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* ''[[Mr. Bean]]'' has an opening theme tune consisting of a choir intoning, "Ecce homo qui est faba."<ref>"Behold the man who is a bean."</ref> The same choir closes each episode with, "Vale homo qui est faba."<ref>"Farewell, man who is a bean."</ref>
** Even the show's commercial breaks are denoted with Latin singing: "Finis partis primae"<ref>"End of part one"</ref> and "Pars secunda"<ref>"Part two"</ref>
* Many of the magic spells used on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' happen to be in Latin. Evidently one of the more challenging things for [[Alyson Hannigan]] was memorizing all of the Latin that the writers kept flinging at her. In the final season, a minor [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] happens when Willow stops halfway through a spell and shouts "''Screw it! I suck at Latin, OK?!'' and proceeds to make the spell work in ''English'' by pure [[PunA Worldwide Punomenon|force of will]].
* In ''[[Kaamelott]]'', King Loth is fond of meaningless Latin quotes. The Latin language (in the quotes) is mostly legitimate, but Loth's translations are always inaccurate.
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' did this in a conversation with Amber-slash-Cutthroat Bitch: (episode is "Don't Ever Change")