"The Dick Cavett Show" Woody Allen (TV Episode 1971)
Clip shown."Question de temps" Woody Allen ou l'anhedoniste le plus drôle du monde (TV Episode 1979)
Scene is shown."At the Movies" What Makes Woody Run? (TV Episode 1986)
A clip is shown."Scene by Scene" Woody Allen (TV Episode 2000)
Clip shown.AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (TV Special 2000)
Bananas is #69.
Sleeper (1973)
the rebellion anthem"Lupin the 3rd" Her Majesty's Slipshod Inspectors (TV Episode 1978)
Zenigata says, "It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham!""Remington Steele" Steele Away with Me: Part 1 (TV Episode 1983)
Mildred calls in to work and asks for an Inspector Mellish before noticing Steele's note about an itinerary to Acapulco (a small country in Latin America). This is a subtle nod to Woody Allen's character, Fielding Mellish, in his film Bananas (1971), who goes to a small country in Latin America to inspect it in an effort to impress his girlfriend."At the Movies" Broadway Danny Rose/Reckless/The Dresser/Reuben Reuben (TV Episode 1984)
Referenced during the "Broadway Danny Rose" review.- Gene Siskel recalls that Woody Allen insisted on critics seeing the movie alone because he was so confident in how funny it was
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
A pram is seen rolling down a set of steps.Duck Soup (1933)
Frequently acknowledged as a tribute to the older movie where a comedian takes over a small country in a bloodless slapstick coup d'etat.Modern Times (1936)
Woody Allen pays homage to Chaplin's eating-machine scene when he plays a guinea pig testing a machine that allows office employees to get exercise without leaving their desks. As in Modern Times, the machine goes crazy.Wild Strawberries (1957)
A dream is described similar to one in this film.One, Two, Three (1961)
Wiener-Dog (2016)
The movie poster for Dave's movie "Apricots" is a spoof of the movie poster for "Bananas".
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Woody acted as prosecutor and witness simultaneously in the court scene as Everett Sloane did in "The Lady from Shanghai"ABC's Wide World of Sports (TV Series 1961–1997)
Eyewitness News (TV Series 1968)
Roger Grimsby appears in his role as the host of the show.