Muppets from Space: Rizzo escapes from his cage in the FBI lab through a hole hidden behind a Mice Girls poster.
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls: When trying to fake out his guides into kneeling a la a game of "Simon Says" whenever they hear the phrase Shikaka, among the pretend phrases Ace uses are "shish kabob" and "Shawshank Redemption."note And for added hilarity, the film also features Shawshank actor Bob Gunton.
The Speed of Sound: In Lawrence's safe house, Caitlin finds a VHS tape of The Shawshank Redemption, one of his favorite movies.
Prudence Penderhaus: In 17 Marigold Lane, Prudence and Cassius are both arrested and put in lockup. Cassius quotes, "The first night's the toughest, no doubt about it. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it."
Community: The episode "Cooperative Escapism in Familial Relations" is a Whole-Plot Reference to the film, with Abed doing a voiceover a la Morgan Freeman.
Glee: In "Duets," Kurt walks up to Sam in the showers and assures him "I'm not going all Shawshank on you."
Saturday Night Live: In the sketch "Parole Board", where a prisoner based on Morgan Freeman's portrayal of "Red" is revealed to be a remorseless cannibal who is facing the death penalty.
The Darkside Detective: One of the holding cells at the police station has a Raquel Welch poster on the wall. Officer Dooley says it was put up by a prisoner to hide the escape tunnel he was making, which failed because the other end came out still inside the station.
Die Hard: Vendetta: The prison stage have John uncovering a secret entrance behind a hole in the prison wall, covered by a poster (instead of Raquel Welch however it's a poster of a random girl in a bikini).
LEGO City Undercover: Blue Whittaker is a Captain Ersatz of Red from the film. Additionally, in the same chapter he's introduced in, the game parodies the scene where Andy plays opera music in the warden's office.
A Way Out: Most of the opening in the prison draws heavily from the film, from a rooftop tarring segment, to escaping through holes in the cell walls into a pipe-filled area behind them, to timing noisy escape methods with thunder claps during a storm, and so on.
Seth Mac Farlanes Cavalcade Of Cartoon Comedy: In "A Scotsman Who Still Can't Watch a Movie Without Shouting at the Screen," one of the movies the Scotsman shouts at is The Shawshank Redemption.
In "Sibling Rivalry," Peter watches a promo for the new Morgan Freeman film The Narrator, in which he says, "You either you get busy talking or get busy dying."
In "Play It Again, Brian," Stewie tells Brian that he carved "BROOKS WAS HERE" while inside Lois' birth canal.
A cutaway from "McStroke" features Mr. Monopoly getting attacked by the Sisters.
The third segment of "Three Kings" is a parody on this film, with Peter as Andy, Cleveland as Red, Carter as Norton, and Joe as Boggs.
In "Inside Family Guy," Peter moves into a run-down apartment and notices "BROOKS WAS HERE" carved onto the wall.
In "Undergrounded," Peter is grounded for overspending on his credit card and tries to think of a way out of the house, musing "How did Brooks get out?" The scene then cuts to Peter hanging himself, only for the noose to break due to his weight and send him crashing through the floor, giving him the idea to dig a tunnel.
Green Eggs and Ham: In "Mouse," Sam and Guy escape from prison by going through the sewers, and their emergence from the pipe in the rain is styled like Andy's escape.
Narrator:(imitating Red) Sam and Guy crawled through five fuzzball fields of funk, and they finally made their way out. Who'da thunk?
A sketch from "The Munnery," the Kraken is set free and is unable to make it in the outside world, leading him to carve "KRAKEN WAS HERE" into a wall and hang himself. To drive it home, Morgan Freeman's son Alfonso does the closing narration.
"It's just like Andy always told me: Get busy dying, or get kraken."
The final sketch from "But Not in That Way" is a Batman-based parody of the film.
In "Treehouse of Horror V," Hank Azaria is credited as "The Shaws-hank Azaria."
In "Dumbell Indemnity," Hans Moleman wheels a cart of books in jail while dressed similarly to Brooks.
In "The Wandering Juvie," Norton's "His judgment cometh..." sign is seen in the juvie warden's office.
In "The Heartbroke Kid," Bart gains weight from eating lots of junk food. Upon suffering a heart attack, the Simpson family tries to make Bart eat healthy food instead. However, he cheats on his diet with junk food stashed in his bedroom in a hole covered by a poster, showering himself with some of it, parodying the Redemption in the Rain scene from this film.
In "American History X-cellent," the prison were Mr. Burns is incarcerated has a warden based on Norton.
Phineas and Ferb: The episode "Mind Share" features many references to the movie.
A character named Red who not only knows how to get things, but also quotes several of his lines verbatim (with some minor word changes, since it's a kids show).
A sequence where a character hides a hole in a wall with a poster.
A character crawling through "500 yards of foul-smelling nastiness," emerging in a very similar pose to Andy Dufresne.
Buford mentions that every prison has a guy who knows how to get things.
", where a prisoner based on Morgan Freeman's portrayal of "Red" is revealed to be a remorseless cannibal who is facing the death penalty.