Referenced By / The King and I

Comic Strips

• In Foxtrot, Peter, the family's teenaged son, shaves his head after losing a bet at school. When his mother asks him why he'd do such a stupid thing, he replies, "it's a puzzlement."

Films — Live-Action

• In No Kidding, Dandy Big warns Dandy Little to get away from Catherine before she starts singing "Getting to Know You".
• In The World of Henry Orient, when Frank finds out Isobel has cheated on him again, he tells Valerie he and she have to get to know each other again, and they bring up the song "Getting to Know You".

Literature

• In I Think I Love You, Petra sings "Getting to Know You" with one of her music therapy patients.

Live-Action TV

• Tina sings "Getting To Know You" on an episode of Glee. This could count as an Actor Allusion, as Jenna Ushkowitz played one of the King's children in the 1996 Broadway production when she was young.
• An episode of the TV-AM summer kids' show Wacaday featured Excited Kids' Show Host Timmy Mallet starring in a version of the story that mostly consisted of him shouting "I'm the King of Siam! Yes, I am! Yes, I am!"

Music

• In Chess (1984), "One Night in Bangkok" referse to the chess contest as "a show with everything except Yul Brynner".

Puppet Shows

• Sesame Street: A "Monsterpiece Theater" sketch is entitled "The King and I", which depicts Grover dancing with a lowercase letter i.

Web Video

• The Nostalgia Critic reviewed the Animated Adaptation.

Western Animation

• Family Guy: The episode "The King is Dead" is about Lois directing a production of The King and I, only for Peter to turn it into something way far removed from the source material.
• The Simpsons: The first segment of "Treehouse of Horror VII" is entitled "The Thing and I".