In Popular Culture
The song's title has been used as the name for albums, such as one by Blue Öyster Cult and one by the Rodgers and Hammerstein organization, as well as Garfunkel's. It was used as the name for television episodes in such TV series as The Simpsons, Last of the Summer Wine, Man About the House, and Bless This House. The song has been sung in films and on TV shows, for example by Harrison Ford in the film American Graffiti (1978 reissue), by an itinerant chanteuse in Crossing Delancey (1988), by Jon Bon Jovi on Ally McBeal in the episode "Homecoming" (2002) and by Bert in episode 102 on the Muppet Show (1977) to Connie Stevens. Richard Thompson named his 1985 album, Across a Crowded Room, after a lyric in the song.
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