Allusions
- The Jerky Boys were sometimes referenced on Arrested Development as one of the only albums the character George Michael owns. On a couple of occasions he is seen placing prank calls in an attempt to imitate them.
- The duo frequently incorporated references to The Howard Stern Show in several calls ("Food & Drug Complaint" from 1997's The Jerky Boys 4 album; "You Wanna Scrap?" from 1999's Stop Staring at Me! album; "Moonlight Matinee" from 2001's The Jerky Tapes album).
- Brennan's Sol Rosenberg voice is the voice of pharmacist Mort Goldman on Family Guy
- In 2008, comedian Peter Kay included a version of the Free Nelson Mandela song by The Jerky Boys in his parody show Peter Kay's Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and Possibly a New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly on Ice for Channel 4 in the UK. It was part of a medley and mixed the last two syllables of Mandela into the Rihanna hit Umbrella.
- The Jerky Boys are referenced in the How I Met Your Mother episode "Duel Citizenship" and again in "False Positive," when Lily mistakenly plays a track to her unborn child instead of classical music.
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