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* In ''Film/Naked1993'', when Johnny goes to [[NoNameGiven Café Girl]]'s apartment and she lets him use her shower, he asks if she's going to dress up as her own mother and try and stab him.
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* In ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', WesternAnimation/BugsBunny re-enacts the shower scene.
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* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': In one short story in Annual 1 of Volume 3, Frank Castle demonstrates some martial arts techniques to the audience (read: does DeadpanSnarker narration as he annihilates crooks). At one point, one of the goons (who is armed with a knife) charges Frank with said knife's arm held high and ready for an overhead swing. Frank calls that "[[PersonAsVerb pulling an]] Creator/AnthonyPerkins", in reference to the way Norman stabbed his victim.

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* The "Halloween Knight" episode of ''Series/KnightRider'' had Bonnie witnessing a murder from her [[Film/RearWindow apartment window]]. She and Michael spend the episode trying to prove that it happened in the first place (and that she wasn't hallucinating) and escape the killer, who's alternating between trying to [[{{Gaslighting make her think she's going crazy}}]] and trying to kill ''her'' before she catches him. Throughout the episode, the score from ''Psycho'' is heard, at one point, Michael and Bonnie are lured to a house that's clearly a replica of the Bates house--at which point the two lampshade this by commenting on how familiar the place looks--and there's even a RedHerring character named. . .Norman ''Baines''.

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* The "Halloween Knight" episode of ''Series/KnightRider'' had Bonnie witnessing a murder from her [[Film/RearWindow apartment window]]. She and Michael spend the episode trying to prove that it happened in the first place (and that she wasn't hallucinating) and escape the killer, who's alternating between trying to [[{{Gaslighting [[{{Gaslighting}} make her think she's going crazy}}]] crazy]] and trying to kill ''her'' before she catches him. Throughout the episode, the score from ''Psycho'' is heard, at one point, Michael and Bonnie are lured to a house that's clearly a replica of the Bates house--at which point the house--the two lampshade this by commenting on how familiar the place looks--and there's even a RedHerring character named. . .Norman ''Baines''.
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* The "Halloween Knight" episode of ''Series/KnightRider'' had Bonnie witnessing a murder from her [[Film/RearWindow apartment window]]. She and Michael spend the episode trying to prove that it happened in the first place (and that she wasn't hallucinating) and escape the killer, who's alternating between trying to [[{{Gaslighting make her think she's going crazy}}]] and trying to kill ''her before she catches him. Throughout the episode, the score from ''Psycho'' is heard, at one point, Michael and Bonnie are lured to a house that's clearly a replica of the Bates house--at which point the two lampshade this by commenting on how familiar the place looks--and there's even a RedHerring character named. . .Norman ''Baines''.

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* The "Halloween Knight" episode of ''Series/KnightRider'' had Bonnie witnessing a murder from her [[Film/RearWindow apartment window]]. She and Michael spend the episode trying to prove that it happened in the first place (and that she wasn't hallucinating) and escape the killer, who's alternating between trying to [[{{Gaslighting make her think she's going crazy}}]] and trying to kill ''her ''her'' before she catches him. Throughout the episode, the score from ''Psycho'' is heard, at one point, Michael and Bonnie are lured to a house that's clearly a replica of the Bates house--at which point the two lampshade this by commenting on how familiar the place looks--and there's even a RedHerring character named. . .Norman ''Baines''.
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* The "Halloween Knight" episode of ''Series/KnightRider'' had Bonnie witnessing a murder from her [[Film/RearWindow apartment window]]. She and Michael spend the episode trying to prove that it happened in the first place (and that she wasn't hallucinating) and escape the killer, who's alternating between trying to [[{{Gaslighting make her think she's going crazy}}]] and trying to kill ''her before she catches him. Throughout the episode, the score from ''Psycho'' is heard, at one point, Michael and Bonnie are lured to a house that's clearly a replica of the Bates house--at which point the two lampshade this by commenting on how familiar the place looks--and there's even a RedHerring character named. . .Norman ''Baines''.
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* Logan from ''Literature/AlmostPerfect'' doesn't want to ask his mom for dating advice because it would make him feel like Norman Bates.
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* The title assassin in ''Manga/CryingFreeman'' waits with a dagger while the woman he's to kill is in the shower unaware. But as a courtesy, he lets her finish and shows himself after she steps out in a towel. He allows her a last request which [[SexFaceTurn she turns to her advantage]].

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* The title assassin in ''Manga/CryingFreeman'' waits with a dagger while the woman he's to kill is in the shower unaware. But as a courtesy, he lets her finish and shows himself after she steps out in a towel. He allows her a last request which [[SexFaceTurn [[RedemptionEqualsSex she turns to her advantage]].
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* Once in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', Opus the Penguin is in the shower and laughs at the readers being scared because of Hitchcock's film. At this moment though, lawyer Steve Dallas has to keep an elderly lady who ax-murdered her husband (Norman) in his "temporary custody" in the same boarding house.

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* Once in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', Opus the Penguin is in the shower and laughs at the readers being scared because of Hitchcock's film. At this moment though, lawyer Steve Dallas has to keep his clent -- an elderly lady who ax-murdered her husband (Norman) -- in his "temporary custody" in the same boarding house.
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* The title assassin in ''Manga/CryingFreeman'' waits with a dagger while the woman he's to kill is in the shower unaware. But as a courtesy, he lets her finish and shows himself after she steps out in a towel. He allows her a last request which [[SexFaceTurn she turns to her advantage]].
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* Once in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', Opus the Penguin is in the shower and laughs at the readers being scared because of Hitchcock's film. At this moment though, lawyer Steve Dallas has to keep an elderly lady who ax-murdered her husband (Norman) in his "temporary custody" in the same boarding house.
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* ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'': Because Polka-Dot Man can only bring himself to kill people if he imagines them as his abusive mother, Peacemaker mocks him by calling him "Norman Bates".
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* In the {{gamebook}} ''Literature/HouseOfHell'', you can choose between three pre-generated player characters, two of them which are named '''Norman''' White and Jack '''Bates'''.


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* The SurvivalHorror video game, ''VIdeoGame/SilentHill'', appropriately enough have a location named Norman's Motel.
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For parodies of the famous shower murder scene, see PsychoShowerMurderParody.
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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1CapeFeare Cape Feare]]" has a scene where Sideshow Bob composes a list of methods to kill Bart while staying at the Bates Motel.

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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E1CapeFeare "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E2CapeFeare Cape Feare]]" has a scene where Sideshow Bob composes a list of methods to kill Bart while staying at the Bates Motel.



* ''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.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': The episode "The "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E3TheWheelOComedy The Wheel o' Comedy" Comedy]]" has a scene where Elmyra sneaks up on Dizzy in the shower to give him a scrubbing.
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* ''Series/FullHouse:'' In "The First Day of School", Uncle Jesse is about to give Michelle a bath, only to find Joey in the bathtub, dressed in a scuba diving/swimsuit getup. Uncle Jesse describes this experience as "the most terrifying shower scene since ''Psycho''."
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* In episode 112 of ''Podcast/WereYouRaisedByWolves'', one of the listeners asks whether it's rude to tell her sister that her boyfriend reminds her of the serial killer in the movie ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' played by Creator/ChristianBale. The answer is surprisingly [[spoiler:that if her sister would get the joke then yes it's not rude to say this, unless she's in actual danger of being murdered, but then this isn't an etiquette question at that point.]]

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* In episode 112 of ''Podcast/WereYouRaisedByWolves'', one of the listeners asks whether it's rude to tell her sister that her boyfriend reminds her of the serial killer in the movie ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' played by Creator/ChristianBale. The answer is surprisingly [[spoiler:that if her sister would get the joke then yes it's not rude to say this, unless she's in actual danger of being murdered, but then this isn't an etiquette question at that point.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'': At one point during Jafar's song "You're Only Second Rate" there is what looks like an old woman sitting on a rocking chair. She is facing a wall until Genie turns the chair around, showing that she has Jafar's crazed face. "Granny's gonna grab ya!" A ScareChord is heard that reminds of the score in Hitchcock's film.
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* ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheHams'': Half of this movie is parodying ''Psycho''.
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** "Especially the Animal Keith Crofford!" shows a ParodyCommerical for Earl [=McGarry=], the "horror handy man" who naively repairs cinematic serial killers' plumbing, which begins with Norman Bates asking Earl to unclog Marion's blood from the shower drain.

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** "Especially the Animal Keith Crofford!" shows a ParodyCommerical ParodyCommercial for Earl [=McGarry=], the "horror handy man" who naively repairs cinematic serial killers' plumbing, which begins with Norman Bates asking Earl to unclog Marion's blood from the shower drain.
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** "Especially the Animal Keith Crofford!" shows a ParodyCommerical for Earl [=McGarry=], the "horror handy man" who naively repairs cinematic serial killers' plumbing, which begins with Norman Bates asking Earl to unclog Marion's blood from the shower drain.
** "Spike Fraser in: Should I Happen to Back Into a Horse" ends with Bitch Pudding checking into the Bates Motel, and tormenting Norman by posing as his resurrected mother.
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* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': In the second season episode "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been", Angel describes the Hyperion Hotel (which would become his headquarters the next three seasons) as having "68 rooms, 68 vacancies" in the same way Norman Bates described the Bates Motel. Also, Judy, a woman at the hotel in 1952 whom Angel tries to help has a similar backstory to Marion Crane in that she worked at a bank until she stole money from it, and a private investigator is after her (though the motives are different).
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': According to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BzkrgVivk4 The Distance: Making of Featurette]]", Nobuo Uematsu got the inspiration for Sephiroth's {{Leitmotif}}, "One-Winged Angel" from this film's theme.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': According to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BzkrgVivk4 The Distance: Making of Featurette]]", Nobuo Uematsu got the inspiration for Sephiroth's {{Leitmotif}}, "One-Winged Angel" from this film's theme.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': According to "The Distance: Making of Featurette", Nobuo Uematsu got the inspiration for Sephiroth's {{Leitmotif}}, "One-Winged Angel" from this film's theme.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': According to "The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BzkrgVivk4 The Distance: Making of Featurette", Featurette]]", Nobuo Uematsu got the inspiration for Sephiroth's {{Leitmotif}}, "One-Winged Angel" from this film's theme.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy7'': According to "The Distance: Making of Featurette", Nobuo Uematsu got the inspiration for Sephiroth's {{Leitmotif}}, "One-Winged Angel" from this film's theme.

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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy7'': ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': According to "The Distance: Making of Featurette", Nobuo Uematsu got the inspiration for Sephiroth's {{Leitmotif}}, "One-Winged Angel" from this film's theme.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy7'': According to "The Distance: Making of Featurette", Nobuo Uematsu got the inspiration for Sephiroth's {{Leitmotif}}, "One-Winged Angel" from this film's theme.
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* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIKryten Kryten]]", after the Nova 5 crew turn out to be a group of skeletons, Rimmer calls Kryten "the android version of Norman Bates"

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* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIKryten Kryten]]", after the Nova 5 crew turn out to be a group of skeletons, Rimmer calls Kryten "the android version of Norman Bates"
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* ''Series/TheComicStripPresents'' episode "Slags" has a character who is a parody of Norman Bates. The famous reveal of Mother is even parodied.
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** ''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.

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** ''Film/{{Carrie}}'': ''Film/Carrie1976'': The school is renamed Bates High School and copious use is made of the PsychoStrings whenever the religious fanatic raised Carrie uses her powers.

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