Styx (band) - in Other Media

In Other Media

• In Supernatural season 2 episode 12 "Nightshifter" the song Renegade plays as the episode ends. The song Man In The Wilderness is used in season 8 premiere "We need to talk about Kevin".
• In The Simpsons episode "Homerpalooza", Homer walks into a record store and looks for records of his favourite bands. When the record store owner advises him to look at the 'Oldies' section, Homer takes out a Styx record and says "Oldies?, but you got all the top bands in here. Styx? I just heard them on the King Biscuit Flower Hour." The band is also mentionned in season 10 episode 1, Homer Odyssey.
• In the Futurama episode "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings", the Robot Devil sings at one point "I will marry her now and confine her to Hell, How droll! How droll!, Where Styx is a river, and not just a band, Though they'll play the reception if all goes as planned."
• In the South Park episode "Cartman's Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut", Cartman reveals that he hates to leave things unfinished and that he has the urge to finish the song "Come Sail Away" whenever he hears the first few verses. Kyle sings the verses causing Cartman to sing the rest of the song very fast.
• Only 7 months after the episodes premiere, in November 1998, the CD Chef Aid: The South Park Album was released, where a professionally produced cover version of "Come Sail Away" sung by Cartman has been included.
• In the TV show Arrested Development, the actor Tony Hale dances and sings to the song "Mr. Roboto" inside of the family car.
• In the 1999 movie Big Daddy, the main character Sonny (played by Adam Sandler) chats with his date about how they both like Styx, while "Babe" plays on the radio. "Blue Collar Man" is also played during another part of the movie, and "Mr. Roboto" is mentioned as well. On their date to the Italian restaurant and while Sonny is walking Layla home the song "The Best of Times" is played, in the restaurant by the keyboardist/accordionist, while walking her home the original recording is played.
• In the American comedy-drama series Freaks and Geeks, in the episode "Girlfriends and Boyfriends", Nick makes advances towards Lindsay as he plays "Lady" on his stereo and sings to it.
• The song "Come Sail Away" appears in the Off-Broadway production Power Balladz.
• In an episode of That 70's Show, Eric Forman sings the intro to "The Grand Illusion" in his basement. He is excited that Styx will be playing a local show for Thanksgiving. He camped the night so he could get tickets. At the ticket window, Eric is the first and only one in line. Also, in the same episode, Eric's friends claim they hate Styx, despite Kelso and Fez trying to steal a Styx album from a record store.
• In an episode of Family Guy, Dennis DeYoung calls a fan-based Kiss public-access television cable TV show to bad mouth the group, when the show's host recognizes him, and dares him to compare "Detroit Rock City" to "Come Sail Away."
• The Pittsburgh Steelers have been playing the song "Renegade" at Heinz Field whenever the Steelers Steel Curtain defense comes onto the field.
• In the Chuck season 2 episode 22, the Jeffster band, featuring Jeff and Lester, plays Mr Roboto during Chuck's sister wedding ceremony.
• In Shrek 2 DVD bonus "Far Far Away Idol", Pinocchio sing a part of Mr Roboto but voting for him will instead cause Simon Cowel to vote himself winner with Paul Anka's song "My Way".
• The song "Come Sail Away" appears in the 1999 movie Detroit Rock City when Trip stops the general store being robbed.

• The song Renegade is feature in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City on Liberty Rock Radio
• Several songs have been used in music games.

Band Hero; featured Mr. Roboto.

Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock featured Renegade

Karaoke Revolution Presents: American Idol Encore featured Come Sail Away

Rock Band DLC; Renegade as well as two other Styx songs on Rock Band Blue Collar Man and Too Much Time on My Hands and the joint venture with REO Speedwagon Can't Stop Rockin'.