History ReferencedBy / IndianaJones

* The 1993 Hong Kong parody film, ''The Tigers: the Legend of Canton'', stars Kenny Bee as an Indy spoof, being a fedora-wearing adventurer wielding a whip and battling the Japanese during the second World War. For bonus points, said character was named Indiana "Chung" Kwok-yan (a PunnyName, "Chung Kwok-yan" translates directly as "Chinaman"). The parody somewhat lose it's meaning though, since the story isn't set in America there's no reason why the protagonist would be named after the state of Indiana.

** In "Chapter 3: Victory", Jaune mentions that he's a fan of "those archaeologist Indigo Jones films".

* In "The Adventure of the Death-Fetch", a horror story by Darrell Schweitzer, a character recalls crossing paths with "the crazy American, something-or-other Jones, a lunatic who carried a bullwhip and fancied himself an archaeologist". (Fortunately for our Indiana, the story is set in 1900, so this must have been some other Jones.)

** The episodes "Peter's Got Woods" and "Back to the Woods" both end with James Woods being stored away in a crate by "top men".
** In "A Fistful of Meg", Meg kills Mental Mike by flashing him, causing him to melt like Toht. Similarly, in "The Peter Principal", Meg's bullies put the Ark of the Covenant in her locker and her face melts off when she opens the door, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction but she's more annoyed than anything]].

** Near the end of "Mr. Plow", a pair of snowmen melt in a scene resembling Toht's fate.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The climax of "Free Hat", a satire of movies being altered for re-releases, involves a new version of ''Raiders'' with [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Ewoks]]. This negative audience reaction causes Creator/StevenSpielberg and Creator/GeorgeLucas to suffer the fates of Toht and Belloq.

* ''Series/{{Amen}}'': While representing the Reverend Reuben Gregory in a personal injury lawsuit, the Deacon Ernest J. Frye refers to the defendant's truck as a "death wagon", "kamikaze van", and "rolling Temple Of Doom".

* At one point in LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys' playthrough of ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'', they have to stick stickers on some ducks in the background, but they have to time it right with signal lights coming on or bombs drop and blow them up. When Chugga doesn't get it right and is killed, Jon says "You chose... poorly".

* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'': In "The One Wherein There Is a Big Twist", Elsa's death is parodied when Toot tries to reach for a bag of peanuts while strapped to her seat on a crash-landing plane.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", [[spoiler:Norm Zoidberg's death]] in the Fountain of Aging is more than a little reminiscent of Walter Donovan's ageing to death after drinking from a false grail.
* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': In "Eggscellent", when Mordecai successfully eats an enormous omelet as part of a MegaMealChallenge where the prize is a net hat with "I'm Eggscellent" written on it, he's taken to a chamber similar to where the Holy Grail was located and must pick the hat out from many other hats. He's then shown the skeleton of Jonathan Kimble, the last guy to finish the challenge, who is wearing a crown that he thought was the right hat and died from choosing poorly.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The subplot of "The China Problem", most of the kids are horrified over seeing the film, going as far as saying that they witnessed Spielberg and Lucas raping Indy. Butters, on the other hand, [[DamnedByAFoolsPraise thought it was pretty good]].

** After escaping the collapsing scroll chamber, the heroine Jean and her team ends up tethering on the edge of a cliff while the chamber collapses on the other side, not unlike the same predicament Indy, Wille and Short Round ends up in the end of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.
* ''Film/InTheLineOfDuty4Witness'' has an ambulance chase that feels like a recreation of the desert chase from ''Raiders'', but with the hero and villain switching positions. The CowboyCop protagonist, Rachel, ends up clinging on top of an ambulance driven by one of the bad guys and attempts to enter from its side, fights the bad guy, and ends up being flung through the windshield and hanging to the ambulance's front. Unlike the Nazi who got run over by Indy however, Rachel got out of the way in time.

* The 1993 Hong Kong parody film, ''The Tigers: the Legend of Canton'', stars Kenny Bee as an Indy spoof, being an adventurer wearing a fedora wielding a whip and battling the Japanese during the second World War. For bonus points, said character was named Indiana "Chung" Kwok-yan (a PunnyName, "Chung Kwok-yan" translates directly as "Chinaman"). The parody somewhat lose it's meaning though, since the story isn't set in America there's no reason why the protagonist would be named after the state of Indiana.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The episodes "Peter's Got Woods" and "Back to the Woods" both end with James Woods being stored away in a crate by "top men".

-->'''Sherlock:''' I hate Biblical stories.
** A sketch from "They Took My Thumbs" features native contractors building the traps in the temple, with the chief pointing out all its flaws while saying that they should just use [[WhyDidItHaveTobeSnakes snakes]].

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* In ''Film/BlackWidow2021'', the protagonist’s family member sends them the MacGuffin to keep it safe, only for the protagonist to bring it right back to that family member.

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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasGreatAdventureInTheSouthSeas'' has a 22nd Century gadget called the "Indira Johnson Adventurer Simulator", based on the "Indira Johnson" series of films where the player gets to challenge themselves in a booby-trapped cavern.

* ''Film/{{UHF}}'' begins with Creator/WeirdAlYankovich parodying ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'''s opening, except he's trying to collect an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward instead. After judging the weight of his bag of sand, he just tosses it aside and grabs the statuette, leading to the boulder chase... which eventually flattens him.

* ''Film/{{UHF}}'' begins with Music/WeirdAlYankovich parodying ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'''s opening, except he's trying to collect an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward instead. After judging the weight of his bag of sand, he just tosses it aside and grabs the statuette, leading to the boulder chase... which eventually flattens him.

* ''VideoGame/TreasureHunterMan'': The description of the sword:

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