The Fat Boys - Other Media

Other Media

  • 1988-1989-Police Academy: The Animated Series (in the animated series of Police Academy, the Fat Boys are similar and appear as House's Friends: Big Boss, Cool and Mark).
  • 1987-New Coke Buff Love and The Human Beatbox improvised a rap live on the air with Guffy Roberts on the New Coke '87 "Thanksgiving Raptacular" radio special.
  • 2000-2002-Jackass (TV series) Tracks made by The Fat Boys were used in several MTV Jackass episodes, notably the self titled song "The Fat Boys" in the Jackass skit called "Fat Fuck", which featured Brandon Dicamillo & Bam Margera dressed up as overweight people.
  • 1989-The Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode "Bad Rap" features two chubby rappers by the name of "The Flab Boys", a reference to the Fat Boys.
  • The Fat Boys cover of the Surfaris song Wipe Out was used by National Wrestling Alliance / World Championship Wrestling tag-team "Dynamic Dudes" (John Laurinaitis & Shane Douglas) as their entrance theme.
  • 1997-The Johnny Bravo episode "Hip-Hop Flop!" Johnny hears of a hip-hop group called The Round Pound, and seeks some advice from them to gain the love to a female hip-hop fan. The hip-hop group, The Round Pound, is a reference to the Fat Boys.
  • In the television series Everybody Hates Chris, the episode "Everybody Hates Fake IDs" from the fourth season revolves around Chris and Greg's attempts to enter a Fat Boys concert in 1987.

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