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  • Lacrime D'oro del Vento Aureo:
    • The Early-Bird Cameo of the Hitman Team bantering at Club L'amore is a direct homage to the table scene from the film, with Ghiaccio being a very fitting stand-in for Tommy.
    • A flashback references the opening scene of the movie. Here, a young Olivia is brought along by her father to bond with her while he's out, but she doesn't know it's for Mafia business. Olivia also happened to be asleep during this until the men fired into the man that was in the back of the trunk, which her father covers up as thunder.

Film -- Live-Action

  • Menace II Society: The scene where O Dog shoots Crackhead is based on the scene where Tommy kills Batts.
  • In Spider-Man: No Way Home, after Matt Murdock advises Happy to lawyer up in preparation for the feds investigating Stark Industries' ties to Mysterio, Happy gives a panicked Motor Mouth spiel of his alternate options, specifically citing (and likely misremembering) a line from GoodFellas as an example of pleading the fifth.
  • Swingers: The scene of Trent coming through the basement of the Derby is based on the famous scene where Henry takes Karen through the Copacabana.

Literature

  • In Queens of Geek, Taylor tells Jamie, "You didn't get my Goodfellas impression on the plane." Jamie replies, "That's because your Joe Pesci impression sucks."

Live-Action TV

  • Friends:
    • In "The One After the Super Bowl (Part 2)", Ross calls Chandler a "Goodfella"
    • In "The One with the Prom Video", when Chandler says that the bracelet Joey him is "a little flashy", Ross replies "Not for a Goodfella".
  • Hannah Montana: In "Got to get Her Out of My House", Miley poses as a mob godmother and says "Do I amuse you? Do you think of me as some kind of clown?".
  • iCarly: A scene from "iOpen a Restaurant", in which a bully named Billy Boots harasses Gibby to take off his shirt, parodies Tommy's encounter with Billy Batts, right down to Donovan's "Atlantis" playing in the background.
  • Jessie: A Season 1 episode is called "Badfellas". The bad boy Emma dates is named Vincent Liotta, a reference to Ray Liotta.
  • Saturday Night Live's mid-90's recurring skit "The Joe Pesci Show" had talk show host Pesci and his sidekick Robert De Niro parodying key scenes from the movie, culminating in the actual Pesci and DeNiro showing up to complain and show them how it's really done.
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Goodfellas was Jon Stewart's favorite film of all time, and would often reference it during his tenure, including his final episode as host.
  • The Sopranos was clearly influenced by the film per Word of God:
    • In "Pilot", when Tony grabs Christopher after he was considering selling his life story into a biopic, he mentions mobster Henry Hill.
    • In "Denial Anger Acceptance", Chuck Low plays Shlomo Teittleman. Shlomo learns to his shock and horror that approaching Tony with his proposition has become a Deal with the Devil that he will regret from that day onwards. Chuck Low also played Morrie Kessler in the film, who approached Jimmy Conway with the idea and intel for the Lufthansa heist. And that arc plays out pretty much the same way, with the only difference being that Shlomo doesn't get outright killed. The way Tony carries himself in locking Shlomo into the deal, like it or not, is also very reminiscent of how Conway dealt with Morrie after the Lufthansa heist.
    • In "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti", Richard LaPenna tells his estranged wife, Dr. Melfi, that American culture is giving Italian-Americans a bad name, pointing out Goodfellas as an example. Lorraine Bracco was in that film, while Richard Romanus was in another Martin Scorsese film, Mean Streets.
    • In the same episode, Christopher shoots a baker in the foot for making him wait in line. The inverse happens in the film with the character Spider (also played by Michael Imperioli) having the same thing happen to him.
    • In "Big Girls Don't Cry", Chris mentions that one of his dreams is to act in mob movies like "Goodfellas, shit like that".
    • In "Fortunate Son", Adriana's nervous about Christopher heading off to get made, which Christopher attributes to "watching too many movies". This specifically references Goodfellas, in which Tommy was whacked under the pretense of being made. In the next scene, while Christopher waits for Paulie in the parking lot, a dolly zoom similar to a scene of paranoia in Goodfellas is used.
    • In "Employee of the Month", Dr. Melfi is raped by Jesus Rossi, or J. Rossi. In Goodfellas, Lorraine Bracco's character also has a nemesis named J. Rossi (Janice Rossi), with whom her husband is having an affair.
    • In "The Test Dream", Phil Leotardo shoots Angelo Garepe in the trunk of his car, which is a bit of an in-joke to Frank Vincent's own demise as Billy Batts.
    • The scene in "Long Term Parking" with Christopher and Adriana where both of them are crying over the consequences of Adriana being an informant, including Chris's strangled wail of "Oh, God, what are we gonna do?!" mirror a similar scene where Henry and Karen Hill are falling apart at the realization they are in mortal danger from Paulie Cicero and his crew after Henry's narcotics bust.
  • Community has a first-season episode, "Contemporary American Poultry", that is an Affectionate Parody of Goodfellas. Abed kicks things off by quoting Henry Hill's opening line, suitably altered: "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be in a mafia movie." He also performs a voiceover narration similar to Ray Liotta's and reenacts the famed "Layla" montage by destroying or otherwise tampering with the study group's ill-gotten gains from their life of chicken-based crime. The episode ends with him admitting that he's fine with being a "schnook" again, unlike Henry.

Web Animation

  • In an episode of The Champions in which some of the young players are given a tour of the Europa House in a Scare 'Em Straight ploy, Jadon Sancho laughs off Jamie Vardy's attempts to scare him, prompting Vardy to say "I'm sorry, you think I'm funny? I'm funny how? I mean, funny like a clown?"

Western Animation

  • American Dad!: The main plot of "Meter Made" is based on the film.
  • Animaniacs: A recurring segment involves a trio of pigeons called the Goodfeathers, with Squit, Bobby and Pesto being based on Henry, Jimmy and Tommy, respectively. In one short, "West Side Pigeons", the birds are shown perching on a statue of Martin Scorsese.
  • Family Guy:
    • In "There's Something About Paulie", the "What's so funny?" scene is parodied by "the mob in the movies" at a restaurant.
    • In "Stand by Meg", the scene where Chris is shown around a vocational school parodies a scene from the film.
    • A cutaway from "Throw It Away", in which Peter kills a spider, parodies the scene where Tommy gets whacked.
  • Futurama:
  • Goof Troop: There is an episode titled "Goof Fellas".
  • The Simpsons:
    • In "Bart the Murderer", Bart's rise as a Mafia task boy parodies the rise of Henry Hill.
    • In "Bart The Fink", Krusty's tirade after he loses his fortune to the IRS due to tax evasion, particularly "I got to ride the bus like a schnook!", paraphrases Henry Hill's last lines from Goodfellas ("I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.").
    • In "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson", the scene where Fat Tony and his goons eliminate any competition to Marge's pretzel business parodied the montage showing the murders of those involved in the airport heist.
    • In "The Haw-Hawed Couple", Bart narrates about being "a somebody in a school full of nobodies" now that he's friends with Nelson.
    • The ending to "Donnie Fatso" parodies the ending to the film, right down to the epilogue cards.
      "Goodfellas writer Nicholas Pileggi had nothing to do with this episode. He is currently serving a lifetime of marriage to Nora Ephron without possibility of parole."
  • South Park: In "Fort Collins", the Member Berries reenact the film's opening scene.

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