Referenced By / Schindler's List

Films - Live-Action

• The Dictator:
  Aladeen: "I love American films, particularly fantasy films like Lord of the Rings and Schindler's List."
• In Dog Days, Greg tries to put together a playlist for Ruth's baby shower but accidentally includes depressing background music from Schindler's List, which, as Ruth says later, puts everyone in a weird headspace.

Literature

• In Shtum, Georg lets Ben's autistic son Jonah watch Casablanca and asks Ben, "It's okay, Ben? The video? Better than Schindler's List? I don't have much of a collection."
• In Dogs Don't Talk, one of the boys in Johnny's autism classroom is a massive Spielberg fanboy who knows, among other facts, the running time of Schindler's List.
• In The Speed of Sound, Caitlin finds in Lawrence's safe house a VHS tape of Schindler's List, one of his favorite movies.

Live-Action TV

• The Daily Show: On the December 10, 2019 show, during a Back in Black segment, Lewis Black mentions the film when reporting on Amazon being forced to stop selling Holocaust-themed holiday items.
  Black: This is crazy! Christmas has nothing to do with the Holocaust! Santa's list and Schindler's list are very different lists!
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: The film is mentioned during the end segment on SLAPP suits, in which John and crew break into a musical number about a series of utterly improbable things energy CEO Bob Murray (who unsuccessfully tried to sue the show for slandering him on a previous segment about the coal industry) didn't do, but they are still legally allowed to claim he did because nobody in their right mind possibly think they were being serious about the claims. Among the claims is that Murray masturbates to the film.
• MADtv produced an unaired parody dubbed "Schindler's Lost". All the Schindler Jews are deported to Auschwitz because Schindler and his wife made a wrong turn while driving to the factory. Unsurprisingly, it got a Dude, Not Funny! response.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: While watching The She-Creature, Mike imitates Oskar and says "I could have done more. I could have saved more people."
• Seinfeld: In "The Raincoats", Jerry and his girlfriend go to a theater to see Schindler's List and make out during the movie, unaware that Newman was in there watching them and that he (never one to miss a chance to see Jerry suffer) proceeded to tell their parents about what he saw. In addition, the scene where Aaron laments not having done more to show Jerry's parents a good time in New York spoofs Oskar's anguish.
  Jerry: I couldn't help it! We hadn't been alone together in a long time and we just kinda started up a little during the coming attractions and, the next thing we knew, the war was over!
• Grey's Anatomy: When Seattle Grace hospital is going through the merger with Mercy West hospital, Cristina thinks she sees the Chief preparing a list of staff who get to stay, and that she needs to be on it, calling it Schindler's List. When her boyfriend Owen calls her out on this, she exclaims, "I'm Jewish, I'm allowed!" ^note on her stepfather's side Humorously, she tries to achieve this by sucking up to Arizona Robbins, someone she believes will always be on the "Schindler's List", though she doesn't like Arizona's specialty; made more funny by the fact Arizona is played by Jessica Capshaw, Steven Spielberg's stepdaughter.
• The Vicar of Dibley: Geraldine's comments on Owen filming Hugo and Alice's wedding service from the church rafters.
  Vicar: Owen, it's a wedding video! It's not Schindler's List!

Sports

• Canadian figure skater Roman Sadovsky performed to the Schindler's List soundtrack for his long program during the 2018-2019 and 2019-2010 competitive seasons. His costume evokes the filth and blood of a concentration camp prisoner (he confirms in this interview that his performance is about the Holocaust) and the jumps represent hard labour.

Video Games

• The Deliberately Monochrome photo filter in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is named "Schindler".

Web Video

• The Nostalgia Critic:
  • In his review of Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, the Critic watches a scene where Kahuna rescues a bunch of kids from a prison camp and asks if Disney Channel is airing their production of Schindler's List.
  • In his editorial "Can an Ending Ruin a Film?", the Critic mentions an alternate ending to Thank You for Smoking, which chooses a definite ethical side, and compares it to an alternate version of Schindler's List where someone says "Ehh, maybe Hitler was right".
• In one of adamwestlapdog's The Legend of Zelda: The Abridged Series Majora's Mask episodes:
  Link: They must be friendly aliens like in that Steven Spielberg movie; Schindler's List.
• In the CollegeHumor video "Nicolas Cage's Agent", Nicolas Cage decides to star in two different remakes of Schinder's List (Schindler's Fist and Schindler's Pissed), both of them turning Schindler into a Nazi Hunter Hollywood Action Hero.
• At the end of the JonTron episode "Titenic", Jon, after spending the whole episode playing a few Titanic bootleg NES games, sums up the experience with these words (spoken to someone over the phone):
  Yeah, no, I think you're right. On second thought, I don't think it's gonna work... But I got one for you better! Schindler's List: HD Remix!
• The Angry Video Game Nerd: In his review of games based on movies directed by Steven Spielberg, the Nerd pulls out an NES cartridge and exclaims "Super Schindler's List 3D?" before revealing that he was joking and that it's really the Jurassic Park NES game.

Western Animation

• American Dad!:
  • In "Delorean Story-an", Steve tells Stan that he found the last remaining part for his homemade DeLorean on Craigslist, and Stan wonders if it's related to Schindler's list. "Somebody ought to tell Craig the Jews are doing just fine now, excelling even."
  • At the beginning of "American Stepdad", Greg and Terry believe they heard Stan say "Ralph Fiennes" and run out so he can autograph the film's poster for them. When Stan tells them he actually said "straight lines", the two dejectedly walk back into their house while the film's theme plays and the scene turns black-and-white (except Terry's red shirt).
• Clerks: The Animated Series: In a Black Comedy example, Randall refers to a movie called Flintstone's List. Yes, Schindler's List in the style of The Flintstones, with cattle cars being moved by the prisoners.
• Family Guy: In "Family Goy", Peter tries to shoot Lois (who recently found out she was Jewish) in a way similar to Goeth, right down to the way he picks up a cigarette.
• Robot Chicken: A sketch from "Anne Marie's Pride" features film critic Roger Ebert and filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan reviewing a batch of sequels to popular movies. One of which is Schindler's List 2, with Schindler going on a violent rampage against Nazis.
  Announcer: He's making a list. He's checking it twice. He's gonna find out who's Nazi or nice. Schindler's List 2: Schindler's Pissed!
• The Simpsons:
  • In "A Star is Burns", Mr. Burns hires Steven Spielberg's "non-union Mexican equivalent" to direct a biopic about him and tells him to do for him "what Spielberg did for Oskar Schindler".
    Burns: Listen, Spielbergo. Schindler and I are like peas in a pod! We're both factory owners! We both made shells for the Nazis! But mine worked, dammit!
  • In "Funeral for a Fiend", Marge mentions that she was running out of space on her TiVo and didn't know whether to delete Sophie's Choice or Schindler's List.
  • In "Thanksgiving of Horror", during the segment A-Gobble-ypto, a rabbit makes a Throat-Slitting Gesture to Turkey!Homer as he is carried off to be become Thanksgiving dinner.
• South Park: In "The Death Camp of Tolerance", the scenes at the titular camp are a spoof of this film.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Just One Bite", SpongeBob calls the Krabby Patty "an absolute good".

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