Bat Boy (character) - Cultural References

Cultural References

• In Twelve Monkeys, as Cole (the protagonist) is escaping from an asylum, a security guard can be seen reading the original Bat Boy issue of the Weekly World News.
• In Trapped in Paradise, as the Firpo brothers (Nicolas Cage,John Lovitz and Dana Carvey) are escaping from the police at the beginning of the movie, one of them shows to the others the newspaper with Bat Boy as cover story, while having a stop by a public telephone.
• In an episode from the last season of Roseanne, Roseanne mentions she wants to know how "Chicken Boy" did on his SAT's, thus enrolling her children in his previous elementary school in Boone County.
• Southern Californian radio station KROQ 106.7 frequently has Bat Boy on as a special guest.
• In an episode of Weird Science, Bat Boy is seen on the cover of a tabloid.
• In an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants a parody of Bat Boy, aptly named "Fish Boy", is on the cover of a tabloid.
• In an episode of the cartoon Class of the Titans, Bat Boy appears on the cover of a tabloid newspaper being read by Herry.
• In Season Two, of The Venture Bros. in the episode, "Guess Who's Coming To State Dinner" one of the articles depicting Col. Bud Manstrong, A cover of "World Fact Machine" shows Manstrong's "Bat Baby".
• In Season Twenty-one of The Simpsons in the episode "Judge Me Tender", Bat Boy is seen on the front page of "Weekly World News" alongside the headline: "Bat Boy accurately predicts final four".
• In Season Six of American Dad in the episode "Best Little Horror House in Langley Falls", Bat Boy is seen when Stan tells Francine that he "Already let Bat Boy live in the basement until Spring time."
• In the video game Duke Nukem Forever, newspapers can be seen pinned up on the wall of Duke's strip club, Titty City. Bat Boy can be seen at the top of these papers.
• In an episode of Ugly Americans a rabid Bat Boy bites Mark Lilly, transforming him and giving him a super-shriek. He then decides to fight a rising crime wave as a Batman-esque superhero before fully transforming and having to be bitten by Doug the Koalaman to restore him.
• In the intro of Gravity Falls a photo of Bat Boy can be seen near the end, along with other photos of fictitious beings.