Press Your Luck/PYL in Popular Culture

In the 1986 fantasy comedy-drama film The Boy Who Could Fly when Louis Michaelson (played by Fred Savage) warns his mother named Charlene Michaelson (played by Bonnie Bedelia) that a young autistic teenage boy named Eric Gibb (played by Jay Underwood) was on the rooftop of a house. A small brief clip of Press Your Luck could be seen on TV.

Press Your Luck was mentioned in an episode of I Love the '80s 3-D 1983 episode in 2005.

In 2006, Whammy: The All-New Press Your Luck! was ranked #38 and Press Your Luck was ranked #3 along with showing the episodes as one of The 50 Greatest Game Shows of All Time. This special was hosted by Bil Dwyer.

On Saturday Night Live (or SNL for short), PYL was briefly mentioned as a promo for GSN with the announcer saying "Stay tuned for Celebrity Press Your Luck with special guest Roman Polanski" in the Celebrity Family Feud skit in 2009.

On a March 5, 2012 episode of the sort-lived MAD cartoons series called "Real Veal/Celebrity Wife Swamp" (parody of the ABC reality series Celebrity Wife Swap) a brief parody of Press Your Luck was made as Push Your Luck.

On a December 2, 2012 episode of Robot Chicken called "Eviscerated Post-Coital by a Six Foot Mantis". Press Your Luck was spoofed.