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The plot twist of this movie had a significant impact on popular culture and, consequently, it was sporadically referenced and parodied in various media. It was revealed in both a sketch of the Robot Chicken episode "Vegetable Funfest" and in the episode "Marge in Chains" of The Simpsons, in which Mayor Quimby lets it slip during an election campaign.

In the episode "To Kill a Mocking Alan" of I'm Alan Partridge, Alan refers to the film, saying it is about "The woman with the old, er, tadger".

In the episode "The Doorman" of Seinfeld, George sees his father with his shirt off, and notices that he has breasts. Then he says that he threw up all night: It was "his own personal Crying Game".

The twist is described in the Father Ted episode "The Passion of St Tibulus", when two characters discuss the movie, mentioning that "he got his lad out".

In Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, when the main character (Jim Carrey) deduces that the culprit, like Dil, is really a man posing as a woman, the song "The Crying Game" starts to play. In Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult, Leslie Nielsen's character starts throwing up after discovering that Anna Nicole Smith's character is secretly a man.

In Rush Hour 3, when Noémie Lenoir's character takes her wig off to reveal a shaved head, Chris Tucker's character assumes she is in fact a man, exclaiming "It's The Crying Game."

The 1993 comedy Hot Shots Part Deux refers to the secret in the credits.

The film also inspired a 1994 television commercial for the men's underwear brand Hom. In the ad, a man picks up what appears to be a beautiful woman in a bar. Later in her bedroom, she removes her skirt to reveal she is actually a male wearing men's underwear. Her date reacts positively while the words ,"Underneath it all, I'm still a man," appear superimposed over the underwear.^[4]

In the episode "The Melty Man Cometh" of the BBC series Coupling, Jeff tells Patrick in a dream sequence, "Don't think about The Crying Game," while Patrick tries to overcome his temporary impotence.