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During Saturday Night Live's 25th Anniversary Special in 1999, the band played the first fifteen seconds of the song before their performance was "sabotaged" by Elvis Costello.
Sabotage was used as theme song of the TV show No Te Equivoques (2001), a mexican version of Jackass hosted by Tony Dalton and Kristoff.
The song was used prominently in the J.J. Abrams film Star Trek (2009), and is included in the tracklist for the videogame Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
The song was covered by hardcore punk band Cancer Bats for their 2010 album Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones.
Linkin Park mashed up the bridge of this song with their song 'Bleed It Out' during some their live concerts in 2012. .
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