- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
- Stardust Crusaders: After Kakyoin has a nightmare encounter with Death XIII, Polnareff remarks that he acted almost like the ghost from The Exorcist.
- Steel Ball Run: Mike O.'s Stand takes the name of Oldfield's debut album, Tubular Bells, from The Exorcist.
- One Piece: During Thriller Bark, during the encounter with the zombies in the mansion, Usopp cries out "the power of Usopp compels you!"
- My Immortal: Ebony and Tom Riddle go see The Exorcist on a date. However, the film Ebony describes sounds a lot more like a Friday the 13th movie.
- Toy Story: Woody rotates his head as part of his plan to scare Sid."We toys can see eeeeeveryyyyythiiiiing."
- Beetlejuice: The titular demon says "I've seen The Exorcist 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time I see it!"
- The Brady Bunch Movie: Jan's demonic inner voice shouts "Watch my head spin!"
- The Dead Pool. A rockstar's music video features an Exorcist Head, so he says the director is just ripping off The Exorcist instead of thinking up something original. The director retorts that it's a homage to the movie, not a ripoff.
- Trainspotting: The hallucination of a baby crawling on the ceiling and turning its head around.
- Stay Tuned: One of the cable channels from Hell features an exercise program called The Exorcisist where the instructor tells the audience to twist their heads.
- Repossessed, starring Leslie Nielsen and Linda Blair Adam Westing.
- The 1983 Hudson Brothers comedy vehicle Hysterical has an exorcism scene which mocks the one in The Exorcist.
- In Oh, God!, God says, "What about all that hoo-ha with the devil awhile ago from that movie? Nobody had any problem believing that the devil took over and existed in a little girl. All she had to do was wet the rug, throw up some pea soup and everybody believed. The devil you could believe, but not God? I work in my own way. I don't get inside little children; they got enough to do just being themselves."
- In The Goodbye Girl, when Lucy has an upset stomach, Elliot, who's there to comfort her, asks how she's feeling, and she asks if he's seen The Exorcist.
- In This Is the End, the exorcism of Jonah Hill has Jay Baruchel repeatedly saying "The power of Christ compels you!", with the others noting he's just copying The Exorcist.
- Ghostbusters (2016) has, when Abby is possessed, her head doing a 360-degree spin, and once the spirit is slapped out of her, the response is "The power of Patty compels you!" (she also spews green goo everywhere in the extended version). Kevin, while possessed, does another head spin while dancing.
- Tempest (2011): When Tempest is about to tell Logan about her mermaid ancestry in Tempest Revealed, she tells him that she's different. Logan says, "What kind of different are we talking about here? Super-talented-and-a-little-eccentric different? Or head-spinning-around-spitting-pea-soup different? Because if you're possessed, I'm not sure I want to know."
- 1670: In episode 7, Jakub and Bogdan are send to perform exorcisms on a young, blonde girl named Dobrusia, who is trapped in her dark bedroom, wearing a white nightdress, puking with slime and bending her body to extremes. Jakub says that's the fault of stress-free upbringing and keeps on acting like she's a rebellious teenager. Then, Bogdan comes near her and gets possessed himself.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
- In the episode "Only Have Eyes for You" when Willow says they have to do an exorcism, Cordelia blurts out, "Are you crazy? I saw that movie! Even the priest died!"
- On the third season episode "Lovers Walk", Buffy tells Giles that when she showed her mother her (unexpectedly) high SAT scores, her mother's head spun around and exploded.
Giles: I-I've been on the Hellmouth too long. That was metaphorical, yes?
Buffy: Yes. She was happy. - Evil (2019) recreates the shot of Father Merrin arriving at the MacNeil house in the episode "October 31".
- Farscape. Done as a Person as Verb in an episode where the crew of Moya suspect that one of them has been possessed by an Energy Being. When suspicion falls on John Crichton he retorts, "If I'm Linda Blair, why am I tellin' you guys anything?"
- On the Cooking Show (yes, you read that correctly) Good Eats, a child psychologist is unable to get a child named Stevie to finish his peas. (Stevie has been sitting at the table for days, because his parents told him that he couldn't leave until he finished them.) Alton is called in (complete with a "Tubular Bells"-like rendition of the show's theme song) to help out, and shows Stevie that peas can be delicious if properly prepared (which his parents have failed to do, because the only way they know how to cook them is to boil the living heck out of them, just as their parents did before them). Alton makes split-pea soup, a burger made of pressed split-pea paste, and a pea salad with cheese cubes. Stevie expresses his approval by turning his head 180 degrees. (His parents don't find this unusual.)
- Also in the episode "A Devil of a Cake," when Alton is discussing red velvet cake and the (unproven) idea that red food dye makes kids hyperactive, he brings up the idea by saying that some claim it "makes kids do the darndest things," and a little girl in a nightgown (his Real Life daughter) floats in and says (in the voice of the Louis Cypher character from earlier in the episode) "Emphasis on 'darndest'"
- The trailer for SurrealEstate uses the film for a Bait-and-Switch with the silhouetted man in the hat turning up at a creepy haunted house who is...a real estate agent (admittedly one who specialises in haunted houses).
- In Yellowjackets, a group of high school girls who are stranded in the woods in Canada decide to hold a séance, with the only holdout being Token Religious Teammate Laura Lee. At first, it's all fun and games, until a girl, Lottie, goes into a trance, muttering in French (which she is not fluent in) and smashing her head against the window. All the girls are panicking and wondering what to do, when Laura Lee rushes in, shouting, "THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!" and throwing her Bible at Lottie. It actually works; Lottie snaps out of it.
- Beyond Wrestling's top Power Stable is called Team Pazuzu.
- WWE's Bray Wyatt busted out the Spider Walk to scare Kofi Kingston during their match at WWE Battleground 2013 (October 6, 2013), and did the same to John Cena during their match at WrestleMania 30 (April 6, 2014). Bray was originally presented as a Southern Cult leader who may be an Eldritch Abomination possessing the body of Husky Harris (Windham Rotunda's name as a member of The Nexus). He's done the Walk at other times as well.
- Much of the plot of the Dinosaurs episode, "Terrible Twos" is a spoof of the film. When Baby Sinclair goes through the "terrible twos", he turns into an emotional, bratty, raging monster with the ability to move objects across the room, spew steam from his mouth, turn his head around 180°, and speaks in a rough, gravelly voice. The Sinclairs ultimately recruit the help of The Babysitter, who is tasked with returning their child to normal.
- Monster Hunter (PC) has a Big Boo's Haunt stage called "The Exorcist".
- Selecting the character Deadwina in the multiplayer mode of TimeSplitters Future Perfect has her acting possessed and giving softened Exorcist quotes.Deadwina: Do you see what your cunning daughter has done...? My mother sucks lollipops in hell!
- The 442oons video "Yaya's Birthday Cake" features Yaya Tankouré phoning Vinjury Kompany for a party invitation. Kompany explains that he is in the middle of an exorcism. He tries to exorcise the demon that possesses Unwell Pale-and-Green-i by saying "The power of Christ compels you."
- The Happy Tree Friends episode "Read 'em and Weep" has Pops buying a parody of the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis at a book sale because it's cheaper than a storybook Cub wanted, and when he reads it as a bedtime story, causes his baby to get demonically possessed like Regan. Lumpy shows up as the exorcist.
- Sr. Pelo's Spooky Month features the Running Gag character of a trollface-d Regan expy screaming "OOGA BOOGA!" to Jump Scare the characters, probably in reference to the old internet Maze Game that infamously had a jump scare ending with a close-up of possessed Regan's face accompanied very loud screaming noise.
- The Boondocks: In "Stinkmeaner Strikes Back", the entire sequence when Ruckus comes to the house to try and exorcise Stinkmeaner from Tom is one big reference to The Exorcist with Ruckus playing Father Merrin's role and paraphrasing a lot of his dialogue.
- Courage the Cowardly Dog: The episode "The Demon in the Mattress" makes several references to the film.
- Family Guy:
- In "Lethal Weapons", Peter hits a New Yorker with holy water, causing him to burn. It turns out there was a delivery mix-up between the water and acid.
- In "Screwed the Pooch", Peter has a crisis of conscience on whether or not to condemn Brian in court. Carter nods "yes", Lois shakes "no", and Regan spins her head around.
- In "Peter Griffin: Husband, Father...Brother?", Peter believes that Chris's "street" talk is him talking in tongues, and he sprays him with holy water while shouting "The power of Christ compels you!"
- A scene from "The Cleveland-Lorretta Quagmire" features a Bewitched parody in which Darren finally has enough of Endora and splashes her with holy water. "Yeah, the power of Christ compels you, bitch!"
- Futurama: The Professor's gargoyle from "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" is named Pazuzu.
- Looney Tunes: The 1987 short The Duxorcist is a parody of this movie.
- In Mickey Mouse short Runaway Brain, Mickey's arrival at 1313 Lobotomy Lane is styled like Father Merrin's arrival at the McNeil house.
- Pinky and the Brain: In "Pinky Suavo", Pinky spins around a paper bag on his head and shouts "I'm Linda Blair!"
- This line from the Season Two premiere of Milo Murphy's Law:
Doofenshmirtz: The power of orange soda compels you!
- Scared Shrekless: Shrek's story is a spoof of this movie called "The Shreksorcist", in which Shrek is a babysitter trying to control an unruly Pinocchio (who has a cricket inside his head).
- The Simpsons:
- In "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily", Maggie turns her head 180 degrees.
- The first segment from "Treehouse of Horror XVI" ends with Homer twisting his head and crawling up the wall after getting sprayed with holy water.
- The first segment from "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII", titled The Exor-Sis, is a parody of the film in which Pazuzu possesses Maggie. In addition, director William Friedkin provides a voice for the third segment.
