American Gladiators/In Popular Culture

In the 1991 comedy film Livin' Large!, a brief promo for the show can be seen and heard in the studio TV of News 4 prior to Dexter Jackson's (played by Terrence "T.C." Carson) first on-the-air broadcast job.

In the sitcom Family Matters, a September 18, 1992 episode called "Surely You Joust", Steve Urkel (played by Jaleel White) & Carl Winslow (played by Reginald Vel Johnson) competed in a episode of American Gladiators.

In a December 1992 issue of MAD magazine, American Gladiators was spoofed as American Radiators.

In the 1993 parody film ''Hot Shots! Part Deux both Ramada Thompson and Michelle Rodham Huddleston (played by Valeria Golino and Brenda Bakke respectively) competed in challenges from American Gladiators'' some of them were for example: The Eliminator and Joust.