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'''Puddy:'''' ''[points at the back of his jacket]'' All signs point to yes. }}
* On ''[[Friends]]'' when Ross is faced with either divorce or cutting Rachel out of his life he resorts to consulting an 8-ball. His friends think the idea is ludicrous (except for Phoebe), but they can't come up with anything better. It keeps displaying the "ask again later" message.
* In an episode of ''[[I CarlyICarly]]'', Spencer relies on a "magic meatball" for all of his decisions.
* An episode of ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' has Ned using a magic pyramid to figure out if he's going to fail a test or not. It gets smashed by the abrasive school counselor.
* In ''[[The Pretender]]'' episode "Past Sim", Jarod learns about the Magic 8-Ball, and near the end of the episode he leaves one for his pursuers, displaying the message "Don't count on it".
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* After [[The Big Bang Theory]] cast builds a battle robot, Raj suggests using it to cut open a magic eight ball to discover what is inside it.
* On [[The King of Queens]], the Mentalo toy from Doug's childhood (as well as its knockoff, Mental-Man) was a pull-string fortune-teller in a turban (or fez, respectively), but the character of its answers qualifies it as a variant of the eight-ball.
* Referenced in ''[[Big Wave DavesDave's]]''. Dave has an important decision to make and he asks Richie about what he should do because Marshall (his usual go-to guy for this sort of thing) is out of town.
{{quote| Richie: In that case why don't you ask your magic 8 ball?<br />
Dave: I did, it always came back "ask again later." }}
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* A [[Bland-Name Product|''Magic Billard-ball'']] is available as a magic item in [[D 20D20 Modern]]. It answers simple questions as if it were an ''Augury'' spell.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Magic 8-Balls are in ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'', but there's a more powerful variant in the Magic Cue Ball, which gives perfect answers but has no window through which to see them.
** Vriska has an addiction to breaking actual Magic 8 Balls.
* An arc of ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]'' parodied this with the "On Cue Ball," which didn't so much give advice as it [[Deadpan Snarker|ridiculed everything and everyone]].
* The Foolamancer from ''[[Erfworld (Webcomic)|Erfworld]]'', Jack, wields a staff topped by a Magic 8-Ball, and occasionally consults it. He has also referenced the lines used by it when asked a question.
* ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'' #170 had an ad on page 74 for "ThinkGeek's [http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/e1ee Magic d20 of Destiny]". It's shaped like a 20-sided die the size of your fist, and the messages it gives are appropriate for an RPG like ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''; e.g., "Run! It's a trap!"
* In [http://adventurers.keenspot.com/d/0155.html this strip] of ''[[Adventurers (Webcomic)|Adventurers]]'', Karn obtains and consults a "Magic [[Final Fantasy VIII|Eight Squall]]."
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' has an interesting subversion in the Magic Hate Ball. See it [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/01/17/ here.]
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]] had the Magic Conch Shell.
* On ''[[Rocko's Modern Life (Animation)|Rocko's Modern Life]]'', Ed Bighead rises through the ranks at Conglom-O by following the advice of the Magic Meatball. Then it breaks and he ends up back where he started.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'': Milhouse gets a Magic 8-Ball for his birthday.
{{quote| '''Bart:''' Cool! An oversized novelty billiard ball! <br />
'''Milhouse:''' Yeah, you shake it up and it tells the future!<ref>Shaking the Magic 8-Ball is actually not recommended, as air bubbles can distort the answer that is displayed.</ref><br />
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