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- Bill Murray played Mondale on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s, as did Gary Kroeger, Dana Carvey, and Jon Lovitz in the mid‑1980s
- Berke Breathed's Bloom County comic strip included a story around Bill the Cat's run for president, in which Mondale is briefly Bill's running mate. In another story, the Meadow Party is depressed because an opinion poll puts Bill and Opus "just above Mondale, just below Pitted Prunes"
- In Futurama Season 1 Episode 11 ("Mars University"), Amy Wong says, "Boring! Let's hear about Walter Mondale already" to a professor who looks like Mondale. In Season 2 Episode 7 ("A Head in the Polls"), Mondale's Head is in the "Closet Of Presidential Losers" within the Head Museum
- One of Mondale's ads for his presidential campaign was featured on The Daily Show on March 3, 2008, in a satirical comparison to one of Hillary Clinton's campaign ads
- In The Simpsons episode "Lisa's First Word", Lisa Simpson reads a headline that describes Mondale's "Where's the beef?" comment during the 1984 presidential election. Homer laughs approvingly and remarks "No wonder he won Minnesota!" In the episode "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington", a janitor who looks like Mondale helps newly elected Congressman Krusty the Clown get a bill to become law using underhanded methods. In "Bart vs. Australia", the family flees from Australia to a "laundry ship" named USS Walter Mondale
- In the American Dad episode, "Stan Knows Best", Stan Smith says "Rubharb" when Hayley moves in with her boyfriend, Jeff. He claimed the word was a subliminal order he supposedly implanted into her subconscious to kill Mondale. However, it is revealed that the word was implanted into Steve's mind. In "The Best Christmas Story Never", Stan goes back in time and alters history. After becoming President instead of Ronald Reagan, Mondale quickly surrenders the United States to the Soviet Union
- In an episode of The O.C., "The Case of the Franks", Sandy Cohen, in a flashback, is campaigning for Mondale's 1984 presidency run. He attempts to give future wife Kirsten a campaign button and states that he would tell her why Mondale and Ferraro wouldn't win, but campaigning for them felt right
- In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Mondale is portrayed by actor John Slattery
- In the alternate history short story "Huddled Masses" by Lawrence Person contained in the anthology Alternate Presidents, Mondale defeated Reagan in the 1984 election and became the 41st President
- On Beverly Hills, 90210, Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley) named his first car Mondale since the family were living first in Minnesota.
- Folksinger-songwriter Naomi Ashley released a 2009 song entitled Mondale about him.
- Math rock band Crush Kill Destroy in 2006 released a song called Walter Mondale on their Metric Midnight EP
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