Referenced By / Louis Armstrong

Anime & Manga

• The final chapter of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean, as well as the final episode of its anime adaptation, is titled "What a Wonderful World".

Films (Animated)

• In Madagascar, "What a Wonderful World" plays over a Sad-Times Montage where Alex drives off his friends and sulks in the forest, while the rest of the gang witness several small animals getting killed.

Fan Works

• In Kedabory's Muppet Mania, the closing number in Seraphina's chapter is "What a Wonderful World".

Films — Live-Action

• In Bill & Ted Face the Music, Louis Armstrong is one of the musicians recruited by Billie and Thea to play on the song that will unite the world.

Literature

• The Magic Tree House book A Good Night for Ghosts has Jack and Annie persuading a young Louis Armstrong to become a professional musician.
• Early from Navigating Early always listens to Louis Armstrong on Monday.

Live-Action TV

• Interview with the Vampire (2022): In "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart", Lestat de Lioncourt suggests that he and his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac go see Louis Armstrong perform at the Pelican.
  Lestat: Should we make it a night of the two Louis?
• The Muppet Show, combined with What Could Have Been: In an interview with performer Steve Whitmire, he discusses that Lips, the trumpet player for the Electric Mayhem, was imagined with a Louis Armstrong-esque voice, but that it rarely came into fruition because he thought a white performer mimicking a Black voice would be offensive, hence why the character is often silent. After Peter Linz took over performing Lips in 2017, he gave the character a deep voice, but still distinct enough from Armstrong.

Video Games

• The name of his song "What a Wonderful World" is referenced in the Japanese name of the video game The World Ends with You, "It's a Wonderful World".

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