White Rabbit (song) - Uses in Other Media

Uses in Other Media

"White Rabbit" has been used in numerous films and television shows.

  • A line in the song, Go Ask Alice, was used as the title of a 1971 book about drug addiction by Beatrice Sparks that was adapted two years later into an ABC Movie of the Week.
  • The song is played twice during season 1, episode 7 of The Sopranos, "Down Neck": first while Tony Soprano takes his Prozac and remembers his childhood, and again over the end credits.
  • The Battlefield: Vietnam main menu song consists of the bass line of White Rabbit, with voice tracks of Lyndon B. Johnson and Hanoi Hannah.
  • The song is featured on the soundtrack to the 2008 video game Shaun White Snowboarding.
  • The song is played throughout a trailer for the video game Lost Odyssey.
  • Played during season 5, episode 1 of American Dad! ("In Country...Club").
  • The song is used twice in the movie The Game (1997), once when Nicholas Van Orten (Michael Douglas) comes home to find his home vandalized with graffiti, and after the movie when the end credits are rolling.
  • In the 1998 film, and in the book that the film is based on, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the climax of the song is played when Dr. Gonzo (Benicio del Toro) is sitting in a water-filled bathtub and attempts to bring the tape player that's playing the song in with him, as he wants to "hear" the song better.
  • The song is used in season 10, episode 6 of The Simpsons ("D'oh-in in the Wind") during a montage of Springfielders drinking hallucinogenic vegetable juice produced by Homer.
  • The song is used in the 1986 Academy Award-winning film Platoon during a scene when a group of soldiers bond while taking hallucinogenic drugs.
  • In season 2, episode 7 of Futurama ("A Head in the Polls"), Richard Nixon's head sings the last line of the song while strumming a guitar and promptly declares, "I'm meeting you halfway, you stupid hippies."
  • The song is heard in the background of an episode in Everybody Hates Chris
  • The song is heard in the Brian Jones biopic Stoned (2005) when Jones ingests LSD for the first time.
  • In the series Supernatural, the song is played in an episode called "Hunted".
  • The song is used in the first season of Warehouse 13 in the episode, "Duped" as Alice returns to destroy a mirror.
  • The song is in the 1998 film "Hideous Kinky" based on the autobiographical novel by Esther Freud from 1992.
  • It is hypothesized that the song was used as inspiration for the Wonderland characters in the ABC series Once Upon a Time. Jefferson is the name of the Mad Hatter and his daughter is named Grace.

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