In Popular Culture
- It was performed in American Pie at the prom.
- In the short lived Jenny McCarthy Show on MTV an entire skit revolved around people buried up to their necks like a garden of human lettuce heads being forced to sing this song on command by their deranged captor.
- The song is sung by the lounge act at the hotel in Sofia Coppola's film Lost in Translation.
- The American multiracial female R&B duo Harem took their name and the concept for their self-titled 1995 album from the song.
- In Christopher Guest's 1997 film Waiting For Guffman, the characters Ron (Fred Willard) and Sheila (Catherine O'Hara) audition for the play Red, White and Blaine with a comically inept performance of the song.
- On the November 18, 2000 episode of Saturday Night Live (season 26, episode 6), during the "Rap Street" segment, Tom Green (as MC Kevin Gustafson) performs a rap on top of this song.
- In 2007's Whisper, when character Roxanne (Sarah Wayne Callies) lull the kidnapped boy, David Sandborn (Blake Woodruff) to sleep.
- In Gex 3: Deep Cover Gecko, Gex parodies the song playing in the level Tut TV.
- The song was used as the closing theme to KNR Overtime after Cleveland Cavaliers games and The 10th Inning after Cleveland Indians games (both hosted by Greg Brinda) on WKNR AM 850 in Cleveland.
- In 2005, Howling Pig Smelly Soaps & Other Stuff of Seattle, WA began selling soap and other products with a scent called "Midnight at the Oasis," inspired by the song.
- In the Gilmore Girls Episode "Eight O'Clock at the Oasis", a cuckoo-type clock (in Dwight's house) is featured that plays "Midnight at the Oasis" on the hour.
- In the The Wire Episode "Undertow", the song plays as Beatrice "Beadie" Russell meets with an old boyfriend in a diner. Since "The Wire" series primarily used source cues as a soundtrack/music score, the usage of this song is equivalent to an inclusion in the soundtrack.
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