- Dolly Parton's hit song "Jolene" would serve to be the naming inspiration behind Jolyne Cujoh, the main protagonist of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean.
Film – Live-Action
- In Dominick and Eugene, Larry says of Jennifer, "So she's got this great bod, like Dolly Parton."
- The book (and movie) Dumplin' has a main character who's a big Dolly fan.
- Vanessa from My Dark Vanessa names her dog Jolene after she howls along to Dolly Parton on her first night home.
- In Save the Enemy, Zoey, Pete, and Ben listen to "Nine to Five" while driving to Rhode Island, and Pete sings along.
- Mary Quinn of the series Derry Girls is a fan, even ordering her daughter to "Swear on [the picture of] Dolly!" when trying to find out if she's lying.
- In The Love Boat episode "Too Close for Comfort," Gopher finds that the crew deck is flooded and runs into his cabin to rescue his Dolly Parton poster.
- In The Orville episode "Sanctuary", Heveena adopts "9 to 5" as the anthem for her Moclan feminist revolution. Parton herself would make a guest cameo in the episode "Midnight Blue."
- On Saturday Night Live 's Celebrity Jeopardy, Sean Connery deliberately read the category "Famous Titles" as "Famous Titties". His response to the answer? "Dolly Parton!" Obviously forgetting that you're supposed to answer in the form of a question.
- Sesame Street had an Anything Muppet country singer named Polly Darton.
