[Editor’s note: It’s the last Friday of the summer, so your Flavorwire editors and writers are taking a much-needed break. We’ll return to our normal publishing schedule on Tuesday, but in the meantime, we’ll be revisiting some of our favorite content from the past few months. This post was originally published July 9, 2010.] Even though the East Coast’s brutal, triple-digit heatwave is technically over, we in New York are still sweating it out in under-air conditioned spaces. So, like explorers lost in the desert, we find ourselves daydreaming of water. Of course, we’ve got plenty of it to drink. But what we really want is to be entirely submerged in it. Since we would never skip work to do that, we figured we’d round up 50 swimming pools that have made their mark on pop culture.
1. The Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979” video
2. Melrose Place
3. Esther Williams in Bathing Beauty
4. The Graduate
5. 3 Women
6. Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover
7. Wild Things
8. Sex and the City‘s Soho House pool
9. Swimming Pool (duh)
10. Dumpster pools
11. Z-Boys’ pool/skate park
12. Let the Right One In
13. Chicago’s Swimming Pool Project Space
14. The Sandlot
15. Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” pool
16. Almost Famous
17. The O.C.
18. True Blood: The queen’s pool
19. Sugar Ray’s “Fly” video
20. National Lampoon’s Vacation
21. David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash
22. Marilyn Monroe in Something’s Got to Give
23. Hugh Hefner’s Playboy mansion grotto
24. Bobbie’s World
25. Celine Dion’s lazy river
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26. Mr. Bean
27. Jayne Mansfield’s heart-shaped pool
28. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
29. Beverly Hills, 902010
30. Six Feet Under
31. Showgirls [NSFW]
32. The Notorious B.I.G. and 112’s “Sky’s the Limit” video
33. Leandro Erlich’s Swimming Pool
34. Y Tu Mama Tambien
35. Greg Louganis’ epic Olympics fail
36. Elvis’s pool at Graceland
37. Caddyshack
38. The swimming pool at Hearst Castle
39. Harold and Maude
40. Laurel Canyon
41. Gossip Girl‘s steamy pool party
42. The Great Muppet Caper
43. Liberace’s pool
44. Slackers
45. Radiohead plays “Creep” at the MTV Beach House
46. The Sopranos
47. The world’s largest swimming pool, in Chile
48. Barbie’s Pool Party
49. Sunset Boulevard
50. Guns ‘n Roses’ “November Rain” video