In Popular Culture
Johnnie Walker Black Label is frequently seen being consumed by the character Jack Donaghy in the sitcom 30 Rock.
On Entourage, it is mentioned that Drama's favorite drink is Johnnie Walker Blue mixed with Jose Cuervo tequila.
In feature length film The Money Pit, Johnnie Walker Red Label is seen being drunk by the character Walter Fielding (Tom Hanks) outside his home, and subsequently used as a bribe to attain the services of the builder.
At the end of the Supernatural episode "...And Then There Were None", Bobby Singer toasts dead hunter Rufus Turner by pouring a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label on his grave.
Johnnie Walker Red Label is mentioned the song 4% Pantomime by The Band.
Johnnie Walker Red Label is mentioned in the Elliott Smith song "Miss Misery".
Johnnie Walker Red Label is referred to repeatedly throughout the Lynyrd Skynyrd song "Poison Whisky".
Johnnie Walker Red Label is also mentioned in the Tom Waits song "Bad Liver (and a Broken Heart)".
The George Thorogood song "I Drink Alone" mentions "me and my pal Johnnie Walker, and his brothers Black and Red".
Johnnie Walker Black Label is the favorite drink of Dr. Perry Cox (John Christopher McGinley) on T.V.'s "Scrubs"
Johnnie Walker Blue Label is given as a gift by Shia LaBeouf to a potential investor in the 2010 motion picture Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, starring himself and Michael Douglas
Johnnie Walker Black Label was Christopher Hitchens' favorite whisky, dubbed by him "Mr Walker's Amber Restorative".
Johnie Walker Blue is mentioned by Leo McGarry in The West Wing episode Bartlet For America. It was the drink that Leo relapsed on.
Red is the preferred label of the police chief in all the Jesse Stone movies. His standard is two glasses of whiskey on ice each night before bed, unless he's in the middle of an important case.
The "Johnnie Walker" brand was mentioned on Trinidadian chutney soca star musician Rikki Jai's "De Drinker's Anthem"
In The Man From Earth, John Oldman produces a bottle of Johnnie Walker Green for the group, leading one character to ask "How much do they pay you?"
In the Chuck episode "Chuck Versus the Nacho Sampler", Agent Casey tells Chuck there's only one thing to aid in the pain of burning a spy asset: "Johnnie Walker. Black."
In Burn Notice, Michael references Johnny Walker Blue when luring a target into thinking it's time to celebrate.
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