Editing It Happened One Night (section)

==In popular culture==
The 1937 [[Laurel and Hardy]] comedy ''[[Way Out West (1937 film)|Way Out West]]'' parodied the famous hitchhiking scene with [[Stan Laurel]] managing to stop a stage coach using the same technique.<ref>[http://www.filmsite.org/wayo.html "Way Out West (1937)."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008173212/http://www.filmsite.org/wayo.html |date=October 8, 2011 }} ''Filmsite Review.'' Retrieved: October 14, 2011.</ref> ''[[A Life Less Ordinary]]'' (1997) by Danny Boyle has a plot that shares similarities with ''It Happened One Night'' and clearly references the movie in its own hitchhiking scene.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SPLICEDwire {{!}} "A Life Less Ordinary" review |url=https://splicedwire.com/97reviews/ordinary.html |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=splicedwire.com}}</ref>

[[Mel Brooks]]'s film ''[[Spaceballs]]'' (1987) parodies the wedding scene. As she walks down the aisle to wed Prince Valium, Princess Vespa ([[Daphne Zuniga]]) is told by King Roland ([[Dick Van Patten]]) that Lone Starr ([[Bill Pullman]]) forsook the reward for the princess's return and only asked to be reimbursed for the cost of the trip.<ref>Crick 2009, p. 158.</ref>

Other films have used familiar plot points from ''It Happened One Night''. In ''[[Bandits (2001 film)|Bandits]]'' (2001), Joe Blake ([[Bruce Willis]]) erects a blanket partition between motel room beds out of respect for Kate Wheeler's ([[Cate Blanchett]]'s) privacy. He remarks that he saw people do the same thing in an old movie.<ref>Granger, Susan. [http://www.all-reviews.com/videos-3/bandits.htm "Bandits."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120061831/http://www.all-reviews.com/videos-3/bandits.htm |date=January 20, 2012 }} ''All Reviews'', 2001. Retrieved: October 14, 2011.</ref> In ''[[Sex and the City 2]]'', [[Carrie Bradshaw|Carrie]] and [[Mr. Big (Sex and the City)|Mr. Big]] watch the film (specifically the hitchhiking scene) in a hotel; later in the film Carrie uses the idea which she got from the film to get a taxi in the Middle East.

In "The Bogman of Letchmoor Heath", the second episode of the horror/comedy television series ''[[She-Wolf of London (TV series)|She-Wolf of London]]'' (1990–1991), lead characters Randi Wallace ([[Kate Hodge]]) and Ian Matheson ([[Neil Dickson]]) rent a motel room, and, uncomfortable with the lack of privacy afforded, Ian stretches a bed sheet like a curtain between the two beds. Ian makes reference to ''It Happened One Night'' but Randi is unfamiliar with the film, remarking that she would rather "read a book".

Beginning in January 2014, the comic ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'' tied a story arc to ''It Happened One Night'' when one of the characters, Lt. William O'Malley, is injured during World War II and believes himself to be Peter Warne. As he sneaks through German-occupied France, several plot points run parallel to that of ''It Happened One Night'' and he believes his French contact to be Ellen Andrews.<ref>McEldowney, Brooke. [http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2014/01/08 "9 Chickweed Lane"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429221834/http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2014/01/08 |date=April 29, 2014 }} ''gocomics.com''. Retrieved: April 29, 2014.</ref>