Jimmy Olsen - Cultural References

Cultural References

• The Spin Doctors had a minor hit with their song "Jimmy Olsen's Blues" on their album Pocket Full of Kryptonite, in which they portrayed Jimmy Olsen as infatuated with Lois Lane and jealous of Superman, a problem which he hoped to solve with the aforementioned "pocket full of Kryptonite." In the period after the song became popular, artist Jon Bogdanove, who at the time was the regular penciler on the Superman: The Man of Steel comic, would occasionally depict Jimmy wearing a Spin Doctors T-shirt.
• Often, Superman pastiches have featured notable Jimmy analogues. For example, in Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, Mighty Mouse's greatest fan was a young mouse named Scrappy with a shock of red hair.
• Alan Moore's comic series Supreme featured Billy Friday, a cynical British comic book writer, very unlike Jimmy in personality, but who underwent weird transformations similar to those of the Silver Age Jimmy.
• On the show Boy Meets World, Topanga refers to a photographer as a "Jimmy Olsen freak."
• In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "The Zeppo", characters twice refer to non-superpowered sidekick Xander Harris as Jimmy Olsen.
• Professional wrestler Corey Branson took the moniker Jimmy Olsen in a few New York promotions such as NWA Upstate.
• The Teamo Supremo episode "You'd Better Start Calling Me Chief!" revolved around an accident-prone newspaper reporter and photographer named Ollie Jimson who followed the titular trio around, screwing up their attempts to catch the bad guys.
• In The Sopranos episode "Cold Stones", Silvio Dante reacts to a piece of already heard news by responding that Carlo Gervasi is a "regular Jimmy Olsen."
• In the horror film House of 1000 Corpses, Grandpa Hugo asks one of the main characters if he is "Jimmy Olsen, cub reporter for 'The Daily Arsehole'".
• In the drug comedy film Tyrone, the character Tyrone played by Coolio calls one of the main characters a "Jimmy Olsen lookin' mother f'er".
• In "The Boyfriend", an episode of Seinfeld, Keith Hernandez tells Jerry that he loved his Jimmy Olsen bit.
• Comic Book Guy mentioned Jimmy Olsen in the Simpsons episode "Husbands and Knives".
• On an appearance on HBO's Costas Now, author and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Buzz Bissinger said to sports blog "Deadspin" founder Will Leitch, "You're like Jimmy Olsen on percocet".
• In season 3 episode 11 of Desperate Housewives, Carlos refers to Gabrielle's boyfriend as Jimmy Olsen because of the page boy cap he wears.
• Dar Williams in her song "Are You Out There" mentions to Jimmy Olsen.
• In Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Jimmy Jones, a major fan of Ben Tennyson and his aliens, is a homage to both Jimmy Olsen and Rick Jones from The Incredible Hulk.
• In Mad, Jimmy is seen hosting a commercial in which Superman even appears.
• In the series How I Met Your Mother on the episode Third Wheel, Barney says that watching Ted go for the belt would be like Jimmy Olsen capturing Lex Luthor while Superman watches impotently from the bedroom.