In Popular Culture
- The film was parodied during the December 4, 2010 episode of Saturday Night Live in an SNL Digital Short titled: "Party at Mr. Bernard's" with Robert De Niro in the titular role.
- Senator John McCain joked that if Alan Greenspan, then-Chairman of the Federal Reserve, were to die in office, McCain would want to "do like they did in the movie Weekend at Bernie's ... I'd prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him and keep him as long as I could." After Greenspan retired from the Federal Reserve, McCain later made the same joke that he would appoint him to a commission to review the tax code even if he were dead: "If he's dead, just prop him up and put some dark glasses on him like, like Weekend at Bernie's.'"
- In 2008, in Hell's Kitchen (New York City), the New York Daily News reported that two men tried to pass off their dead friend as alive so that they could collect his social security check.
- In 2012, the Oakland Athletics baseball team popularized a dance, "The Bernie" derived from a song by ATM called "Bernie Lean" which takes its cue from the way the character of Bernie moves and dances slack-backedly in the films.
- A 2002 epiosde of The Simpsons from the thirteenth season, parodies the title of the film, Weekend at Burnsie's
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