Television
- In the "Super Trivia" episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Master Shake says to both Meatwad and Frylock that they're "albacores around my neck" like "the Rime of the Marinade." which Frylock corrects by replying "that's Albatross!"
- The theme song of Gilligan's Island, the popular 1960s sitcom following the story of a shipwrecked pleasure boat's passengers, was written with the same meter and rhyme scheme as the poem.
- In The Ice Dream, an irreverent Australian talk show covering the 2002 Winter Olympics, the hosts said that a curse had been put on Australia's Winter Olympic team after Cedric Sloane skewered a seagull in a cross-country skiing event at the Oslo Winter Olympics, which could only be lifted by the team winning a gold medal.
- A portion of the poem was recited by Wonder Woman as the body of the Viking Prince and his longship were sent into the Sun, during the Justice League Unlimited episode: "To Another Shore", at the same time that the Martian Manhunter leaves the Watchtower.
- A 1952 Looney Tunes short is titled "Water, Water Every Hare".
- In episode 92 of Pokémon, "Stage Fight", a trainer aboard a ship recites the opening stanza of the ballad to her Raichu.
- In the third to last episode of the Australian television series SeaChange, Max compares the failure of his relationship with Laura to the Mariner shooting down the Albatross. This episode is entitled "Love in the Time of Coleridge".
- In the episode of the Simpsons entitled "Boy Scoutz 'N the Hood", Homer incorrectly recalls the verse "Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink" as rationale for drinking seawater while stranded at sea.
- In episode XLV of Samurai Jack, "The Scotsman Saves Jack," the characters encounter a sailor who tries to recite for them his harrowing tale. The Scotsman is uninterested, but is convinced to at least hear the name of his story, which is revealed to be "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
- Monty Python performed a sketch (Series 1, Episode 13, Albatross) which figured John Cleese as a cinema usherette with a tray hung around her neck containing an albatross instead of the more normal chock ices.
- In the series Firefly (s.01 ep.14), the character "River" (Summer Glau) was nicknamed "Albatross", and in Serenity (2005) was subsequently referred to as an albatross by The Operative.
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“Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents- to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking blissfully and mysteriously contented, or the television parents, wisely and humorously solving problems, influence parents-to-be.”
—Ellen Galinsky (20th century)
“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)