Due to the success of I Was a Teenage Werewolf, this convention was constantly mocked in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Australian rock band Faker released a song in 2005 entitled "Teenage Werewolf."

I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), a film similar in theme.

The film was released as a double feature with I Was a Teenage Werewolf.

Some copies show the artist credited as the "Teenage Werewolf" rather than as Michael Landon.

The Teenage Werewolf was somehow scarier, though . . . perhaps because he also seemed a little sad.

Richie broke it by saying his best part was when the Teenage Werewolf got the evil hypnotist.

I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957) is perhaps the best known AIP film of the era.

The transformation is pure puberty, akin to the comic situations of "I Was a Teenage Werewolf."

He also discovered young Michael Landon, cast in the lead role for I Was a Teenage Werewolf.