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Films -- Live-Action

  • Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls: The titular character sings "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" while driving recklessly.
  • Belfast: Buddy and his family see the movie at one point, and they sing along to the title song.
  • Carry On at Your Convenience: "Me Ol' Bamboo" plays as the workers rush into the Victoria Bar.
  • War of the Worlds (2005): Ray makes Rachel sing "Hushabye Mountain" to herself while keeping her eyes and ears shut so that she doesn't hear her father kill Ogilvy in the basement when the latter becomes unhinged and risks to alert the Tripods of their presence.

Live-Action TV

  • iCarly: In "iStage an Intervention", Freddie says "A little bang-bang to the chitty-chitty" while playing a video game.
  • Veronica Mars: The episode 3 of season 2 is titled "Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang".

Music

Video Games

  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: The PC version has a cheat code that can be unlocked by typing "CHITTYCHITTYBANGBANG" which allows to make the cars you drive fly in the air.

Web Original

  • Fairbairn Films: A picture of Baron Bomburst appears during "A PowerPoint About History" when discussing about New Zealand.

Western Animation

  • An episode of Action League NOW! is entitled "Chickie Chickie Bang Bang".
  • An episode of Dennis the Menace is entitled "Chitty Chitty Moon Walk".
  • Family Guy:
    • There is an episode titled "Friends of Peter G.".
    • In "Peter's Got Woods", Peter sings about his friendship with James Woods to the tune of "You Two".
    • In "Episode 420", the song "A Bag o' Weed" is sung to the tune of "Me Ol' Bam-boo".
    • In "Friends of Peter G", Peter tries to drive home while stone-cold drunk, and he tries to keep himself awake by turning on the radio. Unfortunately, it's tuned to the Lullaby Channel, which plays "Hushabye Mountain" as Peter dozes off and crashes.
    • A cutaway from "Take a Letter" shows Peter getting lured into a trap by the Peter Catcher.
      Peter: I'm gonna get so molested.
  • Robot Chicken: A sketch from "We Don't See Much of That in 1940s America" has the Child Catcher being caught on To Catch a Predator.
  • Rugrats (1991): In "Family Feud", Didi says that Betty hasn't seen a movie since Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which Betty claims is because she liked it so much.
  • The Simpsons:
    • In "Brother from the Same Planet", Homer and Pepi watch an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon titled Kitty Kitty Bang Bang.
    • In the openings to "Boy Meets Curl" and "Labor Pains", the Simpsons ride a Chitty-like car in front of the show's logo.
    • The Couch Gag for "McMansion & Wife" has Homer turning his Cool Car into a flying car and passes by Caractacus Potts (voiced by Dick Van Dyke himself) and Chitty, who shouts "Hey, move it or lose it!".
  • South Park: In "It Hits the Fan", Mr. Garrison sings "Shitty Shitty Fag Fag" when he realizes he can get away with saying "shit" (because it was said uncensored on TV) and "fag" (because he's gay).

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