- A Certain Scientific Railgun: Kuroko Shirai has a fantasy of her playing Ilsa and Mikoto Misaka playing Rick reenacting the "We'll always have Paris" scene.
Comic Strips
- A Big Nate strip have the resident nerd Francis saying Casablanca is his favorite movie. Kind of an odd choice for an eleven-year-old.
Fan Works
- Pokémon × Nimja: Play the Game has a very subtle example of this in Chapter 12, "Dedicated to...", when the citizens of Amsterdam, led by a foreigner, sing their national anthem after just haven gone through a dark time in an attempt to raise their spirits. This is, of course, a reference to the anthem scene in the film, complete with the lines "Voor de Nederlands! Voor democratie!" (For the Netherlands! For democracy!) being said afterwards among a slew of applause and rejoicing.
- Foodfight!: The anthem sing-off sequence is parodied between the Brand X soldiers and the rest of the mascots.
- Robert Zemeckis cited the film as an influence on Allied.
- Barb Wire uses the movie as a Whole-Plot Reference.
- Brazil has a scene in which the protagonist hears "Here's looking at you, kid" and repeats it to his boss.
- Keenon Ivory Wayan's character in the buddy-cop comedy The Glimmer Man is a huge fan of Casablanca, even watching the movie alone in his apartment and crying his eyes out at the "looking at you" scene.
- Gremlins 2: The New Batch says the TV station where the movie is set will air "Casablanca, now in color, and with a happy ending"
- Hot Shots! Part Deux: The romantic subplot spoofs Casablanca relentlessly.
- When Harry Met Sally...: Harry and Sally watch Casablanca while on the phone together and discuss it.
- Earlier in the movie, when they're driving together for the first time, they argue over which one Ilsa really loved, Rick or Victor.
- In The World's End, when Sam is leaving town, Gary says that they'll "always have the disableds".
- Woody Allen loves this movie:
- Play It Again, Sam contains several references, from the title coming from the famous misquote, to the protagonist being a fan of the film and Humphrey Bogart (who appears as a character) to the ending.
- In Manhattan, Isaac uses the line "We'll always have Paris" while breaking up with Tracy.
- The Usual Suspects got its title from the famous line, "Round up the usual suspects".
- In Men in Black, K describes Earth's status as a gathering place for aliens as being like the film, only with no Nazis.
- In Moonraker, James Bond's Bond One-Liner after throwing Chang through a window into a piano is "Play it again, Sam". Funnily enough, Roger Moore had previously used that one-liner in an episode of The Persuaders!.
- Ocean's Eleven; when Danny goes to see Tess, his ex-wife, and Terry, her current husband, sees them when he walks in, Danny and Tess try to pass it off as if the two just happened to run into each other, and Danny says the line, "Of all the gin joints."
- 20th Century Women: In the opening montage, Dorothea and Jamie watch the movie on TV. "As Time Goes By" also features as soundtrack in two scenes, one of which is the last, continuing into the closing credits.
- Space Jam: A New Legacy: One of the worlds in the Serververse is a Casablanca world, and this is where LeBron James and Bugs Bunny manage to locate Yosemite Sam.Ilsa: Sing it, Sam.
Sam: Ooh, you got baggage, lady. I can relate. - La La Land: Mia works at a coffee shop by the lot where Rick's apartment in Casablanca was, which impresses Sebastian.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze: Heading back into the sewers to search for a new lair, most of the Turtles give April dignified and quick goodbyes, but Michelangelo (donning a hat) opts to imitate Rick Blaine. April found it amusing; Donatello not so much.Michelangelo: Well, the lives of two people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world, Ilsa. That's why you're getting on that plane. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow—
Donatello: [popping back up to grab him] Would you stop?! [pulls him into the sewer] - Carry On Spying: The Fat Man was supposed to be a parody of Signor Ferrari.
- Show Me Love: Agnes has a poster of the movie in her room.
- In A Boy Made of Blocks, Alex sees his eight-year-old son playing a video game and says, "Hey, Sam, what are you playing?" He realizes he has the fundaments of a Casablanca joke, but Sam wouldn't understand it.
- The Children's Hour, by Jerry Pournelle and S. M. Stirling, is a sci-fi retelling of the movie, with the change that "Ilsa" dumps "Lazlo" and runs off with "Rick".
- In Shtum, Jonah becomes so engrossed in watching Casablanca that he doesn't notice when Ben sits next to him on the sofa.
- Spinetinglers: The tagline for book #1 (The Substitute Creature) is "Here's looking at you, kid!"
- In There's More Than One Way Home, Val expresses surprise that Anna's favorite movie is Groundhog Day and not Casablanca. Anna says, "Please. So predictable. Besides, it's about a woman losing her true love forever. Groundhog Day is about starting over."
- Honor Harrington: Even two thousand years after it was made, Casablanca is still remembered - Kevin Usher loves it, and introduced Victor Cachat to the story.
- The 100, it looks like even villains from a post apocalyptic setting know of this movie. One of the show villains, Sheidheda mockingly quotes the movie's most famous line after making the good guys accept his terms in exchange for his help:Sheidheda:I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
- The Disney's California Adventure grand opening special ends with Michael Eisner and Mickey Mouse walking into the park in a manner reminiscent of the film's closing shot.Eisner: You know, Mickey, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful theme park.
- Sesame Street: A 1990 sketch features a Muppet version of Rick repeatedly getting Sam to say the alphabet ("Say it again, Sam.").
- The West Wing: in the second season episode "The Leadership Breakfast", Toby walks in on Ann Stark, the chief of staff of the Republican Senate Minority Leader, watching TV in her room, and watching the anchor quote her being "surprised" as to events that took place earlier. Toby responds, "And shocked. Shocked, I say, to discover that there is gambling going on in this establishment", which is not the correct line (it's actually "gambling going on in here").
- Red Dwarf:
- In "Better Than Life", Lister is appalled that Casablanca has been remade, as the version with Myra Dinglebat and Peter Beardsley was definitive.Holly: I remember that one. Of all the spacebars in all the cosmos, you had to materialise into mine.
- In "Camille", Lister uses the film to teach Kryten how to be noble. The ending to the episode parodies the ending when Kryten persuades Camille to go with her husband, then walking off with Lister.Maybe I'm not too good at being noble, kid, but the problems of two blobs and a droid don't mean a hill of beans in this crazy world.We'll always have parrots.
- In "Better Than Life", Lister is appalled that Casablanca has been remade, as the version with Myra Dinglebat and Peter Beardsley was definitive.
- In the Doctor Who serial "The Happiness Patrol", the Doctor sings "As Time Goes By".
- The British sitcom As Time Goes By got its title from the film's theme song.
- The "Unforgettable" episode of Amen has Ernest Frye courting a much younger environmentalist. When her ex-boyfriend resurfaces and asks her to go with him, she initially declines, but Ernie gently encourages her to go, in a scene complete with fog, trenchcoats, etc. In an earlier episode, after the ex-fiancée who left him at the altar resurfaces, the Reverend Gregory laments, "Of all the church services in Philadelphia, you had to walk into mine."
- 227. Mary has a fantasy about herself, her husband Lester, and the inhabitants of their building like this.
- One of Sisters' many fantasy sequences was like this, as Teddy's current boyfriend helps her ex-boyfriend escape criminal charges, yet gives them a few minutes to say "goodbye".
- In The Love Boat episode "The Secret Life of Burl Smith," Gopher thinks his Celeb Crush doesn't like him. He sadly imagines the two of them starring in Rick and Ilsa's goodbye scene.
- Homicide: Life on the Street: In the seventh season episode "A Case of Do or Die" (itself a reference to "As Time Goes By"), Sheppard and Mike Giardello investigate a murder at a repertory movie theater showing Casablanca (along with The Big Sleep). When they find out the audience has already left, Sheppard has this to say:Sheppard: I guess there's only one thing left to do.
Giardello, Sheppard: (in unison) Round up the usual suspects.- Later, when Sheppard and Giardello arrest the suspect - who killed the victim for talking in the theater all the time - the suspect grouses, "Of all the movie theaters in all the cities in all the world, he had to go into mine!"
- The Outer Limits (1995): The episode "Star Crossed" was a Whole-Plot Reference to Casablanca, with the Nazis replaced with aliens.
- Mad Men: In the third season episode "The Gypsy and the Hobo", Roger gets visited by an old girlfriend, Annabelle, who wants to hire the firm for her country. When they have dinner, Annabelle brings up their past relationship, comparing to the film, to which Roger points out, "We were nothing like Casablanca".
- In an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, when discussing movies with his girlfriend, Will mocks the movie for being set in the middle of Africa and the only black person being from Detroit.
- An episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is entitled "We'll Always Have Paris." Then a Star Trek: Lower Decks episode riffed on that with "We'll Always Have Tom Paris" (several Star Trek: Voyager fanfics have used that gag as well).
- Per Word of God, the grudging friendship between Odo and Quark on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was based on that between Louis and Rick, albeit with a garrulous, lecherous bartender and a taciturn cop rather than the reverse. The episode "It's Only a Paper Moon" was originally titled "Everybody Comes to Quark's."
- In an episode of Family Ties, after realizing that he has to end things with a young woman he's become attracted to, Alex laments, "Of all the Basic Applied Economic Principles of Capitalism in the Post-Industrial Era seminars in the world, you had to walk into mine."
- Garfield: Caught in the Act has a Film Noir-themed level called "Catsablanca".
- Grim Fandango: The entire second act is one long Homage to Casablanca, Manny runs a nightclub in a scummy port town like Rick, and Glottis plays the piano like Sam. They even have the tuxes. The difference is Manny's running the nightclub specifically to catch a girl from his past.
- Sam & Max Hit the Road: There's a moment in the game where you get to a crazy place called Mystery Vortex and there's a piano in there. When you interact with it, Max screams "Don't play it, Sam!" and after that, everytime you interact with the piano, it triggers Max's line: "Off all the Daliesque tourist traps in the world, we had to walk into this one".
- Red vs. Blue: Family Shatters: In West's dream in "Hard Boiled", his monologue for Tiny's introduction riffs off Rick's famous line.West: Of all the bases in all the planets in all the solar systems, she walks into mine.
- Dinosaur Comics sees a "Compressed Film Comics" adaptation
of the movie... that quickly goes off the rails and becomes a gay love story between Rick and Louis. - Poison Ivy Gulch: On 10/29/2021, saloon girl Lorraine tells the piano player to "Play it, Sam".
- In Achievement Hunter's infamous Uno: The Movie, Jeremy turns Casablanca's, "Here's looking at you, kid," into a catchphrase for whenever he uses a Reverse card.
- The Nostalgia Critic:
- In his review of Barb Wire, he says that the film is basically Casablanca with boobies, since both films involve a scientist and his spouse who work for a resistance hiding from a fascist government in a bar run by the spouse's ex and a corrupt cop.
- In his review of Foodfight!, he criticizes the above-mentioned sing-off scene as a ripping off an iconic film that the children likely watching have not even seen yet. He, of course, is talking about Barb Wire. As a punchline, a clip of a tearful woman shouting "Viva la France!" plays at the conclusion of the sing-off.
- Batman Beyond: The episode "Where's Terry?" opens with Terry and his friends walking out of a theater showing the film.
- BoJack Horseman: In "Yes And", the new director on Secretariat unintentionally insults BoJack by saying "it's not Casablanca". It turns out he meant it literally; as in "it's not about a bar owner named Rick".
- Family Guy: In the first episode, Peter brings the porn film Assablanca to a stag party. Unfortunately, the sexy stuff has been taped over for his kid's history class.
- The Fairly OddParents!: In "Where's Wanda?", Trixie has a Casablanca-themed booth for Student-Parent Movie Night at the school. The concluding scene is parodied between Timmy and Trixie later in the episode.
- Home Movies: In "Yoko", Brendan recreates the closing scene but using his ex-girlfriend's and her new boyfriend's names in place of Ilsa and Laszlo for his own movie.
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Near the beginning of "Frenchfry", Jumba and Pleakley spoof the airport scene.
- Looney Tunes:
- Bugs hums "As Time Goes By" in 1944's Hare Force.
- Pepé Le Pew appears as Sam playing "As Time Goes By" in The Cat's Bah.
- The 1995 short Carrotblanca is a Whole-Plot Reference to the film.
- Phineas and Ferb:
- "Of all the clearings in all the woods in all the world, she walks into mine." - Buford, regarding a girl he had a crush on, while wearing a fuzzy bear suit
- "We'll always have giant plastic baguettes." - Isabella, on the subject of Phineas' Oblivious to Love tendencies striking again in Paris.
- Ready Jet Go!: In "Detective Mindy", Mitchell tells Mindy "I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship, Junior Detective Mindy."
- Rocko's Modern Life: In a now-censored scene in "The Good the Bad and the Wallaby", Heffer says goodbye to a milking machine by paraphrasing the film's ending.Heffer: Just remember, the problems of two people don't amount to a hill of manure in this wacky world. But at least we'll always have the barn.
- The Simpsons:
- The closing shot of "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" parodies that of the film.
- The subplot for "Natural Born Kissers" involved Bart and Lisa discovering an alternate ending to the film in which Rick and Ilsa get married.
- In "The Italian Bob", Bart paraphrases a line from this film upon learning that Sideshow Bob is the mayor of a small Tuscan village.Bart: Sideshow Bob? Of all the regioni in all the villaggi in all of Italia, you had to be il Mayore of this one!
- The ending of "Apocalypse Cow" parodies the ending to Casablanca ("Here's looking at you, cud.")
- "The Burns Cage" has the school mounting a play based on the movie.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: In the DVD Commentary for "Plankton!", Clancy Brown lampshades a What Could Have Been by referencing an urban legend surrounding Casablanca.Clancy: Ron Reagan almost had Humphrey Bogart's role in Casablanca, and Plankton almost was playing SpongeBob!
