Films - Live-Action
- In My Science Project, Vince complains, "My head's ringing louder than The Gong Show."
- In The Love Boat episode "Isaac's Double Standard/One More Time/Chimpanzeeshines," a divorced couple compare their marriage to The Gong Show.
- Fantasy Island:
- In "Birthday Party/Ghostbreaker," Tattoo has a new antenna installed so he can watch The Gong Show.
- In "The Wedding," Tattoo complains that Chester the chimp stole his TV set in order to watch The Gong Show.
- Hey Hey It's Saturday had a segment, "Red Faces", in which three (sometimes more acts) would likewise perform in front of three judges. As with The Gong Show, one of the judges (most often in-show guitarist Red Symons) would strike a gong if the act was going downwards. However, all acts were scored regardless of whether they were gonged or not.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic: In "You Make Me", Al sings "You make me watch The Gong Show."
- Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels: At the start of "The Crazy Case of the Tell-Tale Tape", the Teen Angels are on The Bonger Show, doing a Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat act. Cavey appears in the hat when Taffy expected a rabbit. Cavey immediately produces a rabbit from Hairy Hammerspace, but the girls are gonged anyway.
- The Simpsons: According to Marge, one of Homer's many "lifelong dreams" was to appear on the show, which he did with his best pal Barney in 1977. This goes into a flashback of the men playing "O Susannah" on a giant harmonica while sharing a pair of overalls, to many boos and gongs by Jamie Farr, while Paul Williams looks on, bored. Homer then brags how they got more gongs than a breakdancing robot that caught on fire.
