The September 1978 issue of Mad magazine parodied Saturday Night Fever in a cover piece titled Saturday Night Feeble.

In 1978 the cast of the children's TV show Sesame Street recorded an album called Sesame Street Fever that went gold. The album followed the popular characters of Sesame Street as disco takes over the neighborhood. Bee Gee Robin Gibb also contributed music for it.

In 2008 a Chilean film called Tony Manero was released that told a darkly satirical story of a disturbed loner in 1978 Chile who is obsessed with Saturday Night Fever.

The 1980 Zucker brothers comedy smash Airplane! parodied Saturday Night Fever with a sequence in which protagonist Robert Hays rips off his military uniform to reveal a John Travolta-inspired white suit. Before dancing with co-star Julie Hagerty, Hays strikes Travolta's iconic pose from the Saturday Night Fever movie poster.

With the success of Saturday Night Fever, dance studios across America were flooded with new customers who wanted to learn how to disco dance.

In October 2008 a study by the University of Illinois College of Medicine discovered that the Bee Gees' song "Stayin' Alive" used in the film Saturday Night Fever was a perfect song to use for CPR. It turns out that "Stayin' Alive" has 103 beats per minute, and the study found that the ten doctors and five medical students in the study who listened to the song while practicing CPR, according to MSNBC, not only performed it perfectly but remembered the technique up to five weeks later.

In 1979 Paramount decided to release a toned down PG-rated version of Saturday Night Fever to theaters (the original was rated R) in order to allow younger audiences to enjoy the film.

The April 3, 1978 issue of Time magazine featured John Travolta on its cover with the heading "Travolta Fever". The accompanying story tracked Travolta's meteoric rise to fame following Saturday Night Fever.

In 1978 John Travolta released a double album called Travolta Fever. On it he sang songs including "Let Her In," "A Girl Like You" and "Big Trouble."

When John Travolta hosted Saturday Night Live on October 15, 1994 one of the sketches poked fun at the opening sequence of Saturday Night Fever when the song "Stayin' Alive" automatically played any time that Travolta started walking.

In 1998 producer Robert Stigwood was involved in helping to turn Saturday Night Fever into a stage musical. The first production, with music from the original film plus some new tunes written by the Bee Gees, opened in London in 1998 and ran for two years. The Broadway production opened a year later, but closed after 501 performances.

On January 31, 1998 the Bee Gees joined musicians that had contributed to the original Saturday Night Fever soundtrack including Yvonne Elliman, KC and the Sunshine Band, Tavares, and Kool and the Gang for a special Saturday Night Fever reunion concert at Madison Square Garden in New York.

When Saturday Night Fever came out, the popular New York department store Abraham and Straus opened a "Night Fever" Menswear boutique to capitalize on the film's success.

Saturday Night Fever was followed by an unsuccessful sequel in 1983 called Staying Alive in which Tony becomes a professional dancer on Broadway. It was directed by Sylvester Stallone.

by Andrea Passafiume