Popcorn (disambiguation)

Popcorn, or pop corn, is a variety of corn kernel, which forcefully expands and puffs up when heated.

Popcorn, or pop corn, may also refer to:

Geography

• Popcorn, Indiana, United States

People

• Faith Popcorn (born 1943), futurist
• Marvin Sutton (1946–2009), American Appalachian moonshiner known as "Popcorn"
• Richard "Popcorn" Wylie (1939–2008), American R&B musician, songwriter and record producer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Popcorn (1991 film), a horror film
• Pop Corn (2003 film), a Tamil drama film
• Popcorn (2007 film), a teen comedy
• Popcorn (2023 film), an Indian Telugu-language film
• Popcorn, a 1969 music documentary directed by Peter Clifton

Literature

• Popcorn (novel), a 1996 novel by Ben Elton
  • Popcorn (play), a 1998 adaptation of Elton's novel

Music

• Popcorn (music style), a music subculture and style originally established in Belgium, and based on dancing to R&B and pop records

Albums and box sets

• Popcorn (Arashi album), 2012
• Popcorn (Luiz Henrique and Walter Wanderley album), 1967
• Popcorn, an album by Tammie Brown
• Popcorn, an album by Moonstar88
• Popcorn, a box set by The Cocktails
• The Popcorn (album), an album by James Brown

Songs

• "Popcorn" (instrumental), a 1969 composition by Gershon Kingsley, covered by Hot Butter in 1972 and several other artists
• "Popcorn", a song by US musician Kovas from The Arrogance of Youth 2008
• "The Popcorn", a 1969 instrumental by James Brown
• "Popcorn", a song recorded by Mrs. Mills

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• "Popcorn", a 1983 episode of the American TV sitcom Silver Spoons
• Popcorn (Italian TV series) Italian pop music show 1980-1985
• Popcorn (American TV series), an American children's variety show
• PopCorn (video game), a 1989 breakout clone (sub-class of the "bat-and-ball" videogame genre)
• "Popcorn", a poem by Raffi from his 1979 album The Corner Grocery Store

Computing and technology

• POPCORN (767-2676), a phoneword used in parts of the United States to reach the speaking clock or local time & temperature information
• Popcorn Time, a multi-platform open-source Bittorrent-based streaming media player
• popcorn.js, an open source JavaScript and HTML5 media framework

Enterprises

• Popcorn.net, a movie download service
• PopCorn, an MTR-owned shopping centre in Hong Kong, connected to Tseung Kwan O station

Popcorn-like formations and substances

• Cave popcorn, a common cave formation
• Foam peanut or packing peanut, sometimes referred to as popcorn
• Popcorn ceiling, a decorative ceiling treatment
• Popcorn lung, an informal name for bronchiolitis obliterans (BO), a lung disease
• Popcorn noise, a burst noise of electronic components

Other uses

• Popcorn function, a mathematical function
• Popcorning, a sporadic jumping behavior of guinea pigs

See also

• Pop Carn (2003 film), a Tamil film
• Pop Kaun?, a 2023 Hindi TV series