Referenced By / The Wizard of Oz

The Land of Oz series and especially The Wizard of Oz film is well known throughout the world. Over the years, the original novel has been adapted into film, television, and comics. Notably, whenever The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is referenced in media it is almost always the 1939 film adaptation being specifically referenced, with the book usually only ever referenced to avoid copyright infringements and the 39 sequels almost never being referenced.

For episodes that directly parody The Wizard of Oz, see Off to See the Wizard. For political allusions and adaptations, see Dystopian Oz.

See also Not in Kansas Anymore, which references a famous line from the 1939 film.

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Examples:

Advertising

• The Tin Man appears in a 2006 commercial for Chef Boyardee ravioli, where he is pursued by groups of hungry children due to the fact that an oversized Beef Ravioli can label has been affixed to the back of his cylindrical torso.
• A commercial for Energizer Batteries featured the Wicked Witch of the West attempting to destroy the Energizer Bunny by setting him on fire with her broom, only for it to set off a sprinkler system that melts her.
• A 2009 General Electric commercial features an electronic scarecrow dancing and singing to "If I Only Had a Brain".
• Chipotle's The Scarecrow styles the dirty city that the Scarecrow (who references Oz's Scarecrow) lives in after the Emerald City.
• A 2016 commercial for the University of Phoenix features a rewritten, empowering version of "If I Only Had a Brain", set to a montage of students managing to balance their studies with their hard private lives.
  You think a resume's enough / Who'll step up when things gets tough?
  Don't you want that kind of brain?
  A degree is a degree / You're gonna want someone like me
  But only if you have a brain
• The Dairy Queen Lips wonder how the Peanut Buster Parfait can have such a low price and muse "If I only had a brain..."

Anime & Manga

• Dorothy Unsworth from Black Clover, whose magic forms an imaginative dream world, shares the same name as the girl who ends up in a fantasyland.
• In the English dub of Digimon Adventure, after Kari is taken to see Myotismon, he quotes a variation of the Wicked Witch's famous line:
  Myotismon: I got you my pretty. And your little cat too!

Comic Books

• Dorothy Spinner of the Doom Patrol has had some allusions to Dorothy Gale, occasionally being drawn in a blue-and-white dress and an issue of Grant Morrison's run involving Damn All, Darling Come Home and Flying Robert trying to force her to wear red shoes that turn into ruby slippers after Dorothy stands up to them and accepts that she's no longer a young girl.
• Dorothy is one of the three main characters of Alan Moore's Lost Girls, where she's now in her twenties. Her past adventures are retold in a sexual manner.
• Robin: Alfred responds with displeasure to Bruce's treatment of Tim's 16th birthday with "My god, man. I can only hope that Master Tim wished for you to journey to the Wizard and procure yourself a heart."
• The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis: The title of the first miniseries' first issue is "Somewhere Over the Brain-Bow!".
• Wonder Woman (1942) contains a darkly amusing reference to the witch's death via falling house when Steve Trevor's third secretary is killed: all that's shown is her two legs sticking up out of the tipped over desk and rubble.

Comic Strips

• The Far Side spoofed it a few times.
  • One strip features Dorothy and co. being mugged by a man who asks for the Tin Man's heart and the Scarecrow's brain.
  • Another has the Scarecrow on the phone talking to a friend about the new brain he got from the wizard, unaware that his dog is eating it as he speaks.
  • And the very last strip published parodies the film's ending, with Gary Larson waking up in bed and telling his family about his weird adventures with people that looked like them.
• Garfield: After Garfield lets loose a big sneeze that wrecks the living room, this exchange happens:
  Jon: Auntie Em! Auntie Em!
  Garfield: Yeah, I got you, my pretty, and your little dog, too.
  • Another strip has Jon and Garfield watching the film with the former getting scared of the flying monkeys.
• Mutts:
  • This strip has Earl and Mooch encountering a scarecrow. Earl says that he heard all he wants is a brain. Mooch's response is, "For what?"
  • This Halloween strip features Millie dressed as Dorothy, Frank dressed as the Tin Man, Ozzie dressed as the Scarecrow, Earl dressed as the Cowardly Lion, and Mooch as Toto.
    Mooch: (to Earl) Where the heck are we off to!?!
• Off the Mark:
  • Dorothy and the Scarecrow get married.
  • "Whose turn is it to check for an oil leak?"
  • Mister Ed vacations in Oz.
  • The Tin Man gets a can of Drano.
  • "Maybe it's time we find another way to resolve our conflicts rather than drawing straws..."
  • The Cowardly Lion helps himself to some Munchkins.
  • Yellow Brick Road Rage.
    The Tin Man: (chasing after the Scarecrow with his axe) Cut me off, will ya? Well, maybe I'll cut YOU off!!
  • As a matter of fact, the Tin Man DOES have a lead foot...
  • At home with the Wizard...
    The Wizard's Cat: Pay no attention to the kitty behind the curtain!
  • The Scarecrow sneezes.
  • Dorothy and her friends are off to see the Wonderful Wizard of Hogwarts.
  • The Tin Man can't sleep because Neil Young's concert tour is performing nearby - right now, he's singing "Rust Never Sleeps".
  • "You sat on a needle? Hmmm... the tricky part will be finding it."
  • "They're auctioning off vital organs right here on eBay!"
  • An outtake from the film - specifically, Toto goes against the grain.
    The Scarecrow: HEY!
  • The Wizard of Oz as a toddler.
  • "This product placement stuff is officially out of hand..."
  • "For aesthetic reasons, I prefer the silver fillings..."
  • Dorothy pours herself a glass of "Twister Blend". According to the carton, it "contains one oz". Get it?
  • The Tin Man at the dentist. Again.
  • Rather than take the long journey to Oz, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man go for instant gratification.
  • "Free clothes! Just add water."
  • The Scarecrow is on trial.
  • The Tin Man gets an oil change.
  • "Gesundheit..."
  • "Dr. Oz said to eat more whole wheat..."
  • The Tin Man goes to see Heart.
  • What does Toto want from the Wizard of Oz?
  • Dorothy orders a heart-healthy soup and a heart-healthy salad. The Tin Man, on the other hand?
    The Tin Man: BACON!
  • The Witch's daughter wants a glass of water◊.
  • The Tin Man uses Twitter◊.
• Liō:
  • The scarecrow that Lio puts up literally abandons its post and starts hitchhiking to Oz.
  • Lio tries to hitch a ride to Oz.
• Pearls Before Swine:
  • One collection is called "Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My!", and the cover features Goat, Pig, Rat and Zebra going down the Yellow Brick Road. They are respectively dressed as Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion, while crocodiles dressed like the flying monkeys fly through the sky.
  • "We're off to see the whiz herd, the one-deer-full whiz herd of Hoss.
• Jump Start:
  • One Sunday strip opens with Marcus rehearsing a football commercial, with the following exchange:
  Lions player: Lions.
  '''Tigers player"': Tigers.
  Bears player: Bears.
  Marcus: Oh no!
  Director: Cut! It's "Oh my!", Marcus.
  • One storyline has Sunny help Joe conquer his fear of Munchkins.
  • An actor who played one of the Munchkins in the film is a patient at the hospital where Marcy works in one Sunday strip.

Fan Works

• Casey Steele: Referencing its Wicked Witch of the West, who is green-skinned and can be killed with water:
  ~:Witches?:~ I gave Waldo an odd look, ~:Are they green and melt in water?:~
  ~:Well one of them wears green, but no they don't melt when wet.:~ He chuckled, ~:So no attempting to poor water on them.:~
• Life with Fumi: A Yo-kai Watch AU: Tattlecast gossips that the famous yo-kai movie director Mr. Movien is making a new film called Yo-kai Wizard of Oz.
• The Ever After High fic By the Book references the "Dorothy's Slippers Controversy" as a part of Ever After's history. The controversy is whether Dorothy's slippers count as royal footwear or commoner footwear. It's also mentioned that the original Dorothy ultimately stayed in Oz, married Ozma, and had silver shoes, while all other Legacy Character Dorothy's went back home to Kansas and had red shoes.
• Gale Winddancer of the Punch-Out!! fic Shining and Sweet was named after Dorothy's surname, Gale.
• Rocketship Voyager. The Wizard of Oz is one of the paper books preserved in Captain Janeway's wardroom; one of the few copies to survive the Book Burning of 'fantastic' fiction by the Culture Police of a previous era.
• Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams has some of the main human cast members dress as the cast of The Wizard Of Oz for Halloween. Rick Sheridan's girlfriend Alyssa Conover is Dorothy, but she replaces the traditional ruby slippers with a pair of red sequined Converse sneakers.

Films - Animated

• Beauty and the Beast: When the servants give the Beast a makeover for his date with Belle, they give him a haircut like the Cowardly Lion's, complete with bows in his hair.
• The Brave Little Toaster: Upon entering a dark forest, Blankie says "But there might be lions in there." Radio teases him by adding "And tigers and bears, oh my!"
• Cats Don't Dance: As Danny and Sawyer walk through the studio, they pass Toto wearing the ruby slippers, clicking his heels and saying "There's not place like home".
• Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show references it via a joke about what Ed, Double D and Eddy are lacking. In general, the movie involves the Eds trying to find Eddy's older brother, who they believe will grant them the thing they want (in this case, it's refuge from the neighborhood kids out to get them for their latest scheme gone wrong.)
  Eddy: If only you had a brain, Ed!
  Ed: Aw, c'mon, Eddy, have a heart!
  Double D: Courage, courage, Eddward!
• The Emperor's New Groove: A quote is paraphrased as Kuzco and Pacha try to find the human potion is Yzma's lab.
  Pacha: (browsing a shelf) Let's see. Lions, tigers, bears...
  (the human potion is not there)
  Yzma: (from behind) Oh my.
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame: As the gargoyles attack the soldiers, Laverne commands an army of pigeons by shouting "Fly, my pretties, FLY!" as the Witch's theme plays.
• The LEGO Batman Movie: During a TV news report about the banishment of General Zod to the Phantom Zone, an off-screen prisoner cackles, "I'll get you, my pretty!" The Joker and Harley Quinn later reveal her as The Wicked Witch of the West, who attacks Gotham with help from her Flying Monkeys.
• The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: Dorothy Gale and her friends happily carry Emmet through Harmony Town, while skipping along to "Catchy Song". They later appear again during Queen Watevra Wa'Nabi's wedding (where the Tin Man helps support the queen), and again near the end of the "Everything's Not Awesome" sequence. Official LEGO Minifigures of Dorothy^note whose bag also includes Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion were also part of the line of tie-in Blind Bag Collectables.
• The Pagemaster: Richard asks Fantasy if he has to click his heels to leave the library, but Fantasy tells him that he is in the wrong story.
• The Powerpuff Girls Movie: Among Mojo's army of enhanced apes are a group of monkeys with jetpacks called the "Doot-Da-Doot-Da-Doo-Doos" (you sing it a cappella to the Witch's leitmotif).
• Robots: A robot that looks like Tin Man says "Now I'm sure I've got a heart, because it's aching."
• Sausage Party: Douche says to Brenda "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little sausage too!"
• Shrek 2: When it starts raining, Donkey starts screaming "I'm melting! I'M MELTING!".
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut: The voice of the Clitoris is based on that of Glinda.
• Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost: Shaggy tries to dispose of the titular ghost by throwing a bucket of water on her. When it fails, he says "Well, it worked in The Wizard of Oz".
• Toy Story: Woody repeats "There's no place like home" to himself while trying to escape from Sid's house.
• Wreck-It Ralph: Inside Sugar Rush, the Oreo cookie guards at King Candy's castle chant the phrase "Or-e-o, Or-e-o!".

Films - Live-Action

• Princess Leia's rescue in A New Hope parallels The Wizard of Oz with Luke and Han ambushing some stormtroopers to steal their armors in order to sneak into the place she's held captive, similar to how Dorothy's friends do to enter the Witch's castle and save her, and multiple reviewers see Chewbacca and C-3PO as stand-ins for the Cowardly Lion and the Tin Man respectively.
• Likewise in O Brother, Where Art Thou? the heroes ambush Klan members and don their capes and hoods to gain entrance to a KKK rally. Furthermore the chant heard at the rally is very reminiscent of the Winkie soldiers' chant.
• In A Very Brady Sequel, after Roy Martin snaps out of his Mushroom Samba, he states the famous And You Were There line from the 1939 film.
  Carol: Roy? Are you alright?
  Roy: Oh, the colors were so bright. And you and you and you were there. And Toto too! Oh I love Toto! Toto! Woof! Woof Woof! Ha Ha!
  Mike: We better get Roy back to his room. He obviously needs some rest.
  [The Bradys then pickup Roy off the floor.]
  Roy: Hey hey! Where are you taking me? Auntie Em! Auntie Em!
• In Wild at Heart several aspects of the movie are integrated and parallel characters the protagonists encounter in their journey.
• In Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Freddy Krueger appears to John Doe as a broom-riding witch while proclaiming that he'll get him, with his "little soul too".
• Good Morning, Vietnam: In Adrian Cronauer's first radio show, he asks, "What is a de-militarized zone? Sounds like something out of The Wizard of Oz!", and proceeds to apply the whole story to the Vietnam War.
• The Haunted Mansion (2003): As Madame Leota has Jim Evers spinning around her room on a levitating chair, terrified he closes his eyes and repeats "There's no place like home, there's no place like home..."
• Jumanji: Several monkeys see a clip from the 1939 film where the Winged Monkeys rip the Scarecrow to shreds and kidnap Dorothy, and become motivated to rob an electronics store.
• In Molly (1999), this is Molly's favorite movie. She makes her babysitter watch the flying monkeys scene six times.
• Top Secret!: Hillary says goodbye to the members of La Résistance, ending with the Scarecrow.
• The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear: During Frank and Jane's romantic dinner, Sam the piano player initially mistakes the tune he's supposed to be playing for them by breaking out into an obnoxious cover of "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead".
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Judge Doom repeatedly shouts "I'M MELTING!" as he is destroyed by the Dip.
• Batman (1989): The Joker pretends that the water Vicki Vale throws in his face is melting him quoting the dying Wicked Witch.
• Gremlins: Mrs Deagle is largely an Expy of Miss Gulch, being a Tyrannical Town Tycoon who wants the protagonist's dog dead over a petty reason and is introduced with a fulsome Leitmotif.
  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch: While the Gremlins are getting fried and melted alive after being wet and electrocuted, one of them wears a witch hat and cries that he's melting like the Wicked Witch does.
• Real Genius: When the mysterious ice from the hallway skating party begins to condense into gas, Chris mock faints and cries out, "I'm melting!"
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: Polly meets up with Dr. Jennings during a screening of The Wizard of Oz at the Radio City Music Hall.
• From the Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • In The Avengers, Fury talks about how Loki used the scepter to turn Clint Barton and a couple of other agents into "his personal flying monkeys". Steve Rogers, who has been suffering from Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure, happily points out that he understood that reference.
  • In Werewolf by Night (2022), the film's recording of "Over the Rainbow" is heard during the closing scenes. Appropriately, this is when the movie transitions from grainy black-and-white to full color.
• In David's Mother, Sally grumbles that David has seen The Wizard of Oz about 30,000 times.
• While Andrew and Rupert are designing their prosthetics in Bicentennial Man, Galatea is singing "If I Only Had a Heart".
• In The People vs. Larry Flynt, Althea suggests a feature with The Scarecrow, The Tin Man and The Cowardly Lion gangbanging Dorothy.
• Georgie from Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? sings "I'm Off to See the Wizard" as he goes to visit his therapist.
• Mad Love (1995): After Matt and Casey crash the car, Matt asks Casey what they're going to do, since they're hundreds of miles from home. Casey says, "Tap our heels three times?"
• Addams Family Values after Debby fails to kill Fester yet again via a bomb, she pulls out a gun and goes on a villain rant about how she only married Fester for his money and needs him dead. Thing comes in the knick of time hitting Debby with the car he's driving, allowing Fester to escape with him. When they're out of range of Debby's gun, Debby yells out "I'll get you and your little hand too!"
• In Ghostbusters (2016), during the final confrontation with Rowan, Holtzman sings "Come out, come out, wherever you are..."
• The Goodbye Girl: Elliot, an actor, is forced by his director to play the title role in Richard III as a Camp Gay, and while Elliot does manage to put in some of what he wanted to do with the performance, it ends up being awful, and after he gets drunk, he tells his negative reviews to Paula, one of which reads, "It never occurred to us that William Shakespeare wrote The Wizard of Oz. However, Elliot Garfield makes a splendid Wicked Witch of the North!"
• The Game (1997): After Nicholas has gone through the game, he tells the man he met from CRS - who's actually just an actor - "I'm pulling back the curtain. I want to meet the wizard."
• Used as a plot point in Zardoz. When he reads The WiZard of Oz, Zed realises their god is actually a trick used by the Eternals to keep them in line.
• Road to Zanzibar: As Bing Crosby and Bob Hope's characters are carted off to their next adventure, the former quips they are "off to see the wizard".

Literature

• The Dresden Files: In the short "Something Borrowed" Harry mentions wanting to chant "There's no place like home!" while in a slight panic.
• Several occurrences in Witches Abroad, most notably the incident wherein a farmhouse lands on Nanny Ogg, who is wearing red shoes at the time...shoes which a clan of dwarfs then attempts to claim.
• Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria:
  • When Marco begs the queen not to destroy the library, he tells her that she could instead be famous "like Frankenstein or the Wicked Witch of the West".
  • There's a character who can't remember her name but is most likely Dorothy.
• In Like No Other Boy, Chris sings, "We're off to see the chimpies, if ever if ever a chimp there was", while he drives Cheryl and Tommy to the primatological institute.
• The Miskatonic Affair has Ibrahim remark that Miskatonic University's confusing layout was built by mischievous Munchkins who wanted to make sure no one could reach the Emerald City.
• The Give Yourself Goosebumps book, Into the Twister of Terror, is pretty much a Whole-Plot Reference to Oz, the movie in particular. You are visiting your Uncle and Aunt in Kansas when a tornado attack occurs, whisking you into an adventure where you encounter talking animals, witches, and a wind spirit. You have an animal companion as well, a dog named Yoyo who is a parody of Toto, and in one good ending you name-drop the "There's no place like home" line from the movie.
• Viral Nation: While explaining why the protagonists shouldn't go into the woods at night, Waverly says, "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Okay, just bears, but they're bad enough."
• Frankie from Tornado Brain thinks that The Wizard of Oz is probably the most popular movie ever made that features a tornado.
• In the Bounders novel Fractured Futures, Marco steps out of the bounding ship transporting the protagonists to the Youli homeworld and comments, "Whoa. We're not in Amazonas anymore." Lucy corrects him, "Kansas. We're not in Kansas anymore. It's from The Wizard of Oz."
• In Every Shiny Thing, Lauren remembers when she and Audrey got eight of their friends to dress up as Wizard of Oz characters last Halloween.
• Early from Navigating Early believes that everything in Kansas is literally black and white until Jack corrects him.
• The Shivers (M. D. Spenser) book, A Ghastly Shade of Green, have it's protagonist hailing from Kansas, where he will name-drop entire lines from Wizard of Oz in-verbatim throughout the book. Such as telling his mother early on, "I think we're not in Kansas anymore". It even ends with a very straightforward narration, "As Dorothy would say, there's no place like home!"
• Zoe from Social Queue compares herself when she's overwhelmed to the rusted-up, immobile Tin Man. Instead of needing oil, she needs to stay in bed.
• In the Babysitters: Little Sister book "Karen's Sleepover", during a sleepover with all of Karen's female classmates, new classmate Pamela mentions she doesn't like The Wizard of Oz, one factor that makes Karen eventually deem Pamela as her enemy.
• In the InCryptid short story "Take the Shot", Mary asks Thomas "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" after finding out he's a sorcerer.
• One of the principle characters in Wearing the Cape is a manifestation of Ozma. A continuing plot thread through many of the books is her making plans and assembling an army to liberate Oz from the Nome King.
• Kitty from Moojag and the Auticode Secret is obsessed with The Wizard of Oz, and tries to memorize the dialogue.
• In the Juniper Sawfeather novel Whisper of the Woods, when Juniper realizes that a tree on the reservation is sentient, she thinks of fictional sentient trees, including the ones from The Wizard of Oz.
• Princesses of the Pizza Parlor: The Most Boringest Gnome in the World mentions The Marvelous Land of Oz and that the series having about two dozen books.
• In the first Junie B. Jones book, the school janitor is humming "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" which Junie B. says is from her favorite movie, which she mispronounces as "The Wizard Of Odds"
• In Small Persons with Wings, Mellie's parents make her watch The Wizard of Oz to try to get her to be more imaginative. She fights back by counting the times the words "witch", "heart", "brain", and "courage" are used.
• Wild Orchid: One character from the first book looks so much like Judy Garland that Taylor resists the urge to sing "Over the Rainbow" whenever she sees her.

Live-Action TV

• All That featured a recurring sketch called "The Wizard of Cos" which was a parody of this and The Cosby Show.
• The Amanda Show: In one of the "Blockblister" sketches, a customer rents a homemade movie called "The Wizard of Voz", with Blini in the role of Dorothy, and Biscotti in the role of the Scarecrow.
• In Arrested Development, George Michael had gained a fear of prisons after accidentally watching the HBO series Oz at too young an age, thinking it was the 1939 Wizard of Oz.
• Given that the plot of Farscape involves the human protagonist being caught in a tornado-like wormhole which carries him away to a universe of strange alien creatures, it's an obligatory reference even without John Crichton's habit of making human pop-culture references those aliens don't understand.
  • From "Thanks for Sharing"
    John: Who the hell are you?
    Pralanoth: Rinic Pralanoth, Sovereign of Kanvia.
    John: John Crichton, Wizard of Oz.
  • From "Unrealized Reality"
    John: I am not Kirk, Spock, Luke, Buck, Flash or Arthur-frelling-Dent. I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas.
  • The episode where John finally returns to Earth is called "Kansas" even though it takes place in Florida, in reference to Not in Kansas Anymore.
• Full House:
  • In Season 1's "Jesse's Girl", the family is about to show Stephanie "The Wizard of Oz" movie for the first time when a thunderstorm knocks out the TV signal. Joey takes it upon himself to do a one-man abridged re-enactment of the film for the family.
  • In Season 2's "Triple Date" Stephanie tells Danny she isn't keen on DJ babysitting her during his date.
    Stephanie: The moment you leave it's "I'll get you my pretty!"
  • In Season 3 episode "No More Mr. Dumb Guy", Jesse plans to cram for an upcoming literature soiree, and Joey throws some encouragement by singing a verse of "If I Only Had a Brain", along with some of Scarecrow's dance moves. Before leaving, Jesse responds with "I'll get you (Comet the dog appears) And Your Little Dog, Too!"
  • In "Aftershocks" Stephanie fears being away from her dad who's supposed to be out that night, Jesse and Joey try to convince her they'll have fun at home by watching the Wizard of Oz, with Joey singing the munchkins' "The Lollipop Guild".
  • Season 4's "A Pinch for a Pinch" Jesse pulls Michelle out of preschool and takes her to the zoo.
    Michelle: I saw lions and tigers and bears.
    Danny: Oh my.
  • In Season 7 episode "The Test", when Joey interrupts DJ's SAT proctored exam, he tries to humor the SAT test administer, but when she sourly dismisses him Joey asks if someone dropped a house on her sister, then imitates the Cowardly Lion's gruffs when she glares at him to get out.
• The Roundhouse episode "Running Away From Home" is a Whole-Plot Reference to this movie.
• In the Shining Time Station episode, "Mr. Conductor's Movie", Mr. Conductor says that The Wizard of Oz is his favorite movie, and his favorite scene from the movie is where the Munchkins welcome Dorothy to Oz. He then says that he could have done the same, given his diminutive size.
• The writers and cast of Stargate SG-1 have admitted to throwing in references for the fun of it, from O'Neil casually calling out "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" after a rough exit through the 'Gate to Vala, in her attempts to pitch a show masquerading as part of her life experiences, references the main characters of SG-1 as the main characters of the movie.
• In the "Fred's Treasure Garden" episode of Sanford and Son:
  Lamont: Now just about everybody knows that one of the main side effects of using marijuana is the hungries or the munchies.
  Grady: Weren't they in "The Wizard of Oz"?
  Lamont: That was the Munchkins!
  Grady: Oooh, yeah. Didn't you just love that picture?
  Lamont: Grady, would you knock it off? This is no time for that.
  Grady: There was Dorothy and Toto and the Wicked Witch of the Watts.
  Lamont: Of the West, Grady!
  • At the end of the episode, Grady sings a line from "Over the Rainbow" as the episode concludes with Lamont offering to do the chores when Grady ate the rest of the salad, which Lamont and Rollo mistook for marijuana.
• In the Birds of a Feather episode, "The Chigwell Connection", after Melanie Fishman goes off to a shower, Dorien tells her to make sure she doesn't melt, before calling her the Wicked Witch of the West.
• On the Buffy the Vampire Slayer first-season episode "Nightmares", when Buffy and the gang (along with the rest of Sunnydale High) get plunged into a nightmare world, they discover it's being triggered by a kid named Billy who's in a coma in a hospital, and whose nightmare is a monster. Buffy manages to defeat the monster, and gets Billy to wake up. When he does, and sees Buffy and the gang, he says, "I had the strangest dream...And You Were There."
• On Once Upon a Time, the Wicked Witch of the West is the Arc Villain for the second half of Season Three. The world of Oz and other characters later appear as the series goes on.
  Emma: Seriously? She's real too?
  Captain Hook: Says the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming.
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The episode "Ding Dong" is titled after the song "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead", which Holt sings to celebrate the death of his Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Madeline Wuntch.
• In The Nanny episode "I Don't Remember Mama", Niles says to C.C. "You have no power here. Now begone before someone drops a house on you." The kicker? C.C. briefly looks upward as if she actually expects it to happen. And she looks worried.
• In The Love Boat episode "Miss Mother", a passenger tells Doc, "As Dorothy said in The Wizard of Oz, 'I think I'm going to miss you most of all.'"
• Veronica Mars: In the pilot episode, Sheriff Lamb tells Veronica and Wallace, separately, they should each go to the wizard and ask him for something (for Veronica, it's backbone, for Wallace, it's guts). Also, when Weevil and his gang confront Veronica outside the Camelot motel, he tells her they're going to get her, Wallace, "And Your Little Dog, Too!" (Backup).
• Law & Order:
  • One season 10 episode was titled "Surrender Dorothy".
  • In season six's "Bitter Fruit", when a man looking for cans to cash in a fenced lot discovers the victim, a preteen girl, hidden underneath some trash, his state of disbelief makes him cry out, "Come on, Dorothy. Click your heels three times so you can wake up!" Upon realizing the poor girl was dead, he cries out for help.
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:
  • An episode had Hillary, who had a rivalry in ratings with fellow talk show host Leeza Gibbons, quip how "she'll get her, and her little car, too!"
  • In another episode, in response to a newly-famous Ashley letting her fame go to her head, Geoffrey suggests to Will that they should "pour some water on her and watch her melt!"
• In the short-lived series State of Grace, one episode has Hannah's mother forbidding Hannah from seeing The Birds on the grounds of how she terrified she was at the Flying Monkeys scene of The Wizard of Oz. Hannah's Uncle Heschie shudders in response.
• One example is not enough to justify its own poster, but there is incredibly a pro wrestling example. Ted Turner was the owner of World Championship Wrestling. After he purchased the MGM library, Turner had the idea to cross promote his new assets by creating gimmicks based on classic movie characters. First out of the gate was OZ, played by the 6'10" Kevin Nash. His debut featured actors playing Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and the Lion, along with a dog and a trained monkey approaching a fake castle exterior. Nash then emerged wearing an all lime green ensemble, including a cape and turban, and for whatever reason was accompanied by a different wizard. He was billed from "Over the Rainbow", and his finishing movie (A sidewalk slam) was dubbed the Emerald City Slam. Unsirprisingly, this flopped, and the experiment was never repeated.
• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: When Midge moves back into her old apartment in the fourth season, her mother complains about her putting all her dishes on low shelves, asking if the kitchen is going to be used by the Lollipop Guild.
• Tokyo Vice: When Jake and Eimi are talking about a story they're working on:
  Eimi: You're not in Kansas anymore.
  Jake: I'm from Missouri, actually.
• In one Whose Line Is It Anyway? game of Props, the team of Greg Proops and George Wendt, whose props are two big yellow wedges, at one point lie them on their sides and start singing "Follow the Yellow Brick Road!"
• Sliders:
  • "Into the Mystic": A Whole-Plot Reference, no less. On a world steeped in the occult, Quinn needs medical treatment for a gunshot wound, but the best option is a witch doctor named Xang. When the foursome can't afford his massive bill, Xang invokes a clause that would allow him to harvest Quinn's brain. The only one that could help the group now is the Sorcerer (really a double of Quinn), who will send them home if they retrieve stolen property from Xang. A side character seen throughout the story is named Mr. Gale.
  • "Electric Twister Acid Test": Observing a couple twisters, Wade recalls how her parents made her watch the movie as a kid, but she positively hated it because of all the Nightmare Fuel prevalent throughout the runtime.
    Wade: Flying monkeys, poison poppies, tornadoes, witches. Good family fun. I couldn't sleep for a week.
    Rembrandt: Well, if a building does drop on us, I hope it's a Burger Burglar. I've been hungry since the last world.

Music

• Breaking Benjamin's "Home" is one big reference to the film, including the chorus repeating "There is no place like home".
• The cover art for Electric Light Orchestra's Eldorado is a photograph of the Wicked Witch trying to get the ruby slippers.
• They Might Be Giants' "Hall of Heads" is about Princess Langwidere from Ozma of Oz (or, alternatively, her Composite Character Princess Mombi from Return to Oz).
• ThouShallNot’s “If I only Were a Goth” is a gothic cover of “If I Only Have a Brain”, tinged with humor mainly only a goth would get.
• Scissor Sisters' "Return to Oz" uses Oz as a metaphor for drug addiction. It features various references, including Princess Langwidere, the Emerald City, the Wheelies, and the Patchwork Girl.
• Bob Rivers' "The Magical Kingdom of Claus" is about Dorothy and Toto going to the mall to see Santa, and they discover that he hasn't been doing as well as they thought. At one point, Santa and his elves sing a parody of "If I Only Had a Brain" when they lament how they couldn't keep up with the latest technology, but soon Glinda shows up and gives Santa a fax machine, a cell phone and pager to help his business become more successful again.

Puppet Shows

• The Muppet Show
  • Robin sings "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the Alice Cooper episode.
  • The hour-long special "The Muppets Go to the Movies" features a medley of songs from the movie, starting with Miss Piggy as Dorothy singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (which Rowlf interrupts to note that the color is turned off).
• Sesame Street
  • One 1970s episode had the Wicked Witch of the West (played once again by Margaret Hamilton) visiting Sesame Street. Notably, this became a Banned Episode when it proved too scary for kids.
  • In another episode, Snuffy is playing with a trampoline and jumps so high that he lands on a roof. Big Bird wonders where he went, and The Count replies "I think somewhere over the rainbow".
  • In the Elmo's World episode about Weather, Elmo exclaims "Auntie Em! Auntie Em!" as he talks to a sentient tornado.
  • The "Cookie's Crumby Pictures" segments once did a Wizard of Oz spoof called "The Cookie of Oz" where the Good Witch of the parody teaches Cookie Monster about following directions.
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: In the end of Joel Robinson's final episode, ''Mitchell'', Joel Robinson has left the Satellite of Love. As he leaves, He said to the robots "I can't come back, I don't know how it works! Goodbye, Robots!"

Tabletop Games

• Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Kozmo cards are characters, items, locations, and events from The Wizard of Oz blended with Star Wars.

Toys

• The Lalaloopsy doll Dotty Gale Winds is inspired by Dorothy, specifically her appearance in the film.

Video Games

• Gruntilda "Grunty" Winkybunion from Banjo-Kazooie shares many similarities with the Wicked Witch of the West. Besides the two characters looking similar in appearance, one of Grunty's aliases is "The Wicked Warty Wench of the West", and Brentilda, one of her sisters, is a Fairy Godmother who acts as the Glinda the Good Witch of the North to her Wicked Witch of the West.
• Coffee Crisis have this moment when the player characters, Nick and Ashley (two Pittsburgh natives) lands on Planet Smurglien.
  Ashley: [realizing they're on another planet] I don't think we're on Kansas anymore.
  Nick: You mean Pittsburgh?
  Ashley: Yeah, thanks Dorothy.
• In Conker's Bad Fur Day, when the Great Mighty Poo gets flushed away by Conker, he paraphrases the Wicked Witch of the West when she melts.
  Great Mighty Poo: Ah! You cursed squirrel! Look what you've done! I'm flushing! I'm flushing! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little squirrel like you could have destroyed my beautiful clagginess?
• Dragon Quest:
  • The Silvapithecus monster family, introduced from Dragon Quest II onwards, are flying monkey monsters that serve an evil sorcerer.
    • Owing to this, when Warwick is revealed to be the traitor in Moonbrooke and is turned into a Silvapithecus, his Wrecktor handler says the infamous "Fly, my pretty!" line, in Dragon Quest Builders 2.
• Rugrats Munchin Land is a PC board game that parodies the film, with Kimi in the role of Dorothy, Dil in the role of the gatekeeper, and Susie in the role of Glinda. As with the episode, "No Place Like Home" from the TV series that the game is based on, Angelica retains her role as the Wicked Witch of the West.
• Savage Halloween has a Wicked Witch boss enemy named... Glinda.
• In Stay Tooned!, you'll need to use the pay phone to make phone calls. However, Frank is talking to his girlfriend, Dorothy, on it, and won't let you use it until you help him find ruby red slippers for her. You get the ruby red slippers in the Bullfight room, where after the cutscene plays, the legs of the Wicked Witch of the East can be seen under the crater created by Pixel's dynamite. Upon collecting the slippers, the Wicked Witch of the East's legs roll up under the crater.
• Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, and the Tin Man are playable characters in the mobile RPG Grimms Notes, while Oz is a boss character.
• Lobotomy Corporation: Two of the Abnormalities you can get (Scarecrow Searching for Wisdom and Warm-Hearted Woodsman) are based on the Scarecrow and the Tin Man. However, they're searching for more brains and hearts.
  • The game's subsequent comic spinoff Wonderlab and direct sequel Library of Ruina, expands the story of the Woodsman and Scarecrow and adds their two companions, The Road Home (an armless girl based off of Dorothy) and Scaredy Cat (a tiny and helpless kitten turned into a fearsome manticore, based off the Cowardly Lion). Princess Ozma appears, having seen better days, being manipulated and usurped and The Adult Who Tells Lies, a Composite Character of the Wicked Witch of the West and the Wizard of Oz.
  • With the breadcrumb story so far, the ultimate and corrupted fates of the main cast goes as follows.
    • Barred from returning back home, The Road Home was left wandering Oz in search of a way home with the magic shoes given to her, having only Scaredy Cat for company, who was twisted into a violent beast by the Wizard's gift, and still prone to losing all of his courage if left alone.
      "Unable to ever go back home, they began an endless journey." (...) "Can I follow you forever? So I can tear them apart..."
    • Unsatisfied with the gift given to him, the Scarecrow Searching for Wisdom had become part of a corrupt city operation, where the poor class of society are secretly abducted and harvested for their organs, with the Scarecrow seeking the brains of these victims.
      "People often talk without thinking... I could make better use of those brains..." (...) "Have I become wiser? Maybe I'll be more than a stack of hay..."
    • The Warm Hearted Woodsman, after being told by the Wizard that it doesn't deserve a heart, being Just a Machine, struck the Wizard down with its axe and stole her heart, feeling pleasure for the first time at the sight of her agony. It's since then gone its separate way, desperately striking down people and creatures to fill itself with their hearts in order to feel alive once more.
      "I don't want to feel this empty and lonely feeling anymore..." (...) "I crammed all I could find into this empty canister... yet it is... still cold..."
    • Princess Ozma had allowed the Adult Who Tells Lies into deceiving and usurping her way into become the ruler of Emerald City, by the time she had found out what the Wizard was up to, it was too late. She was promptly overpowered and banished beneath the earth to wallow in her despair and amnesia of everything she once had.
      "A forgotten being stuck in the underground... Why did it have to be?" (...) "I want you to feel it all the same... The misery of forgetting it all... losing it all..."
    • The Adult Who Tells Lies had gained complete rule over Emerald City, and later met the group seeking what they've been missing, having traveled together to meet the her. Being known as The Adult Who Tells Lies in the narrative, all of her gifts decidedly had the exact opposite of what she promised, twisting the group into crooked and pitiful parodies of themselves before her death.
      "Poor stuffing of straw. I'll give you the wisdom to ponder over anything." (...) "Tin-cold woodsman. I'll give you the heart to forgive and love anyone." (...) "Cowardly kitten. I'll give you the courage to stand up to anything and everything." (...) "Last of all, road that is lost. I will send you home."
• Unbound Saga have your character fighting a bunch of mutant zombie bear cannibals. Leading to his comment that they're a " looooong way from Kansas".
• Criminal Case: Supernatural Investigations has Case #19, "A Murder of Crows", which is chock-full of references to the film:
  • The case is set at a theme park called the Aquamarine City (parodying the Emerald City), in Kansas.
  • The victim, Norm White, was an entertainer at the park who wore a lion costume, making him a parody of the Cowardly Lion.
  • Mackenzie Herring, one of the suspects, is a worker whose job is to be a human scarecrow; that is, to keep birds out of the flowers.
  • Dolly Hale, another suspect, is a runaway from Nebraska who wears her hair in pigtails, wears a blue dress over a white top, and has a dog named Tutu, and based on Chapter 2's cover image, wears glittery red Converse sneakers. She is a clear parody of Dorothy Gale. Additionally, some of her lines are "We're definitely not in Nebraska anymore, are we, Tutu?" and "There's no place like home".
  • Martin Fuller, a returning suspect, is a drug dealer who found good business at the park, whose street name is "The Tin Man".
  • Belinda, a suspect, is a kind-hearted witch who works as an entertainer at the park. She is a parody of Glinda.
  • Frankie Sparkles, the killer, is the owner of the park and is commonly referred as "The Wizard".
  • Two of the killer's traits are eating "Munchkins" candy and knowing the song "Over the Rainbow".
  • In addition, the crime scenes feature many hidden objects, props and backgrounds alluding the movie, such as winged monkeys, Glinda's crown, witch's hats, a warning sign depicting a house carried away in a cyclone, a Kansas vanity plate reading "DOROTHY", a t-shirt reading "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore", a dog resembling Toto, a satirical picture of Dorothy as portrayed by Judy Garland, and much more.
• Curses: When you arrive in the Unreal City and see a poster in French, the game says, "You briefly wish you had a dog named Toto, so as to be able to say, 'Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in England anymore.'"
• Early in Devil's Hunt, when Desmond was Dragged Off to Hell after his failed suuicide attempt and realize he's surrounded by zombies, he drops an obligatory Kansas reference after killing the undead. And some more...

Desmond: Well that sure ain't Kansas. Or Florida.

• In Infinite Craft, "Wizard of Oz" is a possible crafting recipe.
• Nancy Drew: In The Curse of Blackmoor Manor, one of the things Loulou the parrot can say is "Pay no attention to the bird behind the curtain." If you poison her, she sometimes says, "I'm melting! I'm melting!"
• World of Warcraft: In the Karazhan raid in The Burning Crusade, one of the possible encounters in the Opera Hall event is a Wizard of Oz parody with a troll playing a character known as The Crone and cloth-wearing classes being able to loot a pair of Ruby Slippers that function as a Hearthstone. When a new version of the instance was introduced in Legion, the Opera Hall now had a parody of Wicked.

Web Animation

• RWBY uses various fairytale motifs, including the Oz series:
  • Ruby is named for Dorothy's ruby slippers from the film, and has silver eyes as a reference to how the ruby slippers were originally silver shoes in the source material.
    • The other members of the titular team get character arcs that allude to the other main protagonists. Yang has blonde hair, bringing to mind the scarecrow's yellow straw, an is also the first of the team Ruby meets up with at the academy. She's always been observant, but has to be tutored by her father on using her brain to fight smarter instead of relying on brute force and her semblance. She eventually dismantles her craven mother's plan as being poorly thought out, and then on continues to express her opinion. Blake is a cat faunus, struck with the insecurity that all she's ever done is run away from her problems. She ends up confronting these insecurities as she finally stands up to her abusive ex Adam. Weiss started off as cold and haughty, but grows quite emotionally close to her teammates. After getting reined in by her father, she works up the nerve to follow her heart and leave his control to reunite with her friends and stick by their side.
  • Ruby and Yang's dog, Zwei, is a reference to Toto.
  • Ruby and Yang's uncle Qrow is a loose reference to the Scarecrow.
  • Ozpin's character references the Wizard. His name is also a reference to the Wizard's initials spelling out "Ozpinhead". Ozpin's original name was "Ozma", referencing Princess Ozma.
  • Oscar is a runaway farmboy who lives with a single woman, similar to Tip. He's also the new body of Ozpin, which relates him to Ozma and the Wizard, like Tip does.
  • James Ironwood takes inspiration from the Tin Woodsman. His name is a reference and he is cybernetic.
  • Professor Lionheart is a cowardly lion faunus based off of the Cowardly Lion.
  • Salem, the Big Bad evil sorceress that opposes the Big Good Ozpin, is based on the Wicked Witch of the West.
    • Salem was given eternal life after she fell into a pool of immortality, referencing how the Wicked Witch was killed when she was dumped by a bucket of water.
    • At the end of Volume 6, Salem is seen creating flying Beringels (gorilla Grimm), referencing the Wicked Witch of the West's army of flying monkeys.
  • Ozpin's Lancer is Glynda Goodwitch, who is based on the Good Witch of the South, Glinda.
  • Headmaster Theodore is a more clearer reference to Dorothy.

Webcomics

• Sheldon:
  • One strip, part of a storyline in which Microsoft wants to buy Sheldon's company, has Sheldon dreaming that Bill Gates is the Wicked Witch of the West. Apparently, Arthur also appeared in the dream as the Scarecrow.
  • This strip, part of a storyline involving the characters going on a road trip, has a bored Sheldon say, "Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore."
    Arthur: No... That's the problem. We still are.

Web Video

• The Angry Video Game Nerd has reviewed the licensed game of the movie for the SNES, with Mike Matei guest starring as the Cowardly Lion.
• The Nostalgia Critic
  • The ending to the review of Surf Ninjas features Critic, after spending the review apparently praising the film, waking up in a sepia-toned room with the Channel Awesome staff before lip-synching to "Over the Rainbow".
  • In his review of Captain N: The Game Master, The Critic says he would have inserted the "O-e-o" sound effect from the movie in the scene where Mother Brain's lair is guarded by her henchmen from "Kevin in Videoland", but he doesn't need to, since the show already put it in.
    Critic: I do love it when the show makes the jokes for me.
  • In his review of Ernest Saves Christmas, the Lollipop Guild song plays when Santa's elves appear in trenchcoats.
  • In his review of Waterworld, a clip of the Wizard's ascent in his balloon plays as Gregor's balloon is accidentally launched.
  • At the beginning of "Top 11 F*** Yeah Movie Themes", a snippet of the Lollipop Guild song plays over a scene from Shaft.
  • In his review of Mulan II, in response to the scene where Shang runs away from a squirrel, a skunk, a porcupine, and a mouse, the Critic says that even the Cowardly Lion would say, "Dude, seriously, grow a pair."
• The Weather: One segment of "Tornado" features Alan as a young, twin-braided farm-girl with a dog in a basket, talking happily about their life on their farm while a tornado destroys said farm in the distance.

Western Animation

• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: At the beginning of "The Incredible Shrinking Town", when Jimmy is picked last to be on Nick's team in a basketball game between him and Butch, Sheen asks Jimmy if he'd like to go to his house after school so they can watch The Wizard of Oz together, as he loves the Munchkins. This offends Jimmy, due to the constant mockery and scorn he recieves for his short stature.
• Animaniacs
  • In "Hooked on a Ceiling", Yakko dresses as the Emerald City doorman.
    Yakko: Nobody gets in to see the wizard, not nobody, not nohow!
    Michelangelo: But I'm Michaelangelo!
    Yakko: The Witch's Michalangelo?! Well now, that's a ceiling of a different color!
  • In "Bumbie's Mom", when Slappy shows Skippy that cartoon characters can't die with a demonstration on a cartoon dog, a house falls on him and his feet curl up in a similar fashion to the Wicked Witch of the East.
  • The short "Buttons in Ows", in which Mindy and Buttons are blown away to a magical land, is a parody of this film. The Credits Gag for the episode reads "Toto appears courtesy of Ted Turner".
• In the Batman Beyond episode “The Eggbaby”, a criminal is going around and stealing rubies throughout Neo Gotham. When Bruce and Terry are discussing why she’s stealing rubies, Bruce says he doubts that she wants them to make a pair of slippers. Terry has no idea what Bruce is talking about, to which Bruce replies “before your time”.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog: In the episode "Perfect", one of Courage's nightmares involve three versions of himself as the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.
• Dinosaur Train: Ned in the episode "Night Train" notes "dinosaurs come and go so quickly here", similar to Dorothy's remark about Munchkins.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy
  • In "Ready, Set...Ed!", when Eddy and Kevin keep shoving and throwing each other on the way to the Eds' rocket car via "polite" courtesies (i.e., "This way", "After you", etc.), the latter at one point shouts, "Follow the yellow brick road!"
  • In "See No Ed", when the kids follow the trail of bananas, Jimmy shouts "Follow the yellow rind road!"
• The Fairly Oddparents
  • In Season 2's "The Switch Glitch", Vicky bikes to the Turner's house to the Mrs. Gulch/Witch's theme.
  • In Season 4's "Wish Fixers": "Pay no attention to the pixie controlling the Jorgen robot."
• Earthworm Jim: The season 2 episode, “The Wizard Of Ooze” is clearly an almost complete parody of the film itself. Heck, Jim even says the "not in Kansas" line...only, it was Terlawk, and well...you pretty much get the idea.
• Family Guy
  • In "I Never Met the Dead Man", Peter, who is going through TV withdrawal, has a nightmare where he's in the eye of the tornado and sees various TV characters pass him by, including ALF, Gilligan, and Robby the Robot. He even sees Jeannie turning to Samantha.
  • In "The Story on Page One", the Griffins to see the dean of Brown University, and they are greeted by a doorman who shouts "Nobody gets in to see the dean!".
  • In "Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High", Lois is fearful of Chris going to prison because she's seen what happens on Oz. The scene then cuts to a group of men singing about scrubbing each other to the tune of "The Merry Old Land of Oz".
  • In "Don't Make Me Over", Peter sets up a cutaway to when the Tin Man found out he was gay.
  • In the Naked Gun-styled opening to "PTV", Stewie rides his tricycle down the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City as Dorothy and her friends leap out of the way.
  • In "Deep Throats", Lois watches an episode of Scarecrow and Mrs. King in which the Scarecrow takes Bruce Boxleitner's place.
  • A cutaway from "The Former Life of Brian" parodies the scene where Dorothy says goodbye to her friends. As she says she'll miss the Scarecrow most of all, the Tin Man and Lion get angry at her for playing favorites.
  • In "Quagmire's Baby", Peter buys a magic broom from Quagmire's garage sale and spells out "RETIRE CHER" with its smoky trail.
  • In "Thanksgiving", when Peter calls Kevin Swanson "a regular Benedict Arnold Drummond" for going AWOL in the Army, guys in charge of cutaways have nothing to go with his odd statement. They eventually decide to run a clip of the Cowardly Lion being Lindsay Lohan's gynecologist.
  • In "Bigfat", Quagmire sings a song about Canadian strip clubs to the tune of "In the Merry Old Land of Oz".
  • In "Herpe the Love Sore", Peter mentions that he went to a Cowards Anonymous meeting, and the ensuing cutaway has him meeting with the Cowardly Lion. He tells the Lion that he has a right to be afraid of flying monkeys and that fear is a logical response to danger, inspiring him to flip off his friends.
    Lion: Hey! I'm the Rational Lion, so fuck you guys!
  • A cutaway from "This Little Piggy" features the Wizard giving the Tin Man the heart of a 19-year-old killed by a drunk driver, but he claims he meant something a little more metaphorical.
• Freakazoid!:
  • In the episode "Virtual Freak", After Freakazoid and Cosgrove got trapped inside a Virtual Reality game by the Lobe, Freakazoid thought of a great idea to get out. First he styles his hair into pigtails, then proceeds to click his heels three times and says, "there's no place like home". It didn't work.
  • In "Hero Boy", In order to figure out Freakazoid's weakness, Guietierrez proceeds to splash a glass of water on him. Which Freakazoid responds that was the Wicked Witch's weakness.
• Futurama: In the Wizzin' segment of "Anthology of Interest II", Leela dreams that she travels to an Oz-like land and ends up wanting to be a wicked witch.
  Leela: Who are you? And haven't I seen you in some copyrighted movie?
  Glurmo: (singing) We resemble but are legally distinct from the Lollipop Guild / The Lollipop— (gets eaten by Nibbler)
• Garfield and Friends: In the episode, "Forget Me Not", After Garfield took a nasty fall, which resulted in him loosing his memory until the end, he asks "Auntie Em? Are we still in Kansas?"
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
  • One of Mandy's intro comments is "How about a little fire, scarecrow?".
  • The climax of "My Fair Mandy" involves Mandy trying to smile while singing "Over the Rainbow" during the talent portion of the beauty pageant.
  • In "Modern Primitives", Grim gets crushed by a block of ice, and his protruding legs curl up under it.
• Johnny Bravo
  • In Blarney Buddies, as Johnny was chasing the leprechaun Blarney Stone, Johnny stumbled upon the factory of his favorite cereal, "Fortune Flakes". As he enters the factory, Johnny meets the giant head of the cereal's mascot, set up like how the Wizard was introduced. Likewise, it was discovered that Blarney Stone was controlling the animatronic mascot.
  • In Karma Krisis, after a failed attempt to get rid of his bad luck, Johnny was swept up by a tornado. Then, Johnny was crushed by a falling house with his feet sticking out just like the Wicked Witch of the East. At the end of the episode, Dionne Warwick shows up in a giant bubble ala Glinda.
  • In Home Alone, there are some scenes where Little Suzy is dressed up like Dorothy.
• The MAD sketch "The Buzz Identity" parodies this at the end when Buzz Lightyear wakes up from the crazy dream that made up most of the sketch, complete with everyone randomly turning into the Wizard of Oz characters for a moment (It...Kinda Makes Sense In Context)
• Marsupilami: It was spoofed as The Wizard of Mars.
• Martha Speaks: Truman Oatley mentions he got scared after watching the film Wizard of Oz and could not sleep for weeks in Martha the Weather Dog.
• In the Muppet Babies (1984) episode, "By the Book", a Wizard of Oz-esque Imagine Spot is shown, with Piggy in the role of Dorothy, Rowlf in the role of Toto, Kermit in the role of the Scarecrow, Fozzie in the role of the Cowardly Lion, Gonzo in the role of the Tin Man, and Scooter in the role of Glinda^note Yes, really, since Skeeter is not interested in books and doesn't play along with this. Bunsen plays the Wizard, with Beaker as his assistant, and tries to send everyone home in a hot-air balloon, only for it to be attacked by Animal as the (unseen) Wicked Witch's flying monkey.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • Whenever Candace gets suspicious of her brothers' antics, a Leitmotif similar to that of the Wicked Witch of the West plays.
  • Likewise, Norm the giant robot man realizes he has a heart when it's breaking.
  • Then there's "The Wizard of Odd", a Whole-Plot Reference in which Candace plays Dorothy, Perry plays Toto, Baljeet, Jeremy, and Buford are her traveling companions, Isabella is the Good Witch, the Fireside Girls are the Munchkins, Little Suzy is the Witch of the East, Doofenshmirtz is the Witch of the West, and Linda is the Wizard.
• Pinky and the Brain :
  • The episode "Brainstorm" involves the two mice using a giant robot to control a tornado. Earlier in the episode, Pinky worries that if the Machine fails, they might end up in the Land of OZ. But Brain doubts that will happen. However, it turns out Pinky was right, and Brain decides that they'll try to take over OZ tomorrow night.
  • In the series finale "Star Warners", when Wakk Skylicker, Brain-2-Me-2 and 3-Pinky-O decide to see Slappy Wanna-Nappy, the latter robot muses that she could give him a brain, and the trio sing a parody of "We're Off to See the Wizard", leading Wakk to ask, "Are you sure we're in the right movie?"
• Ready Jet Go!: In "Jet's First Halloween - Part 1", Mindy wants to see a witch fly across the moon on Halloween night. Then, Jet recalls an Earth movie he saw and says that the movie had a witch with green skin, a black outfit, a pointy hat, and says that a quote from the movie is "No place like Earth." To take it a step further, Jet says its called the "...Wizard of something". You do the math.
• Robot Chicken
  • A sketch from "Junk in the Trunk" is a mashup of this and Oz in which the Scarecrow gets stabbed by an inmate.
  • A sketch from "Day at the Circus" has the Cowardly Lion vomiting from eating flying monkey roadkill, causing a Vomit Chain Reaction in which Scarecrow hurls straw, the Tin Man hurls oil, and Dorothy hurls...straw again.
    Tin Man: So, uh, how long have you two been...?
    Dorothy: A while, okay?!
  • The Just the Good Parts sketch from "Help Me" features a condensed version of The Wizard of Oz, and contains a reference to the "hanging Munchkin" urban legend.
  • A sketch from "President Hu Forbids It" involves the Wicked Witch of the West taking a shower, only for the water to melt her. As this happens, the Witch says "I'm such an idiot!".
  • A sketch from "The Departy Monster" features another mashup with Oz in which the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Lion are sent to jail for drowning someone based on the color of her skin.
  • "There's No Place Like Home", yet another Robot Chicken sketch based on The Wizard of Oz, depicts the Wizard suddenly reverting to asshole mode as soon as Dorothy departs. He rips the Scarecrow's brain out, crushes the Tin Man in a trash compactor, skins the Cowardly Lion and threatens to rape Glinda the Good Witch.
  • A sketch from "Cannot Be Erased, So Sorry" has the Nerd dream he's in Oz, playing the role of Dorothy. Quickly realizing he's in a dream, he decides to make it cooler, and transforms Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion into Eric Draven, Optimus Prime, and Lion-O. They kick everyone's ass (and Eric convincing a winged monkey to commit suicide makes it better). The Nerd then brings them all to a topless beach in France.
  • A sketch from "Robot Fight Accident" features twist endings for various films, including The Wizard of Oz.
  • Two sketches from "What Can You Tell Me About Butt Rashes?" spoof The Wizard of Oz. The first features the Wicked Witch of the West having some last-minute confessions you may not enjoy hearing. The second features Glinda helping Ash Ketchum win a Pokémon battle against a Blastoise after Pikachu is horribly injured.
  • A sketch from "Snoopy Camino Lindo in: Quick and Dirty Squirrel Shot" explains the Yellow Brick Road's depressing origin story.
  • A sketch from "Molly Lucero in: Your Friend's Boob" features the Wizard of Oz nearly offering a gift to a stowaway flying monkey.
  • A sketch from "Callie Greenhouse in: Fun. Sad. Epic. Tragic" involves Carl Fredricksen winding up in the Land of Oz when his house lands on Dorothy and Glinda.
• Rocket Power: In "Typhoid Sam", as one of the symptoms of the Fiji flu is a high-pitched voice, Twister's brother Lars tells him he sounds like one of the munchkins in "that movie about the tornado".
• Rocko's Modern Life:
  • The Tin Man makes a cameo appearance in "Jet Scream" as one of the passengers who goes through a Metal Detector Checkpoint without setting off its alarm.
  • In "Short Story", Rocko has a crazy dream caused by his insecurities about being short. As the dream sequence begins, he says, "Spunky, I have the feeling we're not in O-Town anymore". At the end of the episode, Rocko wakes up to find folks he knows who appeared in his dream, and goes through the usual spiel, but the last person in line turns out to be series creator Joe Murray:
    Rocko: And you... um, I don't think I've ever seen you before.
    Murray: You're off-model, kangaroo-boy.
  • In "Junk Junkies", Rocko and Heffer hold a Garage Sale to raise money to pay the pizza bill. As they do this, airplane from the Pizza company writes in smoke "SURRENDER ROCKO".
• The Rugrats episode, "No Place Like Home" is a Whole-Plot Reference to the film, with Susie (who is undergoing tonsilectomy) in the role of Dorothy and Angelica in the role of the Wicked Witch of the West.
• The Simpsons
  • After waking up in the hospital in "Bart Gets Hit By a Car", Bart tells the family (and Lionel Hutz^note in his first appearance) "But You Were There, and You, and You".
  • The third segment of "Treehouse of Horror II" is titled If I Only Had a Brain.
  • In "Lisa's First Word", during a flashback where the family first moved into their current home, Ned Flanders and Todd greet them with a chorus of "We Welcome You to the Neighborhood".
  • In "Selma's Choice" while on the way to Marge's Aunt Gladys' funeral, Homer and Bart briefly sing "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead".
  • A news segment in "Whacking Day" has Kent Brockman asking where the Munchkins from the film are now, which then cuts to a shot of a cemetery.
  • At the beginning of "Rosebud", we see some Winkies guarding the entrance to Mr. Burns' mansion, with Smithers alerting them to keep their chanting down to avoid waking Burns.
  • In "The Last Temptation of Homer" when learning that Homer and new coworker, Mindy, are ordering room service at a hotel on his dime, Mr. Burns opens his window and decides to let some of his winged monkeys out of a cage to seek out and attack them. They all plummet to their deaths instead. To this, a dejected Burns orders Smithers to continue the research (to make them fly).
  • A scene from "$pringfield" has Homer putting on glasses and quoting the Scarecrow's burst of intelligence, only to be reminded of the film's mathematical error.
    Homer: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.
    Man: That's a right triangle, you idiot!
    Homer: D'oh!
  • In "Homer the Great", when Homer decides to follow Lenny and Carl to their secret meeting, he discreetly attaches a yellow paint can on the back of their bumper and pokes a hole in it, quipping "Now all I gotta do is follow the Yellow Drip Road."
  • In Bart's dream in "Bart Sells His Soul", he and his soul (as well as the other children and their souls) are rowing over to a glowing green city that strongly resembles the Emerald City.
  • At the start of the flash-forward from "Lisa's Wedding", we see what appears to be a group of robots, but are really college students lining up for Wizard of Oz auditions.
  • In "Homer's Phobia", John's novelty car horn plays "Over the Rainbow", a reference to the song's status as a gay anthem.
  • In "HOMR" while at a cartoon convention, a voice actor claims to have voiced original characters, although he imitates the Cowardly Lion's line of "All I need is some courage" (which Lisa lampshades).
  • In "Weekend at Bursie's" an instrumental of "If I Only Had a Brain" plays as Marge builds her scarecrow.
  • In "Catch 'Em If You Can", Grampa claims that his legs were the ones that curled up under Dorothy's house, and even performs the trick.
  • The Couch Gag for "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" has the family being swept up by a twister and dropped on a black-and-white farm.
  • The title screen gag for "Thursdays with Abie" and "The Color Yellow" has Agnes Skinner riding a bike through the air while we hear the Witch's theme.
  • In "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner", the family goes on a politically-correct version of Pirates of the Caribbean at Diz-Nee-Land, in which the pirates chant "No means no! We know now!" to the tune of the Winkie chant.
  • "The Blue and the Gray", the thirteenth episode in the twenty-second season, depicts Marge becoming increasingly anxious and self-conscious over her prematurely graying hair. On her way to a club to confront Homer (who she suspects of cheating), Marge suffers mishaps resulting in her look much like the Wicked Witch of the West, highlighted by the Witch's theme playing during the sequence and over the end credits.
• South Park
  • The main body of "It's Christmas in Canada" is a spoof of the film, featuring the boys journeying through Canada to meet its Prime Minister while meeting several strange characters along the way.
  • In "Imaginationland", Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion appear on the good side, the Wicked Witch of the West appears on the villains side, and Glinda is on the Council of Nine.
• In the Theodore Tugboat episode, "Foduck and the Shy Ship", when Foduck tries to clean Guysborough the Garbage Barge with his fire hose, Guysborough shouts, "I'm melting!".
• In SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Hocus Pocus", SpongeBob and Patrick visit the manufacturer of the magic trick set they bought, who seems to be a floating head of a wizard. However, the two discover that it's just a projection by a guy who works there. Pay no attention to the fish behind the curtain...
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • In the episode, "The Looney Beginning", when Babs is first drawn, one of her impressions is Glinda the Good Witch, and when she asks Buster about her voice, she asks him, "Is it a good voice of a Bad Voice?".
  • In the short, "Li'l Sneezer" from the episode, "Test Stress", when Furrball dresses Sneezer up in a sandwich, Sneezer mentions that he saw the film and is afraid of the Wicked Witch of the West.
  • The Great and Powerful Principal of Acme Looniversity, who appears in the episode, "Her Wacky Highness", and the short, "The Learning Principal" from the episode, "Looniversity Daze" is a parody of the Great and Powerful Oz. In the latter episode, he is revealed to be a machine operated by Bugs Bunny.
  • In the short, "That's Art Folks!" from the episode, "Going Places", when Babs awakens from her dream, she nearly quotes Dorothy's lines at the end of the movie word-for-word.
  • In the short, "Happy Birthday Hamton" from the episode, "Playtime Toons", Buster, Babs, and Plucky sing a parody of "We're off to See the Wizard" on their way to the toy store to buy presents for Hamton.
  • In "Kon Ducki", Plucky requests "Oil can" on Day 12, like the Tin Man did when he first appeared. Later, as the ship encounters the massive tidal wave, for some reason the Wicked Witch of the West briefly appears within the wave, albeit riding Aunt Em's bicycle (itself referencing and parodying the tornado scene).
  • In the short, "Loon Lake" from the episode, "Music Day", Babs dresses as Glinda the Good Witch to encourage Shirley in her ballet recital against the Perfecto Prep swans.
  • In the Direct to Video movie, "How I Spent My Vacation", after Hamton manages to paint Plucky's color back on after Uncle Stinky blows it off from holding his breath in a tunnel game, when he asks Plucky if he's all right, Plucky asks him, "Auntie Em, is that you?".
• Tom and Jerry
  • In Springtime for Thomas, Butch is heard humming "Over the Rainbow" from inside his trashcan.
  • The melody of "We're Off to See the Wizard" is heard in The Truce Hurts and Professor Tom.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy:
  • In "Mom-A-Geddon", when Dudley says goodbye to the T.U.F.F. agents after believing his mom is going to make him quit, he says, "I'll miss you most of all, Agent Scarecrow!"
  • In "Internal Affairs", the movie that Kitty and Keswick watch at the movie theater is called The Lizard of Oz.
  • In "The Curse of King Mutt", The Chameleon disguises himself as King Mutt to scare Dudley into finding King Mutt's bone for him. He ends up scaring Snaptrap, who splashes him with a bucket of water. When the water short-circuits the Chameleon's transformation suit, Snaptrap asks, "Why are you melting? No, wait. That only works on the Wicked Witch of the West."
• VeggieTales:
  • In the closing countertop scene of "[1]", when Larry frets about the prospect of never getting out of the sink, he finishes with "Oh, Auntie Em, there's no place like home! There's no place like home! Click, click, click."
  • [2] parodies the film, and the end credits feature Mr. Lunt (as the Scarecrow) singing "Over the Rainbow".
  • The last of the "Eight Polish Foods of Christmas" is eight poppyseed cakes, which makes the characters sleepy, and one of them remarks, "There's no place like home."^note Archibald in the "Very Veggie Christmas" album; Pa Grape in the song's remake in "The Little Drummer Boy".

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