Angry Birds in popular culture

This is a list of Angry Birds references in movies, television shows, books, magazines, anime/manga, and others.

The Simpsons

 * In Season 23 Episode 5, "The Food Wife", there is a parody of Angry Birds, which is called Furious Fliers. As shown in the episode, a man is trying to pull a bird, but instead of hitting the targets, it accidentally destroys a Children's Hospital construction site. It falls on the TNT Crate, which explodes, making the people happy. The music playing during the Furious Fliers segment seems to be a parody of the Angry Birds theme itself.
 * In Season 23 Episode 11, "The D'oh-cial Network", Nelson references the game by saying "Here's my favorite computer game, Angry Nerds!", wedgies Martin Prince and flings him at a bunch of others.
 * In Season 24 Episode 6, "A Tree Grows in Springfield", Homer plays a parody called Vengeful Pigs while driving.
 * In Season 25 Episode 11, "Specs and the City", Homer spots an Angry Birds fanfiction called "I Love You, Corporal Pig" in one of the surveillance cameras.
 * In Season 25 Episode 18, "Luca$", when Bart received an MyPad stolen by Snake, it was full of apps including a parody of Angry Birds called Non-Threatening Birds.

Family Guy
In Season 11 Episode 15, Peter falls onto a Pig structure from the Poached Eggs episode, crashing onto all the pigs except 1 Minion Pig. The Minion Pig grins, causing Peter to start to yell and curse.
 * Angry Birds was referenced in three Family Guy episodes.
 * In "Turban Cowboy", when after failing skydiving attempt by Peter results in landing in a level.
 * In "Quagmire's Mom", Lois allows Peter to play Angry Birds but only with the sound "off" which makes Peter make his sound effects.
 * In "High School English" Peter's Huckleberry Finn plays "Angry Birds" by flipping real birds in the direction of a pen of pigs.

The Cleveland Show
The Family Guy spin-off show referenced Angry Birds three times throughout the show.


 * In Season 3 Episode 17, "American Prankster", Donna is taking away all of Rallo's electronics and she mentions that the punishment includes no Angry Birds on iPhone, Android, Kindle and the Zune (implying that Angry Birds is one every single digital device known).
 * In Season 3 Episode 22, "All You Can Eat", Rallo asks Holt Richter (coincidentally voiced by Jason Sudeikis) if he can play Angry Birds on his iPad, to which Holt responds with "I'm sorry, but my mom says that no one else can play with it".
 * The final reference was in the 4th episode of Season 4, "Turkey Pot Die", during a Thanksgiving Day parade, Cleveland uses a crowd control rope as a slingshot, which results in popping Lester Krinklesac for 5,000 points (including the cloud bubbles the turkey leaves behind).

GI Joe: Retaliation
During the nuclear summit scene in this film, Zartan, disguised as the US president, is seen playing Danger Above 6-7 on an iPhone while his nuclear missiles flied towards his fellow world leaders' countries. At one point, he called out "High score!"

Robot Chicken
Robot Chicken made a sketch based on Angry Birds, specifically the original game. In the sketch, Red happily drives home to see his wife, Ruby, cheating on him. Red later goes to work and his boss, Bomb, fires him for being late. Later that day, he hears on his car radio and on television that the Pigs have begun taking over the land, claiming "this land is for the pigs, not for the birds!". The next day, Red's house is repossessed and his family have distanced themselves from him. Because of this, Red begins to feel an immense amount of anger. Red rallies up a group of other angry birds to take down the pigs. Red is loaded into a slingshot and launches at a pig structure as the narrator says that "the Bird Revolution had finally begun". However, Red bounces off the structure dealing no damage as the entire sketch is revealed to be on someone's phone.



Comics
MAD has published 3 magazines featuring Angry Birds on the main cover throughout 2011-2015.

Video Series
Angry Bird Management (not to be confused with Matilda’s Anger Management class from the Movie) is a parody of Angry Birds on the popular Cartoon Network show, MAD in 2011. A psychiatrist named Doctor Robert Hexenblatt tries to rid Birds of their "Angry Bird impulses", and teach them to not try to destroy Pigs' homes (probably not knowing that the Pigs stole the Birds' eggs). He first tries "Squawk Therapy", where he gets a bird to squawk like normal birds instead of laughing menacingly. Then, he tries "Behavior Analysis", where he gets birds to treat pigs nicely, and finally, "Roleplaying", where he dresses birds up as pigs, and himself as a bird and tries to see how birds would feel if someone was trying to destroy their home. At the end, a twist came where several birds started attacking pigs.

Another episode was created called "Rioa", which aired on August 22, 2011 and features a cameo of Chuck as one of the Green Lanterns fighting Nigel with other birds from pop culture media, including Blu. The final skit to feature the Angry Birds was in Kung Fu Blander, where it is a spoof of both Angry Birds and Kung Fu Panda 2. It features birds that act similar to their official counterparts. Notably, Bomb being represented by a bird shaped like a grenade. A Minion Pig joins the Furious Five before they all get defeated, except for the Minion Pig who said that "every moment is a gift"

Miracles from Heaven (film)
Pastor Scott is seen playing Angry Birds 2 in the hospital waiting room and is heard mentioning Chirp Valley. He asks the children next to him which bird duplicates, to which they reply "the blue one".

New year's Eve (film)


In one scene, Jonathan Cox (boss of one of the film's character) tries to pass one of the Poached Eggs levels on three stars, playing Angry Birds Classic on his Mac Book.

ThinkGeek
On April fools day of 2011, ThinkGeek (a gaming/comic merchandise store; now merged with Game Stop) posted a 1 minute and 41 second "advertisement" for 'Angry Birds Pork Rinds'. The video linked to their website to "purchase" the product, but it is unknown what happened when it was placed into the user's cart.

PopCap
On November 24, 2011, PopCap posted this image to their Facebook which may depict Red being served as a Thanksgiving Dinner to the PopCap franchises. It is unknown if it’s actually Red or a similar bird.

The Ellen Show
According to a 2012 interview on The Ellen Show, Kermit The Frog's favorite game is Angry Birds because you get to throw things at pigs.

Elmo & Friends
Angry Birds was referenced during 2012 in the Sesame Street Special, Elmo’s Alphabet Challenge in a section called “Angry Words” where Elmo would need to catch whatever was launched from the slingshot to see if it starts with the letter on the flag on top of the structure. The Angry Birds theme song is faintly similar to the song played in the clip.

Sonic the Hedgehog (comic series)
Red makes a cameo in Sonic Universe Issue 32.

Rio
A hint to the Super Bowl Golden Egg appears on a box. On it, there's Red with a golden egg and 13-12 above.

In the Golden Egg, there's the word Rio written with materials. No surprise as there is a crossover game.

Roku
In the bootup animation for external Roku systems, the "U" in the logo can be seen flung in the background with the white clouds following it's trail. The "U" then lands with the other 3 letters when 2 red feathers and a "5000" appearing from the "U". The K also has an umbrella.

Oddbods
The show itself uses an animation every similar to Piggy Tales on its two latest seasons. The birds on the cartoon also portray various similarities to the birds on the game. In an episode, there are a lot of birds that are arranged in a suspicious way, for example, there are three bluebirds on a tree, two yellow birds on another and there is a large robot Red Bird as the main character.

The birds on the show are mostly fat, have big eyebrows and hair that kind of resembles the birds of the series. No surprise as Oddbods could be watched on Toons.TV. The name of the birds in this cartoon is also Angry Birds.

The characters also bear similar personalities.

Osmar, A Primeira Fatia do Pão De Forma
In the Brazilian cartoon, there is a spoof of Angry Birds named Angry Breads, which is played by the characters. Instead of birds and pigs, the characters are different forms of breads.

Pocoyo
Angry Birds has been a reference in Pocoyo in the episode "Dinosaurs" when Sleepy Bird uses a Slingshot. When he is launched from the slingshot, sound effects of preparing the slingshot and Chuck's launch sound are heard.

Garfield
Garfield appears chasing a Red look-alike after being launched off the Slingshot on a comic's header.

Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough
The game, "Unicorn Bust" which Captain Lion is shown playing is a parody of Angry Birds, instead of having the Birds and Pigs, it has a Unicorn and different colored Rats.

Garbage Pail Kids
In the 2012 set of Garbage Pail Kids (a well known satirical collectable card line with the garbage pail kids in crude and gross situations) had a card that commemorated Angry Birds with one of the characters Bruce being in the shape of a Corporal Pig with the original title "Birdbrain Bruce" with Red, Chuck and Bomb landing overhead of him. For unknown reasons, this was changed in later reprints with the title being "Angry Al" (or the other way around).

Wacky Packages
In the 2012 and 2013 sets of Wacky Packages, there were parodies of Angry Birds with "Angry Nerds" and Angry Birds Trilogy with "Angry Turds: Flushed and Furious".

Reimagine the Game
The Classic Flock appears a lot in this flash game and they have no faces.

In the 1st level REIMAGINE, Red, Blue (Jay, Jake or Jim.), Chuck, Bomb & Matilda make an appearance.

In the level APPS, The flock appears again. but as projectiles. instead of being shot from a slingshot. they are mostly shot by cannons.

In The final boss of the game. you have to press some buttons to get to the next phase. The weapon for defeating the final boss is Red.

Bomb has his white spot in the game like his old design.

Disney
During Summer of 2013, Disney made a line of clothing that had the title "The Original Angry Bird" with an angry Donald Duck on it. The design was sold in Disney Parks on items such as t-shirts, pins and hats.

Heathcliff
In a issue from May 2015, Red can be seen following other pop culture icons that are birds.

Dude, Stop
In the 2018 game, a level can be found where there are 3 pigs. Two of the pigs are pink and the other one is green, where the second panel contains the same pig with a slingshot and birds flying at him in the distance.

The Eric Andre Show
In season 5 episode 4 of the Adult Swim show, a cutaway is played that features the sound effects of the Caged Birds from Angry Birds Rio, alongside with Lizzo dressed in a green suit with a bird on her shoulder, playing the flute.

Portal Chase! (Nickelodeon)
In episode 2 of the Nickelodeon web series "Portal Chase" that aired on November 21, 2021, SpongeBob SquarePants, Lincoln Loud, Ronnie Anne and Henry Danger chase a giant slug into an Angry Birds parody called "Angry Pigeons" where Arnold & Gerald from Hey Arnold! help them out.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire
On April 29, 2022, one of the questions asked to the participant of the game show was "In the popular series of video games, which animals are the main enemies of 'Angry Birds'?" The answer was 'D: Green pigs'.

Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers
In the 2022 film, Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers, A person wearing a Red backpack was shown during Fan Con.

Bing
For the "Bing Homepage Quiz" on June 19th, 2022, the second question was about what influenced the original game's creation.

My Singing Monsters
On November 30th 2022, the My Singing Monsters Twitter account posted a parody called "Angry Monsters" where 4 of the game's monsters appear in the image.

That's My Boy
In That's My Boy, during the church scene Father McNally says "No Angry Birds" and later, before the wedding, Father Shakalu is seen playing Angry Birds as he says: "Come on stupid bird. Fly."

Amazing Alex
The game had 2 levels based on the Angry Birds franchise, one from before the purchase of the game by Rovio Entertainment. Both levels are about the player slinging at a green piggy bank resembling a Minion Pig on a fortress made out of books and boxes.

The words Angry and Bird are also used as examples of words starting with the letters A and B.

In Amazing Alex: Beware of the Inventor which was a book for the game, there is a reference to King Pig in the water in one of the pages. There is the crown that Toons King Pig uses but a regular designed Pig which is a bit of an error.

Parental Guidance
In the 2012 film, The character Artie gets fired from his job for not being "hip". Some of the reasons for this is due to him not having a favorite Angry Bird or Facebook account.

Free Birds
In the 2013 film during the final battle, when the Native Americans see the turkeys their leader says: "Those are some Angry Birds."

Ted 2
In the 2015 film after Sam tells Ted to shut up, he angrily sits down and starts playing Angry Birds on his iPhone as the theme song can be heard.

Transformice
In Transformice, the Easter 2015 event and one of its reward titles "Angry Mouse" contains a cannonball being flung into a Gingerbread house, similar to the gameplay style of Angry Birds Classic. Players would obtain the title by killing every mouse on the map as a Shaman, similarly to defeating pigs in a level.

Nitrome

 * Red, Chuck, one of the Blues, Bomb, and Matilda appear in Skywire VIP Extended. The player must identify them as "ANGRY BIRDS".
 * In Freeze Frame (a game that was made to advertise Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage), Red (top row, mid-right column, plush form) is also seen in a Freeze Frame example made by Nitrome.

Head Soccer
In the game, the character representing Finland is a human Red and one of his power shots has him turn into a pig and uses a slingshot with varying effects.

Hoedown
Hoedown is a 2012 dubstep song made by Zomboy, a British brostep DJ. He sampled the Angry Birds Theme in part of the song. In 2018, fans started to notice that the theme song was missing from streaming services (including Apple Music, Spotify and Soundcloud). They speculated it was due to a number of factors, including legal issues and the ending of the sample license.

Epic Rap Battles of History
In the video "Albert Einstein vs. Stephen Hawking" uploaded on March 30 2011, Stephen Hawking could be seen playing Angry Birds Classic throughout the video on his tablet.

LowBrow Studios
In the video "Angry Birds" uploaded on August 14 2011, Sonic the Hedgehog has to do an objective to kill Red, Chuck and Matilda.

This video was re-uploaded in a compilation video called Sonic For Hire - Season 2: The Complete Season

AnimationEpic
In the video "One-shot Wonder" uploaded on September 14 2011, Red and Chuck appear in Season 1 in the episode One-shot Wonder, where Chuck flies from the Slingshot and falls down the gorge. Red later appears as one of the items in Cooking For The Grater Good.

SMG4
In the video “R64: Boo Busters” uploaded on June 5 2016, Mario can be seen playing Angry Birds on the “Boo-tracking iPad”.

In the video “♫ The Ultimate Smash Bros ♫” uploaded on May 27 2017, a Red bird can be seen as one of the defeated fighters.

In the video “Mario Bakes a """"Cake""""” uploaded on January 25 2023, Mario can be seen lifting his chef hat to reveal a Red bird as one of the ingredients to bake the cake.

Twitter Object Show
In the video "Slingshot Shenanigans" uploaded on August 19 2021, you can see that the challenge is actually Angry Birds, and some sprites were used and edited. For example: the smiley face object was more distorted, and the Slingshot looked very similar.

The objects were edited, but the Minion Pig is actually a drawn feature.

Cold Ones
"Edit in my friend Chuck, the yellow bird."

- Maxmoefoe

In the video "Australians Attempt Pumpkin Carving" uploaded on October 27 2021, the hosts of the podcast Max and Chad can be seen wearing Halloween Costumes of Red during the end of the video. There are also references to the Angry Birds Wiki, with a screenshot of Chuck's article on Google image search and a list of Angry Birds facts with some appearing from various articles.

Trevor Wallace
"Why is he wearing an Angry Birds beanie?"

- Mrs. Griffin

In the video "the kid who never brought a backpack to class" uploaded on June 7 2022, Mason can be seen wearing a Red winter beanie throughout the video.

AussieTiels
In the video "This is How Birds Sit in/on Chairs While Watching a Movie" uploaded on December 9, 2022, to celebrate Quishina's birthday, the three cockatiels as well as their owner were watching The Angry Birds Movie.