This page lists references to the Saw franchise in other media.
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Literature
- In A Boy Made of Blocks, Matt and Clare watch an all-night Saw marathon during their weekend vacation from parenthood.
- Cold Days: According to Harry, the Winterfae thought the Saw movies were hilarious.
Live-Action TV
- The Office (US): In "Koi Pond", Dwight dresses up as Billy the Puppet for Halloween.
- Glee: In "The Hurt Locker Part 2", Sue locks Kurt and Blaine elevator. To communicate with them, she uses a version of Billy the Puppet that's designed to look like her.
Music
- "The Jig Is Up", by Ice Nine Kills, is based on the franchise and sung from Jigsaw's point-of-view.
Web Original
- The Cinema Snob:
- In the review of Saving Christmas, Brad says that the opening logos have "sound effects from a Saw movie". He had made a similar remark when Midnight Screenings reviewed the film.
- In his review of The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, Brad says of the "Wobble with your Wiggle" number, "Blink twice if Jigsaw is making you do this", due to Cary Elwes singing the song.
- In his review of A Talking Cat!?!, Brad quips "The more the Saw movies went on, the more Jigsaw's rules got really stupid".
- Honest Trailers:
- In the trailer for Home Alone, the narrator describes the film as Ferris Bueller meets Saw.
- The first movie was given its own trailer.
- In the trailer for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, the film is given the honest title Saw for Kids.
- The Nostalgia Critic: In "Rise of the Commercials", Critic complains about a Crash Test Dummies toy in which they're Strapped to an Operating Table and are beaten to pieces, saying "There's playful violence, and then there's Saw".
Video Games
- Persona 5 has a theater that can play a movie titled Pach-Saw. The premise affectionately parodies the premise of the first Saw movie, with two people locked in a room with a killer elephant by a mysterious person who calls it a "game".
- Affectionately parodied, along with healthy doses of other horror films, in The Jackbox Party Pack’s Trivia Murder Party, in which an unseen serial killer puts his victims in "super fun" life-or-death games, involving, among other things, self-mutilation, keys, and distrust and deadly choices between players, as retribution for not knowing tidbits of trivia.
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location: Funtime Foxy's gimmick taking place in a dark room that you can illuminate with flashes of light is similar to the scene from the first movie where Adam is looking through his darkened apartment, using the flash of his camera to navigate.
Western Animation
- The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Tag", Gumball decides to put an end to the escalating feud between his father and Mr. Robinson via a family-friendly take on a Saw trap, complete with a pre-recorded message. The two are locked in a trash bin, and the key to their freedom is inside a cake, which Richard wolfs down before the game's rules are fully explained. While trapped, Richard and Mr. Robinson manage to resolve their feud peacefully, at least until the police arrive to bust them for violating their house arrest.
- The Fairly OddParents: In "Certifiable Super Sitter", Vicky puts Timmy and Chloe in a Saw-inspired challenge while dressed in a Billy the Puppet-esque persona (known as "Tricky Vicky") on a TV screen.
- The Loud House: The episode "Fool's Paradise", in which Luan lures her family into a prank-laden trap on April Fools Day, is basically played out like a G-rated Saw movie.
- Rick and Morty: In "Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender", Rick, while blackout drunk, rigs Worldender's lair to trap the Vindicators in a Saw-inspired death trap to prove to them that they're bland, cliched and unimportant.Morty: Rick is... Is this a Saw thing? Are you seriously Saw-ing the Vindicators?!
Rick: Morty, I'm a drunk, not a hack.
Drunk!Rick: You break the rules, lose the game, or try to leave, you will die! Like in (burp) SAAAAAAAAW!
Rick: (genuinely embarrassed) Well, I-I-I think we've seen enough. I'll just figure out how to unplug this. - Robot Chicken: The final sketch from "Boo Cocky" involves the cast of Saved by the Bell being held by Jigsaw.
- The Simpsons:
- The subplot of "Wedding for Disaster", in which Homer is kidnapped and put in a small room with only a jalapeno-laced lollipop (thanks to Patty and Selma wanting to prevent his remarriage to Marge), is based on the Saw films.
- In "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?", Bart takes his new "brother" Charlie takes to see Sever V with him.
- South Park: In "Tsst", Cartman gets sent to the principal's office for poisoning a student's milk, chaining his leg to the flagpole, and leaving him with the antidote just out of reach and a chainsaw to free himself with. All because he called him chubby.
