In Popular Culture
A line of replica Billy dolls has been released for consumer purchase, mainly through offbeat gift stores. It retains the main characteristics of the doll, though is much cleaner in appearance. Billy Halloween masks and costumes have also been released for purchase.
In the "Koi Pond" episode of The Office, Dwight Schrute dressed up as Billy for Halloween.
On a webisode of The Hardy Show, former WWE Superstar Matt Hardy dressed up as Billy for Halloween.
Before the releases of Saw III and Saw IV, Billy was used in videos to promote the films on YouTube and MySpace.
Billy (with his name changed to Billy the Jigsaw Puppet for parody) is the main antagonist in Scary Movie 4.
In the Internet series The Annoying Orange, Billy appears in "Annoying Saw" and "Annoying Saw 2: The Annoying Death Trap", both in which Orange refers to him as "Clownface", "Emo Clown", and "Donald Trump".
Billy appears in a Dutch parody of The Little House on the Prairie from 'De TV kantine'. Nellie needs to cut off her arm or else she will see a man naked again which is seen earlier in the episode.
A parody of Billy, called Jigzaw, appears in episodes 148-149 of the anime Gintama. In appearance he looks similar to Billy, with a white and red mask and is also dressed in a black tuxedo. He sports many of Billy's quailities, like appearing on a TV screen, trapping two characters in a familiar "game" and pitting them against each other.
In "The Marines" episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Frylock is captured by a puppet parodying Billy who demands him to shove a grapefruit spoon in his eye.
Singer Nicki Minaj uses a Billy mask as the face of 'Nemesis' during her setlist during Britney Spears Femme Fatale Tour.
In the internet videogame series Inkagames, appear a character based on Billy called "Pigsaw", who is a recurring villain from the games.
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