- At the beginning of 10 Things I Hate About You, four teenage girls are rocking out to "One Week" in their car until Kat comes by in her own car and glowers at them while she listens to Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation" which then prompts them to stop.
- The Last Continent: When the Bursar is talking about the figurehead on the boat that the God of Evolution made, he describes it as a bare naked lady.
- Wild Orchid: In the first book, Taylor has a Barenaked Ladies CD that Danny gave her for Christmas. She didn't like it because listening to it distracted her from her thoughts and made her forget things.
- One Thanksgiving Episode of Homicide: Life on the Street closed with "What a Good Boy".
- Promos for the earliest episodes of Intervention would have "What a Good Boy" playing in the background.
- A late 2001 commercial for The New York State Lotto had various people singing along to "If I Had $1,000,000".
- Veronica Mars: In a third season episode, when her residence hall is having each room represent a different country, Veronica pretends her room is representing Canada by blasting "One Week".
- What We Do in the Shadows (2019): In "The Wellness Center", Nandor joins a cult of vampires who are convinced they can go back to being human through a series of rituals. One of those rituals is singing "One Week" every day.
Music
- "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Jerry Springer" is a parody of "One Week" based around the eponymous TV show.
- The Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal: Chapter 15 is titled "Life, in a Nutshell" for the Barenaked Ladies song.
- Atop the Fourth Wall: By the end of the JLA: Act of God review Linkara quotes the song "Alcohol" to reference that he needs a freaking drink.
- In Red vs. Blue, Agent Florida is said to "have been big on Barenaked Ladies", an Actor Allusion to how Ed Robertson voices him.
- One of the fake Elvish chants of Suburban Knights is "Chickety-shy, the Chinese chicken!"
- The Real Song Theme Tune for Baby Blues is "It's All Been Done".
