Snakehead (fish) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

In CSI: NY, snakeheads are placed in mezcal bottles which are found by the team at the crime scenes in Season 7 Episode 4 ("Sangre Por Sangre").

In TV mockumentary series The Office webisode, "Blackmail", the character Creed Bratton is blamed for introducing the snakehead fish into the North American ecosystem.

In The Penguins of Madagascar episode "Snakehead!", a northern snakehead (wrongly identified by Kowalski as "the snakehead trout") invades a pond in Central Park and threatens to devour anything in its path. A mother duck and her ducklings seek the aid of the penguins from the Central Park Zoo (Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private) to assess the situation. The penguins build a submarine to scour the pond, where they find the snakehead and destroy it by throwing a bottle of heavily-shaken-up soda down its throat (in a parody of Jaws), turning it into a large supply of sushi when the bottle explodes.

In the Animal Planet TV series River Monsters, Jeremy Wade shows a dramatization of a snakehead, "the fish from hell", stalking an unsuspecting baby and Chihuahua. With the help of a snakehead researcher, however, Wade shows that although it is capable of living outside of water and is able move on land, its weak pectoral muscles make movement difficult and render the snakehead an unlikely "stalker" on land.

The snakehead was featured in three Sci-fi Channel original pictures entitled Snakehead Terror, Frankenfish, and Swarm of the Snakehead.

In the "Soprano Home Movies" episode of the HBO series The Sopranos, Bobby and Tony discuss snakeheads being found in the Adirondack area of New York when visiting Bobby's cottage. The fish had originally been mistaken as bowfins.