In Creepshow (1982), Leslie Nielsen watches a video of The Bank Dick before Ted Danson's ghost turns up to haunt him.

When Fields enters The Black Pussy Cat Cafe early on, he whistles "Listen to the Mockingbird," the theme song for the Three Stooges movies. The bartender is played by Shemp Howard, whose brothers Moe and Curly were members of the team and who eventually took over when Curly began having health problems.

It has often been noted that the episodic nature of The Bank Dick and other W.C. Fields movies follows the comedian's vaudeville act and the skit structure of Broadway revues such as the Ziegfeld Follies.

Fields' off-screen reputation as an alcoholic is also part of his on-screen persona and usually a major character trait of his movie protagonists.

by Frank Miller