Media references to Barry Manilow or use of his music.
Film:
- The Moneypenny played by Caroline Bliss in the James Bond film The Living Daylights is a fan of Manilow, and tries to lure Bond at her home to show him her collection.
- In The Silence of the Lambs, Stacy describes her job at the bank as "toaster giveaways and Barry Manilow on the speakers all day."
- In Sneakers, the team is trying to sneak into a heavily guarded building, and they focus on one of the people working there, Werner. They describe him as the most boring man in the world, and discover a ticket stub from a Barry Manilow concert in his trash.
- The Commitments: In the Terrible Interviewees Montage, when Jimmy is asking prospective band members, "Who are your influences?", one of them answers, "Eh, Barry Manilow." Jimmy immediately shuts the door on them.
- Tuff Turf: While pretending to be a rich foreigner at a country club, Jimmy tells a girl, "We are working currently with Barry Manilow. You know him? I know Barry very well."
- The Breakfast Club: Bender asks Vice-Principal Vernon, "Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?" Also repeated in Not Another Teen Movie's spoof of the same scene.
Live-Action TV:
- Murphy Brown: Murphy has a pathological hatred of Barry Manilow. Ironically, it's the only music that can get her infant son to sleep.
- Night Court: Harry has a habit of slamming Barry. To the point where he fines a group burning 12000 copies of a biography on Manilow the whopping sum of $1. When Christine, who likes Manilow's work, gets fed up, she points out that Harry's favorite musician, Mel Torme, did an album with Manilow, leaving Harry inconsolable.
- An episode of Yellowjackets has a character play "Two Truths and a Lie", having his fellow participant guess if the statement below is a lie:There's a nonzero chance that Barry Manilow is my biological father.
Music:
- The string intro to "Mothers Talk" by Tears for Fears was taken from an unspecified Manilow song; to this day, nobody's been able to figure out which one it was.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Achy Breaky Song" opens with the line, "You can torture me with Donny and Marie / You can play some Barry Manilow"
Western Animation:
- The Boondocks: Uncle Ruckus is a fan of Manilow, who weirdly comes third after John Wayne and George H. W. Bush in Ruckus' list of favorite white men. One wonders what a homophobe like Ruckus would have thought of the musician after he came out as gay in 2017.
- Family Guy: The episode "Back to the Woods" opens with Peter and his friends admitting to being huge fans of Manilow and going to one of his concerts.
