Referenced By / An American Tail

Comic Strips

• Off the Mark: In this strip, Fievel is seen as part of a group of mice (alongside Mickey, Jerry, Stuart Little, Speedy Gonzales, Pixie and Dixie).

Film - Animated

• Titanic: The Legend Goes On: The family of mice aboard the ship is a blatantly obvious Expy of the Mouskewitzes.

Live-Action TV

• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: In June 2014, John Oliver showed an animated sketch based on An American Tail which showed what Fievel's immigration experience would look like if it mirrored what illegal immigrants in 2014 were going through, and it's even more depressing than the original film.
• Community: A season one episode has Troy and Abed singing "Somewhere Out There" to a lost lab mouse.
• Designing Women: In "First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century", "Somewhere Out There" plays as both Miss Minnie passes away and Charlene and Bill's daughter Olivia is born.

Web Video

• The Nostalgia Critic:
  • In his "Top 11 Saddest Nostalgic Moments" video, the film as a whole is placed in the #8 spot.
  • In his Stuart Little review, when Stuart asks who his real family is, Critic claims they were the Mouskewitzes, who claimed they lost him out at sea but actually just didn't like him.
  • In his review of The Great Mouse Detective, during "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind", when Ratigan's henchmen mention the widows and orphans that were drowned, Critic says that considering the competition, Fievel was one of said drowned orphans.

Western Animation

• Fievel appears in the Family Guy episode "Nanny Goats", living in a hole next to the Griffin house under the alias Frank Maxwell. New nanny Natalia reveals to Stewie that she is an assassin intent on killing "liberal dissident" Fievel Mousekewitz, but Stewie informs her that the only mouse around is Frank. Frank appears and assures her that he isn't who she is looking for, but when he starts his tiny mouse car to go to work, it explodes. Natalia denies having anything to do with the explosion, but it is shown that Mickey Mouse caused it due to Frank being Jewish.
• MAD: One sketch features Mickey Mouse as an exterminator, and the Mouskewitzes are among the mice that he captures.
• Robot Chicken: A sketch from "May Cause Your Dad to Come Back With That Gallon of Milk He Went Out for 10 Years Ago" has Fievel joining the Army after becoming an American citizen.
• The Simpsons: At one point in the episode "Moonshine River", Homer mentions Fievel.
• South Park: In the episode "Eek, a Penis!", Garrison's penis and the mouse it's attached to briefly sing a duet in the moonlight, parodying "Somewhere Out There".
• Tiny Toon Adventures: The episode, "Starting From Scratch" is a homage to the film, only done with fleas instead of mice. Flio's song, "Fur Fur Away" bears a striking, deliberate similarity to "Somewhere Out There". Steven Spielberg worked on both Tiny Toons and An American Tail, which may explain the similarities between the episode and the film.