In Pop Culture
- Whodini's "Magic's Wand" appeared in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the radio station, Wildstyle. "The Freaks Come Out at Night" also appeared in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories on the radio station Fresh 105 FM.
- In a second-season episode of Everybody Hates Chris, Chris got two tickets to a Whodini show from a shop owner who thought the show was about the magician Harry Houdini.
- In the movie Next Friday, characters Day-Day and Roach were singing Whodini's song "Friends" while tied up when the Main Joker told them to shut up and said, "I don't even like Whodini".
- "The Freaks Come Out at Night" is used in the 1985 movie The Jewel of the Nile.
- Bone Thugs N Harmony re-recorded "Friends" and remixed it on The Art of War.
- Jermaine Dupri's verse in "Welcome to Atlanta" samples the intro to "Five Minutes of Funk".
- Will Smith's song "Potnas", about friendship, samples "Friends" and quotes its chorus at the beginning.
- The bassline from "Friends" is sampled in Tupac Shakur's "Troublesome '96". In his unreleased song "Let's Be Friends", he also used the theme of "Friends".
- Pastor Troy remixed "Friends" into a song entitled "Benz".
- In an episode of Everbody Hates Chris, the song Friends is playing in the background.
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