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  • A 1995 Cartoon Network insert features Shaggy and Droopy doing a parody of the "Royale With Cheese" scene in which they discuss the names of cartoons in other countries.
    Shaggy: Know what they call Pound Puppies in Paris?
    Droopy: They don't call them Pound Puppies?
    Shaggy: Nah, they don't have pounds in France. They have the metric system.
    Droopy: Then what do they call them?
    Shaggy: They call them Les Puppies Royale.

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Fan Works

  • The Turning Red fanfic Fragile; Handle with Care mentions the movie via a joke:
    Why doesn't Shrek like Pulp Fiction? He thinks it's medi-ogre!
  • Rocketship Voyager. B'Elanna Torres is Raised Catholic so she tries to give herself courage during their battle with the Psiborg Collective.
    She tried to think of an inspiring prayer, something from Psalm 23:4, but she forgot the words halfway and ended up mumbling a distorted version of Ezekiel 25:17 instead.

Films – Animation

  • The Bad Guys (2022): The film opens with Mr. Wolf and Mr. Snake having a Seinfeldian Conversation sitting in a booth at a diner next to a window, clearly calling back to the opening scene with Pumpkin and Honey Bunny.

Films — Live-Action

  • Armageddon has one character afraid when a needle is put close to his chest, saying he's being reminded of the scene where Mia is revived.
  • Doubling as an Actor Allusion, Captain America: The Winter Soldier has the fake gravestone set for Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury reading "The path of the righteous man... - Ezekiel 15:17".
  • Grosse Pointe Blank: A poster for the movie can be seen in the convenience store when Martin first goes there and then later gets caught in a shootout.
  • Mighty Aphrodite: The bar where Lenny meets Linda's pimp Ricky is almost exactly the same bar as where Marsellus meets Butch, and Linda describes Ricky as a Marsellus type. Mira Sorvino, who played Linda, was dating Quentin Tarantino at the time.
  • Sebastian from The Rainbow Experiment says, "I'm sort of like Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction. I clean up the mess, but I have no power."
  • Space Jam: When Bupkus, the purple Monstar, grabs Wile E. Coyote to hurt him, Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd shoot him in the teeth to the tune of "Misirlou" dressed as Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield.
  • Spy Hard has one scene where Agents WD-40 and 3.14 dress and dress like Vincent and Mia.

Literature

  • Jeb from Peta Lyre's Rating Normal has a poster of Pulp Fiction in his room.
  • In Save the Enemy, Ben tells Zoey he had ice cream for breakfast. Zoey says, "The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast," but can't remember which movie she's quoting from.
  • Gomorrah, by Roberto Saviano. Two teenage hoodlums do the Ezekiel quote while doing a robbery. In the film adaptation, they are shown to be fans of Scarface (1983) as well.

Live-Action TV

  • Doctor Who: At the end of "The Witchfinders":
    Graham: "And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger."
    King James: Ezekiel.
    Graham: Tarantino. (puzzled look from the King)
  • The Nanny: In the fourth season episode "The Cradle Robbers", Fran says it's nice to date someone who thinks John Travolta's first movie was Pulp Fiction.note 
  • Veronica Mars: In the third season episode "Un-American Graffiti", Veronica tracks down a group of teenage boys who paintballed a Middle Eastern restaurant. When she's interrogating them, one of the boys keeps saying, "What?", to which she shoots him with a paintball gun they have and says, "Say 'what' again, I dare you. I double dare you!" When the boy finally confesses, she says, "Check out the big brain on Brett!"
  • The Wire: In the second season episode "Hot Shots", Bunk and Freamon are interrogating a group of men who were working on a ship where thirteen prostitutes were murdered. The crew, all from different countries, all claim they don't speak English until Freamon, known as Cool Lester Smooth, loses his temper and says, "English, motherfucker!"
  • Derry Girls episode 1.01:
    Michelle: "Motherfuckers", it's my new thing. Watched this film last night—me da got it off Pyro Pauline—and it's about these two lads, and they wear these cracking suits and they rock about, just shooting people and eating cheeseburgers, and they're all, "Motherfucker this, motherfucker that." It's got your man in it. What do you call him? The disco dancer from Look Who's Talking.

Music

Professional Wrestling

  • For the latter half of the 90s, ECW's tv show would feature a string of wrestler's promos at the end of the show with Misrilou playing, referring to it as their "Pulp Fiction Montage".

Video Games

  • ANNIE: Last Hope have posters for this film appearing in a few levels, specifically the iconic one featuring Uma Thurman. The game is set in the 1990s.
  • Lollipop Chainsaw: The Achievement for defeating the boss Zed is called "Zed's Dead, Baby, Zed's Dead".
  • In Old School RuneScape, the Holy Blessing’s examine text reads “ the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.”

Web Original

  • Dark Secrets of Garry's Mod: A clip of the Hungarian dub is used when Kata asks for a soda from Sonic for the third time in a now-deleted video which can be seen reuploaded into a compilation.
    Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Motherfucker! Motherfucking! Do you know how fucking stupid you fucking are?!
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: In one episode, Tristan beats up and interrogates a Rare Hunter, leading to a recreation of the "What?" "Say 'what' again, I dare you!" scene.

Western Animation

  • Pinky and the Brain: In "TV or Not TV", Pinky asks at one point, "Do you know what they call a Quarter Pounder in France?"
  • The Simpsons: In "22 Short Films About Springfield", Snake and Chief Wiggum's segments parody the Marsellus-Butch storyline. Wiggum and Lou also do a version of the film's "Royale with Cheese" scene.

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