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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“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)