Winger was the subject of frequent ridicule in MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head during the mid-1990s.
Mike Judge continued to mock Winger in his next animated series King of the Hill, as the character of John Redcorn was a former roadie for the band until embarking on a Native American vision quest, where he discovered that "wrangling groupies for Winger was not my proper life path".