In Popular Culture
The song is briefly heard in an episode of The Simpsons, "Sideshow Bob Roberts"; it is supposedly a favorite song of Lisa Simpson.
The line "Gonna be your man in motion" is repeated by Jason Sklar in an episode of Cheap Seats.
It was featured heavily in the 2007 movie The Brothers Solomon.
The song is briefly heard in an episode of The Facts Of Life.
In 2012, John Parr re-recorded the song with new lyrics, dubbed "Tim Tebow's Fire", to honor Tim Tebow of the Denver Broncos. Parr stated to Denver FOX affiliate KDVR, "I was inspired by Tim Tebow so I wanted to modify the lyrics...in his honor of the way that he lives his life as being a great example." The re-recorded song was featured on an episode of SportsNation. Both the original and Tim Tebow versions are available for download for the video game Rock Band 3 via the Rock Band Network.
Read more about this topic: St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity.”
—John Lennon (1940–1980)
“Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)