In one of the routines in the stand-up movie Raw (1987) Eddie Murphy describes a conversation with his father, who complains about growing up so poor that they had to get by on whatever his father brought home from his work at the toy factory. Among other things, Eddie's father claims that instead of clothes he and his siblings had to dress in Twister mats:
"Other children would make fun of us because we got on Twister suits. And it's no fun to get your ass kicked in a Twister mat. Right foot, blue. Left hand, red, Eddie. It was a goddamn game to these kids. I'm standing on the corner, a motherfucker is spinning the spinner and kicking my ass, Eddie."
In the episode of the TV series Friends, "The One with George Stephanopoulos", Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler and Joey are playing the game.
In an episode of the popular British series Men Behaving Badly, Dorothy, Gary, Deborah and Tony play the game. The game is cut short when Gary, in the middle of the scrum, breaks wind and everyone else collapses.
Fez plays Twister by himself in "The First Time" episode of That '70s Show. Donna asks how he is doing that.
Occasionally in Fun House, participants would play a barefoot game of Twister using squares of "glop".
In the 1999 episode "Games People Play" of Sex and the City, Carry plays Twister with "Seth" (portrayed by Jon Bon Jovi).
In the 2002 comedy film The Hot Chick, actress Megan Kuhlmann wears the vinyl Twister mat as a dress to a nightclub. A boy she dances with moves his hand from several colored dots on her back to her buttocks.
In the 2002 film Men in Black II, Laura (Rosario Dawson) plays Twister with the Worm Guys.
In the 1991 film Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, the heroes play Death at Twister for their lives.
In the 1997 film U Turn, Billy Bob Thornton's character of Darrell, the bizarre auto mechanic, plays Twister alone.
"Weird Al" Yankovic released a song called "Twister" on his Even Worse album in 1988 .
In the 2005 film Son of the Mask, Loki and Alvey play the fictional sequel Super Twister.
Dwight Yoakam featured Twister in his music video of Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me"
In the 1997 film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Austin and Vanessa are heard (but not seen) simulating sexual noices, however when the camera pans over it is revealed that they are playing a game of Twister.
In the 2006 episode of "Will & Grace" 'Whatever Happened to Baby Gin?, the result of Gin's injury occured during a game of Twister.
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