Anime and Manga
- Assassination Classroom: Chapter 47 shows rather dopey-looking Tom Nook in a panel depicting Shiro's newest plan to take down Koro-sensei.
- In Super Game Pretty Cure
, Haruka and Momoka play Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Films — Animated
- In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Mario has a poster of K.K. Slider playing his guitar in his room.
Video Games
- Champions Online: In Monster Island, look for an NPC named Tim Nook who sells loan installments on a suspicious land. And buying one loan (which is cheap) results in a perk/achievement aptly named "Manimal Crossing".
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: In the Wii U version, Donkey Kong's Idle Animation involves him breaking out a Nintendo 3DS and playing a game on it, with music and sound effects from the game. One of the games he plays is Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
- Henry Stickmin Series:
- In the "Grapple Gun (Pure Blooded Thief)" route of Infiltrating The Airship: The huge vault Henry finds a huge ruby in has a Gyroid in the background.
- In the "Government/Ghost (Cleaned 'em Out)" route of Completing The Mission: The Leafmöde gadget turns anything it touches into a leaf. The ending screen is also full of cameos, including a fossil resembling one from Animal Crossing.
- Kirby: Planet Robobot: When Kirby uses the standard Stone ability to turn himself into a stone, he may instead transform into a statue of a Nintendo character, one of whom is Tom Nook.
- Pikmin 2: A Gyroid Bust is one of the treasures present in the game. It can be found on the last sublevel of the Bulblax Kingdom, and can be acquired after the Emperor Bulblax is defeated.
Web Original
- SCP Foundation: SCP-5832 is the apartment bedroom of an abused little girl. Her possessions include a copy of Animal Crossing: Wild World that's perfectly functional, except that it has no dialogue from either NPCs or the player.
Web Videos
- Burger Brawl: Razu dresses up as Wolfgang in Burgerween #2 but rushed.
- ONE.: La Salle D'attente is a place and a Personalized Afterlife while overlapping with Only One Afterlife. It always has two chairs and a radio in each variant, but everyone views it differently. Texty views the afterlife as a video of two dogs in real life running around. The chairs take the form of Froggy Chair.
- PhantomStrider: In "The 10 Shut down / Controversial Restaurants", Strider uses Animal Crossing: New Horizons to act out various skits, using avatars of himself, his girlfriend Nin, and a stereotypical Karen.
- SuperMarioLogan:
- In the Season 3 premiere of Mario and Luigi's Stupid and Dumb Adventures, Mario travels to an alternate dimension where everyone acts different from their original counterparts. There, he meets White Yoshi, the AD counterpart of Black Yoshi. White Yoshi plays Animal Crossing on the Nintendo Wii because he finds Call of Duty (which is what Black Yoshi likes to play) too violent.
- In "Bowser's Change", Junior wants to buy Animal Crossing: New Horizons, but since he doesn't have $60.00, he takes the $100.00 bill that Bowser gave Chef Pee Pee to pay for a pizza to buy it. When Joseph discovers the $100.00 bill, he takes it and spends $80.00 on candy and $20.00 on a lottery ticket (which he lost on).
- In the Hailey's On It! episode "Cubix Dudes" Beta plays a game called "Animal Party" instead of helping Hailey with her project.
- Robot Chicken:
- A sketch from "Things Look Bad For The Streepster" features a trailer for The Smashing Games, where Tortimer, the Mayor of Fartbutt Village chooses Puddles to partake in the 74th annual Smash Bros. games. A Girl Villager volunteers to take Puddles' place, and during the battle, ends up getting blown up by a Bob-omb while riding Wario's motorcycle.
- A sketch from "May Cause Your Dad to Come Back With That Gallon of Milk He Went Out for 10 Years Ago" has Tom Nook tell the viewers the story of how he became the Raccoon of Wall Street.Tom Nook: (snorting cocaine off a tabletop) I was married 'til I met Isabelle. She was blonde, gorgeous, irrationally chipper. Plus, I figured she'd like it doggy style. Which...she did not. I mean, we were into everything. Repackaging subprime turnip debt, dealing counterfeit art through pirates, smuggling endangered bugs...was it legal? Nah. But if you wanna get rich, you gotta be...an animal.
