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of Flare, the Steel Shrike overhears a TV set: "Alex, I'll try Superheroes for fifty!" On the next page, the Steel Shrike suspects that Harrigan, Teresa's butler, has set a trap by hooking something into the TV set, such as a blinding flash. Harrigan replies, "I would never so dishonor Alex Trebek!"
- Free Guy: The events of the film become a Jeopardy! question. Trebek himself cameoed, and due the film's numerous delays as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic (pushing it back from July 2020 to August 2021), it became a Posthumous Credit when Trebek died in November 2020. Coincidentally, the film was released the same day as the end of Trebek's final season (though well after his last episodes had aired).
- Groundhog Day: During one of the countless loops Phil Connors is trapped in, he sits in the common room of the bed and breakfast he's staying at and dully rattles off all the correct responses to the astonishment of others in the room.
- Men in Black: When J and K are investigating the arrival of the "Edgar" bug. This clip was featured in the season 14 premiere game as a "Video Daily Double".
- White Men Can't Jump: Gloria spends every minute she can studying so she can become a contestant on the show. Eventually, thanks to Sidney's connections, and Billy making an impossible shot, she gets her shot as a contestant, and proceeds to win big.
- Mem from Remember Dippy loves watching Jeopardy! even though he never gets any of the questions.
- Cheers: Cliff is a contestant in the episode "What is... Cliff Clavin!"
- Game Shows: In general, the "answer in the form of a question" rule has become so wrapped in the pop culture lexicon that it's not unheard of for contestants on other shows to tag their guesses with "What is [X]?" or "Who is [X]?" Hosts of these shows usually follow up with a deadpan comment along the lines of "This isn't Jeopardy!"
- Win Ben Stein's Money takes this even further. Any contestant who accidentally gives an answer in the form of a question is forced to wear a Dunce Cap for the remainder of a round.
- In the Mama's Family episode "Mama on Jeopardy!", Iola auditions for Jeopardy. Thelma (obviously) goes on the show and dishearteningly only gets second place, with the Consolation Prize ended up being an all-expense paid trip to Hawaii!
- The "Celebrity Jeopardy!" skits from Saturday Night Live, with Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek and Darrell Hammond as Sean Connery, who was more interested in trolling Trebek than actually playing.
- The Golden Girls:
- In one episode, after Rose said something stupid, Dorothy asks her sarcastically if any of her relatives have ever been a returning champion on the show.
- In "Questions & Answers", both Dorothy and Blanche end up auditioning with only the former being asked to join. Unfortunately, not only does she have a Nightmare Sequence where she loses to Rose and Charley Dietz and both Alex and Merv Griffin mock for for being a bad sport about it, but her arrogance in the preliminary round of questions get her banned from receiving an invite.
- Young Sheldon:
- In "The Grand Chancellor and a Den of Sin", George Sr. watches the quiz show in part because he likes to learn things, but mostly because the remote control needs new batteries.
- In "Future Worf and the Margarita of the South Pacific", Missy suggests Sheldon go on the game show, but Sheldon has such a strong dislike of the answers-as-questions format that he can't put aside.
Music
- The "Weird Al" Yankovic song "I Lost on Jeopardy" (which spoofs Greg Kihn's "Jeopardy"). Complete with then announcer Don Pardo delivering a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the contestant.
- One The Far Side strip had a man competing with Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, with a score of 100; he claims that his buzzer was broken.
- In a Sunday Strip of Gasoline Alley, Walt Wallet is a contestant on "Foolhardy!" hosted by Alex Trivial. In the Baseball category, Walt is stumped by the answer "The fans." The question: Who lost the 1994 World Series?
- From a 1989 Peanuts strip:Charlie Brown: Someone told me that you like me only because I feed you. Is that true?Snoopy: I think I'll choose another category… I'll take Famous Characters in History for $400, please!
- Pearls Before Swine: One of the crocs manages to get on Jeopardy! and amazingly does well due to subconsciously absorbing information from TV shows in his sleep. Unfortunately for him, they don't accept "Zeeba" as a final Jeopardy! response, which he put all his winnings on...
- In one Calvin and Hobbes strip, Miss Wormwood asks Calvin for the location of the Byzantine Empire. After a beat, Calvin says, "I'll take Outer Planets for $100."
- Stay Tooned!: One of the in-universe TV shows is Shlepardy!, hosted by Al Extra Bucks. It is also a mini-game you can play when you enter the Castle Room and click on the television set. You'll need to play this game and win at it in the path where the elevator button to Floor #5 is missing, since it is one of the prizes you can get if you win.
- Vinesauce Joel once played a Mario bootleg game that inexplicably had the Jeopardy! Thinking Music as BGM at one point. A different arrangement shows up as part of the A Winner Is You screen.
- Animaniacs: In "Win Big", Pinky and the Brain go on Gyp-Parody to win the money needed for Brain's latest Evil Scheme.
- Family Guy: Spoofing Superman's "Mr. Mxyzptlk", "I Take Thee, Quagmire" has a gag where Adam West provides "Kebert Xela" as his answer on Final Jeopardy, causing host Alex Trebek to disappear when he read it aloud. And then someone tried it for real on the show. This time it did nothing but get a laugh out of the studio.
- Rugrats (1991): In "Game Show Didi", Didi appears on Super Stumpers, a game show akin to Jeopardy!, hosted by Alec Quebec (voiced by Alex Trebek himself). At one point, Quebec has to remind Didi that her answer doesn't have to be in the form of a question.
- In the Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? episode "Total Jeopardy!", Velma and Shaggy compete on the game show against a robot named Max Kilobyte. Alex Trebek appears as an Ink-Suit Actor hosting the show.
- The Simpsons: In "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace", Marge goes on Jeopardy! in the hope of winning $15,000 to repay the people of Springfield after she spends their money on a $12,000 car that sunk into icy water. Marge loses so badly that she ends up owing $5,200 to Alex Trebek. Trebek doesn't take kindly to Marge's loss, and joins the Springfieldians in repossessing the Simpsons' possessions at the end of the episode.
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Gyp-Parody appears on "KACME TV", this time hosted by Buster, with Dizzy, Calamity and Elmyra as the contestants. No one gets any of the answers right, due to Dizzy eating his podium, Calamity's buzzer not working, and Elmyra answering "What is a bunny?" to every question (except the one where it would be the correct answer).
