A list of works that reference The Doors and their music.
Animated Films
- The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: "And that's how you break on through to the other side! ...of the Stairgate."
- Minions: "Break On Through" is used for the Minion's arrival at Villain-Con.
- Wayne and Garth encounter Jim in a dream sequence in Wayne's World 2.
- Matthew McConaughey has admitted that he picked up his "Alright, alright, alright" catchphrase (originally stemming from his character in Dazed and Confused, but later adopted by McConaughey as a catchphrase of sorts for himself in real life) from Jim Morrison. He said that he was listening to a Doors live album between shooting scenes for Dazed and Confused, and was taken aback at how in between two of the songs Morrison said "Alright!" four times.
- Cast Away: When Chuck finally is able to get a fire going on the island, he sings "Light My Fire".
- Empire Records: When Lucas finds out the store is being bought out by Music Town, he turns to the camera and says, "In the immortal words of The Doors, 'The time to hesitate is through'."
- Cruella: "Five to One" accompanies the Baroness's entrance into the department store.
- Almost Famous: When Lester Bangs sees the DJ he's visiting has a Doors album, he gets upset, calling them drunken buffoons masquerading as poets (whereas he praises The Guess Who as having the courage to be drunken buffoons).
- The Doors (1991) is a biopic about the band and its lead singer Jim Morrison starring Val Kilmer.
- Several scenes in Forrest Gump features the band's music: "The End" is heard when Forrest and Bubba are in Vietnam, "People Are Strange" and "Break on Through" are heard when Forrest is playing ping pong and "Love Her Madly" is heard when Jenny leaves her abusive boyfriend on New Year's Eve 1971.
- In Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, "Weird Al" Yankovic (comedically depicted in a heavily fictionalized form that's the polar opposite of the real deal) gets arrested after whipping out his accordion during a drunken rant on-stage, parodying Jim Morrison's arrest for indecent exposure. The scene additionally takes after the incident's depiction in the Doors' eponymous biopic.
- Carl Hiaasen: in his novel Native Tongue, two of the characters argue over the meaning of "got my mojo rising" - one thinks it refers to drugs, while the other thinks it has phallic connotations.
- In What Happened to Lani Garver, Claire and Geneve debate who sang a pop song on the radio. Geneva says, "Claire only knows, like, The Doors and shit."
- The Office (US): "You don't even know my real name. I'm the fucking Lizard King."
Music
- Frank Zappa's You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 6note begins with "The M.O.I. Anti-Smut Loyalty Oath," recorded as a response of to Jim's arrest in Miami.
Video Games
- Sad Satan: The game features a slowed-down sample of the band's rendition of "Alabama Song".
- The Simpsons:
- In "Selma's Choice," Lisa ends up drinking the water at one of the attractions at Duff Gardens and is later found by security swimming naked in the fermentarium. She then shouts, "I am the Lizard Queen."
- In "I Love Lisa" during the Krusty the Klown Anniversary Special, a clip from 1971 has him bellowing out a spirited rendition of "Break on Through", to which his present-day self is shocked by and asks, "What was I on?"
- The scene from "Krusty Gets Kancelled" where Krusty asks Red Hot Chili Peppers to tone down their lyrics for his comeback special parodies The Doors' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show where they were asked the same.
- In "Hello Gutter, Hello Faddah" when a depressed Homer is walking down the street as happy people pass him by, "This is The End" is heard to which he soon sings along to.
- An episode of The Powerpuff Girls (1998) is titled "Mr. Mojo's Rising".
