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References to The Big Lebowski in other media.
Advertising
- Bones on the label of the Bones Coffee flavor "White Russian
" is dressed like The Dude. It's especially telling because the rug in the background looks like The Dude's rug (the one that was peed on by the Chinama—Asian American), and the flavor is based off of The Dude's favorite drink.
- Chainsaw Man: Among the many film references in the anime's first opening, "Kick Back", one scene shows the main characters at a bowling alley, with Denji polishing a bowling ball the same way Walter and the Jesus do.
Fan Works
- A Game of Cat and Cat: When Aoi talks about the man she has nicknamed Doctor Dude in "(In)Effective Communication":"No, I'm not telling you his name, and no, it is not any variant of Jeff, Geoffrey, or Lebowski," said Aoi.
- In Avengers: Endgame, Tony Stark refers to Thor as "Lebowski" due to the fact that he resembles the Dude after growing a Beard of Sorrow and putting on weight.
- In The Lighthouse, there's a scene where Winslow tries to dump buckets of feces only for the wind to blow it into his face, which is a Shout-Out to Lebowski.
- Felix from You Look Different in Real Life posts stills from The Big Lebowski on his blog, with "brilliant commentary" like "The Dude is the bomb, yo!"
- Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: In the first season episode "FZZZT", the team is investigating a man infected by the Chitauri virus:Skye: Phys-Ed teacher at the local high school, and varsity basketball coach and troop leader and volunteer firefighter. This guy makes Captain America look like "The Dude". (blank stares from Coulson and Ward). The Big Lebowski? (more blank stares) Seriously?
- Veronica Mars has had a number of references to the movie:
- In the second season episode "Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner", Veronica and Duncan are watching the movie, and Veronica is quoting the Dude's "I'm not Lebowski" speech along with the movie, to Duncan's consternation.
- There are several references to the line "special lady friend", especially in the second season episode "Green-Eyed Monster":Nathan: Your old lady took something from me, and I'm not leaving until I get it back.
Keith: She's not my old lady. She's my special lady friend! - In the second season episode "The Quick and the Wed", Veronica confronts Vinnie at a bowling alley. When he offers her a beer, she replies, "Vinnie, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules!"
- In the second season episode "I Am God", Veronica gets a call from Keith, who wants to know why she's not in class, to which she replies, "And a good day to you too, sir!"
- In the third season episode "Wichita Linebacker", when one of the characters thinks another person in the dorm stole his football playbook, he storms into the person's room, grabs him and throws him on the bed, and says, "Where's the playbook, Larry?", similar to Jackie Treehorn's thugs saying, "Where's the money, Lebowski?" He also adds, "You're entering a world of pain."
- In the third season episode "Charlie Don't Surf", when Logan surprises Veronica as she's walking on campus, she exclaims, "Careful, man, there's a beverage here!"
- In the third season episode "Lord of the Pi's", when Keith gets hired to find someone's missing wife, the scene is a shot-by-shot homage to the scene where the Dude first meets Brandt and the real Mr. Lebowski.
- In the third season episode "Show Me the Monkey", when some students approach Veronica to find a lab monkey that's been stolen, one of them believes the culprits are "those PHAT kids, which Veronica mishears as "fat", and she tells them, "And dude, 'girth-challenged' is the preferred nomenclature."
- In the third season episode "Un-American Graffiti", we learn Dick's My Space page includes the quote, "The Dude abides", and yes, he takes great comfort in that.
- In the fourth season episode (called, appropriately enough) "Entering a World of Pain", Veronica tells Leo about the movie.
Music
- The Phoebe Bridgers album Stranger in the Alps is named after the TV cut version of "You see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?", which became "You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?".
- Bear With Me: If you click on the toilet Amber will say "Where's the money Lebowski?!"
- World of Warcraft: There are two references to The Big Lebowski in World of Warcraft:
- The first are the master engineering trainers named "Zebig" and "Lebowski" in the same zone in The Burning Crusade.
- The second is the dwarf Lebronski in Wrath of the Lich King. Lebronski can be found at an Explorers' League camp in the Howling Fjord ranting about someone taking a shit on his rug. Lebronski is accompanied by Walt, and not far from their outpost is Donny.
- Homestar Runner: Pom Pom dresses up as Walter in the 2005 Halloween cartoon "Halloween Potion-ma-jig". At the end of the cartoon, when Strong Bad insults his costume, Pom Pom pulls out a gun and Homestar tells Strong Bad that he's "entering a world of pain".Strong Mad: DONNY! YOU'RE OUT OF YOUR ELEMENT!
- Suede's Pokémon Journey: Due to Victor's resemblance to Sam Elliott, Suede's review of the Pokémon: The Series episode "The Pi-Kahuna" emulates the narration of The Big Lebowski.
- In Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "O-Ed-Eleven", when pretending to work construction and deterring the Kankers from bothering them, Double D (donning a fake mustache) presents them a hand-drawn work ID identifying himself as Walter Sobchak. Although fooled, they soon begin to flirt with him, with May even referring to him as Wally.
- An episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends where the gang goes bowling is called "The Big Leblooski".
- In the Infinity Train episode "Le Chat Chalet Car", Frank the bear resembles The Dude with his sunglasses, open robe and laissez faire demeanor.
- An episode of Monsters at Work is titled "The Big Wazowskis". In this episode, Tylor signs MIFT up to be Mike's bowling team for the annual Monsters, Inc. Bowl-off-a-thon in an attempt to get on Mike's good side, only to discover that everyone at MIFT stinks at bowling.
- In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Cutie Pox" four male ponies that resemble the Dude, Walter, Donny and the Jesus appear in a scene set at a bowling alley. Later the Dude-looking pony was officially named Jeff Letrotski.
- There's an episode of R.O.B. the Robot titled "The Big Robowski", where the kids visit the Bowling Planet.
