- Peanuts has made frequent references to The Great Gatsby, mostly in the late 1980s and 1990s.
- In About Scout, Sam sees a hotel clerk reading The Great Gatsby, one of his favorite books. They strike up a conversation about it. Later, Sam uses the fact that she reads The Great Gatsby as proof that she's not a bimbo. On their date together, Sam says that he imagines himself as the child Jay and Daisy never had.
- In Catch Us If You Can, Dinah imagines throwing days-long parties on her island, like Gatsby.
- Getting Straight: During his oral exam for his master's degree, Harry says he considers The Great Gatsby to be F. Scott Fitzgerald's greatest work. He says, "I suppose because the character of Gatsby fascinates me so. His great illusion that you can use wealth or power to buy back the life you misspent trying to acquire them. It's the American dream." One of the examiners criticizes him for "overlooking" the examiner's pet interpretation, that Carraway is in love with Gatsby as an expression of Fitzgerald's repressed homosexual panic.
- In the novel version of Marathon Man, when Janeway, Erhard and Karl surround Babe at the house, Janeway suggests they come in, and Babe responds, "Say, 'Old sport', why don't you?", which Janeway recognizes ("My favorite novel, yours too?").
- In My Dark Vanessa, Vanessa's English class starts a unit where they compare books they've read to famous paintings. Luncheon of the Boating Party is The Great Gatsby because everyone's lazy and drunk.
- In the Newsflesh novella "Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus", Shannon Abbey has trouble remembering the name of her newest intern/CDC mole, and thinks of her as "not-Daisy". Her name turns out to be Zelda.
- In The Nowhere Girls, Mr. Baxter tells the high schoolers that they will be reading The Great Gatsby. He says that most intelligent people consider it the greatest American novel.
- In Counting to D, the protagonists discuss The Great Gatsby for English class. Sam says that F. Scott Fitzgerald was dyslexic and became a master at passing, which is why so many of his books are about lying and manipulating people until they see the person you want to be, rather than the real you.
- Tempest (2011): In Tempest Rising, Tempest's teacher talks about The Great Gatsby, glasses, and the Valley of Ashes. She's too wrapped up in her own problems to pay much attention.
- The Wire: In the second season episode "All Prologue", the prison book class D'Angelo is in discusses the novel, and D'Angelo, who can relate to the title character, makes a poignant speech about him:D'Angelo: He's saying that the past is always with us, and where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it, all this shit matters. I mean, that's what I thought he meant.
Class Leader: Go ahead.
D'Angelo: Like at the end of the book, you know, boats and tides and all. It's like you can change up, right, you can say you somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story. But, what came first is who you really are and what happened before is what really happened. And it don't matter that some fool say he different cuz the only thing that make you different is what you really do, what you really go through. Like, ya know, like all them books in his library. He frontin' with all them books, but if you pull one down off the shelf, ain't none of the pages ever been opened. He got all them books, and he ain't read near one of 'em. Gatsby, he was who he was, and he did what he did. And cuz he wasn't ready to get real with the story, that shit caught up to him. I think, anyway.
- Bob Dylan: The third song of his album Love & Theft, "Summer Days", has this lyric:She says, "You can't repeat the past," I say, "You can't?What do you mean, you can't, of course you can"
- Criminal Case: Mysteries of the Past: Case #12, "Behind the Mask", is a huge reference to the book, from the case's setting to the killer's motivation. The victim is even based on Jay Gatsby.
- Hark! A Vagrant: The strip "Great Gatsbys"
is dedicated to making jokes about the book.
Real Life
- Sigourney Weaver, whose birth name is Susan, adopted her stage name from the minor character Sigourney Howard.
