Referenced By / The Outsiders

• In Step Brothers, Alice tells Dale, "Stay golden, Ponyboy." Warning: Video NSFW.
• In the pilot episode of Veronica Mars, when Logan's friends are confronted by Weevil and his gang, Wallace comments on how much it reminds him of the movie, and Veronica quips, "Be cool, Sodapop."
• Goth rock band The 69 Eyes have "Outsiders", a Filk Song dedicated to the book made especially clear by the phrases "no gold can stay" and "Johnny, don't you die on me now".
• In a fourth season episode of The Americans, Elizabeth and Young-Hee, who have just seen another movie, sneak in to see this.
• The seventh episode of the second season of Reservation Dogs is titled "Stay Gold, Cheesy Boy." This is what Uncle Charley calls back to Cheese as the cops lead him away for growing marijuana.
• Dinosaur Train: In "Get Into Nature!" Don suggests calling the club "The Outsiders."
• Bad Judge: The Outsiders is the only book that Book Dumb hot fireman Billy has read since seventh grade. As such, it's one of the few things he talks about.
• Gilmore Girls: Rory thinks The Outsiders is a good analogy for her social status at Chilton Academy.
• South Park: In "The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka," Jimbo reads The Outsiders to Ned while he's in hospital.
• Supernatural subtly draws parallels between the Curtis brothers and the Winchester brothers when Sam talks to his teacher about his werewolf-hunting essay and how he doesn't want to go into the "family business"/wishes his life could be different. On the blackboard in the background, there are notes written on The Outsiders and its characters. Both sets of brothers have little-to-no parental supervision, are all each other has, live on the fringes of society, are the victims of circumstances beyond their control, are no strangers to violence, and are very distrustful of authorities because their biggest fear is being split up.
• The 39 Clues: In Breakaway, Jonah calls Pony "Pony Boy" and asks him if he's "staying gold."
• R.E.M.'s Around the Sun has a song called "The Outsiders," wherein the lyrics are based on settings and characters from the novel.
• Mouth Dreams's song "The Outsiders" lists off the characters of the film, using voice clips from the film trailer.