Psycho
Any reference to the movie Psycho, whether a character is terrified by it, they think they're living it, or they're imitating the shower scene as a joke.
Just Shoot Me!
Appearances
- The Dick Van Dyke Show: Season 5, episode 30, "Long Night's Journey Into Day" (1966). Laura gets sick on the weekend of her and Rob's fishing trip with the Helpers, so she stays home alone. As Millie's leaving, she tells Laura not to take a shower. When Laura asks why, Millie replies, "Didn't you see that Alfred Hitchcock picture?"
- The Bob Newhart Show: Season 5, episode 5, "The Great Landlord from Hell" (1976). Mr. Carlin tells Bob that the other day while he was taking a shower, he thinks Tony Perkins tried to kill him.
- It's a Living: Season 4, episode 6, "Night of the Iguana" (1986). When their car breaks down on the way to Vegas, the waitresses and Sonny get stranded at a run-down motel run by a Norman Bates wanna-be.
- The Golden Girls: Season 1 episode 25, "The Way We Met" (1986). The gang watches Psycho, and they're so scared that none of them can sleep, and they all find themselves in the kitchen in the middle of the night.
- ALF: Season 1, episode 2, "Strangers in the Night" (1986). Mrs. Ochmonek watches Psycho while babysitting Brian and gets scared by every noise she hears.
- Night Court: Season 6, episode 5, "Educating Rhoda" (1988). A delusional woman who thinks she's characters from random old movies escapes from the courthouse, and an unsuspecting Dan takes her to a hotel, where she asks him to take a shower and comes at him with a knife.
- Just Shoot Me!: Season 3, episode 2, "The Mast" (1998). It's Halloween, and Dennis just saw Psycho for the first time, so he starts to think that Nina's unseen friend, Binnie, might be a figment of her imagination.