- Lois from Experimental Film used to begin her lectures on the titular genre by asking her students if they'd heard of Un Chien Andalou. When the answer was "no," she would pull the movie up on YouTube.
Music
- David Bowie:
- The outro of "All the Madmen" prominently features the repeated line "zane, zane, zane, ouvre le chien," which producer Tony Visconti confirmed was an oblique reference to this movie.
- A screening of the film made up the opening of each show during the Isolar Tour.
- The Pixies song "Debaser" from Doolittle directly references the film in its lyrics.
- Serú Girán's song "Un Perro Andaluz" owes its name to this movie.
- In Night in the Woods, Lori M. mentions making a horror film in which a person stabs another in the eye with a knife; her speech balloon then shows a knife marked "REAL" stabbing an eyeball marked "FAKE".