Editing Cabin Boy (section)

==Legacy==
Hip hop producer [[Dan the Automator|Dan "the Automator" Nakamura]] named his publishing company, Sharkman Music, after the film.<ref name="Crain">{{cite news |first=Zac |last=Crain |title=Handsome Dan, Automator Man |url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1999-11-25/music/handsome-dan-automator-man/ |newspaper=[[Miami New Times]]|date=November 25, 1999 |access-date=27 January 2009 }}</ref> References to the film have appeared in multiple works by Nakamura.<ref name="Crain"/> For example, the Bulk Recordings edition of [[Kool Keith]]'s debut solo album ''[[Dr. Octagonecologyst]]'', contains a dialogue excerpt from the film preceding the song "halfsharkalligatorhalfman"; the hook of the song, "Half Man, Half Shark", is sampled from the same dialogue.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jenkins |first1=Sacha |author-link1=Ego trip (magazine) |last2=Wilson |first2=Elliott |last3=Mao |first3=Chairman Jefferson |author-link3=Ego trip (magazine) |last4=Alvarez |first4=Gabriel |last5=Rollins |first5=Brent |title=Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists |year=1999 |publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers]] |isbn=0-312-24298-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/egotripsbookofra00jenk/page/311 311] |chapter=You Might Have Missed |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/egotripsbookofra00jenk/page/311 }}</ref>

Post-hardcore band [[A Static Lullaby]] reference the film in their song "Half Man, Half Shark; Equals One Complete Gentleman", the title of which is a paraphrase of an Elliott line spoken in the film.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} The song can be found on their ''[[Faso Latido]]'' album.

[[David Letterman]] has a small cameo in this film, at the time his only big screen credit in which he wasn't playing himself. For many years, whenever discussing Hollywood topics on ''[[The Late Show (franchise)|The Late Show]]'', he would cite his cameo in ''Cabin Boy'' as the sum of his relevant experience.