Cremaster 1 (1996)

Barney uses many well-known places and people as characters. Cremaster 1 is set in the Bronco Stadium of Boise, Idaho and features two Goodyear blimps each inhabited by a character Barney calls "Goodyear", who directs a symbolic dance below on the AstroTurf.

Cremaster 2 (1999)

This episode focuses on Gary Gilmore, his girlfriend Nicole, his parents' meeting with a fortune teller, his final homicide at a gas station, and his execution symbolized by a rodeo on the Bonneville Salt Flats. A phone call is made to Gary by Johnny Cash, played by Steve Tucke, the lead singer of Morbid Angel in a studio with Slayer drummer, Dave Lombardo, playing to the drone of bees, a scene said to refer to Gilmore's last phone call from Cash. The film also connects Gilmore to Harry Houdini (played by Norman Mailer, writer of Gilmore's story The Executioner's Song) and his meeting with Baby Faye Lafoe (represented as Gilmore's grandmother and supposed spiritual medium).