The character debuted on June 6, 2000, when the Angels were trailing the San Francisco Giants 5–4 in the bottom of the ninth inning."[4][5] The rally monkey came to national and world-wide attention during the Angels' appearance in the 2002 World Series, again against the San Francisco Giants.[10][11] Additional videos featuring the Rally Monkey show her edited into popular films and TV shows such as The Brady Bunch Movie,[12] Jurassic Park,[13] Field of Dreams, Star Trek, Risky Business, WarGames, and Animal House.[14] ESPN did a SportsCenter commercial in which it showed one of the executives having to make "budget cuts," leading to the release of the monkey.[15] In one installment of the popular comic strip Get Fuzzy, the strip's protagonist, Bucky Katt, attempts to travel to Anaheim to eat the Rally Monkey after seeing it on television, as part of a running gag focused on Bucky's irrational desire to eat a monkey.