Theme From A Summer Place - Use in Popular Culture

Use in Popular Culture

"Theme from A Summer Place" has become a ubiquitous representation of "peaceful music" and has been employed frequently in popular culture.

• "Claudelle Inglish" (1961) employed "Theme from A Summer Place" as well as actors Arthur Kennedy and Constance Ford.
• The Percy Faith version is used in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), although it does not appear on the soundtrack album.
• In the 1993 episode "Homer's Barbershop Quartet of The Simpsons, elderly Springfield citizen Jasper made an ironic cover by singing the title.
• The 1995 Freakazoid! episode "Relax-O-Vision" features the titular gag in which potentially frightening action sequences are replaced by peaceful stock footage accompanied by "Theme from A Summer Place."
• In the 2002 episode "Him" of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Season 7, Episode 6).
• The 2007 film Surf's Up uses "Theme from A Summer Place" in a brief cutaway scene depicting the domestic situation of two penguin boys and their mother.
• In the 2012 episode "Near Death" of CSI: NY
• The song's peaceful and relaxed theme has taken on a darker significance in more recent years as it has been used to convey an eerie sense of false security in the horror miniseries Rose Red (2002), and the movies Final Destination 3 (2006) and Dark Shadows (2012).