History ReferencedBy / EurovisionSongContest

* ''Series/FatherTed'' has an episode where Ireland, desperate to lose so they don't have to host the hugely expensive "[[BlandNameProduct Eurosong]]," contest again, select the title character's really horrible song 'My Lovely Horse' as their country's entry. For once, the SpringtimeForHitler plan ''works'': it bombs.

** In the episode "Pete", when a badly operated time distorter transforms Cat and Kochanski into [[IWasQuiteAFashionVictim the embarassing, vaguely-seventies outfits they wore in their teens]], Holly comments "You look like the Turkish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest!"

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* ''Literature/PetaLyresRatingNormal'': In a flashback, ten-year-old Peta watches the most recent winner, Emmelie, on TV with Ant.

* In a 1970 episode of ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' a sketch involving policemen morphs into the Europolice Song Contest, which is won for Monaco by Inspector Zatapathique with "Bing Tiddle Tiddle Bong", which mocked then-current entries like Massiel's "La La La" (1968) and Lulu's "Boom-Bang-a-Bang" (1969). In ''Monty Python's Big Red Book'' (1971), this was expanded into a four-page features - including notes - about the song, which here was credited to "Les Deux Hommes Célèbres". The top entries after Monaco were given thusly: 2. "Si si boing bang" (Italy); 3. "Nein Bong über tiddle" (Germany); 4. (equal) "Bang bang bang bang" (England), "Ay ay ay ay" (Ireland); "Och och och och" (Scotland), and "Oy oy oy oy" (Israel); 5. "Post coitum omnia animal tristes est" (France); 6. "Ding ding a dong" (Sweden). [[LifeImitatesArt A mere four years later, in 1975, the group Teach-In won the real Eurovision Song Contest for the Netherlands with "Ding-a-Dong" (original Dutch title: "Ding Dinge Dong").]]
** Prescient, too - Israel wouldn't join the contest until 1973.
* ''Series/FatherTed'' has an episode where Ireland, desperate to lose so they don't have to host the contest again, select the title character's song 'My Lovely Horse' - a really horrible song - as their country's entry. For once, the SpringtimeForHitler plan ''worked'': it bombed.

--> '''Neil Hannon''': By the nineties, we were so successful that rivals were unashamedly nicking [[SelfDeprecation our patented Irish mysticism]]... [[DeadpanSnarker It is now rendered mysterious, like a mountain stream flowing across an ancient Irish bog]].
** This was not Hannon's first attempt at a Eurovision song. He wrote the music for the aforementioned ''Series/FatherTed'' episode, not just the "catchy" version of "My Lovely Horse", but also their arch-rival's overblown point-magnet. He appears in the background of said act's choir (in the centre of the back row) and also sings the nonsense "Norwegian" lyrics of the 1976 original. His band, The Divine Comedy, later released it as a B-Side.

** 2020 and 2021 had been skipped, but 2022 saw the annual comic [[https://satwcomic.com/eurovision-2022 come back]]: While everyone celebrates with a CrowdSurfing Ukraine, Sweden and Finland sneak away to tell Russia that they decided to join NATO. You know, while Ukraine was being loved in a party that Russia was specifically disinvited from.

* Music/SiIvaGunner celebrated the 2022 grand final by devoting their entire day to Eurovision-related rips. The majority were based on Eurovision songs, but with the occasional Music/{{ABBA}} rip sneaking in (seeing as they had their breakthrough at the 1974 contest), and as a bonus, they were bookended by rips of "Te Deum".

* Music/SiIvaGunner celebrated the 2022 grand final by devoting their entire day to Eurovision-related rips. The majority were based on Eurovision songs, but with the occasional Music/{{ABBA}} rip sneaking in, and as a bonus, they were bookended by rips of "Te Deum".

* In the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Smithson}}'', the college radio station once had a theme evening of losing Eurovision entries. Mostly real ones, but "My Lovely Horse" snuck in there.

* In Derek Jarman's ''Film/{{Jubilee}}'', future England's current Eurovision entry is Amyl Nitrate singing a highly militaristic rendition of "Rule Britannia" that includes samples from one of Adolf Hitler's speeches. This is meant to demonstrate just how much of a CrapsackWorld future England is.

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* ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' does annual comics on Eurovision:
** For the 2009 contest, Denmark beats up Sweden for not giving him points, and Norway beats up everyone else because he won.
** Between contests, there was a comic of a party held between the Nordic states where Finland (dressed up as Mr. Music/{{Lordi}}) tries to stab everyone.
** At the post-Eurovision 2010 party, Germany crushes everyone with a satellite (a reference to the title of the winning song).
** The 2011 comic has King Europe declare Azerbaijan the winner... except no-one present even knows who Azerbaijan is (Norway knows, but is sitting watching the contest at home as he failed to qualify for the final).
** In 2012, [[http://satwcomic.com/eurovision-2012 Sweden gloats over his victory]] after first kicking Mother Russia off the stage.
** For the 2013 contest, Denmark throws a rock to shatter Azerbaijan's perspex box, while Sister Denmark gleefully says, "Lookit all them losers!" as she revels in her victory.
** In the 2014 contest, [[LovableSexManiac Denmark]], as the host, was a creep to all the contestants and commentators, giving them surprises and gave Sister England a childhood memory of hers as a gift (apparently, it's a TakeThat to Danes almost always having roles of villains in media according to WordOfGod). At the end he presents Austria as winner, as he tells the audience to worship her or he will come after you. [[CreepyAwesome Note that he keeps on smiling creepily in every panel of the comic strip.]]
** 2015's comic saw Austria throw a giant hissy fit over himself and Germany getting no points, Norway being depressed cause he didn't get a single ''douze points'' (not even from his friends), Australia mesmerized by Sweden's light bending (and Sweden struggling to keep it under control cause he just won), and Denmark resolving to start saving for the 2017 Eurovision since the last couple times Sweden hosted, he won.
** Shortly before the first semi-final in 2016, a [[http://satwcomic.com/eurovision-game card game]] was presented for people to play while watching. The actual comic has Ukraine (the winner) using a distinctive stage effect to shove Australia and Russia (second and third place) out of the way, while Sweden and King EU rock out. Meanwhile, the rest of the Nordics lament their failure to qualify for the final, and America (watching for the first time) fanboys over Music/JustinTimberlake's appearance.
** 2017: After a brief tense moment where Sister Ukraine tells Russia in song to suck her dick (to which Russia replies pulling a ScrewThisImOuttaHere), King EU smiles as the rest of the countries party, accompanied by Moldova as Epic Sax Guy.
** 2018: [[https://satwcomic.com/banned China]] finds out the hard way that one censors Eurovision at their own peril as an angry King EU is a ''scary'' King EU.
** 2019: King EU begs Iceland (who's decked out in bondage gear) to [[https://satwcomic.com/eurovision-2019 cover up]] because the contest is controversial enough, thanks to being hosted by Israel.

* There are a lot of Axis Powers Hetalia fanfics focusing on ESC 2010 on fanfiction.net.

* The AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho episode [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho039BangBangABoom "Bang-Bang-a-Boom!"]], starring the Seventh Doctor and companion Mel, is a Series/EurovisionSongContest-themed ''Franchise/StarTrek'' pastiche InTheStyleOf a {{panto}} {{whodunnit}}. No, really.
* ''Radio/TheNowShow'' had a song by Pippa Evans, the day before the 2014 contest, which combined classic Eurovision tropes with shameless sucking up and explaining that the UK didn't ''really'' hate being in Europe, honest.
* Much less sucking up in Music/MitchBenn's "A Song for Europe" (''not'' broadcast on ''The Now Show'', possibly because of BBC rules regarding a ClusterFBomb that slags off every national stereotype in Europe, Britain included.)
* In Derek Jarman's ''Film/{{Jubilee}}'', future England's current Eurovision entry is Amyl Nitrate singing a highly militaristic rendition of "Rule Britannia" that includes samples from one of Adolf Hitler's speeches. This is meant to demonstrate just how much of a CrapsackWorld future England is.

* In the third episode of Telecinco's music-parody show ''Me lo dices o me lo cantas'', contestant David Carrillo performed disguised as Manel Navarro and sang about Manel's last-place finish at the 2017 contest -- to the actual music of "Do It for Your Lover". The lyrics include comments such as "All the producers now turn their backs on me / I've only been offered a duet with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remedios_Amaya Remedios Amaya]]", "And they almost gave more points / To the idiot who came out flashing his ass", or "Eurovision ain't cool, Eurovision ain't cool, baby / A squawk left me at the end of the line".

* ''Series/TheNowShow'' had a song by Pippa Evans, the day before the 2014 contest, which combined classic Eurovision tropes with shameless sucking up and explaining that the UK didn't ''really'' hate being in Europe, honest.

** 2017: After a brief tense moment where Sister Ukraine tells Russia to suck her dick (to which Russia says ScrewThisImOuttaHere), King EU smiles as the rest of the countries party, accompanied by Moldova as Epic Sax Guy.

** 2018: [[https://satwcomic.com/banned China]] finds out that one censors Eurovision at their own peril as an angry King EU is a ''scary'' King EU.

** 2017: After a brief tense moment where Ukraine tells Russia to suck her dick (to which Russia says ScrewThisImOuttaHere), King EU smiles as the rest of the countries party, accompanied by Moldova as Epic Sax Guy.

* In ''Series/YoureTheWorst'', Jimmy's boorish family comes all the way from England to Los Angeles to watch the "Eurotune" Song Contest rather than partake in what Los Angeles has to offer.