Cooney in Popular Culture
- In an episode of The Simpsons, "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)", Cooney is the official greeter of Mr. Burns' Casino who gets dropped by a single punch by Otto Mann.
- Cooney performed in the 1998 film Mob Queen as Mickey the Baker.
- He is mentioned in the film The Great White Hype.
- He's also mentioned in underground rap duo Zion I's song "Inner Light."
- He is featured in the song "Cooney Vs. Munly" on Jay Munly's 2002 alt-country album Jimmy Carter Syndrome.
- Jim Carrey, playing fictional character "Gerry Cooney Jr.", appears on a sketch in season 2, episode 11 of In Living Color
- In the Season 5, 100th episode of 30 Rock, Dennis Duffy says he went to Gerry Cooney Elementary School.
- In the episode "Reverend Al" from season 10 of the FOX TV Show Married with Children, the character Al Bundy proclaimed that women could "no longer whip us (men) like a nation of Gerry Cooneys!"
- Guest starred as Angel in episode 17 of season 1 of ABC's Spenser: For Hire, "In a Safe Place" (Original airdate: February 14, 1986). Angel is an enforcer who outboxes Spenser but quits rather than hurt him.
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