Watergate scandal in the media

The Nickelodeon Cartoon "Hey Arnold!" featured a full-length movie with the character "Helga" acting as "Deep Voice" to conceal her identity.

The Disney Channel Cartoon "The Proud Family" featured a school presidential election for the main character "Penny" while her friend used espionage to obtain illegal footage of a running mate. When publicly showing this tape of a boy sucking his thumb, she used the pseudonym "Scratchy Throat."

While driving through the rain in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Brad and Janet listen to Richard Nixon's resignation speech ("I am not a quitter!").

In the first season of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Perry White takes his top two reporters, Lois Lane and Clark Kent, to meet his number one source Sour Throat in a basement, and when Lois is shocked at what little he gives them, the source says, "What did you expect: follow the money".

The Watergate scandal was an influence upon the television series The X-Files. The first season featured a character (played by Jerry Hardin) modeled after Deep Background/Deep Throat and referred to by both names. The second season also featured a similar character simply named X. The character named the smoking man was also inspired by Deep throat.

In Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks's character, staying the night at the Watergate (on Nixon's suggestion), innocently complains that he cannot sleep because of the lights from an office across the way from his room. This inadvertently causes guard Frank Wills to investigate and catch the intruders.

The movie Dick starring Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams is based around the story of Watergate.

The episode Sideshow Bob Roberts of The Simpsons parodies the Watergate scandal and "All the President's Men" when Bart and Lisa start investigating Sideshow Bob's election fraud.

Many Futurama episodes feature Nixon's head in a jar and portray Nixon as having been elected as President of Earth. One episode in particular parodies the Watergate scandal by having Fry, Leela, and Bender sneak into Nixon's Watergate Hotel room. (He is staying there because you get a discount if you've been there before.) Later, Bender tapes Nixon's evil plan to "go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place," and Nixon, knowing that the tape would ruin his chances, makes a trade for it.

In the movie Point Break, a gang of bank robbers wear masks of former United States Presidents. While leaving a bank at the end of the first robbery, the one wearing a Nixon mask proclaims "I am not a crook".

Missing White House Tapes was an album created by National Lampoon.

In both the PlayStation videogame Metal Gear Solid and the GameCube remake Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, one of the characters who remains anonymous throughout most of the game uses the pseudonym "Deepthroat". He informs and warns the player at several intervals in the game. In the sequel, Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, another character imitates the character from the first and uses the same handle, but later changes to "Mr. X", which may be a reference to the aforementioned X-Files tie-in.

In an episode of Family Guy entitled Deep Throats, "Stewie" and "Brian" meet an informant (Kermit the frog) in an underground car park for details on a scandal involving the town's Mayor (Adam West). The informant, Kermit, uses the pseudonym "Deep Throat".

In the Quantum Leap episode "Star-Crossed," Sam is a college professor in 1972 trying to reunite his future fiancée with her father, a general in the Pentagon. They visit the hotel where he is staying, but are forced to sneak in via an 'unlocked' side door after being refused entry. Upon investigation, a security guard finds that the door they had used had actually been taped to prevent from locking, and the audience soon discover the location to be the Watergate Hotel.

In the second season episode "Negotiation" of NewsRadio, Matthew Brock jokingly inquires of Jimmy James as to whether or not he was really "Deep Throat". (Mr. James, incidentally, was portrayed as possessing top-secret government conspiracy information a number of times throughout the show's five-season run.) A season later, in the episode "President", Mr. James confirmed that he was, in fact, the informant previously known only as "Deep Throat".

In Nickelodeon's "Fairly OddParents" movie entitled "Channel Chasers", Timmy's parents, Mom and Dad, encounter Vicky's sister Tootie, who hides her identity behind the pseudonym "Deep Toot", a play on the name "Deep Throat".

In the movie Trading Places, Eddie Murphy poses as undercover operator Clarence Beeks to provide false financial information to the Duke brothers in a scene reminiscent of Bob Woodward's clandestine meetings with "Deep Throat".

Celebrity impersonator Rich Little starred in 1978 in a one-man rendition of A Christmas Carol, where he personified the ghost of Jacob Marley as Richard Nixon who drags audio tape reels instead of chains and tells Ebenezer Scrooge that he would be visited by a ghost every 18½ minutes (i.e. the length of time erased off a key recording of Nixon subpoenaed by the House committee investigating Watergate).

In the final episode of Rik Mayall's comedy show Believe Nothing, Mayall's character comes across a tape showing a conversation between Nixon and Kissinger during the Watergate scandal. This tape reveals that Nixon and Kissinger conspired to alter all the new digital watches being produced in a way that every hour was made 30 seconds longer in order to eliminate the incriminating 18 minutes of the watergate scandal. After 30 years of this, the world was several months out of sync with actual time, and thus global warming was a myth, as it feels like April in January, because it actually is April.

Kurt Vonnegut's book "Jailbird" is centered on the life of "Walter F. Starbuck", a fictional member of the Watergate scandal.

In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, a hotel named the "Gatewater Hotel" (which is a play on the Watergate Hotel) is a location in Case 2. It becomes famous after the case has ended. And in the sequel, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All, an extension of the hotel, the "Gatewater Imperial Hotel", becomes the scene of a murder in Case 4.