Referenced By / The Grapes of Wrath

Live-Action Films

• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Casey Jones briefly drops a reference at one point when he sees April's family farm house that was old and almost abandoned.
  Casey Jones: Hey didn't they use this place in The Grapes of Wrath?
  April: Very funny. I told you I haven't been up here in years.

Live-Action TV

• In the Adam-12 episode "Foothill Division: Mac's Boots," Wells compares a poor family with a sick child to something from The Grapes of Wrath.
• Black Books episode 3 is titled "Grapes of Wrath." Its A-plot is literally about a bottle of wine made from grapes that miraculously grew from a rosebush.

Music

• Woody Guthrie's song "Tom Joad" is basically about the entire novel and movie.
• Pink Floyd's song "Sorrow" quotes chapter 25 in its opening lines.
• Bruce Springsteen's song "The Ghost of Tom Joad" also tells much of the story of the novel, and includes Tom Joad's speech to Ma Joad near the end.

Video Games

• Rose of Sharon Cassidy in Fallout: New Vegas is a whole-name reference to Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers.

Western Animation

• The Fairly OddParents!: In "What's the Difference?", Wanda tries to show Timmy how much fun reading is by offering him Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.
  Wanda: What could be more fun than wrath? Or grapes?
• The Simpsons: In "Lisa's Rival", Nelson does a diorama on The Grapes of Wrath. When Principal Skinner asks him what the diorama has to do with the source material, Nelson says, "Here's the grapes, and here's the wrath!" as he smashes some grapes with a mallet.
• VeggieTales: "God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!" marks the debut appearance of a family of ill-tempered grapes, known as the Grapes of Wrath. When the Grape family learn about forgiveness from Dad Asparagus, and that people can be forgiven 490 times, they undergo a Heel–Face Turn and become the Grapes of Math, due to Rosie being an expert on math (specifically, her equation of seventy times seven being 490).