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== [[Advertising]] ==
* Maynard G Krebs from ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]''. Arguable the archetype for the sterotypical beatnik character in American popular culture.▼
* Jake, the mascot of the Life is Good line of clothing▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* A group of Beatniks showed up frequently in the comic series ''[[Madman (Comic Book)|Madman]]'' as antagonists at first and later, allies.▼
* Johnny Beyond, a character from [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[Nineteen Sixty Three]]'' comics, is a beatnik version of [[Doctor Strange]].▼
== [[Film]] ==
* Beret girl from [[A Goofy Movie|''An Extremely Goofy Movie'']]
* Dean from ''[[The Iron Giant]]''
* [[Ghoulardi]], host of early [[The Sixties|'60s]] Cleveland late-night horror/B-movie show ''Shock Theater''.▼
▲* Jake, the mascot of the Life is Good line of clothing
* Judy from ''[[Doug]]''▼
* Ned Flanders' parents from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.▼
* Denver from ''[[Angel]]''▼
* The [[Steve Buscemi|bartender]] in ''[[The Hudsucker Proxy]]'', who says "martinis are for squares, man."
* Batfink from [[Transylvania Television]]▼
* [[Word of God]] says Jazz from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' was intended to sound like this.▼
* Mike Myers' character Charlie in ''[[So I Married an Axe Murderer]]'' doing beatnik poetry in a cafe.
* Betty-Anne from ''[[Ka Blam!|The Off-Beats]]'', a younger example, at about, um...[[Vague Age|eight to ten]]▼
** Grubby Groo, also from The Off-Beats. Oh, so much.▼
* The movie ''[[The Beatniks]]'' (riffed on by an episode of [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]) has absolutely nothing to do with beatniks.
** ''[[Village of the Giants]]'' did, though.
* A [[Wacky Wayside Tribe|short diversion]] in the original ''[[Hairspray]]'' has the kids ducking into a pair of beatniks' apartment / studio briefly with much trepidation. At the suggestion "lets get naked and smoke," they decide to leave.▼
* And now, [[Animaniacs|Dot's Poetry Corner]].▼
* Several Beatniks appear in ''[[A World of Laughter, A World of Tears]]'', in which they have to cope with persecution from the even more culturally repressive and paranoid Fifties United States of that timeline.▼
▲* A [[Wacky Wayside Tribe|short diversion]] in the original [[Hairspray]] has the kids ducking into a pair of beatniks' apartment / studio briefly with much trepidation. At the suggestion "lets get naked and smoke," they decide to leave.
* Sam's grandmother from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' was one in her youth, therefore being more accommodating to Sam's Eco-Goth ways than her parents who are a pair of '50s-esque [[Stepford Smiler]]s.▼
* Lars, the spot-obsessed, [[What the Hell Is That Accent?|German-esque]] artist that Cruella hooks up with in ''[[101 Dalmatians|101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventure]]'', was initially a stereotypical, eccentric beatnik, until near the end of the film when we find out he's capable of being a hyperactive animal-lover.
* ''A Bucket of Blood'' is a horror comedy by Roger Corman that wasn't as successful as ''Little Shop of Horrors,'' but it's a great beatnik movie, made in 1959, with the beatnik setting unselfconscious and authentic, since it's the present day.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''Suzuki Beane,'' a book really intended for an adult readership, but formatted like a children's book, is by Sandra Scoppettone, with illustrations by Louise Fitzhugh, and is the first-person story of the Greenwich Village life of the small daughter of two beatniks. It's a subtle parody of ''Eloise,'' but works as a stand-alone piece, and before the live-action ''Eloise'' film a few years ago, was probably better known.
▲* A group of Beatniks showed up frequently in the comic series ''[[Madman (Comic Book)|Madman]]'' as antagonists at first and later, allies.
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲* Maynard G Krebs from ''[[The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis]]''. Arguable the archetype for the sterotypical beatnik character in American popular culture.
▲* [[Ghoulardi]], host of early [[The Sixties|'60s]] Cleveland late-night horror/B-movie show ''Shock Theater''.
▲* Denver from ''[[Angel]]''
* The Puppet Band from ''[[Pee-wee's Playhouse]]'' are a [[Funny Animal]] [[Affectionate Parody]] of beatniks.
* [[Steve Martin]] played a beatnik poet on a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch.
▲* Johnny Beyond, a character from [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[Nineteen Sixty Three]]'' comics, is a beatnik version of [[Doctor Strange]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Lester of the ''Coolman!'' shorts. Only in his imagination. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfZxasehXI\]▼
* In ''[[Grim Fandango]]'', there's a beatnik bar called the Blue Casket containing some very hip skeletons. Manny can get up on stage and read seemingly random poetry to them. He also refers to them as 'Deadbeats'.
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* Batfink from [[Transylvania Television]]
▲* Several Beatniks appear in ''[[A World of Laughter, A World of Tears]]'', in which they have to cope with persecution from the even more culturally repressive and paranoid Fifties United States of that timeline.
▲* Lester of the ''Coolman!'' shorts. Only in his imagination. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfZxasehXI\]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
▲* Judy from ''[[Doug]]''
▲* Ned Flanders' parents from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
▲* [[Word of God]] says Jazz from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' was intended to sound like this.
▲* Betty-Anne from ''[[
▲** Grubby Groo, also from The Off-Beats. Oh, so much.
▲* And now, [[Animaniacs|Dot's Poetry Corner]].
▲* Sam's grandmother from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' was one in her youth, therefore being more accommodating to Sam's Eco-Goth ways than her parents who are a pair of '50s-esque [[Stepford Smiler]]s.
* The lesser-known [[Looney Tunes]] character Cool Cat.
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