- A 1995 commercial for Pizza Hut featuring Ringo Starr pitching the restaurant's stuffed crust pizza has Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones & Peter Tork praise Ringo for his idea of eating pizza crust first at the end.
- Shrek: The film's Dance Party Ending has Smash Mouth's Cover Version of "I'm a Believer" being played at Shrek and Fiona's wedding. The song has since become the de facto theme for the franchise.
- In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, the montage of Austin and Felicity frolicking around London is set to "I'm a Believer".
- In Dumb and Dumber, Lloyd believes that The Monkees were a big influence on The Beatles.
- In the novelization to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Sharon Tate is a fan of bubblegum pop and prefers The Monkees to The Beatles.
- The West Wing: In the second season episode "The Drop In", C.J. admits Davy Jones was her first crush.
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- In The Cinema Snob review of I Spit on Your Grave, with the problem of having to discuss the film's long and disturbing rape scene, the compromise is a comedic re-enactment (with the Snob in a bra as Jennifer!) set to "Pleasant Valley Sunday".
- Bob's Burgers, notorious for its Pop Culture Pun Episode Titles, once did an episode where Gene is afraid to go to a sleepover at a friend's house. The episode's title? "Cheer Up, Sleepy Gene".
- Family Guy: The episode "McStroke" features a Monkees-esque chase sequence set to "Pleasant Valley Sunday".
- My Life as a Teenage Robot: There is an episode titled "Daydream Believer".
- In Pinky and the Brain, when a ship captain warns he'll send Brain's submarine "to Davy Jones' locker", Pinky asks if he's talking about the Monkees member.
- The Powerpuff Girls: In "Say Uncle", the Professor gets a letter from his brother saying "I'll be coming on the last train to Clarksville. Come meet me at the station."
- The Simpsons:
- In "Fear of Flying", Marge recalls her first day at school, where a classmate teased her for having a Monkees lunchbox because they don't write their own songs or play their own instruments."That's not even Michael Nesmith's real hat!"
- In "Beyond Blunderdome", the Monkeemobile is on display at the Hollywood Auto Museum.
- In "The Bart of War", after Bart and Milhouse accidentally destroy Ned Flanders' collection of Beatles memorabilia, Chief Wiggum says that they'll be taking "The Last Train to Clarksville'", only for Lou to tell him that it's actually a Monkees song.
- In "The Man Who Grew Too Much", a sign at the monkey research facility says it was "funded by Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolenz".
- In "Fear of Flying", Marge recalls her first day at school, where a classmate teased her for having a Monkees lunchbox because they don't write their own songs or play their own instruments.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: In "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One", a live-action Davy Jones greets the Flying Dutchman in his locker and sings "Daydream Believer" for him.
- Young Justice: In the third season, Beast Boy is an actor on a sci-fi show as a character called "Tork", using his power for animal shapeshifting. Like Peter used to say, Beast Boy is also "sometimes a Monkee".
