Examples:
Advertising- A 2006 Kia commercial has dealership salespeople singing "So Long, Farewell, auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye"
to departing customers who just bought cars.
- Episode 3 of Boonie Bears begins with a scene where Logger Vick sings "Do-Re-Mi".
- Issue 43 of Animaniacs had "The Sound of Coo-sic", where the Goodfeathers sang various parodies of the film's songs.
- A Baby Blues comic has Zoe make up her own lyrics to "So Long, Farewell", prompting Wanda and Darryl to look up the correct lyrics. They then decide they like Zoe's version better.
- The Far Side: One comic involves a detective and police officer investigating a murder, when the detective says "Look here, McGinnis — hundreds of bright copper kettles, warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with string...Someone was after a few of this guy's favorite things".
- In For Better or for Worse Michael and his friends are talking about Gremlins and the gory scenes in it. Elly wonders whatever happened to them making movies like The Sound Of Music.
- In the Tokimeki PokéLive! and TwinBee story "The Legend of Rainbow-chan!", Emma Verde describes the movie in one sentence as a musical that takes place in Austria.
- Open Season 2: Elliott refers to Giselle as "my doe, my deer, my female deer..." while lecturing about getting married to her.
- In the cinema scene in Carry On Camping, the squeamish Anthea Meeks complains that she wanted to watch this film, rather than Sid Boggle's choice of Nudist Paradise.
- Chuck E. Cheese in the Galaxy 5000: Munch and Jasper sing the first two lines of "Do-Re-Mi" during the diner scene in the beginning.
- The Pacifier:
- The oldest son, Seth, plays Rolf in a community production of The Sound of Music.
- The kids' mother's name Julie Plummer is an explicit reference to The Sound of Music stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.
- In Wonder (2012), the nature retreat is screening The Sound of Music during their "big movie night". In the film adaption, they instead screen The Wizard of Oz.
- In the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Making Friends and Influencing People", when Agent 33 is being brainwashed we get this "gem":Dr. Whitehall: Mr. Bakshi, let's go again.
Mr. Bakshi: Where do we start?
Dr. Whitehall: At the beginning! Like the song says - a very good place to start.- This one is doubly funny once we learn that Whitehall was an actual World War II German Nazi, so it's ironic that he would enjoy that play.
- The Brittas Empire:
- "Back From The Dead" reveals that Brittas has a ring with a (accidentally misprinted) lyric of the song "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" (specifically "Climb ev'ry mountain, ford ev'ry stream").
- "UXB" featured an Expy of Georg von Trapp called Herr von Trap, who initially takes a liking to Carole for her musical talents. After he ditches her in favor of a nun, "Back with a Bang" reveals that hearing anything to do with The Sound of Music now causes Carole to break down in tears.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the second season episode "The Dark Age", Jenny is inadvertently possessed by a demon until Angel (thanks to Willow's quick thinking) manages to get it out and kill it. At the end of the episode, Giles finds Jenny in the hallway at school and asks how she is, to which she replies, "I'm not...running around, wind in my hair, 'The hills are alive with the sound of music' fine, but...I'm coping."
- Crisis on Earth-X: During the White Canary's interrogation by her Father's Nazi doppelgänger, a discordant version of "Edelweiss" is sung in the background as Sara admits she is bisexual.
- In the The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air episode "Not With My Pig, You Don't", just before a reporter arrives to interview the family about a prestigious award Uncle Phil is going to receive, he insists that the family rehearse what they're going to say, much to Vivian's irritation—"What is this, the Von Trapp Family?"
- Henry Danger: In "Gas or Fail", one of Henry's classmates is named Maria Von Trapp. When she is asked to switch with Charlotte, Ms. Shapen says, "Well, do-re-mi don't care!"
- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: "Encounter" opens with Hemnor seeking the heroes' help in saving the last Golden Hind from extinction.Hemnor: It's kind of a doe.
Iolaus: A deer?
Hercules: A female deer? - The Kids in the Hall: They dedicated an entire sketch to singing "Do(e), a deer, a female deer..."
- In the Lizzie McGuire episode "Lizzie's Eleven" as part of The Plan Gordo has to hand a CD to Matt and Melina, but not before they make him do the secret code, the yodeling part of "The Lonely Goatherd"
- The Muppet Show: The episode which guest-starred Julie Andrews has her singing "The Lonely Goatherd" with various Muppets. During the song, Rowlf comments, "You know, I saw that movie twice."
- Pushing Daisies: In the second season, Olive goes to a convent briefly, and the first shot of her at the convent is an homage to the opening shot of the movie.
- In the last episode of Roundhouse, there's a direct homage to the Concert Climax of this movie, where several cast members sing a parody of "So Long, Farewell", followed by the parents singing a short parody of "Edelweiss".
- Red Dwarf. In "Stoke Me A Clipper", Arnold Rimmer's heroic Alternate Self, 'Ace' Rimmer, tries to train him to Take Up My Sword as the next Ace, starting with them meditating on a snow-covered mountain range.Ace Rimmer: Take a look around, Arnie. The plateaux, the summit. This is where you must be to become Ace Rimmer.
Arnold Rimmer: No, this where you must be to become Maria Von Trapp. - Saturday Night Live:
- In his last show as a castmember, Phil Hartman sang "So Long, Farewell", with Chris Farley as Matt Foley joining in towards the end.
- Two days after the NBC premiere of The Sound of Music Live!, the sketch "The Sound of Music Live & Condensed" promised an abridged version of the musical, with Kate McKinnon and Taran Killam as Maria and the Captain...then Dooneese (played by Kristen Wiig) added her typical Non Sequiturs and crude humor. Fred Armisen also reprised his role of Lawrence Welk to close the sketch.
- A parody of the movie has Maria (played by Ariana Grande) overhear the nuns (played by Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong, Vanessa Bayer, Sasheer Zamata, and Kate McKinnon) singing "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria", then call them out on "singing smack" about her.
- John Mulaney spoofed "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" by having Rolfe confess to Liesl (Cecily Strong) that he's older than 17, though he doesn't give her a straight answer to the question of how old he actually is.
- Sesame Street: In one "Monsterpiece Theatre" sketch, Grover is sitting on a grassy hill. As a Julie Andrews sound-alike sings that "The hills are alive", they start to vibrate.Grover: Stop the music, I want to get off!
- Schmigadoon!:
- The number "Va-Gi-Na". Melissa is in an Alps-like setting dressed in a gray dress and white apron, and sings a "Do-Re-Mi"-esque number about sex education to a couple.
- Melissa recognizes Jorge (her perfectionist Defrosting Ice King widower employer) and Gabrielle (his blonde, rich, city-woman fiancee introduced after they develop mutual feelings) as analogues to Captain Von Trapp and Baroness Elsa Schraeder. She expects Gabrielle to accept her Disposable Fiancé role and is taken aback when Gabrielle threatens her at gunpoint to back off. And unlike Elsa, Gabrielle is explicitly a Nazi.
- When Melissa auditions for a cabaret, a Military Brat recounts during her own audition that after she and her siblings performed at one of her father's parties, she asked to stay and taste some champagne, but the father answered, "No." Unlike Liesl, however, this woman snuck a drink from the bottle with help from her father's "real fancy" girlfriend.
Music
- Elvis Costello has this lyric in his song "This is Hell":
- "Build God, Then We'll Talk" by Panic! at the Disco uses a twisted parody of "My Favorite Things" as its bridge.Raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses
It's sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
At the shade of the sheets before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things - Jeanne Tripplehorn once covered (along with Eddie Vedder) "Shattered" doing a Julie Andrews impression, so at a certain point she adds "raindrops... on roses" and "whiskers... on kittens" to the lyrics.
- Ariana Grande uses the melody of "My Favorite Things" for the verses in her song "7 Rings".
- Gwen Stefani's "Wind it Up" uses the yodeling from "The Lonely Goatherd", and the music video homages the slumber party scene. Given Ms. Stefani is a self-admitted super-fan of the movie, it makes sense.
- Fallout: New Vegas has a mission entitled "Climb E'vry Mountain".
- Questionable Content: Charlotte burst out into song while Momo is shopping for a new chassis:~The maaaaaalls are aliiiiive, with the sound of peeeeeople~
- Sheldon: This strip features Sheldon and Arthur singing "Do Re Mi"... while at the same time playing a rousing game of "Spot Where The Lyricist Phoned It In".
- Animaniacs: The short "The Sound Of Warners" has the Warners being babysat by Prunela Flundergust, an obvious expy of Maria. She was very annoying, but too nice for them to want to directly attack or trick her, so they got Slappy Squirrel to do it instead. She's replaced by Mary Poppins, basically the same character in a different outfit, much to the Warners' dismay.
- In the Arthur episode "Night Fright" during Binky's dream sequence at the beginning, he says "The hills are alive with the smell of burgers!" while standing on a mountain of them like the famous scene from the movie.
- Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show: In one scene, Ed shouts "The hills are alive, Eddy!", to which Eddy responds "Yeah, with the sounds of an idiot."
- The Fairly OddParents!: In "The Terrible Twosome", Foop, who is going through the "terrific twos" that causes him to act nice, says that a jar of fireflies is one of his favorite things "along with whiskers on kittens and warm-woolen mittens."
- Family Guy: Seth MacFarlane said that the film is one of his favorite musicals, and the show has featured several parodies and tributes to it.
- A cutaway from "Death Has a Shadow" shows that Peter tried to solve the family's financial troubles by entering a music contest, but he loses to the Von Trapp family.
- In "Brian: Portrairt of a Dog", Peter, after Brian storms out of the house after an argument with him, he says "He won't get far without this" and holds up a piece of his car engine.
- In "The Kiss Seen Around the World", Stewie mocks a bully when he tells him he's seven, saying "My, you're practically a lady."
- In "Mr. Saturday Knight", Peter tries to impress his boss, who is at his house for dinner, by having his kids sing "So Long, Farewell" to him before they go to bed.
- A cutaway from "Stewie B. Goode" features Stewie in a shot-for-shot parody of the "I Have Confidence" scene, with Stewie in Maria's place.
- The Naked Gun-inspired opening to "PTV" features a shot of Stewie running over Maria on the mountain.
- In "Brian Sings and Swings", Mayor West sings a song, whose lyrics just make up mentions of his name, to the tune of "Edelweiss".
- In "You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives", the family watches the film on TV; the scene shows one of the nuns confessing to sabotaging the Nazis' car, while another confesses to decapitating Rolfe.Nun #1: What the hell is wrong with you?!
Nun #2: Hey, I didn't start this war but it's on! - A cutaway from "Peter's Two Dads" has Lois fumbling on "You Are Sixteen, Going on Seventeen" at Meg's last birthday party due to not knowing Meg's age. The gag was that Meg was turning 16 that year.
- In "The Tan Aquatic with Steve Zissou", Peter bullies Joe by tying him up like a marionette and forcing him to sing "The Lonely Goatherd".
- In "Family Gay", there's a brief All Gays Love Theatre gag where Peter listens to the film version of "Sixteen Going on Seventeen".
- In "Friends of Peter G.", Peter and Brian interrupt a screening of the film with their drunken antics. Actual footage from the film is shown.
- In "Vestigial Peter", Peter is outraged when he sees that his vestigial twin, Chip, made the family clothes out of the drapes and catches them row-boating together.
- Freakazoid! had in a "Quantum Freak" montage of the episode "Freakazoid is History!" a clip of Freakazoid doing a send-up of the film's opening scene, in Maria's dress, no less.
- The Hollow: In "Puzzled", Adam and Kai say "The hills are alive with the sound of mucous!"
- King of the Hill: In "Peggy's Pageant Fever", Luanne ominously hum "My Favorite Things" as she sabotages Peggy in retaliation for firing her as her stylist.
- In Milo Murphy's Law, Zack voices an interest in forming a von Trap-style family band when he has kids.
- Robot Chicken: The episode "Shall I Visit the Dinosaurs?" ends with a sketch in which Bitch Pudding becomes the Von Trapp Children's new nanny, teaching them how to sing foul language and kill Nazis.
- The Simpsons:
- In "Bart Gets an Elephant", we get this gem when Homer crashes the car into a statue of a deer.Homer: D'oh!
Lisa: A deer!
Marge: A female deer! - The episode "Yokel Chords" features several references to the film, including the songs "How Do You Stop a Know-It-All Like Lisa?" and "Cultural Things".
- In "Bart Gets an Elephant", we get this gem when Homer crashes the car into a statue of a deer.
- Wander over Yonder: In "The Heebie Jeebies", the song Wander sings to try to calm down is a parody of "My Favorite Things".
- We Bare Bears: In "Shush Ninjas", the bears make a speech about the movies, which is accompanied by a montage of them re-enacting famous movie scenes; one of them is Grizz twirling around in the mountains dressed as Maria.
