Film—Animated
- The Boss Baby: Boss Baby (voiced by Alec Baldwin) tells one of his cohorts to "Put the cookie down! Cookies are for closers."
- Boiler Room: Greg specifically references the movie when training Seth. Ben Affleck's introductory rant to the new trainees is also an obvious send-up to Alec Baldwin's One-Scene Wonder in that film as a foul-mouthed real estate salesman.
- Saturday Night Live did a Christmas sketch with Alec Baldwin recreating his famous speech from the movie. Except the people he's talking to are Santa's elves, the Glengarry leads are replaced with new tools for making toys, and "A.B.C." stands for "Always Be Cobbling." Baldwin also slips up a one point and recants part of the actual Glenn Ross speech instead of what is on the cue card, for bonus funny. note
- Parodied on The Late Show (1992) in a Cluster Bleep-Bomb/Real Trailer, Fake Movie sketch, which ends with Sale of the Century host Glen Ridge walking in and shaming everyone into cleaning up their language. Cue the title, Glengarry Glen Ridge.
- Fall Out Boy titled their song "(Coffee's for Closers)" after Baldwin's famous speech from this film.
- commodoreHUSTLE: In the stinger of Friday Nights episode "Strange Brew"
, a rep from Wizards of the Coastnote shows up to deliver a version of the Always Be Closing speech regarding their lack of preparation for an upcoming (regular) Prerelease event... which is about the most non-competitive event that is officially sanctioned by WotC.
- Adventure Time: BMO and Ice King pretend to be salesmen in the Season Nine episode "Always BMO Closing".
- Bob's Burgers: In "Friends with Burger Fits", Bob mentions Teddy and his union buddies mounting a production of the play.
- The Simpsons: The perennially down-on-his-luck Gil is based on Jack Lemmon's role as Shelly. His first appearance is in "Realty Bites", which features the line "Cubicles are for closers."
- The episode "Homer the Father" features a young David Mammot as a writer on a TV show with a Sir Swears-a-Lot leading man, upon whom he decides to model the eponymous character here.
