According to the Beatles' George Harrison: "When Phil Spector was making 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah', the engineer who's set up the track overloaded the microphone on the guitar player and it became very distorted.
The song is used in Splash Mountain, a log flume ride based on Song of the South at Tokyo Disneyland in Japan (and formerly at Disneyland in California and Magic Kingdom in Florida), and is also the departure melody of platform 1 of Maihama Station in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan due to its proximity to the Tokyo Disney Resort.
The Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" animated cartoon "Journey to the Disney Vault" features a brief parody of the song.
"[15] The phrase is mentioned on the song "Klap Ya Handz" from the debut album of hip-hop group Das EFX, when Krayz Drayz utters the line "So zippity doo, da day, whoops I gots stuck."
It is used in The West Wing Season 3 Episode 6 25:33 It is used in the movie, Fletch Lives, where it is sung by Chevy Chase, along with appearances by a cartoon dog and a bluebird.
In the 2012 "Disneyland" episode of the ABC sitcom Modern Family, Manny mentions the song when he comments about the lack of cell reception on Splash Mountain: "Do you know how many bars I had?