Baby Fae chose to reveal herself in 1997. The Paul Simon song "The Boy in the Bubble" from the 1986 "Graceland" album references her in the lyrics. "Medicine is magical and magical is art / Thinking of the Boy in the Bubble / And the baby with the baboon heart". In the episode "I Love Lisa" of "The Simpsons", the school cafeteria serves beef hearts in honor of Valentine's Day. Bart Simpson puts one under his shirt, exclaiming "My baboon heart! Body.. rejecting it!" before dramatically everting it onto the table. In the episode “The Silent Partners” of the Adult Swim cartoon,
Fred (baboon) the wounded received medical attention after the attack. When monitors were mobilised to disrupt Fred's activities the baboon initiated a violent campaign against these too. Human negligence and "misguided efforts" were found to have led to Fred's "demise" – "Because people want to love, laugh at and be entertained by baboons, they start a cycle of events that can lead to tragedy, as in the case of this baboon", the city said, adding "He targets cars with bags and visible food, but it is his ability to open closed car doors that surprised everyone". The decision to have him euthanised