- Robin: Issue #22 is titled "I Was a Teenage Ninja!", after the film.
Fan Works
- Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. When Captain Proton brags he was "flying helicopter gunships before I could space-walk", a footnote tells the reader to check out I Was a Teenage Airwolf.
- The Pizza Tower fanfic I Was a Middle-Aged Weretoon is named after this movie.
Literature
- The Book of Sequels includes a poster for I Was a Teenage Beowulf, about a boy who turns into an ancient horn-helmeted warrior by night.Saxon violence!
- In the Afro-futurist novel The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, one character's werewolf impression is supposedly based on this movie. (Don't ask why it's still getting play on late-night holovision in the 22nd century.)
- SCTV did an Affectionate Parody of '50s B Movies called I Was a Teenage Communist (based on the novel Werewolf Without A Cause).
- The Spongebob Squarepants episode "I Was a Teenage Gary" gets its name from this movie.
- The The Owl House episode "I Was a Teenage Abomination".