Mandy (song) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• The Simpsons parodied this in the episode "The Last Temptation of Homer" in which Homer feels torn between his attractive new co-worker (Mindy) and his own wife. At first, Homer is washing up in his bathroom and singing "Mandy" but replacing the name with Mindy, until the last line where he says "Andy" instead. Then late, Homer and Mindy were in a hotel room together, and a turkey slips behind the bed. Later, when Homer brings Marge to the room, he starts singing to her, "Oh, Margie, you came and you found me a turkey." The song is also parodied in the episode "Day of the Jackanapes", in which Krusty sings a new version of the song about Sideshow Bob.
• The song was parodied in a Will & Grace episode where Grace Adler sang it as "Mommy" while in front of a theatre in which Manilow would perform the following day. She was regretting that her mother was avoiding meeting her.
• The song was sung by David Boreanaz at a karaoke bar in an episode of Angel.
• The song was featured in the movie Can't Hardly Wait when one of the characters is obsessed with a classmate named Amanda, and he hears "Mandy" on the radio. In a funny scene in the film, he is told by a friend that the song is actually about a dog.
• The song was featured in Muzak format in the movie Night at the Museum, when Larry (Ben Stiller) is stranded inside an elevator after being chased.
• The song was featured in an episode of Family Guy where Peter, Joe, Cleveland and Quagmire attend a Barry Manilow concert. The name "Mandy" is changed to "Quagmire" when Manilow picks him from the audience to come up on stage.
• In an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Carlton sang this song to a baby who was crying, that he thought was his since the mother is his ex-girlfriend Cindy.
• The song was featured in the Korean movie You're My Pet and was interpreted by Jang Geun-suk. The first time in the dance studio, and the second (covered in Korean) during the dance show.