*In the first episode of ''Gossip Girl,'' the main character's mother was caught having sex with Trent by the main character's love interest's father. When the mother tells the father "in your dreams," he replies with "Well you are in my dreams, Lily. One in particular that recurs involves finding you in the back of a Nine Inch Nails bus with your shoes, and your earrings, and… Trent Reznor. Oh! That happened."
*A promo for the 2009–10 season of ''Fringe'' contains a new version of "[[Zero-Sum]]" as well as dialogue read by Reznor. Running the audio through a spectrograph reveals an image of a butterfly.
**Also on ''Fringe'', during the episode "Midnight", the song "[[Discipline]] " can be heard.*Beavis and Butthead Butt-head "reviewed" the videos for both "[[Head Like A Hole (song)|Head Like A Hole]]", "[[March Of The Pigs (song)|March Of The Pigs]]"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm9G_97w_LI] and "[[Wish (song)|Wish]]"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vU1FjJ9-NY&feature=related].
*In ''The Nanny'' episode "The Party's Over," Maggie wants to attend a Nine Inch Nails concert. Fran's reaction to hearing this is, "Barbra's on tour again?"
*In ''How I Met Your Mother'' episode "Little Minnesota", Ted's sister, Heather, sells his possessions to buy tickets and travel to a Nine Inch Nails concert in Spain.