References in Popular Culture
- A Million Little Pieces was referenced in Episode 41 of the comedy television series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In the episode, titled "Dennis Reynolds: An Erotic Life," Dennis Reynolds prepares to publish memoirs of his sexual exploits. He's warned by Mac to make sure everything in his memoirs has really happened or he'll "end up like that Million Little Pieces guy on Oprah."
- Using the pseudonym James Pinocchio, screenwriter and ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves wrote the parody book A Million Little Lies. This book was published in 2006.
- The story of A Million Little Pieces was parodied in Season 10, Episode 5 of South Park titled "A Million Little Fibers". In the episode, the character Towelie writes a memoir about his life in which he portrays himself as a human, rather than as a towel and draws criticism from Oprah and the media.
- In October 2006, solo performer Mike Daisey performed TRUTH {the heart is a million little pieces above all things} off-Broadway at Ars Nova in New York City. TRUTH dealt with A Million Little Pieces, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things and other fake memoirs.
- The band Dead To Me makes a reference to Frey and the book in the song "Something New".
- A Million Little Pieces influenced the lyrics of the song "3 Miles" by The Answering Machine. The lyric 'in faded newspapers and shards of glass' is a direct reference to the book.
- In the Veronica Mars episode "I Know What You'll Do Next Summer" a person had written an autobiography about life as an orphan child-soldier in the Lord's Resistance Army and a claim surfaces that while the stories were real, they weren't his stories.
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