Popcorn Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns, or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated. The term also refers to the snack food produced by the expansion. It is one of the oldest snacks, with evidence of p ...

, 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 Richard Wayne Wylie (June 6, 1939 – September 7, 2008), often known as Popcorn Wylie, was an American pianist, bandleader, songwriter, occasional singer, and record producer who was influential in the early years of Motown Records and was ...

(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) ''Popcorn'' is a 2023 Indian Telugu-language romantic survival film written and directed by Murali Gandham. The film stars Avika Gor and Sai Ronak. The film's soundtrack album and background score were composed by Shravan Bharadwaj. The film ...

, an Indian Telugu-language film * ''Popcorn'', a 1969 music documentary directed by

Peter Clifton Peter Clifton (1941 – 31 May 2018) was an Australian film director. His most commercially successful work was the Led Zeppelin concert film '' The Song Remains the Same'' (1976). Clifton was born in Sydney and had experience in music film p ...

Literature

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

Music

Popcorn (Romanian music style) Popcorn is a subgenre of dance music that originated in Romania in the late 2000s. It is inspired by Europop and dance-pop, featuring house and trance rhythms and fast tempos. The arrangement is characterized by the use of syncopated synthesize ...

, a dance music subgenre established in Romania in the late 2000s * Popcorn (Belgian 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 Tammie Brown is the stage name of Keith Glen Schubert (born September 15, 1980), an American drag queen, drag performer, reality television personality, and recording artist. Brown was a fixture in the Southern California drag scene before appear ...

* ''Popcorn'', an album by

Moonstar88 Moonstar88 is a Filipino rock band formed in Manila, Philippines in 1999. History Moonstar88 was formed in February 1999. They were signed to Sony BMG by 2006, and later to Ivory Records in 2012. Previously under Backbeat Management, they are n ...

* ''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 American musician

Kovas Kovasciar Myvette (born August 1, 1985), known professionally as KOVAS, is an American songwriter, record producer, music composer, and recording artist of Spanish and French descent (Central America and Morocco). Career He has produced an ...

from ''The Arrogance of Youth'' 2008 * "

The Popcorn "The Popcorn" is a 1969 instrumental written and recorded by James Brown. It was the first of several records Brown made inspired by the popular dance of the same name. Released as a single on King Records, it charted #11 R&B and #30 Pop.White, ...

", 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 ''Silver Spoons'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC from September 25, 1982, to May 11, 1986, and in first-run syndication from September 27, 1986, to May 30, 1987. The series was produced by Embassy Television for th ...

'' * ''Popcorn'' (Italian TV series) Italian pop music show 1980-1985 *

Popcorn (American TV series) ''Popcorn'' is an American children's variety show created by Sandra Peabody, who also served as executive producer and a writer and director for the series. The series stars Julia Markley, Mark Durrow, Kristina Yoshida, and Aaron Cooley as "Pop ...

, 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 Raffi Cavoukian (, born July 8, 1948), known professionally by the mononym Raffi, is an Armenian-Canadian singer-lyricist and author born in Egypt best known for his children's music. In 1992, ''The Washington Post'' called him "the most popu ...

Computing and technology

POPCORN Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns, or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated. The term also refers to the snack food produced by the expansion. It is one of the oldest snacks, with evidence of p ...

(767-2676), a phoneword used in parts of the United States to reach the speaking clock or local time & temperature information *

Popcorn Time Popcorn Time is a multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player. The application provides a piracy-based alternative to subscription-based video streaming services such as Netflix. Popcorn Time u ...

, a multi-platform open-source Bittorrent-based streaming media player *

popcorn.js Popcorn.js is an open source JavaScript library for HTML5 media developers, freely available under the MIT License. It uses the native HTMLMediaElement properties, methods and events, normalizes them into an API, and provides a plugin system. Exten ...

, an open source JavaScript and HTML5 media framework

Enterprises

* Popcorn.net, a movie download service * , an MTR-owned shopping centre in Hong Kong, connected to

Tseung Kwan O station Tseung Kwan O (; : ) is a station on the MTR located at the town centre of the Tseung Kwan O New Town in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The previous station is and the line splits after this station to and . The entrances to the station a ...

Popcorn-like formations and substances

Cave popcorn Cave popcorn, or coralloids, are small nodes of calcite, aragonite, or gypsum that form on surfaces in caves, especially limestone caves. They are a common type of speleothem. Appearance The individual nodules of cave popcorn range in size from ...

, a common cave formation *

Foam peanut Foam peanuts, also known as foam popcorn, packing peanuts, or packing noodles, are a common loose-fill packaging and cushioning material used to prevent damage to fragile objects during shipping. They are shaped to interlock when compressed an ...

or packing peanut, sometimes referred to as ''popcorn'' *

Popcorn ceiling Popcorn (also called popped corn, popcorns, or pop-corn) is a variety of corn kernel which expands and puffs up when heated. The term also refers to the snack food produced by the expansion. It is one of the oldest snacks, with evidence of p ...

, a decorative ceiling treatment *

Popcorn lung Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO), also known as obliterative bronchiolitis, constrictive bronchiolitis and popcorn lung, is a disease that results in obstruction of the smallest airways of the lungs (bronchioles) due to inflammation. Symptoms inclu ...

, an informal name for ''bronchiolitis obliterans'' (''BO''), a lung disease * Popcorn noise, a

burst noise Burst noise is a type of electronic noise that occurs in semiconductors and ultra-thin gate oxide films. It is also called random telegraph noise (RTN), popcorn noise, impulse noise, bi-stable noise, or random telegraph signal (RTS) noise. It c ...

of electronic components

Other uses

Popcorn function Thomae's function is a real number, real-valued function (mathematics), function of a real variable that can be defined as: f(x) = \begin \frac &\textx = \tfrac\quad (x \text p \in \mathbb Z \text q \in \mathbb N \text\\ 0 &\textx ...

, a mathematical function * Popcorning, a sporadic jumping behavior of guinea pigs