Flash in Other Media - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the Simpsons episode "New Kids On The Blecch", Comic Book Guy dresses up like the Flash and even stated, "No one can outrun The Flash" until he gets stuck into an open manhole. In the earlier episode "Marge Vs. The Monorail", Lyle Lanley, when addressing a classroom of children is asked whether his monorail can outrun the Flash. After replying in the affirmative, he is asked if Superman can outrun the Flash, to which he replies "Sure, whatever..."
• In 2002, the lead character in the movie Catch Me If You Can a con man played by Leonardo DiCaprio uses the alias "Barry Allen" to elude G-man Tom Hanks in reference to his love for the comic book.
• In the 2003 movie Daddy Day Care, Jimmy Bennett plays Tony, a boy who thinks he is the Flash and refuses to take off his costume, plus a sugar rush actually affords him super speed for a while. He is eventually convinced to stop being the Flash after a conversation with Marvin (Steve Zahn), where Tony sees that he knows nothing else about the Flash.
• The band "Jim's Big Ego" has a song entitled "The Ballad of Barry Allen", about the Flash. Jim Infantino, the lead singer of the band, is the nephew of Flash co-creator Carmine Infantino.
• In the first season of the TV series Lost, the character Walt Lloyd is seen reading the Spanish version of a Flash comic Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends #1 on several occasions. In the third season episode "Catch–22", Charlie and Hurley are seen debating the question of whether the Flash could defeat Superman in a footrace.
• During WrestleMania XX, Rey Mysterio wore a 'Flash-like' costume.
• In the novel Assault on the Senses, three characters share their names with three Flash alter egos (Jay, Barry and Wally) and each have personalities representative of the character they are respectively inspired by.
• In the Jimmy Neutron episode "N-Men", Jimmy's friend Sheen Estevez gains Flash-like powers and goes by the name Vibrating Lad.
• In the South Park episode "Imaginationland", the Flash can be seen as one of the characters in Imaginationland.
• Flash appeared in the Robot Chicken episode "Losin' the Wobble" voiced by Nathan Fillion. The Flash, Superman, and Wonder Woman are unable to stop Reverse-Flash which leads to them talking about their reverse opponents. When Wonder Woman mentions her reverse opponent "Negative Wonder Woman", a black version of Diana who's costume is the reverse of Diana's (it doesn't cover her breast or pubic area, and only covers the part of her body which are uncovered for Diana's costume) and rides in a visible jet; who happens to be robbing a nearby bank. Negative Wonder Woman flees Wonder Woman sarcastically remakes "Don't touch her or anything", Flash responds by to this telling Superman, "I'd touch her till she couldn't walk, Booyah!" (indicating he would have sex with her). It was not revealed if this version of the Flash was revealed to be Barry Allen or Wally West. Both The Flash and Kid Flash appear in the episode, "They Took My Thumbs". They appear in the "Take your sidekicks to work" skit, where the sidekicks visit the watchtower. During Wonder Woman's speech, Kid Flash uses his super speed to remove Diana's costume rendering her nude in front of the sidekicks and League members. As Wonder Woman takes her clothes back, The Flash admonishes Kid Flash for his actions, but after Diana leaves it is revealed that The Flash secretly is proud of Kid Flash's prank and they celebrate with a "Super speed high five". Kid Flash and the sidekicks are later teleported over a live volcano and killed by Martian Manhunter's sidekick Martian Boyhunter (though Martian Manhunter takes the fall, as everyone believes that Boyhunter exists only in his mentor's imagination). The Flash joins the other League members in giving a beating to Martian Manhunter (Martian Boyhunter turns visible and proceed to call everyone "douches").
• In The Big Bang Theory episode "The Middle Earth Paradigm" the four main characters dressed as the Flash when they were invited to go to a Halloween party but changed as they did not want to go in the same costume. (Although Raj suggests that they "Walk right behind each other all night and look like one person going really fast.") The character of Sheldon is also frequently seen to be wearing a Flash t-shirt. Similarly in the episode "The Work Song Nanocluster" Sheldon is shown dressed as the Flash and imitating his powers, after drinking coffee. In the episode "The Justice League Recombination", Sheldon again wears a Flash costume for Halloween, though this time the others appear as different DC characters (Leonard as Green Lantern, Howard as Batman, Raj as Aquaman, Penny as Wonder Woman and Zack as Superman).
• A guy dressed as the Flash was one of the superheroes on Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
• At Six Flags theme parks, which frequently use DC superheroes around their park, visitors can spend additional money to buy "The Flash Pass" which allows them speed through lines to certain attractions. Promotions for the pass frequently feature the Flash himself.
• In the show Angel the last season Gunn mentions both Barry Allen and Wally West as doing the Flash.
• In the show No Ordinary Family when Stephanie Powell finds out she can time travel via super speed, her friend and assistant Katie mentions the Flash.