Parodies and References
The Simpsons had an episode called "Three Gays of the Condo", although the plot of that episode was unrelated to Three Days of the Condor. Similarly, the sitcom Frasier had an episode titled "Three Days of the Condo", King of the Hill had an episode called "Three Days of the Kahndo", and Duck Tales had an episode called "Three Ducks of the Condor".
Seinfeld borrowed language from the movie in season 9, episode 5. In this episode, Kramer refused to accept mail and when Newman warned him that he is in danger for doing this, the warning is very similar to Max von Sydow's warning to Robert Redford not to trust the CIA: Newman: "Here's how it's going to happen: you may be..."
In the beginning of the 1992 film "Sneakers," Robert Redford's character avoids police apprehension because he steps out to buy pizza, which bears a loose similarity to his character's luck in avoiding execution in the beginning of this film. Additionally, two of the casualties of the CIA building attack are named "Martin" and "Bishop." Redford's alias in Sneakers is "Martin Bishop."
In Season 1, episode 3 ("The Catevari") of The Invisible Man, protagonist Darien Fawkes sarcastically references the film's title when his boss refuses to tell him secrets regarding the episode's villain by saying: "Why don't you cut the Three Days of the Condor crap?".
The X-Files episode "The Blessing Way" (Season 3, Episode 1) features the Well-Manicured Man warning Agent Scully about how she might be assassinated - one of them involving "someone close to you," similar to Joubert's conversation with Turner in Condor.
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“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)