In Popular Culture
- The song (and writing alternate lyrics to it) is a plot point in the 1995 Japanese animated film Whisper of the Heart.
- In the episode of American Dad!, American Dream Factory, the song is sung by Steve and a family of Mexican immigrants at the Fourth of July Festival, parodying the concert scene in The Sound of Music.
- In the episode of The Office, "Michael Scott Paper Company", Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) and Andy Bernard (Ed Helms) improvise a duet of the song together on the acoustic guitar and banjo respectively, as they each try to individually impress their co-worker Erin in the office break room, but end up bonding, realizing their friendship. Notably, Dwight sings a portion in German.
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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)
“In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,—not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)