The following is from Salman Rusdie's 2019 novel Quichotte:
My silly little Sancho, he cries. My son, my sidekick, my squire! Hutch to my Starsky, Spock to my Kirk, Scully to my Mulder, BJ to my Hawkeye, Robin to my Batman! Peele to my Key, Stimpy to my Ren, Niles to my Frazier, Arya to my Hound! Peggy to my Don, Jesse to my Walter, Tubbs to my Crockett, I love you!
For those of you keeping track at home, this is a list of TV sidekicks from the 1960s to the 2010s including: Starsky & Hutch, Star Trek, The X Files, MASH, Batman, Key & Peele, Ren & Stimpy, Frazier, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Breaking Bad and Miami Vice.
