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* The 1999 episode [[Da Boom]] of the TV series [[Family Guy]], Peter Griffin frightens over Y2K. In the end he turns out to be right and starts New Quahog.

* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] superstar [[Chris Jericho]]'s nickname is Y2J. When he debuted in the WWE in [[1999]] he used the turn of the millennium as a [[List of professional wrestling slang#G|gimmick]] so his nickname is probably a parody to Y2K.

* A 1999 episode in ''[[Simpsons]]'' Halloween special [[Treehouse of Horror X]] called ''Life's a Glitch, and Then You Die'' parodies the millennium bug. Due to [[Homer Simpson]]'s incompetence of fixing the Y2K bug, everything goes haywire, (including non-electronic items like milk cartons,), thus destroying the world.

* During the spring of 1999, [[Kids' WB!]] aired a promotional spot for ''[[Animaniacs]]'' in which [[Yakko, Wakko and Dot]] claim to have solved the Y2K problem, which they think means all uses of the letter Y will change to the letter K, and state that the viewer should, from now on, watch the show "on Mondak, Tuesdak, Wednesdak, Thursdak, and Fridak."

* The [[Digimon]] [[Diaboromon]] was based on the Y2K Bug, tying up phone lines, as in when Tai tried to call Sora, it is said that it launched a missile as well. It also began destroying computer data, its lower form eating symbols like the dots in the [[Namco]] classic, [[Pac-Man]]