Earth Angel - Cultural References

Cultural References

• In Back to the Future, Marvin Berry and The Starlighters (with Marty McFly sitting in on guitar) played the song during the "Enchantment Under the Sea" high-school dance, along with Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode. Due to the time-travelling plot of the films, this scene was "replayed" in Back to the Future Part II.
• A scene from the Family Guy season finale, "Meet the Quagmires", which directly parodied the dance from Back to the Future, also featured the song and was followed, instead of Johnny B. Goode, by Never Gonna Give You Up. In the episode, "Earth Angel" is sung by Luke Adams.
• In 1986's Karate Kid II, it was playing at the dance Kumiko took Daniel to in Okinawa.
• In the musical, "Jersey Boys," it was sung by the actor playing Tommy DeVito.
• In Superman III, the song was played in the high-school reunion dance with Clark Kent and Lana Lang.
• In the 1998 mini-series The Temptations, the actors portraying The Distants (a predecessor of The Temptations) perform "Earth Angel" a capella.
• In the Smallville episode "Relic," set in the 60's, the song can be heard in a scene between Jor-El and Louise.
• In the Stephen King novel It, in the lengthy flashback to the main characters' lives during the 1950s, Ben Hanscom hears the song in his head every time he sees his crush, Beverly.
• In one of the final scenes of the play "Paradise Park" by Charles Mee, much of the cast sings Earth Angel in its entirety.
• In the Erfworld summer update 015, the Transylvitians sing, among others, a song called "Erf Angel."
• Featured in the 1991 movie of the same name 'Earth Angel'
• In the 2012's Call of Duty: Black Ops II, it is used as the intro song for the Zombies game mode.