In Popular Culture
- Cobra Commander is occasionally parodied in Robot Chicken voiced by Seth Green.
- Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006, a 2002 album by breakcore artist Venetian Snares features a track called Cobra Commander which features heavily distorted samples from G.I. Joe: The Movie.
- Comedian Hal Sparks dressed as Cobra Commander on the VH1 special I Love Toys in a segment called "Cobra Commander's Day Off".
- In the Family Guy episode "PTV," Cobra Commander makes a cameo as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He orders his subordinates of the FCC to "censor television" following the David Hyde Pierce incident during the Emmy Awards, and he flies out through the ceiling in a Cobra 'Trouble Bubble'. His actions are what then led to the conflict between Peter Griffin (who is against the censorship of television) and the FCC.
- In the Mad episode "Pooh Grit / Not a Fan a Montana," Cobra Commander hosts his own daytime talk show.
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