Editing Carousel (section)

==In popular culture==
{{In popular culture|section|date=September 2019}}
[[File:Carousel, House on the Rock, Spring Green, Wisconsin LCCN2011630208.tif|thumb|right|The House on the Rock carousel in [[Wisconsin]] is a non-ridable art piece billed as the world's largest indoor carousel.]]
*The protagonist in the 1945 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway musical]] ''[[Carousel (musical)|Carousel]]'' is a carousel [[barker (occupation)|barker]].
*In the climactic scene of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s 1951 film ''[[Strangers on a Train (film)|Strangers on a Train]]'', the protagonist and antagonist struggle on a carousel.
*In the 1963 film ''[[Charade (1963 film)|Charade]]'', there is a scene near its ending in which a carousel appears in the background with the main theme's music.
*In the 1964 ''[[Mary Poppins (film)|Mary Poppins]]'', Mary, Bert, and the two Banks children ride a carousel, whose carousel horses float off the platform and lead the riding characters to a fox hunt and horse race that Mary wins.
*The children's television program ''[[The Magic Roundabout]]'', which aired from 1965 to 1977, uses a carousel as its central motif.
*The 1973 film ''[[The Sting]]'' features a [[Santa Monica Looff Hippodrome|large indoor carousel]] adjacent a brothel; the brothel's [[procuring (prostitution)|madam]] allows the prostitutes to ride it on slow nights.
*The [[House on the Rock]] carousel near [[Spring Green, Wisconsin]], a rotating, display-only art piece built in 1981, has 269 carousel figures and is billed as the largest indoor carousel in the world.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gregurich|first=Avery|date=September 27, 2019|title=House on the Rock at Sixty|url=https://beltmag.com/wisconsin-house-on-the-rock/|work=[[Belt Magazine]]|access-date=April 11, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523114310/https://beltmag.com/wisconsin-house-on-the-rock/|archive-date=May 23, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Cartusciello|first=Jenna|date=May 20, 2023|title=In Spring Green, Wisconsin, the Wacky ‘House on the Rock’ Is Home to the World’s Largest Indoor Carousel (& More!)|url=https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/house-on-the-rock|work=[[Woman's World]]|access-date=April 11, 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240913104002/https://www.womansworld.com/entertainment/house-on-the-rock|archive-date=September 13, 2024}}</ref>
*[[David Carradine|David Carradine's]] 1983 film ''[[Americana (1981 film)|Americana]]'' revolves around a [[Vietnam War]] veteran's obsession with the restoration of an abandoned carousel.
*In the 1983 film ''[[Something Wicked This Way Comes (film)|Something Wicked This Way Comes]]'', a carousel makes its riders younger by one year each time it completes a backwards revolution.<ref name="Hinds1990p11">{{Harvp|Hinds|1990|p=11}}.</ref>
*The children's television program ''[[Playdays]]'' had a carousel maintained by Mr. Jolly named Rosie, who was the focus of episodes broadcast from 1992 to 1997.
*In the 2011 Australian children's picture book ''The Carousel'' by [[Ursula Dubosarsky]], after a carousel ride, a child has a semi-mystical vision of the carousel horses breaking free from the wheel and galloping across the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780670074624/carousel|title=The Carousel – Penguin Books Australia|access-date=3 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329212739/http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780670074624/carousel|archive-date=29 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*In 2014, American singer-songwriter [[Melanie Martinez]] released the song "[[Carousel (Melanie Martinez song)|Carousel]]," using the word ''carousel'' as a metaphor for love that goes in circles endlessly.<ref>{{Citation |title=Melanie Martinez – Carousel |url=https://genius.com/Melanie-martinez-carousel-lyrics |access-date=2022-08-09}}</ref>
*The three installments of the book series [[The Kingdom Keepers|Kingdom Keepers: The Return]] by [[Ridley Pearson]], published between 2015 and 2017, feature the [[King Arthur Carrousel|carousel from Disneyland]] used as a time machine to arrive at the opening of [[Disneyland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thekingdomkeepers.com/|title=The Kingdom Keepers|website=thekingdomkeepers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ridleypearson.com/adventure-novels/ |title=Adventure Novels - Ridley Pearson |access-date=2 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180408073937/http://ridleypearson.com/adventure-novels/ |archive-date=8 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*The second song on [[Travis Scott]]'s 2018 album [[Astroworld (album)|Astroworld]] is named "[[Carousel (Travis Scott song)|Carousel]]."