Referenced By / Pride and Prejudice

Anime and Manga

• In the series finale of Glitter Force Doki Doki, Rachel is said to own a copy of Pride and Prejudice. This is a Cultural Translation as the original Japanese version had her with a copy of the Hundred Poems.

Films — Live-Action

• You've Got Mail: The main character says she re-reads Pride and Prejudice every year.
• Footage from the BBC adaptation is shown in the 2023 Barbie film during a fake ad for a “Depression Barbie”.

Literature

• Bridget Jones Diaries references the plot and its characters, and some see it even as a Whole-Plot Reference. Mark Darcy is named after Mr Darcy.
• Discworld:
  • Nanny Ogg's Cookbook claims that "It is a truth self evident that a man in possession of his own teeth, a decent pair of boots, a couple of acres of land and some pigs that need feeding must be in want of a wife".
  • Vimes's visit to the Gordon family in Snuff is an extended parody of the Bennets, with Vimes openly wondering why the daughters are all hanging around waiting for a husband rather than doing something useful. (In marked contrast to Mrs. Bennet, Mrs Gordon strongly agrees with him.) The youngest sister is named Jane and is writing a novel about "the complexities of personal relationships". She shows every sign of being the Disc's counterpart to Austen herself, until Vimes convinces her to turn it into a crime thriller. The result: Pride and Extreme Prejudice.
• Ibi Zoboi's Pride is a re-adaptation focusing on African-American teenagers in Brooklyn where the protagonist is named Zuri Benetiz and is of Dominican and Haitian descent and Fitzwilliam Darcy is renamed "Darius Darcy" and is a member of a wealthy family who moves into the fast gentrifying neighborhood of Bushwick.
• Pem from The Mermaid's Mirror was named after Pemberley because one of her moms is an English teacher.
• In Are You Seeing Me? Justine says that her boyfriend Marc could do with "a little less Bingley and a little more Darcy."
• Nathan from I Wish You All the Best owns five worn-out copies of Pride and Prejudice, in which he's highlighted passages and written notes in the margins.

Live Action TV

• In Red Dwarf, Christine Kochanski is a fan of the novel, and in one episode, they visit a computer generated version of P&P world. All the girls are silly and Mrs. Bennet actually behaves herself. The guys are pleased that all the girls seem horny...
• George Wickham, a military officer and antagonist of the TV-only story Sharpe's Justice of Sharpe series, shares a name with a character from Pride and Prejudice, who is also a military officer and an antagonist. Given what happens to the Sharpe version of the character, the episode might be considered a Revenge Fic.
• Sheldon, in The Big Bang Theory, surprises his friends by declaring the book to be "a flawless masterpiece."
• A season 2 episode of Jane the Virgin revolves around Jane teaching the book to an introductory level college class and loosely adapts the plot.
• Veronica Mars:
  • In the second season episode "Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang", Jackie goes off on the novel (and Jane Austen in general), saying she can't relate to it at all, but admits she liked Colin Firth in the miniseries adaptation (which she, Veronica and their boyfriends watch).
  • Later that season, in the episode "The Rapes of Graff", Veronica goes to a college fraternity party, and when one of the guys there tries to pick her up, she spills his beer on them. When another student asks why she did that, Veronica jokes that the guy dissed Pride And Prejudice. This is also possibly a Take That, Audience!, as many viewers were turned off by Jackie after her remarks about the book and Austen, which surprised the writers.

Video Games

• In The Battle Cats, one of J.K. Bun Bun’s major works is Punishment and Prejudice.

Web Comics

• In Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, Damian finds Jason's copy of Pride and Prejudice and tries to blackmail him with it as a "girl book", Jason is entirely nonplussed since he thinks Austen is great and convinces Damian to read it instead.
• Hark! A Vagrant: Mr. Darcy's appeal to readers, and Jane Austen being annoyed with said readers who only want her to write more romance, is lampooned several times. Darcy acts as the comic's most frequent Mr. Fanservice.

Web Original

• In "Jane Austen is My Home Girl (Downton Abbey Rap)" by Pretty Darn Funny mentions that Mr Bingley is a cutie and Colin Firth (Mr Darcy from 1995 miniseries) is treated as the ultimate man of Jane Austen's fans' dreams.
• Karolina Żebrowska: Has a short sketch on the first chapter titled "if "Pride and Prejudice" was a podcast".
• Numberphile: In "Stable Marriage Problem", the guest, Dr. Riehl, needed a group of 4 men and 4 women to explain her algorithm. So she named the women Charlotte, Elizabeth, Jane, and Lydia; and she names the men Bingley, Collins, Darcy, and Wickham. And she even sets up the problem so that they pair up the same way they do in the novel!

Western Animation

• According to Star Sapphire in an episode of DC Super Hero Girls, she once encouraged her now ex-boyfriend Hal Jordan to read Pride and Prejudice. He asked where the pictures where.
• In episode "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" of Futurama, Leela and Fry get trapped in several books, including Pride and Prejudice. One Regency era girl flirts with Mr. Fry and tells him that he's quite an oddity, to be a bachelor at his age (he's in his early twenties). Then comes the arch-enemy of the episode, the Giant Brain aka Mr. Brainsley, and the ladies ask him about news from London without a wink. Leela gets an urge to get married as well and asks Queequeg whether there is a Mrs. Queequeg.
• The episode "Write Where It Hurts" of Daria has Daria write a (later rejected) story that cross-references P&P and Sense and Sensibility. It depicts an unusually close and genteel Daria and Quinn (likely a Jane Bennett) being encountered by gentlemen on horseback (Trent and his friends), who run off at the slight mention of marriage, with the sisters just hugging one another.

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