Comic Books
- Batgirl (2009): In issue six Steph tells an uncomprehending Damian that "You may have been trained by assassins, but I played 'grasshopper' to Bruce's 'Master-Po'."
Fan Fiction
- Earth and Sky: Lulong the kirin has apparently spent his time since getting grounded in the Pegathalon "wandering the land meeting its ponies, doing good deeds, and getting in the occasional kung fu battle with bandits."
- Hope for the Heartless: At one point, the second Invisible says "You have learned well, young grasshopper".
- Parodied in Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space when TuMok consults a Hermit Guru for his wisdom.Sage: Then why do you not hear the grasshopper that is at your feet?TuMok: Because I have stepped on it, Master.
- Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Bruce Lee and his manager Bill Krieger come up with the idea for Kung Fu, only to see David Carradine cast in the role instead.
- Kill Bill features David Carradine as a martial arts expert, the eponymous Bill, in a Casting Gag to his most famous role.
- Footage is shown on TV in “Office Space”.
- Pulp Fiction: Jules says he'll "walk the earth" like Caine.
- Surf Ninjas has Iggy, played by Rob Schneider, citing David Carradine's role in this show as evidence that he can be heir to the Asian kingdom of Patusan.
- They Call Me Bruce has a parody of the When You Snatch the Pebble scene.
- The Dresden Files:
- Harry calls Molly "Grasshopper" a lot.
- In Ghost Story, Harry to the cryptic Eternal Silence: "Next you'll want me to take a pebble out of your hand."
- The Long Mars: Joshua calls Cho-Je the martial arts robot "grasshopper".
- Thief of Time: Lu-Tze tells his warrior monk apprentice that he's not going to call him by an insect-derived nickname.
- Daredevil (2015): Foggy's reaction to Matt talking about Stick: "A blind old man taught you the ancient ways of martial arts? Isn't that the plot of Kung Fu?"
- The Goodies episode spoofing the martial arts craze has Bill Oddie relating how he learned the art of Ecky-Thump, starting with him walking over the dunes as per the Title Sequence to Kung Fu only to slip and fall down them.
- Supergirl (2015) has a moment when J'onn J'onzz mentions he was trained in meditation by a Shaolin priest in the 1800s. It's not explicitly stated that it was Kwai Chang, but...
- Treme: In the third season, when Terry and his partner are on a stakeout, his partner wants to go in right away, to which Terry replies, "Patience, grasshopper."
- The Muppets Valentine Show: During the "Froggy Went a-Courtin'" number, Kermit is challenged to a fight by a giant mouse for the hand of Miss Mousie, and he quips "Little does he know that I've never missed an episode of Kung Fu".
Tabletop Games
- C°ntinuum: roleplaying in The Yet: An example character is "a disenfranchised Shao-Lin monk with great power in Dreaming and martial arts [who] roams the American southwest in the 1800s looking to right wrongs".
- Hollow Earth Expedition: The Secrets of the Surface World supplement introduces the Wandering Hero archetype, a monk from China who is half British and half Chinese and wanders the Earth fighting against injustice and helping other people.
- Paranoia: The martial-arts-themed "Warriors of the Nightcycle" adventure module from the Acute Paranoia supplement has a clone named Grass-O-PPR.
Video Games
- Civilization VI: The achievement for fully promoting a Warrior Monk is named "Try to Snatch the Pebble from My Hand".
- Highborn: One monk is named Kwai Chang Caine.
- Mario Party 7: The Pagoda Peak map is presided over by an elderly monk who addresses the player characters as "cricket" and in one mini-game invites them to demonstrate their kung fu capabilities.
- WarioWare series: One of the supporting characters is a martial arts student referred to as "Young Cricket".
Webcomics
- Darths & Droids: When Luke goes to Yoda for training, Yoda addresses him as "young Fieldhopper".
Web Original
- A Hippie in the House of Mouse is an alternate history work in which, among many other changes, that timeline's equivalent of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom has David Carradine in a featured role, complete with an in-joke reference to his role in Kung Fu.
- The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters: Koenieg is compared to David Carradine for his propensity for Ice Cream Koans.
Western Animation
- Hey Arnold!: In "Mugged", Arnold begins karate lessons and tries taking a fly from Grandma Pookie's hand.
- Samurai Jack: The scene in "Samurai vs. Samurai" where Da Samurai keeps trying to provoke Jack into fighting him takes a lot from the opening scene of the pilot of Kung Fu.
