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  • In There's More Than One Way Home, Anna's busybody neighbor tells her about a meeting she isn't invited to; Anna ends the conversation as quickly as possible. When Val says, "You don't want to find out more?" Anna snaps, "Of course I do! I just didn't want to find it out from Gladys Kravitz. She already thinks I'm a witch."

Live-Action TV

  • The Expanse: Avasarala's contact list shown briefly in "Tribes" contains "Who, Dr.", "Stevens, D.", and "Clegane, G.", among others. All names of characters in shows that had been recast (like her husband's character had been).
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000:
    • In Season 8, Mike and the 'bots watched Clonus, which featured Dick Sargent in an antagonistic role. The riffers spent a good deal of time making Bewitched jokes, such as Sargent being The Other Darrin and references to assorted characters.
    • Later in the season, they watch Prince of Space. When one character tries to get another to look at something, Servo shouts, "Abner, come look!"
  • Passions: The most extensive reference of the show. A main character in the soap was named "Tabitha", who was a witch with parents named Serena and Darrin.
  • WandaVision:
    • Agatha Harkness lives in the same house as the Stephens.
    • The show was one of many American sitcoms Wanda grew up watching as a child. The premise of the "show" she creates in Westview is conceptually close to Bewitched, with the added twist that Vision also has something to hide. The second episode also very directly rips off Bewitched, using similar sound effects, a scene where Wanda and Vision slide their beds together (alluding to Samantha and Darrin being the first non-IRL married couple to share a bed on TV) and the episode ending with a switch to color (reflecting what Bewitched did shortly after Tabitha was born).
  • Wizards of Waverly Place: As a nod to the magic-based sitcoms that came before it, Alex has a teacher named Mr. Larrytate.

Western Animation

  • American Dad!: In "Jenny Fromdabloc", Stan watches an episode of Bewitched and asks Francine to treat him like a man from the 1960's, starting by giving him a martini when he gets home from work. However, Stan Can't Hold His Liquor and keeps blacking out, and by the time he wakes up, things around him have changed seemingly in the blink of an eye, convincing him that Francine is a real witch. To cap it off, Stan has a martini-induced dream based on the Bewitched opening, with Francine in place of Samantha.
  • Family Guy:
    • In "I Never Met the Dead Man", Peter starts to go mad from TV withdrawal and has a nightmare spoofing the tornado scene from The Wizard of Oz. A bunch of popular TV characters fly past him, including Jeannie transforming into Samantha.
    • In "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire", a Bewitched parody is featured where Darren becomes fed up with Endora and splashes holy water on her.
      "Yeah! The power of Christ compels you, bitch!"
    • A cutaway from "Jungle Love" has Stewie being disappointed by the 2005 film, prompting him to travel all the way to Hollywood just to punch Will Ferrell in the face.
  • The Flintstones: The episode "Samantha" is a crossover with the show, in which Samantha and Darrin become the Flintstones' new neighbors.
  • The Simpsons: In the "Treehouse of Horror VIII" segment Easy Bake Coven, Marge visits her sisters after revealing she's a witch, and Patty refers to Homer as "Durwood".

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