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* Judy from ''[[Doug]]''
* Ned Flanders' parents from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.
* Denver from ''[[Angel (TV)|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 [[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]]) has absolutely nothing to do with beatniks.
** ''[[Village of the Giants]]'' did, though.
* And now, [[Animaniacs (Animation)|Dot's Poetry Corner]].
* Several Beatniks appear in ''[[A World of Laughter, aA 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|Stepford Smilers]].
* Lars, the spot-obsessed, [[What the Hell Is That Accent?|German-esque]] artist that Cruella hooks up with in ''[[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|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.
* ''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.
* The Puppet Band from ''[[Pee Wees-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]].
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