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Fan Works- Boldores and Boomsticks: Chapter 21 is a Whole-Plot Reference. Blake and Yang have to team up with a version of Quint and a giant Sharpedo named Bruce to kill a giant aquatic Grimm that has attacked shipping routes. Hooper appears as the captain of a yacht that is attacked. Lt. Surge also quotes the "Smile, you sonuva..." line against a Beowolf in the previous chaper.
- "The Genie and The Shark"
is a story of Shantae surviving a shark trying to eat her, and the story's cover art is drawn similarly to the iconic Jaws poster.
- Shark Tale: During Oscar and Lenny's staged fight, Lenny hums the Jaws theme as he makes his entrance. Earlier, Frankie hums the theme and calls it the sharks' "theme song".
- Finding Nemo: Bruce the shark is named after the animatronic used in the original film.
- Airplane!: The opening credits uses the Jaws theme, with an airplane going through the clouds looking like a shark's dorsal fin.
- Back to the Future Part II: In a Take That! at Jaws: The Revenge, a theater in 2015 is showing Jaws 19, with the tagline "This Time It's Really Really Personal." Marty is attacked outside the theater by a holographic shark, which he comments still looks fake.
- Chasing Amy features a scar comparing scene that's similar to the one in Jaws.
- Dogtooth: The eldest daughter watches the film and re-enacts it for her siblings.
- In Ghostbusters (2016), Abby calls the Mayor of New York out for behaving like the Mayor from Jaws - a comparison no politician wants to receive.Mayor Bradley (laughing): Never compare me to the Jaws mayor (angrier) NEVER!
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again: The animated ending sequence of the film begins with cartoon!Clouseau falling in a body of water before the Jaws theme is heard and we zoom-out to an underwater shot that recreates the film's poster with a giant Pink Panther in place of the shark.
- In Red Dog, Jaws is played at a drive-in theater. Red Dog wanders in front of the projector, to the annoyance of the audience.
- Stakeout: To pass the time, Bill and Chris play a trivia game, and Bill says the line, "This was no boating accident!". Chris doesn't know what it's from.note
- Us: Jason wears a Jaws shirt and Gabe's boat features heavily.
- Wag the Dog: Stanley compares the fictional film he's making to the delayed appearance of the shark in Jaws.
- Bryan Singer is a big fan of the movie, having named his company Bad Hat Harry after one of Brody's lines. One explicit reference in his movies in in X-Men: Apocalypse, where the title villain goes "You're gonna need a BIGGER house!"
- The Dresden Files: In the short story "Bigfoot On Campus" Harry compares meeting River Shoulders in the meager excuse for a "forest" available in an Oklahoma wildlife preserve to rendezvousing with Jaws in a kiddie wading pool.
- In Dogs Don't Talk, a Steven Spielberg-obsessed autistic boy tells Ben that Jaws starred Richard Dreyfuss, like Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- In the season two episode "Go Fish", when Giles mentions a student's remains were found on the beach, and he was eviscerated, Xander quips, "In other words, this was no boating accident."
- In the first part of the season three finale, "Graduation Day Part 1", when Xander sees the actual size of the demon the Mayor will turn into when he ascends, he tells Giles, "We're gonna need a bigger boat."
- In the season seven episode "End Of Days", Anya brings up how Chief Brody eventually killed the shark.
- Castle: The third season episode "Last Call" combines this with Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure:Beckett: Any chance he (the Victim of the Week) went overboard?
Lanie: Classic indicators point to deliberate blunt force, so I'd say no. This was no boating accident.
Castle: Then we'd better close the beaches. (Beckett and Lanie look at him blankly) No boating accident? Chief Brody? Hooper? (they still don't get it) Seriously? - The Love Boat:
- In "Legal Eagle," a man refers to his ex-wife's lawyer as "Jaws in a bathing suit."
- In "Aquaphobiac," it's mentioned that the title character had to walk out of Jaws because he got hives.
- Saturday Night Live: The first season episode featuring guest star Candice Bergen had a sketch parodying the movie called "Land Shark", complete with the theme music.
- Stranger Things:
- A Jaws poster can be seen hanging on a wall in the beginning of Episode 3.
- Hopper's police vehicle is painted identically to Chief Brody's car.
- In Season 3, Hopper drunkenly leaves a restaurant with a bottle of wine and was told by the waiter that he can’t take alcohol off premises. He responds with, “I can do anything, I’m the chief of police,” a line said by Chief Brody.
- The entire first episode of Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter can be seen as a full blown spoof of the film, just replace a large man eating shark with werewolves, and Quint with a strange man who wears an eyepatch and yellow neon clothing. Did we mention it’s a show on [adult swim]?
- Episode 3.03 of Derry Girls:Gerry: What are you planning to do with the surfboard, Joe?
Joe: Surf. Something I always fancied doing, ever since I saw that film, the one where the lads try to catch thon big fish.
Gerry: What film is that?
Joe: You know, the big fish, the musical fish.
Gerry: The musical fish?
Joe: He hums a tune before he attacks people. They try to catch him but their boat's too wee.
Gerry: Are you talking about Jaws?
Joe: That's the one.
Gerry: Jaws made you want to take up surfing?
Joe: Aye.
Music
- "Rocking The Boat" by Ice Nine Kills is dedicated to the film.
- As is "Jaws" by Lemon Demon.
- The Family Circus: In a 1975 strip, Billy tells a friend that he and his family never got to go to the beach over the summer because "My mom went to see Jaws."
- The promotion Excellence Professional Wrestling has a cat motif, and its January 13, 2018 event was titled PAWS.
- Jawsolyn "The Friendly Shark", a wrestler and sidekick of Team Sea Stars, is an Affectionate Parody.
Theme Parks
- In the longstanding tradition of replacement attraction builders referencing what previously stood there, an expansion to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter took down Jaws the Ride in Universal Studios Florida, so Diagon Alley has a few references to the movie.
- The Darkside Detective: One of the movie posters on display at the multiplex is a parody of the Jaws poster, with the title Underwater Beast.
- The advanced course in Daytona USA 2 is set in a theme park, which was inspired by Universal Studios. There's a shark tank at the starting line, which was inspired by the now-defunct Jaws ride.
- Desert Assault ends with a cutscene where you're stranded in the ocean, just as a shark suddenly appears to chase you offscreen. Said shark looks exactly like the one on the poster of the first film.
- In Infinite Craft, the block for "Jaws" is accompanied by an emoji of a shark.
- Nancy Drew: In The Curse of Blackmoor Manor, one of the things Loulou the parrot says to herself is, "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
- In Splatoon 2's Salmon Run mode, there are creatures called Boss Salmonids who are stronger than the typical Mooks. One type of Boss Salmonid is named Maws, who swims through ink to devour players from below, with its only warning being a telltale bobber. This reference is further solidified by the simplest way to take one down.
- Bruce the shark (or at least a shark that is a dead ringer, right up to the identical facial injuries) shows up in the third stage of Xena: Warrior Princess, a game produced by Universal. As a dead body strung on a rack after it was killed by pirates prior to the game's events. Hitting the carcass will actually make it spit anchors, ropes, debris, and even modern-day items that couldn't possibly exist in Xena's universe like beachballs and a surfboard.
- The Cinema Snob had a few. He reviewed Parallel Porn Title Gums, where the shark is a mermaid, and in the taken down aside from fan uploads video on Grizzly II he notes how the original movie was basically Jaws with a bear.
- In his review of games based on Steven Spielberg movies, The Angry Video Game Nerd reviewed the Jaws Licensed Game for the Nintendo Entertainment System by LJN.
- Rerez: In the Just Bad Games compilation episode "The Worst Racing Games of All Time", the ghost of the money wasted on Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is directly modeled after Quint.
- The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius:
- The episode "Monster Hunt" is a parody of the film, with Jimmy as Hooper, Sheen as Drunk!Hooper, Carl as Brody, and Captain Betty as Quint.
- In "The Mighty Wheezers", as Jimmy sneaks up on Carl's parents while they sleep, a section of the shark's theme plays, with Jimmy's hairdo acting as the fin.
- Darkwing Duck: In "Something Fishy", Darkwing and Launchpad are out at sea trying to deal with the threat presented by a mutated fish Well-Intentioned Extremist called Neptunia. When a swordfish saws a hole in their boat, Launchpad says that they're going to need a bigger one.
- One episode of Dexter's Laboratory spoofs the movie by having Dee Dee's pigtails framed like a shark fin while a two-note motif plays, and then she attacks her brother.
- Eek! The Cat: "Paws" is a full-blown parody. Annabelle overfeeds her pet goldfish (named Bruce, of course), and he finds his way into into Eek's owners' kiddie pool just before a big party. Amid all the craziness, Mittens acts like a high-strung, cowardly Hooper examining things, and Sharky employs Quint-like tactics to catch the bloated fish as revenge for his doghouse getting destroyed. Ultimately, it's up to Eek and a highly pressurized can of Squishy Cream to save the day... until the goldfish gets a chance to overeat again.Eek: Kumbaya! That's some tadpole! I think we're gonna need a bigger boat, Sharky.
- Family Guy:
- In "The Father, the Son and the Holy Fonz", Peter watches Jaws 5: Fire Island, in which the swimmers and the shark are gay (with the latter sharing the voice of Bruce).
- In "Play It Again, Brian", Peter, Lois and Brian take a trip to Martha's Vineyard, where the first two movies were filmed. When Peter tries to scare them at the beach by pretending to be a shark, they tell him to knock it off since there are no sharks in the area, only for the same Bruce-voiced shark to be shown watching them from below.
- In "Brian Griffin's House of Payne", Peter mentions that he had an idea for a script called Big Jaws, in which the men and shark team up to take on a bigger shark. At the end, we see that Peter successfully managed to sell the concept.Peter: I already got a sequel in mind. It's called Way Bigger Jaws.
- “Western Animation/MAD” spoofed the movie in Jaws The Great and Powerful (which is also parody of “Film/Oz The Great and Powerful”).
- Robot Chicken:
- A sketch from "Nightmare Generator" features the film getting a special edition DVD.
- A sketch from "Things Look Bad for the Streepster" features Jabberjaw going on vacation to Amity Island and running into the trio, only to be killed by them.
- A sketch from "Boogie Bardstown in: No Need, I Have Coupons" features the film in a crossover with Pinkfong's "Baby Shark".
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- The episode "Clams" is a semi-parody of this film, with the title card based on the film's poster.
- In "Sandy, SpongeBob and the Worm", as the townspeople discuss how to deal with the Alaskan Bull Worm, an old sailor scratches his Hook Hand against a window to get everyone's attention. It turns out he wanted to know where the bathroom was.
- Thundarr the Barbarian: While roaming post-apocalyptic Earth, the heroes come across a pre-disaster poster advertising the film; the more educated Ariel attempts without success to explain the concept of a movie to the eponymous hero.
