References to Green Day in other media.
Anime & Manga
- In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Vento Aureo, Cioccolata's Stand is named after the band, which spreads flesh-eating mold spores over everybody who's at a lower altitude than Cioccolata.
- Robin: Tim Drake likes their music and on occasion wears a Green Day t-shirt.
- Beautiful Music for Ugly Children:
- Gabe plays "American Idiot" on his radio show.
- One of his competitors for a weekly guest spot on a major radio station used to work as a roadie for Green Day.
- In Both Can Be True, Ash's mom's favorite band is Green Day.
- In Harmonic Feedback, Naomi refers to Green Day as old-school punk, so Justin gives her a CD with punk music from the '70s and '80s on it.
- In Siren Novels, Caleb listens to Green Day to distract himself from Zara.
Music
- "Weird Al" Yankovic included "Basket Case" as the final song on his polka melody "The Alternative Polka", and also wrote a parody of "American Idiot" named "Canadian Idiot".
- The King of Fighters: The red shirt Billy wears under his blue jacket in XIV reads "Know Your Enemy".
- Chuggaconroy quotes the opening lines of "Basket Case" in his video about Paper Mario: Sticker Star.
- DaThings: In "Postman Tap 2: Double Tap
", Greendale is randomly renamed to Green Day. - Game Grumps: The video made to send off the Grump Couch has a cover of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" near the end.
- Jacksepticeye: In his "I ASK EVIE RIDDLES" episode of Cleverbot Evie, he tells Evie "nobody likes you", which leads him to start singing the opening to Green Day's "Letterbomb", which also starts with the aforementioned phrase. He even leaves out the final "having fun" line so that the audience at home can finish it.
- Minilife TV: In Chris and Ian's living room, there's a poster for a band called Green Brick and their album, "Plastic Idiot", which is modeled after Green Day's "American Idiot" album cover.
- The Runaway Guys: Yoshi's Tropical Island, episode 1:Tim: Well that's okay, because (singing) I want to be the minority!
- SiIvaGunner's send-off to Club Penguin is an old-school CPMV scored by a mashup of "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" and the SiIva standby "Snow Halation".
- Logorama: Several Green Day posters can be seen on a grey wall when the Michelin Men cops are chasing Ronald McDonald.
- The Simpsons Movie: The band can be seen performing at the beginning of the film.
