Cabana boy
A cabana boy is a male attendant who serves the guests of a hotel or large private estate, operating from a nearby cabaña (American Spanish for cabin; compare cabin boy), often on a beach. A pool boy or pool attendant performs the same duties at a swimming pool. Duties may include: working with towels, swimsuits, robes, blankets, bathing caps, soap, umbrellas, beach chairs, launder, Pool man and may serve refreshments.[1]
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
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."
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