Anime & Manga
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable): Protagonist Josuke Higashikata's Stand is called Crazy Diamond, after "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". Due to copyright reasons, his Stand is sometimes called Shining Diamond instead, preserving the reference while still avoiding trademark infringement.
- In that same part, secondary protagonist Koichi Hirose's Stand is called Echoes (Reverb in English localizations), and The Dragon to the main antagonist has one named Atom Heart Father (after Atom Heart Mother; English localizations shorten the name to just Heart Father). There's also a character named Reimi Sugimoto; her first name is an anagram of the Japanese spelling of "Emily", believed to be a reference to the Barret-era song "See Emily Play". Reimi's dog, Arnold, may also be named after the song "Arnold Layne" from the same era.
- Similarly, the light novel Boogiepop and Others has a rather important character named Echoes, which, you guessed it, is a reference to Pink Floyd's 23 minute epic, Echoes.
- In K-On!, Ritsu decides to make herself more noticeable onstage, in an operation she calls "Operation Shine On You Crazy Ritchan."
- Pokémon Crossing: One of the oneshots uses lyrics from The Wall to describe Beau and Fauna running away from their abusive parents.
- In American Beauty, Lester is amazed that Ricky owns a copy of The Dark Side of the Moon.
- In Beautiful Girls, when Willie asks Marty what kids her age do for a living, she claims they get stoned, binge on donuts, and listen to Pink Floyd (though she admits she was kidding about everything except the donuts).
- Boyhood: At a party Olivia has for her students, one of them performs "Wish You Were Here".
- The inflatable pig from the Animals album cover is floating above Battersea Power Station – converted into humanity's last museum – in Children of Men.
- In Dazed and Confused, the main character is named Randall "Pink" Floyd.
- In Disturbing Behavior, when Mr. Newburry is driving a group of brainwashed students off a cliff, he yells out, "Hey, teacher! Leave those kids alone!"
- In Everybody Wants Some!!, Willoughby gets high with his other teammates while listening to "Fearless", and talks about how good the song is while ragging on "corporate rock" like Van Halen.note
- In Parasite (2019), Mr. Park's tech company is called "Another Brick", which is a reference to "Another Brick in the Wall".
- In The Squid and the Whale, Walt performs "Hey You" at his school talent show, and pretends he wrote it. We later hear the original in the film.
- A bit character from There's More Than One Way Home has a dog named Pink Floyd.
- In I Think I Love You, Bill looks through his cassette collection from 1972, which includes a tape labelled "Floyd, Pink."
- Doctor Who Expanded Universe books:
- Eighth Doctor Adventures: In The Slow Empire, Fitz attempts to play "Interstellar Overdrive", but botches it so badly that Anji mistakes it for the Steptoe and Son theme.
- Doctor Who New Adventures: In All-Consuming Fire, Ace compares the experience of hearing Azathoth's voice to the line "there's someone in my head, but it's not me" from "Brain Damage".
- Past Doctor Adventures: In Business Unusual, the Sixth Doctor professes his enjoyment of Pink Floyd, particularly The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
- Johnny from Dogs Don't Talk sings "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2." Mr. Strong wonders if he's trying to tell them something.
- In If I Fall, If I Die, Will's mother warns him with a fake British accent that school will make him another brick in the wall, to his confusion.
- In Shine Shine Shine, Sunny's college crush wore a Pink Floyd T-shirt.
- In When My Heart Joins the Thousand, Alvie wears a Pink Floyd T-shirt.
- In Both Can Be True, Ash wears a Pink Floyd T-shirt, which reminds Daniel of how he and his Disappeared Dad used to listen to Pink Floyd.
- Classic Albums: One episode was devoted to The Dark Side of the Moon.
- Doctor Who:
- In "The Age of Steel", the marching of thousands of mind-controlled Londoners to Battersea (referred to by the Doctor as "sheep") echoes "Sheep" from Animals, where the sheep are led into the "valley of steel" to be slaughtered. As a Shout-Out, the episode also features Battersea Power Station.
- In "The Caretaker", the Doctor's discreet signal to get Clara's attention is whistling the arpeggio four-note motif from "Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2."
- In "The Woman Who Lived", the Doctor plays a snippet of "Wish You Were Here" on his guitar.
- The Grand Tour: In "A Scandi Flick", Jeremy Clarkson compares the rally lights on his modified Audi RS4 to the lighting rigs at a Pink Floyd show.
- Legion: In "Chapter 27", David Haller and Gabrielle Xavier sing "Mother".
- The first episode of Only Fools and Horses had a montage of Del Boy trying to sell dodgy briefcases set to "Money". Due to licensing issues, this was changed for the DVD.
- Top Gear (UK): During Jeremy Clarkson's review of the Ferrari Enzo in Season 5, Episode 2, he namedrops several Pink Floyd works; the Enzo itself was loaned to him by Nick Mason in exchange for promoting an updated version of Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd.
Music
- On The Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique the band samples "Breathe" from The Dark Side of the Moon during "B-Boy Bouillabaisse" and "Time" during "Looking Down The Barrel Of The Gun". On that same album "Johnny Ryall" has a sample from "One of These Days" from Meddle.
- "The Battersea Power Station Blues" is in part about the shoot for the Animals album cover.
- Elvis Costello: in his song "The Other Side of Summer", one of the lyrics ("A poor little schoolboy who said 'We don't need no lessons'.") is a Take That! to "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2".
- Echo & the Bunnymen's Self-Titled Album features a silhouette of the band members grouped in a tree-like formation on the disc label (and the back cover on LP releases), nodding to a similar image on the back cover of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
- The music video for Paul McCartney's "Coming Up" features a parody of David Gilmour as one of the many musicians spoofed in McCartney's Fake Band.
- The song "Appels + Oranjes" from The Smashing Pumpkins album Adore is an intentionally misspelled reference to one of Floyd's early singles.
- David Bowie recorded a Cover Version of "See Emily Play" for 1973's Pin Ups.
- Canadian figure skater Joseph Phan performed to "Money" for his short program
during the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 competitive seasons.
- The Binding of Isaac: The Angelic Prism item causes anything you shoot through it to split into four rainbow-coloured shots. Its pickup quote is "Eclipsed by the moon".
- Deltarune: The recruits bio for Ruddin, an enemy themed after the playing card suit, ends with the sentence "Shine on, you lazy diamond!"
- Donkey Kong Land: In an extremely out of the way and obtuse instance of this, the game's code uses the string "PFLOYD" to check the integrity of its save data.
- Ecco the Dolphin: The first two games' soundtracks had a lot of Pink Floyd influences, as the composers were instructed to use their work for inspiration. There's a more overt shoutout in the name of the penultimate level of the first game: "Welcome to the Machine".
- Jet Set Willy: One room is the "Emergency Power Generator", a flying pig above a miniature indoor Battersea Power Station.
- The Talos Principle: There's an Easter Egg room in B-5 with a 3D recreation of The Dark Side of the Moon logo.
- Questionable Content: The end page notes for "Pink Floyd" are all in all you're just another dick in the wall.
- The Nostalgia Critic: In his review of Felix the Cat: The Movie Doug looks at the scene where the entire crowd is full of monsters and compares it to the Fascist rally in The Wall, even intercutting the cartoon scenes with Bob Geldof's performance from that film.
- A later episode on Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory when he quips that a Disney Acid Sequence is a Nickelodeon version of The Wall. Accompanied by an impression of Spongebob Squarepants saying "Squidward, we don't need no education"
- Big City Greens: In "Cricket's Place" as Cricket drums on a wall pipe, he sings "We don't go to Ant Corner!" to the tune of the famous "We don't need no education" from "Another Brick in the Wall - Part 2".
- Logorama: The cover for The Wall can be seen as a literal wall at the Pizza Hut diner.
- Gravity Falls: In the short "Mabel's Guide to Color", Mabel is wearing a sweater with the cover of The Dark Side of the Moon.
- The Loud House:
- In "Future Tense", Luna screams the "We don't need no education!" lyric from "Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)" when her parents sign her up for classes at a community college.
- In "One of the Boys", in the brief shot where a colorless background to the inside of Loki and Loni's room can be seen, there's what appears to be a poster of the cover of The Dark Side of the Moon.
- From an episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: After arriving back where they started in the Canterlot Archives, Spike asks "isn't this where we came in?"
- In Regular Show, Muscle Man has a pair of posters featuring the covers of The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here in his trailer, as seen in different episodes.
- In the Ready Jet Go! episode, "Sunspot’s Sunspot", Jet says "Set the controls for the heart of the sun!", which is a reference to the song of the same name.
- The Simpsons:
- In "The Old Man and the Lisa", Mr. Burns says to a hippie, "Shine on, you crazy diamond".
- In "Homerpalooza", Homer gets hit in the stomach with a pig that Peter Frampton bought at Pink Floyd's yard sale.
- When Ned Flanders is under influence of peyote in "D'oh-in in the Wind", he sees Melody, Verse and Rich Uncle Skeleton (The Grateful Dead) and the marching hammers from The Wall march in front of him, suddenly turned into the Lips & Tongue logo of The Rolling Stones, telling him to "Pucker up, Ned".
- Tupuxuara deliradamus, a species of pterosaur named for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".
