Do you wanna wear this Elsa dress? It'll only cost 5,200 Bells!
Upon its release, Frozen (2013) became a surprise global phenomenon and instantly became a lightning rod for pop culture parodies and references.Examples:
Advertising- A commercial for Audi's e-tron cars, which aired during Super Bowl LIV, features Maisie Williams performing "Let It Go".
- An advert for Duracell batteries features two Just Play Ultimate Olaf toys; one powered by Duracell, and the other powered by leading zinc-carbon batteries. The zinc-carbon-powered Olaf gets left in the dust, while the Duracell-powered one lasts ten times longer and makes it to a cabin, where he delights a little boy.
- In Raina Telgemeier's graphic novel Ghosts a minor detail is that the two sisters are fans of an obvious Expy of this movie. A poster of Anna and Elsa lookalikes appears on a bedroom wall, and the sisters sing a song called "Let It Out".
- In Ms. Marvel (2014), Nakia complains that her best friend Kamala does not seem to have time for her anymore (actually due to Kamala's double life as Ms Marvel), and accidentally quotes the lyrics from "Do you Want to Build a Snowman". Kamala does not miss it and instantly teases her about it.
- Off the Mark:
- Elsa appears alongside other cartoon characters in this strip
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- Elsa appears alongside other cartoon characters in this strip
- Sherman's Lagoon: When Fillmore directs a school play based off of Jaws, Sherman is outraged by the multiple changes that Fillmore made. Megan insists that the essence of the shark from the film is still in the musical... and then their son Herman, who plays the shark, starts singing "Let It Go".
- Prince Jewelius, the Big Bad of Loved and Lost, is an Expy of Prince Hans. At one point, he sings "Love is in Bloom" with Twilight and dances with her in Canterlot's streets as homage to the "Love Is An Open Door" scene. He even says "Oh, I already have!" when Fluttershy says "You won't get away with this!"
- In Pretty Cure: Magic of the Rainbow, Hugtan is said to idolize Elsa.
- In Unbreakable Diamond, Protean Rain, there's a flashback to Josuke and Fubuki's childhood. During the part where a young Fubuki is being avoidant of Josuke following the time he healed Fubuki's broken leg with Crazy Diamond, there's an exchange cleverly referencing "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?", but spoken.Josuke: Fubucchan, let's go out and play! I haven't seen you in a while, it's like you disappeared! … Do you want to go eat ice-cream?
Fubuki: Go away, Josuke!
Josuke: Okay, bye... - In Welcoming Chiho, when Rosemary muses about what their baby's favourite movie will be, Hitomu suggests Frozen.
- Moana: While his magic fishhook malfuctions, Maui briefly transforms into Sven.
- Ralph Breaks the Internet: Elsa and Anna are among the princesses Vanellope meets in Oh My Disney.
- Zootopia:
- As Chief Bogo dresses down Judy for not following police procedure, she tells him that she wants to be treated as a real cop like everyone else. His response is this:
- Duke Weaselton is an obvious nod to the Duke of Weselton and the Running Gag about misnaming him "Weaseltown", right down to being voiced by Alan Tudyk. In addition, one of the pirated movies he's selling is Floatzen 2.
- Deadpool 2: Wade notes how the melody of "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" is similar to that of "Papa, Can You Hear Me?". Interestingly, Alan Tudyk has a minor role in both films.
- Deadpool & Wolverine: “Do You Want to Build a Snowman” is used by Blind Al as slang for cocaine.
- Ted 2: Ted tells Samantha not to sing Frozen songs in court during his humanity case.
- In Keep the Change (2017), Sarah sees a woman in an Anna costume and says, "Are you a fairy tale princess?"
- Cocaine Bear: The European hikers at the beginning of the movie are named Elsa and Olaf.
- In The Dresden Files short story "Christmas Eve", Mab (you know, the Queen of the Winter Court) gives Harry a gift for the little Maggie, a ring that plays "Let It Go" (Harry notes that it is possible he's heard the song enough to make his teeth itch) and until noon, gives its owner a certain amount of influence over the forces of winter.Harry: Just out of curiosity, is it going to be possible for her to freeze someone's heart and turn them into an ice statue?
Mab: Those are the powers in the motion picture. Should I have cheated her? - The Trials of Apollo: One of the ways in which Apollo attempts to open a door is by singing "Love is an Open Door."
- In Experimental Film, one of Clark's echolalic quotes is "Do you want to build a snowman?"
- Two examples from Kasia: Connor's aunt Linda (who's originally from a fictional Scandinavian country) dressed as Elsa on Halloween (Connor mentioned earlier that Disney costumes were all the rage that year), and late in the story, Connor's mother tells her law professor husband "Just let it go... or is that copyrighted too like 'Happy Birthday' used to be?"
- In On the Spectrum, Clara takes Alastair backpack shopping to help him fit in. One of the available backpacks has Anna and Elsa on it. Clara thinks that, although it's more socially acceptable than it used to be for a boy to wear a princess backpack, a Bully Magnet like Alastair probably couldn't get away with it, so she gets him a Superman backpack instead.
- Juniper Sawfeather: In Echo of the Cliffs, Juarez posts on a conspiracy website asking if anyone knows any myths about rock people. Someone brings up the trolls from Frozen.
- In Both Can Be True, Daniel's mom watches Disney movies to comfort herself after separating from her husband. Mitch mentions that she saw Tangled and both Frozen movies the last three Fridays.
- Tom Gates: In Super Good Skills (Almost), Tom and his parents plan on singing a song by The Beatles at a karaoke bar only for his mom to press the wrong button, resulting in them singing "Let It Go" instead of "Let It Be", much to Delia and Avril's dismay.
- The Big Bang Theory: At one point in "The Space Probe Disintegration", Raj says, "Space ice is no joke! I can't even watch Frozen anymore."
- Doctor Who: In "Empress of Mars", the Doctor threatens to cause an eternal winter and mentions that it will be like Frozen. This came after repeatedly demonstrating ignorance of well-known sci-fi films throughout the episode!
- Crossing over with Literature, the Missy Chronicles short story "Alit in Wonderland" (set during the two-week gap in "The Doctor Falls") has Missy reveal to her previous self that she and the Doctor watched the movie together at least once during her years in the Vault. Saxon is disgusted to hear this, but Missy naturally tells him to "Let it go."
- The Flash (2014): Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost, of both Earths 1 and 2, are commonly referred to as "Elsa" due to their Cryokinesis, Mystical White Hair, and blue Color Motif.
- Glee: "Let It Go" is sang by Rachel Berry in the Season 6 premiere. Interestingly, Idina Menzel (Elsa), Jonathan Groff (Kristoff), and Demi Lovato (who sings the credits song) appear as Recurring Characters on the show, with Menzel playing Rachel's mother and Groff playing Rachel's eventual husband.
- High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: In season three, the characters go to a camp and put on a production of the stage version of Frozen. Throughout the season, they sing songs from the show.
- In Imaginary Mary, Ben's youngest daughter has a Frozen poster in her room.
- Jane the Virgin: Petra and Rafael Solano randomly picked names for their twins out of a bowl and came up with "Anna and Elsa", not knowing they were the sisters from this movie. This was lampshaded multiple times. By the third season, Elsa now goes by "Ellie" because Petra got tired of the Frozen connection.
- The Middle: In the episode "Siblings and Sombreros", Sue says that her favorite song is "Let It Go".
- Modern Family: The episode "The Last Halloween" has Gloria dressing up as Elsa. A few jokes about the cold are made and Jay at one point says "Let it go, Gloria, let it go".
- Roswell, New Mexico: In "Say It Ain't So", while trying to help Maria learn to use her powers, Isobel tells her that she needs to "embrace [her] inner ice queen and let it go".
- Supernatural: In "Scoobynatural", Dean tells Sam to "Be like Elsa and let it go."
- Ted Lasso: In "Make Rebecca Great Again", when AFC Richmond celebrates their win against Everton by going out to karaoke, Rebecca gets to show off her Beautiful Singing Voice by singing "Let It Go".
- RiffTrax:
- Fun in Balloonland: A little boy is asked "Do you want to milk a cow?" inspiring the comment "'Do you want to milk a cow' — not as popular with kids as 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?'"
- In the 1933 animated short "The Snowman", the titular Snowlem's Arctic rampage inspires Bill to quip "Hand over Elsa and no one gets hurt!" as it bursts through a wall.
- In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the Icy Dress resembles Elsa's dress, as it features a sparkly ombre material, long sleeves, and a snowflake in the center.
- In Mortal Kombat 11, Cassie Cage calls Frost "Elsa" in one of their pre-match intros, which she fails to understand. It's also a possible name Johnny Cage gives her in his announcer voice pack.
- Sheldon: This Halloween strip has Arthur announcing that they are at "Peak Elsa".Arthur: We... we can't hold it back any more. BUT! Halloween is the maximum number of Elsas possible. So tomorrow, we go back to NORMAL.Gramp: (whispering) But... "normal" is 48% of girls dressed as Elsa AT ANY GIVEN TIME.Arthur: Just... just let it go.
- After Arsenal beat Jose Mourinho's Manchester United 2-0 in a Premier League match in 2017, 442oons made a parody of "For the First Time in Forever starring Arsene Wenger as Anna.
- CinemaSins:
- The film was reviewed "in 10 minutes or less".
- In one of the post-review gags for Cinderella, "Let It Go" starts playing in response to Cinderella's plea of "Let him go!"
- Honest Trailers:
- Frozen and Frozen Fever were given their own trailers.
- In the trailer for The Lion King (1994), the film's plot is compared to that of Frozen ("I knew there was a reason I liked that movie.")
- In the trailer for Zootopia, the film is credited with getting people to finally stop talking about Frozen.
- Honest Trailer for Incredibles 2 lists Frozone as "Samuel Elsa Jackson."
- Jim Browning: A scambaiter poses as "Queen Anna of Arendelle" in "Making life hell for TomTom scammers" where "Anna" claims she is unable to print an edict on her DeskJet 420.
- The Nostalgia Critic
- In his review for Ghost Rider (2007), Critic says that putting Nicolas Cage against Kevin Spacey is like putting Mark Wahlberg against Olaf ("Don't underestimate him, he bites!").
- In his review of The Lorax, Critic says that the song "Let It Grow" was ripping off Frozen more than a year before it came out.
- In his review of Osmosis Jones, Ozzy accuses Critic's emotions of ripping off Inside Out and shows them a screen with pictures of Olaf and another CGI snowman, saying "Yeah, let me know how that Frozen lawsuit works out for you."
- Both Elsa and Anna appeared separately on Princess Rap Battles. Elsa appeared first (played by Katja Glieson) rap battling Snow White, while Anna (played by Descended Creator Whitney Avalon) squared-off against Rapunzel.
- React:
- Kids React has covered the video of "Let It Go" being sang in different languages and Frozen Fever.
- Try Not To Sing Disney Edition and Top 10 Disney Songs on Spotify both feature "Let It Go".
- One of the "Do Teens Know Disney Songs?" episodes featured "Love Is An Oper Door".
- Refreshing Stories: Hiroshi sings "Let It Go" when Naoki was found out to be cheating in his exams.
- Reverse Ratings (as the name suggests) did a Darker and Edgier retelling of the movie.
- American Dad!: In "Hayley Smith, Seal Team Six", Hayley, who has been hypnotized to think she's six years old, sleeps with dolls of Anna and Elsa.
- The Arthur episode "Shelter From The Storm" has Brain's therapist be voiced by Idina Menzel. At the end of the episode at Brain's ice cream parlor she mentions she likes things "sweet...and frozen." with a wink at the camera.
- Avengers Assemble: In "Under the Spell of the Enhantress", the Enchantress has created her personal realm with an Ice Palace and Snowlem servants. Could be a coincidence. Then Thor says "Ice never bothered me".
- Danger Mouse (2017): The episode "Melted" is based around the insanely popular animated musical Melted, about a princess with the power to melt snow and ice.
- Family Guy:
- Stewie points out that Doug is wearing underwear with Elsa on them in "LASIK Instinct".
- In "Must Love Dogs", a little girl trick or treating at Quagmire's house is wearing an Elsa costume. He refers to her as "Frozen".
- In Episode 111 of Kaeloo, Kaeloo sings "Let It Go" while starring in a laxative commercial.
- Robot Chicken: A sketch from "May Cause Internal Diarrhea" has King Agnarr and Queen Iduna appear as two of the inhabitants of the Heaven for dead Disney parents.
- The Simpsons:
- In a short featuring Homer taking the ALS Ice Bucket Cnge, he gets crushed by a variety of ice-related objects and characters, Olaf being one of them.
- The Couch Gag for "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" is an "obligatory Frozen reference" that features Lisa as Elsa, Marge as Anna, Bart as Kristoff, Homer as Olaf, Maggie as a troll, and Santa's Little Helper as Sven. This was mentioned in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. Martin asks to be in this particular couch gag because he heard it was themed after his favorite movie and he owns Elsa's dress. Lisa tells him he can't because only the titular family appears in the couch gag and commenting that she's the only person who can perfectly portray "America's most-beloved heroine".
- In "The Nightmare After Krustmas", Krusty has a dream featuring expies of Olaf and Sven, who turn into depictions of his father and his first agent.
- In the Christmas-themed opening for "Gone Boy", Patty and Selma are dressed as Anna and Elsa.
- The Simpsons in Plusaversary features brief cameos from Elsa and Olaf
- Sofia the First: Olaf appears as a special guest in "Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle".
- South Park: During Season 18, Shelley has a Frozen poster on her bedroom wall.
Other
- Chinese electronics firm Huawei codenamed their P40 and P40 Pro smartphones after Anna and Elsa, respectively. Further confirming the Frozen reference is a leaked photo of a P40 Pro prototype's camera bump with Elsa's signature catchphrase "Let It Go" inscribed on it.
- Upon its naming, it did not take long for people on the Internet and elsewhere to make tongue-in-cheek references to Frozen when Hurricane Elsa passed by the Caribbean and Florida.
