In the SNES game EarthBound a long-necked, purple Loch Ness inspired character named "Tessie" is used to cross a lake ("Lake Tess") by one of the main characters. There is also a group of local people who have dedicated their lives to studying Tessie.

In the first Pokémon series of games on Gameboy, Lapras itself is inspired by Loch Ness.

A Nessie-inspired creature called "Dorrie" appears in Super Mario 64 in an underground lake. Mario can ride it as well. It also appears in a few other Mario games.

The "Issue 5" expansion to the game City of Heroes has a Nessie tribute in form of a plesiosaur named "Sally" in the "Croatoa" area of the game.

In Katamari Damacy, Nessie circles the lake in the town level after growing to a certain size.

In the game Dark Ages of Camelot, there is a homage to the Loch Ness monster in the kingdom of Midgaard. In the forest of Myrkwood there is a lake with a creature similar in appearance to a plesiosaur who is humorously named Njessi who swims in circles around the lake.

In the World of Warcraft game by Blizzard, a Loch Ness Monster type creature named Nessie swims around in the Deeprun Tram zone between the cities of Ironforge and Stormwind.

In the game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney for the Nintendo DS, the fourth episode includes a lake monster named Gourdy, an obvious reference to Nessie. A newspaper article in the game mentions this connection.

In the game The Sims for the PC, if you open the cheat box (press shift + ctrl + c) and then type "nessie", you will see Nessie swim by.

In the game Metal Gear Solid 2, there is a special mission where the character must take a picture of a soldier monster (genetically modified soldier) which jumps in and out of the water and is about the (alleged) size and movement of the loch ness monster.

In the game Tomb Raider III, in one of the expansion pack's levels, we can spot Nessie in the beggining of the level. Later, we find out that it is a machine, and the player, controlling Lara Croft, is able to enter in the robot to explore.

In the game Zoo Tycoon, the Loch Ness Monster is a exhibit animal. It is portrayed as long necked, rather small, and a purple color.

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