Dudley Do-Right - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Prince and The New Power Generation's 1991 single Gett Off includes the lyric "Dudley do no wrong tonight if Nell just let him kick it" in reference to Dudley's frustrated pursuit of Nell.
  • In an issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly in Seanbaby's section "The Rest of the Crap" in which that month's topic was a Captain N: The Game Master parody, Seanbaby quoted that Simon Belmont in Captain N "talks like Dudley-Do Right".
  • In the episode "Midnight Rx" of The Simpsons Homer goes to a Canadian drug store called "Dudley Do Drugs" with an image of Dudley in effect of the drugs.
  • The athletic bands of Michigan State University, Wichita State University, and the University of Akron perform the theme song while the students act as if they are each riding a horse at various home games, such as basketball, hockey, and football. The theme song is played by the Wichita State Basketball Band for the opening and second half tip-offs at Wichita State basketball games.
  • The theme music for Dudley Do-Right includes a small portion of Franz von SuppĂ©'s Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna.
  • In the TV series Due South, the Canadian Mountie hero Benton Fraser is referred to in one episode as "Dudley Do-Right". In another episode, a gun smuggler claims that Fraser will hunt him to the end of the Earth, resulting in his accomplice proclaiming "That doesn't happen. This is real life, not Rocky and Bullwinkle."
  • In the film Canadian Bacon, a character refers to a mountie with "Nice try, Dudley."
  • In the essay Cowboys v. Mounties, from the book The Partly Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell (2002).
  • In the episode "Mild Mannered" of the TV series Warehouse 13 agent Pete Lattimer states "You know, Dudley Do-Right was first on the scene at all three locations" when referring to a seemingly well-intentioned police officer as a potential suspect in his investigation.
  • Mount St. Charles Academy Mounties, of Woonsocket, RI, uses Dudley DoRight as their mascot, for their hockey team.

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