History ReferencedBy / Psycho

* ''Film/{{Carrie}}'': The school is renamed Bates High School and copious use is made of the PsychoStrings whenever the religious fanatic raised Carrie uses her powers.

** In ''Film/HalloweenH20'', Creator/JanetLeigh makes a cameo driving the car she did in the original.

* Creator/BrianDePalma:

* ''Film/FridayThe13th'' has the similar soundtrack, the woman who is set up to be the FinalGirl is killed off first, and the killer reverses Norman Bates by being a mother who believes her dead son is talking through her and convincing her to kill people for having sex.

* ''Film/DressedToKill'' is a HotterAndSexier {{homage}} to it. Marion's death scene is entirely recreated, although in an elevator and not in a shower. There's the Hitchcock blonde DeadStarWalking, who commits a "crime" (although Kate's isn't illegal, she's cheating on her husband) and then gets brutally murdered by a mysterious woman for her sexuality [[spoiler:who actually turns out to "really" be a man with a female split personality - Bobbi is the psychiatrist's alter ego, though, not the Norman Bates character, killing off woman he is attracted to.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** The scene of Maggie hitting Homer on the head with a mallet in "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" is based on the shower scene, complete with red paint going down the garage's drainpipe.
** A scene from "Brother from the Same Planet" has Skinner "speaking" to his mother while looking upon a creepy house looking much like the Bates Motel.
** "Cape Feare" has a scene where Sideshow Bob composes a list of methods to kill Bart while staying at the Bates Motel.
** The pop culture-heavy episode "Black Widower" features a nearly perfect replay of the scene in which Lila Crane discovers Norma Bates' corpse after Bart foils Sideshow Bob's plot to kill Selma. From the moment when Bart turns around in the chair, mimicking the discovery, to when Selma enters the room, poking fun at Sam Loomis entering the room.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndBatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' sees Scooby and Shaggy head off into Arkham's cafeteria and see a food item named "Bates Burgers", complete with knives looking similar to Norman's.

* The fittingly named episode "Psychoklahoma" of ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' features the cast putting on a musical (kind of) based on the film to [[ItMakesSenseInContext save the host of Brak's favorite TV show from freezing to death]]. Naturally Norman Bates is played by [[NightmareFetishist Zorak]] and it is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEMKb5d_pSI glorious]].

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* ''Film/Halloween1978'': Michael's psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Loomis, has the same name as Marion's lover.

* ''Film/Scream1996'': Just when [[spoiler: Billy Loomis is revealed as one of the killers]]:

* ''Literature/ABoyMadeOfBlocks'': When Alex kills a sheep with a pickaxe in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', he thinks, "It's like the shower scene from ''Psycho'', if Janet Leigh had been a sheep made out of six white boxes.

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* Creator/TimBurton included it in his version of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', in a scene with the television-obsessed kid.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' has a scene where Kate walks in on Bugs taking a shower, causing him to go into a screaming fit before "fainting" and pouring chocolate syrup down the drain.

-->'''[[spoiler: Randy]]''': [[spoiler: Stu]]'s flipped out! He's gone mad!\\

** A scene from "Brother from the Same Planet" ask Skinner "speaking" to his mother while looking upon a creepy house looking much like the Bates Motel.

** "Cape Fear" has a scene where Sideshow Bob composes a list of methods to kill Bart while staying at the Bates Motel.

* The fittingly named episode "Psychoklahoma" of ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'' features the cast putting on a musical (kind of) based on the film to [[ItMakesSenseInContext save Brak's TV show host from freezing to death]]. Naturally Norman Bates is played by [[NightmareFetishist Zorak]] and it is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEMKb5d_pSI glorious]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': The episode "The Wheel o' Comedy" has a scene where Elmyra sneaks up on Dizzy in the shower to give him a scrubbing.

* '"WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': The ending to the episode "Pslightly Psycho" features Mom sneaking up on Dad in the shower ''Psycho''-style to scrub his back.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': The episode "Haunted House" has a scene where the ghost tries to kill Stimpy in the shower, the colors being muted for this occaision.