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Pandas are a popular animal in eastern and western culture. Pandas have often appeared in television programs, cartoons, and picture-books, while their images have graced all manner of consumer products.

• Panda Express is the name of an American fast food chain which serves American Chinese cuisine. The chain's logo features a chubby, stylized panda.
• In the webcomic PvP a giant panda attacks a character, Brent, in what has become one of the longest running jokes in the comic.
• In "Homer vs. Dignity," an episode of The Simpsons, Homer dresses as a panda for Mr. Burns' pleasure and is subsequently mounted by a male panda at Springfield Zoo. In addition, Moe briefly runs a panda-smuggling operation from the back room of the bar. In a later episode, on a trip to China, Homer attempts to steal a panda cub, and is attacked by the mother.
• In the popular anime/manga series Ranma ½, Ranma's father Genma Saotome suffers of a curse: he transforms into a giant panda when soaked in cold water, but can be reverted to his human form with hot water. When he is in his panda form, he expresses himself writing on a wooden board, due to his inability to speak.
• In the movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy the news team follow the story of a giant panda's pregnancy.
• In the popular manga Gantz one of the recent additions to the alien-hunting cast is a baby panda named Hoi Hoi.
• In a chapter of the manga Great Teacher Onizuka, main character Onizuka witnesses corrupt police officer Saejima illegally importing giant pandas into Japan. Saejima tries to convince Onizuka that the pandas are really advanced robot toys.
• In an episode of South Park, a mascot named Sexual Harassment Panda inadvertently causes sexual harassment lawsuits to proliferate.
• Lynne Truss's book, "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation", is a reference to a joke on poor punctuation: A panda walks into a cafe and orders a sandwich. After the panda has eaten his meal, he takes out a gun and shoots several holes in the ceiling. As the panda begins to leave, the waiter cries out, "What was that for?" in regard to the shootings. The panda tosses a wildlife guide to the waiter. The waiter reads the guide, and it says, "Panda. Black-and-white mammal native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.".
• In the web comic Radioactive Panda a giant panda can be seen wearing goggles fixing machinery, miniature versions of which are used to power devices.
• In the popular series of Tekken action games on the Sony Playstation consoles there is a female panda character, a pet of the Xiaoyu character.
• The World Wildlife Fund WWF logotype is a stylized panda.
• A panda named Jing Jing is one of the Friendlies, the mascots for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
• One of the artists of Blizzard Entertainment, Samwise Didier, is a huge fan of the panda, leading Blizzard to incorporate pandas in the Warcraft universe as Pandaren. Players can find references to Pandaren in World of Warcraft as well as play a Pandaren Hero in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
• The Giant Panda is the namesake and logo of Panda Energy International.