Super Freak - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • In the 1986 movie Heartbreak Ridge, Mario Van Peebles as Corporal 'Stitch' Jones, sings most of the song before he is thrown out of a bar.
  • An instrumental version of the song was featured in the 1992 movie Batman Returns.
  • In a 1998 episode of Just Shoot Me, disappointed to find out she hadn't been the inspiration to the fictional song "Nina in The Cantina", Nina Van Horn found solace in the belief that she was at least the inspiration to Rick James' Super Freak.
  • In the 2006 comedy film Little Miss Sunshine, Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin) performs a burlesque routine to the song at a children's beauty pageant.
  • On the episode of One on One, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star Alfonso Ribeiro sings the song on the season 1 episode, "Me and My Shadow" which originally aired in 2002 where Flex (Flex Alexander) and Duane (Kelly Perine) decide to have a high school band.
  • In Season 4 of the A-Team, Rick James guest stars and performs this song in the episode 'The Heart of Rock n Roll'
  • In an episode of George Lopez, George sings this song to the baby he thinks is in Angie's womb.

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