Referenced By / The Eagles

Films — Live-Action

• The Big Lebowski: When The Dude gets a cab ride from the police station, the cabbie is playing the Gipsy Kings cover of "Hotel California", and The Dude asks him to change the station because, "I hate the fucking Eagles, man!" The cabbie ends up stranding The Dude on the road.
• In One-Trick Pony, a record executive tells Jonah that he wants music with Top 40 potential, like another Eagles.

Literature

• Bill from I Think I Love You used to be in a band called Eagle. His bandmate laments, "If we had stuck with it, we could have waited until the Eagles were famous and then sued them for stealing our name." Bill answers, "But they're plural. That's different. And there's that the."
• In Language Arts, Charles hears "Desperado" playing on his neighbors' radio.

Live-Action TV

• The Documentary Now! episode "Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee" is a parody of the 2013 documentary History of the Eagles.