- There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension: PaRappa shows up as a fake ad titled RaPappa the Paper.
- Friday Night Funkin': One of the possible intro texts you can see in the startup sequence says "Like Parappa but cooler".
- Homestar Runner: Coach Z dresses as PaRappa in the 2017 Halloween cartoon "Haunted Photo Booth", in keeping with his usual pattern of dressing as rappers for Halloween.
- Race to the Mansion of Tomorrow: An expy of PaRappa called Soskoa appears as a Talk Show host in Chicken Tech Inc.
- Super Mario Bros. Z: Episode 2 of the original series has Kamek cast a spell to summon a Metal Mushroom for Bowser to ingest, with the incantation being "PaRappa the Rapper". The reboot instead changes the incantation to be "À la peanut butter sandwiches".
- The Annotated Series:
- In The Adventures of Donkey Ollie, an annotation resembling the game's scoring system is put up when Donkey Ollie launches into a terrible rap. Predictably, it's set at "U Rappin' AWFUL".
- A similar gag occurs in Titanic: The Legend Goes On during Fritz's rap, but in that instance the "U Rappin'" meter is set below "AWFUL" and down at "actually please stop".
- The Nostalgia Critic: In his Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa review, Critic at one point quips "You know, I'm not gonna lie, I really thought PaRappa the Rapper's origin story would be more interesting than this."
- PaRappa raps against Lucio in Freshy Kanal's rap battle series, and against Poochie in Eddie's Rap Channel's ANIMATION VS ANYTHING series.
- PaRappa is seen from the back while a professor takes roll in Drawn Together episode "Foxxy vs. The Board of Education", among other anime and Japanese video game characters.
- PaRappa shows up in three skits of Robot Chicken, two of which make fun of the repetitive "Simon Says" nature of his rapping... and end with a character getting shot up.
