This is a list of references to LEGO is media such as films and television shows.
Film
Chronicle
- The three main characters attempt to use their telekinetic powers to manipulate LEGO bricks.
- In the store the main characters visit, several 2011 Ninjago sets can be seen, as well as the 3181 Passenger Plane.
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
- When Alexander asks the group what they think the city (Atlantis) which they were in , Gabato replies "LEGOLAND?".
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
Time Bandits
- While Kevin is in Evil's fortress, giant LEGO bricks can be seen in the background.
Toy Story 3
- In Sunnyside Daycare, several LEGO minifigures are shown in the background. The LEGO group also have produced sets based upon the film.
- Buzz sits in a DUPLO chair when he is being interrogated.
- In the short "Hawaiian Vacation", LEGO minifigures are seen unpacking Bonnie's backpack.
- In the DVD or Blu-Ray menu screens, LEGO bricks (or DUPLO bricks) can be seen.
The Smurfs
- LEGO sets can be seen in the toy store scenes.
Television
The Big Bang Theory
- In the episode "The Plimpton Stimulation", Howard asks Leonard if he was up all night "making another stop-motion LEGO movie", and stated that "it's not enough to make the LEGOs move, they also have to capture your heart."
- In the episode "The Zarnecki Incursion", when the guys depart to Carlsbad, California to confront the hacker who hacked Sheldon's World of Warcraft account, they debate whether to go to Sea World or LEGOLAND afterward.
- In the episode "The Isolation Permutation", Sheldon tells Leonard and Howard how he was forced to spend a night consoling Amy instead of other tasks he had designated for the night. One the tasks he mentioned was building his LEGO Death Star, referring to it as his "LEGO funtime". In the same episode, Sheldon is later seen building the 10143 Death Star II.
- In the episode "The Weekend Vortex", Sheldon mentions LEGO as one of the options for the group's Star Wars marathon.
- In the episode "The Launch Acceleration", Sheldon suggests that one thing that he and Amy could do on their date night, they could go to a midnight sale at the LEGO Store.
Cash Cab (US)
- In the episode "Make It Rain", the question "On the Internet, Brickipedia is a collaborative user-generated resource for die-hard fans of what Danish construction toy?" was asked, with the contestant answering "LEGOs".
Citizen Khan
- In Episode 1, Amjad builds a model of the mosque out of LEGO so he "can work out where everything goes". Mr Khan pushes it off the table.
Community
Corner Gas
- In the episode "Block Party", Hank builds Dog River out of LEGO Bricks.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
- In the episode "Vehicular Fellatio", Leon says he and Larry are like LEGO. (Clip)
Doctor Who
- In the episode "Love and Monsters", LEGO bricks are scattered over the floor in Elton's flashback of his mother's death.
- In the episode "Closing Time", several DUPLO sets are on display at Toy Town in the S&G store that The Doctor works in, including 5651 Dump Truck, 5657 Jessie's Round Up and 5813 Lightning McQueen.
Even Stevens
- In one episode Louis Stevens is shown to have constructed all six Toa Nuva. Interestingly, Shia LaBeouf who portrays Lewis, has a minifigure modelled after him for his role of Mutt Williams in Indiana Jones.
Friends
- In the episode "The One Where Joey Dates Rachel", a model of Wairuha wearing Kopaka's mask is standing on Joey and Rachel's microwave.
Full House
- In the episode "The Hole in the Wall Gang", Joey states that he once built a house, then jokes "I would've built the garage, but I ran out of Legos".
Futurama
- In the film 'Benders Game', A LEGO man is driving a LEGO spaceship in the Space Demolition Derby and he crashes into an erector ship causing both of them to smash into pieces.
- In the first episode of season 5, Rebirth, Fry is playing with a LEGO model of himself and his comatose lover Leela.
How I Met Your Mother
- In a flashback during the episode "How Lily Stole Christmas", Lily tells Ted that all she wanted as a kid was an Easy-Bake oven, but instead her mom gave her a LEGO set becuase she didn't want Lily "conforming to traditional gender roles".
- LEGO appears in the flashback in the episode "Columns".
I'm Alan Partridge
- In the episode "Never Say Alan Again", a caller, Roy, responds to the question "Which celebrity would you like to spend a Bank Holiday with and what would you do" with "I'd like to go round LEGOLAND with Sean Connery and then afterwards we'd go for a lovely lamb lunch in the centre of Windsor."
The Inbetweeners
- In "Will's Birthday", Neil asks the others "how much LEGO could you stuff up your bum" when they were children. He says he could get "a rectangular one and a long one, a couple of singles maybe".
James May's Toy Stories
- In James May's LEGO House James May built a full-sized two-story house from 3.3 million LEGO bricks in a vineyard of the Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey. The house was later dismantled, as the space was needed for wine-making and the house lacked planning permission, and the bricks were taken to Legoland Windsor for use as part of an annual building event.
Malcolm in the Middle
- Dewey is seen builing a LEGO city in the livingroom.
- Dewey is later seen playing with Gali Mata and Tahu Mata from Bionicle at the mall.
NCIS: Los Angeles
- In the episode "The Only Easy Day", Callen says to Sam "I bet you were really good at LEGOs as a kid" as Sam is cleaning his rifle.
- In the episode "Full Throttle", Nate tells Callen "My dad and I never really worked on cars. He was more of a LEGO guy."
The Office (U.S. version)
- In the episode "Ultimatum" Andy, Dwight, and Darrel enter a bookstore, in the background a LEGO aisle in the toy section is seen; also towards the front of the store a box of Collectable Minifigures is shown.
Only Fools and Horses
- In the second series episode, "A Touch of Glass", Del Boy calls Nelson Mandela House a "LEGO set built by the council".
Psych
- In season 5, episode 10 "Extradition II: The Actual Extradition Part" Shawn, when explaining how he feels to Jules, talks about how Minifigures always get mixed up and all the bricks get thrown together and jumbled until it's impossible to find the part you are looking for.
Red Dwarf
- In season 2, episode 2 "Better Than Life" Lister tells Rimmer that he waits for a family member of his to die just so he can finish his LEGO set.
Saturday Night Live
- The Christmas special hosted by Adam Sandler featured a song; one of the lines was "Gnip Gnop and LEGO blocks are what I desire"
The Simpsons
- In the twelfth series episode Hungry Hungry Homer, the Simpsons visit Blockoland, a LEGOLAND parody.
South Park
- In the episode You're Getting Old, Stan gets a LEGO City set from Butters. It appears to be 7635 4WD with Horse Trailer.
The LEGO set behind a Terrance and Philip birthday cake
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- In the episode "To The Lighthouse", a Terminator has downloaded the entire BIONICLE storyline into his knowledge files and builds Mount Valmai out of System parts. He is seen playing with Solek and the Toa Mistika sets from 2008, and explains to a girl who wants to join in with her toy ducks that they do not exist on Voya Nui. Despite his persistence to the BIONICLE storyline, he makes several storyline errors, like saying the Dark Hunters want the Ignika when the Piraka, who were after the mask, deserted before going on the search. (Watch the scene here.)
The Thick of It
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* In the first episode of series three, Malcolm says to a colleague "What's wrong with you? You look like you've s**t a LEGO garage."
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Touch
- In the pilot episode, grey LEGO bricks and a minifigure can be seen in Jake's room.
Books
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth
- In the book, Greg remembered that he used to keep some LEGO bricks at his Grandmother's house, except she glued all of the pieces together.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever
- In the book, toys are banned in school and on the toy black market, a LEGO brick sells for 50 cents.
The Western Heritage, 10th edition
- There is an article near the end of this history book about how LEGO has changed the world and is proof that a company doesn't have to be from America to be a world leader.
Comics
Green Lantern: Rebirth
The page in question, with an enlarged version of the BIONICLE image
- In an issue of Rebirth, the Toa Mata are seen in the background of one page.
Baby Blues
- Four LEGO-related strips ran from July 17th-July 20th 2012.
FoxTrot
- A LEGO-related comic strip was published in June 2011.
Mother Goose and Grimm
The LEGO-related strip for Mother Goose and Grimm.
- A strip ran in 2011.
Music
- The music video for The Write Stripes 2002 single, Fell in Love with a Girl is a LEGO animation.
- Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran released a single called "Lego House" in 2011, from his album +.
- The rapper G Frsh has released a mixtape named Legoman (Where's My Brick?), and has featured a man with a LEGO minifigure's head in one of his music videos.
Other
- "I Hope You Step on a LEGO" is a recognized and confirmed meme, which involves comparing the pain of stepping on a standard LEGO brick barefoot with other painful things. It is also seen as a method of trolling in Rage Comics. (See the KnowYourMeme entry)