Being one of the most successful and popular films ever made, Gone with the Wind has hailed many parodies and homages since its original release.
- Sailor Moon: There was a cat named Rhett Butler who was owned by a girl named An Ohara. The episode where they appeared also had some posters referencing Gone With the Wind.
- In Venerdì 12, it's shown that when Aldo and Bedelia were dating before the series he had fantasized that, if they were ever to break up, he'd just tell her "Love means never having to say you're sorry", but when they did break up he made the error of asking her "What will I do?", and Bedelia, who had been dragged to see many old movies she didn't like, simply replied "Franky, my dear, I don't give a damn" and drove away.Aldo: "Like in Gone with the Wind. Awesome."
- Archie Comics once spoofed it as "Gone with the Breeze".
Films — Animated
- In Corpse Bride, there'a a moment where a dead man reunites with his living, old, half-blind wife. When she says that he's been dead for fifteen years, he pulls her into his arms and says, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
- The Lion King has a brief reference when Scar says this after he would be king, "Stick with me and you'll never go hungry again!".
- Carry On Matron'': Frances Kemp wonders if Sir Bernard Cutting has ever read the book.
- Empire of the Sun: When Jim regains consciousness after the attack on Shanghai and finds himself in the city's ruins, a Chinese poster for Gone with the Wind is seen in the background.
- The poster for
◊ Fletch Lives is a parody of the Gone with the Wind one. - The weeping flutist while soldiers are reported dead is echoed in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which depicts a crying man playing the harmonica while Tuco- whom he and the other musicians had mistaken to be a Confederate soldier- is beaten in the cabin by Angel Eyes and Corp. Wallace. Scarlett running out into the street littered with dead soldiers is recalled in the panning shot of Tuco approaching Sad Hill Cemetery.
- Lust in the Dust: The final scene shows the protagonist lamenting – word for word of Wind's last lines – that her man will be back.
- Molly: The title character tries to woo her love interest with a Southern Belle routine she learned by watching Gone with the Wind.
- The Mask: Upon being shot, the "dying" Mask implores one of Dorian's henchmen to "Tell Scarlett I do give a damn," with appropriate Clark Gable impression.
- Army of Shadows: While in London, two French Resistance members go see the movie.
- Tara from Angel, Angel, Down We Go was named after the plantation.
- One, Two, Three: Scarlett, the daughter of McNamara's boss, goes missing. When McNamara calls his wife Phyllis to find out where she might have gone to, she responds, "Who knows? Gone with the wind."
- C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America: A Northern Wind is presented as what Gone with the Wind would have been like in a world where the South won the Civil War.
- Asperger Adventures: In Of Mice and Aliens, Zeke the alien needs an information storage device. Ben uses his stepmom's tape of Gone with the Wind, which he assumes is a science program that she won't miss. It's actually her favorite movie, and she's dismayed to learn what he did.
- There's More Than One Way Home: Raven refers to an unpleasant teacher as "Scarlett O'Hatred".
- You Look Different in Real Life: When Lance and Leslie visit Justine's home, she decides to wait until her mom calls her down. But standing by waiting for her cue makes her feel like Scarlett O'Hara.
- Waverly from Viral Nation leaves a copy of Gone with the Wind in Clover and Bridget's room.
- In Wildflower Ranch, Alyssa reads Gone with the Wind on a bus. The guy next to her comments that Scarlett is an untrustworthy rat.
- The short story "Exgesis" by Nancy Kerr takes the "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" line and imagines how it'd be misinterpreted and distorted by future authors over time.
- Orange Clouds, Blue Sky: At the prom, Anthony and Skye call each other "Rhett" and "Scarlett."
- In Shock Point, Cassie lives in a two-story white house with pillars. Every time Thatcher and his mom drive past it, his mom says, "I've come home to Tara."
- The characters Ponyboy and Johnny in The Outsiders read Gone With the Wind in their stay at the church.
- The Avengers: Linda Thorson came up with her character's name Tara, after the estate in her favourite film.
- The Carol Burnett Show famously spoofed the film as "Went with the Wind", with the most famous scene being Burnett as "Starlet" wearing the curtains and curtain rod."I saw it in the window and I just had to have it."
- Designing Women: In two separate episodes, when Julia is bereft over something happening to Reese (the first when he has a heart attack, the second when he dies), Suzanne - who is normally a Brainless Beauty and is normally involved in The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry when it comes to Julia - makes sure the doctor knows to notify Julia if it looks like Reese won't make it so she can say goodbye to him (in the first episode) and takes care of all of Julia's business appointments (in the second). Both times, Charlene compares Suzanne to Scarlett O'Hara in how level-headed she can be when a crisis involving Julia comes up.
- Gilmore Girls: On the first season episode "Rory's First Dance", when Emily finds out Lorelai is making Rory's dress for said dance, she asks Lorelai, "You're not using the curtains, are you?"
- The Golden Girls: One episode has Blanche mentioning her admiration for Scarlett, namely due to her 18-inch waistline, to which Dorothy proclaims that both she and her alleged waistline are fiction.
- Married... with Children:
- In "All-Night Security Dude", after Peg announces to the kids that Al has been laid off due to the shoe store's roof collapsing in, Kelly sarcastically asks, "We won't lose Tara, will we?"
- In "Al Goes Deep", when Kelly falls in love with a star quarterback, Tara's theme plays in the background as they first lock eyes with each other as well as throughout the episode.
- The Partridge Family: In "Fellini, Bergman and Partridge", Keith's movie is played after Gone with the Wind at the theater.
- Fantasy Island: In "Magnolia Blossoms", two women who've seen the movie 135 times travel to the island with their fantasy to be Scarlett.
- The Love Boat:
- In "Rent a Family", an elderly actress says that her drinking problem began when she lost her part in Gone with the Wind to Vivien Leigh.
- In "Maid for Each Other", Gopher's aunt, who is pretending to be fabulously wealthy, says that she's late to the boat because she watched Gone with the Wind in her private plane and stayed to watch the ending.
- Veronica Mars: In "Drinking the Kool-Aid", Veronica sends in a DNA test to find out if Keith is really her father, and she narrates if she finds out Jake Kane - the richest man in town - is actually her father, "As God is my witness, I'll never take cold showers again!"
- The Wire: In the second season episode "All Prologue", Bunk says at one point after a long night, "Tomorrow is another goddamned day, right?"
- Hart to Hart: In "Murder Is a Drag," the Harts dress as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara for a costume party.
- During the mid-90's, One Life to Live head writer Michael Malone essentially reimagined the Rhett/Scarlett/Ashley/Melanie quadrangle with the characters Todd/Blair/Max/Luna, respectively. The key differences being that Blair fell in love with Todd very quickly upon realizing that he was far more suited to her than Max, rather than being oblivious to this, while Luna and Blair despised each other, unlike Scarlett and Melanie's friendship.
- One Monsterpiece Theater sketch on Sesame Street, taped in September 1987 and debuting in Episode 2410, had a subtraction-themed spoof of the 1939 film, with Kermit the Frog as Green Butler and a female Anything Muppet frog as Ms. Scarlett.
- The G.I. Joe character Scarlett is a big Shout-Out to Gone with the Wind, as in addition to her codename, her real last name is O'Hara and (outside the film, where she's Canadian), she even hails from Atlanta.
- Barbie has had dolls of Scarlett and Rhett made throughout the years, including in 1994, 2001 and for the 75th Anniversary of the film's release in 2014.
- MacVenture:
- Déjà Vu (1985) states that The Sternwoods' Big Fancy House is explicitly said to look like Tara from this movie.
- Uninvited has a mysterious lady who's a ghost and has no problems with ripping you apart if you try to doing any wrong actions who is said to be dressed like Scarlett O'Hara.
- Family Guy: A Cutaway Gag from "A Fistful of Meg" has Peter making a "grand staircase entrance" à la Scarlett, complete with a section of the film's score playing.
- Looney Tunes:
- The 1939 short The Film Fan features a movie trailer for Gone with the Breeze.
- The 1940 short Confederate Honey is a Whole-Plot Reference to the film, featuring Elmer Fudd as "Ned Cutler".
- The Looney Tunes Show: "The Shelf" features a Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short titled "Goner With the Wind".
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Sisterhooves Social", Rarity vows that "As Celestia as my witness, I'll never go sister-less again!".
- The Simpsons:
- In "Brush with Greatness", Homer says "As God as my witness, I'll always be hungry again".
- In "Principal Charming", after being dumped by Patty and learning that Bart was using his love for her to manipulate him, Principal Skinner vows to get his school back from him, citing that "Tomorrow is another school day!"
- In "Bart's Inner Child", which provides this page's image, there is a long pan over the many children that were injured from playing on the trampoline, much like the that of the wounded soldiers in the film.
- In "The Old Man and the "C" Student", Bart and Lisa watch an "edited for seniors" version of Gone with the Wind in which the famous "I don't give a damn" line is dubbed over with "I love you, let's remarry!".Moleman: Didn't that movie used to have a war in it? (gets dragged away by nurses)
Nurse: Come on! You've been warned!
- The Critic: In "Dukerella", for a costume party he throws, Duke is Rhett and Alice's older sister Miranda is Scarlett. Also, in what is possibly an homage to the aforementioned Carol Burnett example, Miranda's outfit is partially made out of Venetian blinds, which after she pulls, he cries out, "Ooh, baby's got back!"
- Pinky and the Brain: In an episode revolving around fairy tales, one "storybook" ends with Pinky and Brain dressed as Scarlett and Rhett. Brain says, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a—" (the book slams shut)Narrator: And that is another story.
