Yodels

Description

In popular culture

Comics

• Yodels are named as the preferred food source of the character Jeri in the comic strip PreTeena.

  Film

• The snacks were featured in the movie Click, in which the main character becomes extremely overweight after eating Yodels for 10 years.

  Television

• They are often named as a favorite snack food by Fox News Channel vice president and anchor, Neil Cavuto.
• In the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, Yodels are shared by the characters Ray Barone and Robert Barone in Ray's childhood bedroom, after Robert was gored by a bull in the line of duty.
• They are a favourite of character Doug Heffernan on the show King of Queens.
• In the episode "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson is forced to choose between buying a Yodel or a winning lottery ticket. He ultimately chooses the Yodel.
• In an episode of the reality show Jersey Shore, the cast eats Yodels for dessert following an Italian dinner prepared by Vinny Guadagnino's mother Paula.
• In an episode of Kevin Can Wait, they are referred to as a possible dessert for wedding guests if the family cannot reduce both the number of guests and the total cost of the wedding.
• In an episode of Frasier, Frasier makes reference to Roz being upset about a Twinkie coming out the Yodel chute of a vending machine.
• In the episode "Fast Feud" of the hidden camera-practical joke reality show Impractical Jokers, Joe Gatto tries to convince someone to house-sit for him while a Tibetan monk named "Chen" eats an entire dinner plate full of Yodels in the background for the entire duration of the scene. Joe points at the monk and says, "It's a Yodel factory over there". Furthermore, Joe later says, "It's paramount that Chen doesn't run out of Yodels". The scene concludes with the monk asking Joe to get him more Yodels