Uses in The Media
- "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied the song with "Headline News", which instead described three popular news events of 1993–1994.
- Chris Morris parodied the song in his 1994 radio series The Chris Morris Music Show.
- Appears in the European release of the PlayStation 2 video game SingStar 90s.
- Featured in the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber.
- Featured in episodes of I Love the 90s, Cold Case, How I Met Your Mother.
- Covered by The Rock-afire Explosion.
- German band Erdmöbel covered the song with German lyrics, titled "Da war einmal ein Junge", meaning "Once there was a boy", released on No. 1 Hits
- Amateur Transplants also parodied the song and depicts the story of a man who has a stroke.
- In a humoristic Norwegian commercial from 2011 for cooked ham from the company Gilde we learn that the band named this song after tasting and liking Gilde's cooked ham.
- On episode 28 of season 3 of Tosh.0, Daniel Tosh made a reference to the song when describing a video. He even had the audience respond by singing the chorus, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm".
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“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)