Wonder WomanVolume 1: One of the impossible tasks Thomas Tighe sets for the Holliday Girls is that one of them helps Captain Rab, a clear pastiche of Captain Ahab from Moby Dick, hunt down his whale nemesis.
Dot and the Whale: The film begins with Dot reading the book, and she later ends up meeting Moby himself in an ice cave in Antarctica.
Doug's First Movie: After Doug and Skeeter befriend the Monster of Lucky Duck Lake, they take out a copy of Moby-Dick and it responds to the name Herman Melville. From then on, they decide to name him Herman.
Finding Nemo: While stuck inside the whale, Marlin angrily rubs himself against its tongue while shouting "How do I taste, Moby?!".
The Pagemaster: At one point, the heroes meet Captain Ahab hunting for Moby Dick.
In The Baader Meinhof Complex, when the heads of the Red Army Faction (including Baader, Ensslin and Meinhof) are in prison, they pass coded messages to each other, and to the others in their group, using passages from Moby Dick (which was Truth in Television).
In The Lighthouse, Winslow tells Wake "I'm tired of your damned-fool yarns and your Captain Ahab horseshit".
The Hunt for Red October: As Ramius speaks with Borodin in his cabin, he says of his late wife, "I widowed her the day I married her", which was what Ahab said about his own wife in Moby-Dick.
Khan: "From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
Similarly, Star Trek: First Contact compares Picard's rage-filled vendetta against the Borg to Ahab and his whale, with Lily Sloane even calling Picard "Ahab" in her "The Reason You Suck" Speech. Unlike Khan, though, when Picard quotes directly from the end of the book, it signifies he's finally come back around to seeing reason.
Picard: "And he piled upon the whale's white hump, the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it."
In Mackintosh and T.J., Mackintosh's belongings include a copy of Moby-Dick.
In Pushing Tin, Russell catches a fish. Nick says, "Hey, he's a big one. You caught Moby-Dick!"
In The Whale, whenever Charlie needs to feel better, he reads (or asks someone else to read) an essay on Moby Dick that he has. It turns out the essay was written by his estranged daughter Ellie when she was in eighth grade.
In Youngblood (1986), Jessie sees Dean flipping through porn novels at a bookstore and buys him a copy of Moby-Dick instead.
The Expanse: In Babylon's Ashes two characters make literary references, one to Moby-Dick and another to the "How can man die better" passage from the Horatius poem of Lays of Ancient Rome.
In Harmonic Feedback, Naomi grumbles, "Teaching an old person how to use eBay is like trying to teach a newborn how to read Moby-Dick."
In Love Anthony, Beth goes to the library to work on her novel, only to find that her favorite seat is occupied due to a twenty-five-hour reading of Moby-Dick.
In I Think I Love You, the paste Bill uses while working on The Essential David Cassidy Magazine is so white, rank, and gloopy that the pasters joke that it comes from a sperm whale. They refer to it as Moby-Dick, and say "Pass the Moby" while they work.
In Language Arts, Charles reads excerpts from Moby-Dick in Language Arts class.
In The Nowhere Girls, Mr. Baxter tells the high school students that they'll be reading Moby-Dick. One boy asks, "Isn't that about a whale?" Mr. Baxter replies, "It's about obsession and man's eternal struggle with himself and God, among other things. But yes, there is a whale."
Fate/strange Fake: One of the forms that Watcher's Shadows take is Captain Ahab. He comments that if he was the real Ahab, he would probably be Servant Avenger due to Ahab's obsession with revenge against Moby Dick.
In A Drowned Maiden's Hair, eleven-year-old Maud complains that she has nothing to read, and Judith gives her a book that's supposed to be about a whale. Maud skims over a hundred pages of dense prose without the whale appearing before she gives up.
Lost Voices: In Waking Storms, Moby-Dick is one of the library books Dorian brings for Luce to read.
"The Quest for the Great Gray Mossy" by Harry Turtledove is a retelling of Moby-Dick in an alternate history where dinosaurs didn't go extinct and evolved into a sapient species. The white whale is the Great Gray Mossy of the title, a legendary mosasaurus which were hunted for their oil and meat.
In The Orphan Train Adventures book "In the Face of Danger", Mrs. Bowder reads Moby Dick to Megan. She likes it so much that she later names 2 of the puppies Moby and Dick.
Juniper Sawfeather: In Cry of the Sea, June's English class is reading Moby-Dick. June is so bored that she falls asleep in class and dreams that Captain Ahab is throwing harpoons at the mermaids and pouring boiling blubber on them.
In Are You Seeing Me? Justine compares Perry to Captain Ahab because Perry is obsessed with aquatic cryptids. Perry doesn't think it's a good comparison because he only wants to see a cryptid, not harpoon one, and he has other interests.
In Alien in a Small Town, after the Starfish Alien Paul attends a church service, the Religious Robot Barney Estragon compares them both to Queequeg attending the church service in Moby Dick. Appropriately, the sermon they'd just heard was about Jonah, just as in the novel.
A minor character in the Fantasy Island episode "Spending Spree/The Hunted" has a fantasy of being marooned on a desert island with his crew. He says, "I feel like Captain Ahab!"
In the Mann & Machine episode "The Dating Game," Eve takes a Word Association Test while signing up for a dating service. Her response to "Sperm" is "Moby-Dick."
M*A*S*H: In the eleventh season episode "Run for the Money", Charles tries to help a wounded soldier who everyone thinks is stupid because of his stuttering problem, and he ends up giving the soldier a copy of the novel, which he thinks the soldier is smart enough to appreciate.
The X-Files: Dana Scully's father used to read the story to her when she was growing up; her nickname for him was Ahab and he used to call her Starbuck. Years later, she named her dog Queequeg.
In The Love Boat episode "The Brotherhood of the Sea," the crew tells Julie that as part of her initiation into the titular brotherhood, she must memorize the first chapter of Moby-Dick and recite it to them.
Murder, She Wrote: The title of one episode, "To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee", was taken from Ahab's lines during his final battle with Moby-Dick. The story involved a man who blamed a friend of Jessica's for his troubles. He was so set on revenge that he committed suicide in a way that would implicate Jessica's friend in murder.
Parks and Recreation: Moby-Dick is Ron Swanson's favorite book. When Ron tells this to Chris, Chris seems surprised that Ron, who is usually very perceptive, is Comically Missing the Point of the book:
Ron: I hate metaphors. That's why my favorite book is Moby-Dick. No frou-frou symbolism, just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal.
In the Family Ties episode "Keaton and Son," Jennifer is trying to help her parents pick out names for her new sibling. Most of her suggested names come from books, including Moby Keaton.
Mastodon's album, Leviathan, is a concept album about the book, with the track Blood & Thunder being about Captain Ahab swearing vengeance on the titular whale.
Civilization: Beyond Earth: An in-game quest for defeating a Siege Worm makes it seem like Shai-Hulud in all but name. The flavor text is very Moby-Dick, though.
Final Fantasy XIV's Titan, as the fight draws closer and closer to his defeat, declares "to the last, I grapple with thee!"
Ace Combat Infinity frequently refers to the P-1112 Aigaion as "Moby Dick", so when you finally get to take it on in the fifth mission, this exchange ensues:
Viper: Viper, ready to hunt that whale! Omega: Roger that, Captain Ahab! (Beat) Viper: Hey, didn't he go down with Moby Dick in the end? Omega: Wow, you actually read it?
In Limbus Company one of the main characters is Ishmael, a young woman who has worked on a ship half her life, and is in a constant search of a 'bastard' from her past (Captain Ahab). Much of her chapter revolves around the themes and characters of Moby Dick, with Ahab, Queequeg, Starbuck, Stubb, and Pip also making appearances.
Maneater has the Apex Sperm Whale boss which is pretty much a living Expy of Moby-Dick proper, complete with large size, albinism, and harpoons covering its body along with other previous battle scarring.
Portal 2: A sped-up line of dialogue from GLaDOS, which She claims to be an explanation for the current test chamber, is actually an excerpt from the first chapter.
The human ark ship that features in Xenoblade Chronicles X has a lot of Theme Naming around Moby-Dick. The ship itself is called the White Whale, its onboard AI was called A-HAB and the city it carries features places named Melville Street and Ishmael Hills.
Unsounded: When asked why she gave the comic the title she did Ashley quoted its use in Moby Dick before explaining;
Something unsounded hasn't been plumbed yet. You don't know how deep it is or what's at the bottom. It's an unknown - like Death, like the limits of a man, like God, like eternity.
The tagline for the final chapter is "And All the Time, That Smiling Sky", a modified Moby-Dick quote from the the bit "And all the time, lo! that smiling sky, and this unsounded sea!"
SCP-423 is an entity who exists within textual narratives and can travel between them while slighty altering the stories themselves. It traveled into a copy of Moby Dick once.
SCP-4513 is a large drum woodchipper. If any form of printed literary media is placed into its intake hopper, its output hopper will produce a liquid substance instead of shredded paper and it is named SCP-4513-B. If SCP-4513-B is exposed to any literary media, the narrative structure changes in a way that closely resembles the media SCP-4513-B was formed from. In one testing log the researchers used a copy of Mobydick.
Similar to the Parks and Rec example, Brian David Gilbert of Unraveled uses the book to explain (his disdain for) metaphors in 'Unravelling Kirby'. He recalls his first time reading the book in High School, and being disappointed that it didn't end with the maxed out Ahab killing Moby like in a videogame. Years later, he still seems to harbor a grudge against his old English teacher for the condescending way she explained it to him.
The Fairly OddParents!: In "Shelf Life", Tom Sawyer uses Cosmo's wand to change the titles of famous books, one of which involves him changing Moby Dick to Moby Duck, turning the titular whale into a giant rubber duck as a result. At the end of the episode, Timmy leaves the book as it is to get AJ to fail his test (as AJ did a report on the book and turned it into a major motion picture).
In "Bendin' in the Wind", there is a brand of whale oil called Mobil Dick.
The episode "Mobius Dick", in which Leela obsessively hunts a four-dimensional space whale, is a parody/deconstruction of the story. As it turns out, the whale feeds on obsession, so it naturally targets ship captains.
Bounty Hamster: The episode "Gone Fishin" spoofs Moby Dick with the robotic Captain Reeham who wants to hunt down a giant white alien sandworm on a desert planet (which is also a reference to Dune).
In "Bart the Fink", the Sea Captain is talking on the phone and says "Call me back, Ishmael", referencing the first line of the book.
In "Homer Simpson in: Kidney Trouble", when Homer is hiding at the Springfield docks, one shop he walks past is a toffee shop called "Call Me Delish-mael".
In "Clams", Mr. Krabs hunts down a giant clam that ate his millionth dollar, and he ensures SpongeBob and Squidward's cooperation by nailing a sandwich to the boat's mast.
"Dopey Dick" is a Whole-Plot Reference set in the 1830s. Moby Dick becomes a simpleminded jellyfish named Dopey Dick, Squidward is Ishmael, Patrick is Starbuck, and SpongeBob and Krabs are each pirate captains akin to Ahab (SpongeBob just wants to catch and release Dopey for fun, while Krabs is trying to harvest the jelly for money).
In the Gravity Falls episode "Land Before Swine," Stan says, "From Heck's heart, I stab at thee!"
X-Men: The Animated Series: After nearly being killed by Sentinels, Morph returns to the team in "Courage" and immediately has to face them again. Beast likens the situation to Ahab going up against Moby Dick, adding he hopes Morph has better luck.
Rocky and Bullwinkle features a parody called "Maybe Dick", which turns out to be a mechanical whale.
Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "Floss Your Ed", Kevin snares Ed using buttered toast as bait on a fishing line. He nicknames Ed "Moby Dork".
video Abigail compares the arduous and near impossible task of trying to get her trans healthcare through the NHS, as is her right as a British citizen, to the hunt for the white whale since she refused to give up and use private healthcare instead.