Plastic flamingo

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Lawn flamingos in their natural habitat.

Pink plastic flamingos are one of the most famous of lawn ornaments, along with garden gnomes and other such ornamentation. The pink flamingo has become an icon of pop culture, as well as a statement. It has even spawned a lawn greeting industry where flocks of pink flamingos are installed on a victim's lawn in the dark of night. Plastic flamingos are widely considered to be the stereotypical example of lawn kitsch.

1 Authenticity
2 Pop culture references
3 Documentary
4 External links

[edit] Authenticity

Authentic flamingos always have Don Featherstone’s signature under their tails. Each has a yellow beak with a black tip and they are only sold in pairs.

Union Products, of Leominster, MA, stopped production of pink flamingos on November 1, 2006.

[edit] Pop culture references

An episode of the show Wonderfalls is titled and features "Pink Flamingos."

The Sims and The Sims 2 both have lawn flamingos available for placement in a sim's house. Kicking the flamingos causes the sim(s) to increase in contentment.
Pink Flamingos - An early John Waters movie.
In 1996, Don Featherstone was awarded IgNobel Prize in Art for "his ornamentally evolutionary invention, the plastic pink flamingo."
Animal Crossing - Pink flamingos can be obtained by the player.
In Over the Hedge, a human character mistakes a pink flamingo for a real animal.
IN Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, the protagonist (Vic Vance) has a pink plastic flamingo right outside his safehouse

Max Payne and Max Payne 2 a fictional side story within the game portryaed as a T.V show called "Address Unknown" follows the life of one John Mirra, who ends up committed in the "Pink Bird Mental Asylum". Many adverts within the game show a huge Pink Flamingo