Cabana boy
A cabana boy is a male attendant offering services to the guests of a hotel or a large private estate, operating from a nearby cabaña (American Spanish for cabin; compare cabin boy), notably on a beach. A pool boy performs the same duties at a swimming pool.
Notable cabana boys in fiction
Literature
- in the 1974 novel Montauk by the Swiss writer Max Frisch
Motion pictures
- Jeffrey Willis in The Flamingo Kid
- Enrique Salvatore in Legally Blonde
- Alan Riply in Forever Mine
- Sam Milner in Janna's Life
Video games
- in The Curse of Monkey Island and The Siege of Plunder
- a single mission in Hitman: Blood Money, set in Del Mar, California
Television
- Brad Carlton in The Young and the Restless
- Cabana Boy (also known as Pool Boy) in MADtv's recurring skit "Cabana Chat" played by Bryan Callen
- John Cherland and Kirk Porter in Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants
- Sean (Dustin Clare) in Satisfaction
- Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) in Friends
- Ramon (Carlos Jacott) in Seinfeld
- Zak (Paul Michael Robinson) in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
- Brandon Walsh Jason Priestley in Beverly Hills, 90210
- Bart Simpson in The Simpsons was once described by his sister Lisa Simpson as "the devil's cabana boy."
Podcasts
- B.R.A.N. 5000 asks to be referred to as "Cabana Boy" by the researchers in E23 - Debugging the B.R.A.N. 5000 of Episode 1[1]