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==In popular culture==
{{In popular culture|section|date=January 2019}}
Clippit is the subject of numerous humorous parodies and references, including [[internet memes]].<ref name=":0" /> It has been lampooned in multiple television series, including ''[[Family Guy]]'', ''[[The Simpsons]]'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/06/12/clippy_designer_embarrassed/ | title=Clippy designer was too embarrassed to include him in his portfolio | access-date=2023-06-13 | archive-date=2023-06-13 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230613040152/https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/06/12/clippy_designer_embarrassed/ | url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]''<ref name="Revival">{{cite web|last=Cassidy|first=Benjamin|title=The Twisted Life of Clippy|url=https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2022/08/origin-story-of-clippy-the-microsoft-office-assistant|website=SeattleMet|date=August 25, 2022|access-date=August 29, 2022|quote=But nearly three decades after its genesis at the Redmond tech giant, Clippit—better known as Clippy—improbably lives on.}}</ref> ''[[Silicon Valley (TV series)|Silicon Valley]],''<ref>{{cite web |first=Caleb |last=Pershan |url=https://sfist.com/2016/06/20/silicon_valley_hbo_season_3_episode_9/ |title=''Silicon Valley'' Ep. 3.9: 'Pipey' |website=sfist |date=June 20, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623092248/http://sfist.com/2016/06/20/silicon_valley_hbo_season_3_episode_9.php |archive-date=June 23, 2016}}</ref> ''and [[the Amazing World of Gumball]]''.

=== Parodies ===
There is a Clippit parody in the ''Plus! Dancer'' application included in [[Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition]] which is later included as ''Windows Dancer'' in [[Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005]]. The dancing character '''Boo Who'''?<ref>{{cite web |title=Microsoft.com |url=https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/desktop/dancers.mspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050214030453/https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/desktop/dancers.mspx |archive-date=2005-02-14 |access-date=2017-09-27 |publisher=Microsoft.com}}</ref> is wearing a ghost outfit, roughly having the shape of Clippit's body, with a piece of wire visible underneath. Occasionally, the white sheet slips, and reveals the thin curve of steel. The description mentions "working for a short while for a Redmond, WA based software company, where he continued to work until being retired in 2001".

Clippit was featured in the music video for [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song "[[Word Crimes]]."<ref>{{Cite web |title="Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official 4K Video) |date=15 July 2014 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc |via=www.youtube.com |access-date=27 November 2017 |archive-date=28 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171128191430/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc |url-status=live }}</ref>

Vigor is a Clippit-inspired parody software—a version of the [[Vi (text editor)|vi]] text editor featuring a rough-sketched Clippit. The name is a [[portmanteau]] of vi (the name of the Unix text editor) and [[Igor (fictional character)|Igor]], [[Dr. Frankenstein]]'s assistant. Vigor has spawned ports to other text editors as well, including [[Vim (text editor)|Vim]].

On April 1, 2015, social media website [[Tumblr]] created a parody of Clippit, Coppy, as an April Fools joke. Coppy is an anthropomorphized photocopier that behaved in similar ways to Clippit, asking the user if they want help. Coppy would engage the reader in a series of pointless questions, with a dialogue box written in [[Comic Sans MS]], which was deliberately designed to be extremely annoying.<ref>{{cite web |last=Mallikarjuna |first=Krutika |date=April 3, 2015 |title=Coppy Was The Best Damn Thing That Ever Happened To Tumblr |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/kmallikarjuna/coppy-was-the-best-damn-thing-that-ever-happened-to-tumblr |access-date=May 2, 2019 |website=[[BuzzFeed]]}}</ref> In 2022, Tumblr created a [[Youtooz]] collectible of Coppy.

Multiple episodes of ''[[Star Trek: Lower Decks]]'' feature a holographic character named "Badgey" who takes the anthropomorphic form of the communication badges featured in the series. The character is initially imbued with characteristics reminiscent of Clippit, but malfunctions and becomes a recurring antagonist.

A [[hypercasual game]] for mobile devices and on [[Windows]] and [[macOS]] via [[Steam (service)|Steam]] called ''Progressbar95'' features a spoof of Clippit as a common NPC, often part of annoying popups or carrying sticks of dynamite or guns to hurt the player's progress.

=== Other pop culture allusions ===
In a June 2008 episode of the [[NPR]] show ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!]]'' marking the occasion of [[Bill Gates]] transitioning to semi-retirement from Microsoft, humorist [[Adam Felber]] and comedian [[Paul Provenza]] ad-lib a scenario in which Clippit is being driven to a location outside of [[Redmond, Washington]], at night and says such things as "It looks like you're digging a grave. Is this a business grave or a personal grave?" The segment has become one of the most requested by listeners for replay during "best of" reviews of the show.<ref>{{cite web |date=2013-12-28 |title=Clippy and Paula |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/12/28/257559232/clippy-and-paula |access-date=2022-08-04 |website=NPR.org |archive-date=2022-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605100852/https://www.npr.org/2013/12/28/257559232/clippy-and-paula |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2015, a music video directed by Chris Bristow was released for [[Delta Heavy]]'s song ''Ghost'', which features a saddened Clippit discovering Shania, a modern voice-activated digital assistant, and later on Clippit becomes angry upon discovering the modern landscape of the world.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Velez |first1=Cat |title=Delta Heavy 'Ghost' by Chris Bristow |url=https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/08/14/delta-heavy-ghost-chris-bristow/36111 |access-date=14 February 2023 |website=Promonews}}</ref>

In the thirteenth season of the [[Dungeons & Dragons|Dungeons and Dragons]] actual play show [[Dimension 20]] (set in the world of [[Starstruck (comics)|Starstruck]]), Clippit was used as the basis of a planetary superintelligence called Gnosis in the far future.

In [[Catherynne M. Valente]]'s 2018 novel ''[[Space Opera (Valente novel)|Space Opera]]'', two humans have been whisked to a distant planet to take part in a music contest that could lead to humanity being destroyed. Soon after arrival, they are disoriented and in great danger, and find themselves confronted by a giant animated Clippit, created by a sentient AI collective based on what it had found was widespread on human computers.

Clippit appears as a mentor non-player character in the artificial-intelligence-based air traffic control system for [[Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020 video game)|Microsoft Flight Simulator]] and [[X-Plane (simulator)|X-Plane]], SayIntentions.AI.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxY7rVPxWLg |title=Diverted Say intentions IFR flight with Mentor Clippy this guy is useless |date=2024-06-17 |last=Wings and Wrecks |access-date=2024-06-17 |via=YouTube |archive-date=2024-06-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240617173245/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxY7rVPxWLg |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the 2021 video game, ''[[Halo Infinite]]'', Clippit appears as an equippable weapon charm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/4/23056969/clippy-halo-infinite-emblem-charm-unlockable|title=Clippy is in Halo Infinite / 'I see you've only been able to hold the oddball for two seconds...'|first1=Mitchell|last1=Clark|date=2022-05-04|website=The Verge|access-date=2024-12-05|archive-date=2024-12-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241207171725/https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/4/23056969/clippy-halo-infinite-emblem-charm-unlockable|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2011, in the web series, [[Animator vs. Animation]] 3, Clippit appears to fight the Chosen One.

In 2024, the Finnish DJ, [[Teemu Keisteri|Windows95Man]] created a song about Clippit, the song being named Paperclip.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Spotify |url=https://open.spotify.com/track/3mlAPL4XH2iLtCCs7OMe01?si=08042de22c0f4b43 |access-date=2025-05-20 |website=open.spotify.com}}</ref>