"The Rotten Tomatoes Show" Inception/Predators/The Sorcerer's Apprentice (TV Episode 2010)
Brett Erlich reviews the trailer in the Anticipatron"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Episode #18.108 (TV Episode 2010)
a clip from the film starring Don Johnson is shown- Promotional excerpt shown during interview with Jessica Alba - Machete Cortez explains to Sartana Rivera why she should trust him, and hands her a gun, which she assumes is unloaded.
"Richard Roeper & the Movies" Machete (TV Episode 2010)
Reviewed, clips shown."De wereld draait door" Episode #6.4 (TV Episode 2010)
A trailer is shown.
"Breaking Bad" I.F.T. (TV Episode 2010)
Tortuga, played by Danny Trejo, is killed with a machete."The Rotten Tomatoes Show" The Last Exorcism/Piranha 3D/Vampires Suck (TV Episode 2010)
Brett says they will review it next week"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Episode #18.112 (TV Episode 2010)
Jay says it is the big movie this weekend"Film Junk Podcast" Episode 286: Machete and The American (Podcast Episode 2010)
Reviewed"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Episode #18.114 (TV Episode 2010)
referring to a male action figure mislabeled as an Indian princess, Jay asks if the figure is the guy from the film
Duck, You Sucker! (1971)
The character Machete standing with his hands on his lapels holding his coat open is a direct copy James Coburn in Giù la testa.The Godfather (1972)
Machete's tagline is he was he was "given an offer he couldn't refuse".Valente Quintero (1973)
Torn poster in the background during the opening rescue scene.Happy Days (TV Series 1974–1984)
The TV channel logo on the bottom corner of the screen during the news report about McLaughlin killing Michael Booth is a reference to a Fonzie-ism. Instead of "Telemundo," it's "Exactamundo."The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series 1974–1978)
The sound effect when Torrez draws his katana is the sound for Steve Austin's bionic maneuvers.
Spy Kids (2001)
In both "Machete" and "Spy Kids", Danny Trejo plays a character named Machete" Both films were written and directed by Robert Rodriguez. Also, underneath the title screen in the original Grindhouse trailer, it is registered to 'Machete's Body Shop', which was the name of the Spy Kids character's business in the original film.Grindhouse (2007)
Based on a fake trailer in Grindhouse
"Bordertown" Santa Ana Winds (TV Episode 2016)
The character Ernesto tries to get to kill the leaf is a parody of Machete CortezClerks III (2022)
Danny Trejo's character says he "always carries a machete".