Impact On Popular Culture
In 2006, inline with the release of the feature film, a Det. James "Sonny" Crockett action figure was released. It included a figure of Crockett and a plastic alligator. In 2006, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is released, and includes a character based on Crockett, who interacts with Lance Vance, voiced by Philip Michael Thomas, and Phil Collins himself, who performs a full length in-game version of "In the Air Tonight".
The vice-principal in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide wears exactly the same clothes that Crockett wears throughout the series.
In Back to the Future: The Game, Sonny Crockett is one of the pseudonyms that the player can choose for Marty McFly.
Sonny's backstory of college football prowess and being a Vietnam War veteran were transferred onto the character Bobby Bridges on Don Johnson's other cop show Nash Bridges.
In the TV comedy series 30 Rock, Kenneth Parcell has a pet parakeet called Sonny Crockett, but the fact he'd owned it for 60 years suggests it wasn't named for the character.
In the game left for dead 2, the character Nick wears the same exact clothes as Sonny Crockett and even talks like him.
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