- In My Little Pony: Friends Forever Issue 18, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy go to their Flight Camp Reunion, with Fluttershy unwilling to be there due to how much she was teased. When one of her bullies approaches her and promises to give her something at the award ceremony, Fluttershy believes that they are planning a practical joke and has an Imagine Spot where she has visions that mirror those of Carrie, but instead of pig's blood, it's rainbow liquids.
- One Treehouse of Horror comic parodied Carrie and Dark Phoenix by putting Lisa in the position of both. After being angry over accidentally eating three-eyed fish soup at lunch, Bart pranks her by piping chili into the showerhead while the other girls taunt her with napkins and shouts of "clean it up!". Lisa eventually discovers she has powerful psychokinetic abilities, which are unleashed to slaughter her schoolmates at a dance. Mr. Burns, seemingly the Professor X of the scenario, comes to recruit her, but only to serve as a Living Battery, Lisa being guilted into accepting for her rampage. For added measure, Lisa derailed the story from becoming a complete Carrie homage when she accurately guessed Nelson and Jessica Lovejoy were planning to have her voted dance queen so they could dump chili on her, causing Nelson to run away before they even reached the school.
- In The Rise of Darth Vulcan, Vulcan muses that the only reason he'd want to go to Canterlot High is to dump pig blood on the prom queen.
- In Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Chloe gets dumped with red paint by her classmates after successfully performing in a talent show (just after the class tried to sabotage it by dumping the costume she was using with more red paint). However, unlike Carrie, she forgoes telekinetic powers and instead bashes her bully with the paint can itself.
- Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. Mention is made of Psionics, the advanced science of the mind that will enable humans to "read each other's thoughts, see past and future events, and electrocute our classmates through telekinesis".
- Monsters University: In a parody of the pigs' blood scene, the ROR fraternity pranks Oozma Kappa by dropping colored paint, glitter and stuffed animals on them to make them look adorable (and not scary).
- The Haunted World of El Superbeasto has a near shot-for-shot remake of the 1976 version of the prom scene where Dr. Satan gets blood dumped on him just as he's married to Velvet Von Black. The entire sequence is set to Why'd You Have To Rip Off Carrie?, lambasting this as "the most retarded" part of the movie and asking if anyone tried to get permission from Stephen King or Brian De Palma. For added measure there's an animated version of P.J. Soles as Norma laughing and then getting sprayed with a hose.
- The final Jump Scare of Friday the 13th (1980) was directly inspired by the film's ending.
- The ending of Addams Family Values parodies the film's ending.
- In Harry and the Hendersons, Sarah worries that her classmates will pour pig's blood on her if they find out they are harboring a Sasquatch.
- It Follows: When Jay is getting dressed for her date with Jeff/Hugh, she's putting makeup on in the mirror in a pink dress from the same angle as Carrie (1976).
- Jawbreaker: After Alpha Bitch Courtney (reminiscent of Chris Hargensen) is elected Prom Queen, Julie exposes her crimes and the student body pelt corsages at her in slow motion, reminiscent of the pig blood scene.
- The Dresden Files: In the short "It's My Birthday, Too", when a Black Court vamp starts threatening them over the intercom, Harry quickly asks what she was like in life. One girl responds that she wasn't all that popular, and some of the kids picked on her.Harry: Crap. Code Carrie.
- House of Hell, a horror-themed Gamebook, have the player being given three pre-generated characters, two of them being named Carrie Torrance and Norman White.
- In Are You Alone on Purpose? Paulina wonders if Alison's mother is a witch who cursed Alison's bully Harry to break his back. She says, "I saw a movie like that once on TV," and starts summarizing the plot of Carrie before Alison cuts her off.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the third season episode "The Prom" (appropriately enough), Buffy tells Angel she's "gotta stop a crazy from pulling a Carrie at the prom." Later, we find out the villain of the week has been brainwashing hellhounds by showing them prom-related movies, one of them being Carrie.
- Glee:
- In "Born This Way", Quinn tells Lauren that someone will spill pigs blood on her if she gets elected prom queen.
- In "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds", Tina gets elected prom queen, only to get red slushie dumped on her. The scene even has Kitty as the Sue Expy spotting the bucket but not being able to stop the prank.
- My Two Dads: In one episode where Nicole is upset about her lack of popularity at school, Judge Margaret - who is overseeing her custody matter - tries to comfort her with a story about a sad lonely girl seemingly about herself... right up until the point where Margaret references that prom scene.Nicole: Wasn't that Carrie?!
Judge Margaret: That's all I got. I was really popular at school. - Roseanne: In "Promises, Promises", Darlene says the only way she'd be at the prom would be if she were sitting in the rafters with a bucket of pig's blood.
- That '70s Show: In "Prom Night", Hyde's mom tries to discourage from from going to the prom, saying "They're all going to laugh at you."
- The X-Files: In "Shadows", Mulder brings up psychokinesis, and Scully asks "You mean how Carrie got even at the prom?"
- In an episode of The IT Crowd, Jen uses several euphemisms for her period, none of which Moss understands. When Rory mentions the first scene in Carrie, Moss gets it.
- Derry Girls has the prom go badly wrong when psychopathic transfer student May tries to dump red paint on Academic Alpha Bitch Jenny Joyce. James specifically summarises Carrie to explain it to everyone else.
- Victorious has a subtle reference to Carrie. In an episode where Jade tries to ruin the school prom, it's mentioned that she has several gallons of blood on standby. She doesn't actually use the blood in her plans. You'd think this was because it's a kids' show, but considering what happened in the last episode...
- An episode of Riverdale featured the cast performing songs from the musical adaptation.
- Scream: The TV Series: When Brooke is practicing to be pageant queen, the killer drops Jake's body down in front of her and splatters her with his blood.
- Something is Out There. A Mystery of the Week involves a child with telekinetic abilities, and Telepathic Spacewoman Ta'Ra is surprised when her human partner Jack Breslin knows what it is. He replies that he's seen Carrie.
- Stranger Things: After the psychopathic bully Angela teases Eleven about her unpopularity and Hopper's death and humiliates her in front of Mike, the lights in the skating rink turn pyrotechnic and she sees everybody laughing at her and joining in before hitting Angela with her roller-skate.
- Wednesday: In one episode, a group of local bullies sabotage the Nevermore Academy school dance by rigging the sprinkler system to spray red paint over the students. Wednesday cements the reference when she laments they didn't spring for real pig’s blood.
- "Hell in the Hallways" by Ice Nine Kills is based on the book, and the accompanying music video is a Whole-Plot Reference.
- Adam Sandler's first comedy album, They're All Gonna Laugh at You!, gets its title from one of the sketches on it ("Oh, Mom..."). In the sketch, a family is at the dinner table and every time "Mom" is asked a question she responds with the famous line from the 1976 film, spoken (screamed, really) in true Piper Laurie fashion.
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- Rain (2010): When Rain is talking to Allison about the idea of being crowned prom queen,
she references the film's climax.Rain: Or the fear that I haven't actually passed at all this whole time, and everyone always hated me, and getting crowned prom queen is just going to result in being doused in pig's blood.
(Allison and Ana look shocked'')
Allison: Maybe campy 70s horror movies aren't the best point of reference, but I see what you're saying. - Sleepless Domain: When Tessa visits the magical girl graveyard at the beginning of Chapter 6, Carrie White's name can be seen on one of the graves in the background.
- In Kevin & Kell, when Rhonda is named Prom Queen, someone spots a bucket of pig blood on a rafter. It was supposed to be on the carnivores' snack table.
- Let Me Explain Studios: In "My Terrible Mouth Accident", during the Content Warning, when Rebecca states that she's not adversed to, "a little bit of blood... or a gallon or two," she pulls a rope that causes a bucket of blood to spill all over her, akin to Carrie having pig blood spilt on her.
- Super-Villain-Bowl! has Carrie showing up as one of the random villains, though instead of getting showered by blood she's hit with insect gunk.
- CinemaSins: In the post-review gag reel for Monsters University, audio from the film plays over the "Cute-ma Kappa" prank scene.
- A flashback in SHED.MOV has Fluttershy elected prom queen, only to have a bucket of (period) blood dumped on her.
- In an episode of Friendship is Witchcraft, Apple Bloom fears that Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara are going to drop pigs' blood on her at the party.
- Worm: Taylor explicitly compares her situation to Carrie and swears to not go on a rampage with her powers. She instead finds a far more productive outlet where she can use her powers, being a supervillain.
- Wait In The Wings: Dissected the Troubled Production history of Carrie: The Musical in "The Broadway Show that Closed in 3 DAYS: The History of Carrie the Musical" and makes passing jokes or references to it in other episodes since, on a channel discussing Broadway flops, it is considered the definitive Broadway flop story.
- The Amazing World of Gumball: Carrie Krueger is named after Carrie White and Freddy Krueger.
- American Dad!: In a flashback from "It's Good to Be the Queen" shows bullies attempting to the pigs' blood prank on Stan at the prom. However, one of them stopped reading in the middle of a sentence, so they instead dropped pigs on him.
- Beetlejuice: In an episode where BJ recounts his high school days, his classmates' decision to humiliate him just as he's crowned prom king (along with his robotic date Rusty, acquired because nobody would go with him) is the trigger for him gaining full control of his abilities, marked by a triumphant cry of "It's showtime!" before the chaos begins.
- One episode of the Canadian cartoon, Being Ian, starts off with an Imagine Spot of Ian recreating the prom scene, only instead of pig's blood, Ian gets covered with chocolate sauce.
- Bob's Burgers: In "Lobsterfest", Linda compares Hugo in a sash to Carrie on prom night.
- The Ghost and Molly McGee: In "Hooray for Mollywood", one of the scenes for Molly's scary movie takes place at a senior prom and Darryl dumps a bucket of fake blood on Andrea.
- In Inside Job (2021), it's revealed that Reagan pulled a "reverse Carrie" at her high school prom (that is, she dumped pig's blood on the popular kids rather than the other way around).
- In the pilot episode to Littlest Pet Shop (2012), the Biskit twins try to pull the prom prank on Blythe during her pet fashion show, except instead of pig's blood, they plan on dumping chocolate frosting and kitty litter onto Blythe. Luckily, Russell scares the twins off before they can go through with it.
- Robot Chicken: A sketch from "Rebel Appliance" is a mash-up of the film and The Secret World of Alex Mack. It mocks the rather lame superpowers she had from the series, with her having very weak telekinesis relative to Carrie, but then she remembers she can shoot lightning out of her hands.
- The Simpsons:
- In "The Color Yellow", Homer and Marge reveal that they walked out of Carrie after she was crowned prom queen so they can assume the story ended happily.
- In "Treehouse of Horror XXV", producer Carolyn Omine is credited as "Carrie (Lyn Omine)".
- Tiny Toon Adventures: In the short, "The Amazing Three" (part of "Love Disconnection"), Shirley's psychic rampage is a G-rated version of the prom scene, with punch taking the place of pig's blood. Babs even asks Fifi if she's seen Carrie.
- The Venture Brothers: In "The Trial of the Monarch", Monarch refers to Dr. Girlfriend's breasts as "dirty pillows".
