Anything Goes - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

For more information about the title song and references to it in popular culture, see Anything Goes (song)

• Title song was used for PBS' American Experience documentary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt because of the last verse of the song.
• In the 1972 movie What's Up, Doc?, the song "You're The Top" is sung for the opening and closing credits by Barbra Streisand. Ryan O'Neal joins her for the closing credits and this marks his only on-screen singing in a movie. The movie uses at least two other tunes from this musical as background music: "Anything Goes" and "I Get a Kick Out of You", are heard during the first hotel-lobby scene.
• In the 1974 movie Blazing Saddles, "I Get a Kick Out of You" is performed comedically by Cleavon Little and the other actors portraying black railroad workers, complete with a full harmony arrangement.
• "You're The Top" was also used in the movie Evil Under the Sun, performed by Diana Rigg.
• In the 1984 film, "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", Kate Capshaw performs the title song in Mandarin.
• In the Family Guy episode "Saving Private Brian", the Sergeant trainer claims "Anything Goes" to be one of his most favorite shows. In another episode Lois wants to sing showtunes in the car. She begins to sing "Anything Goes".
• In an episode of Summer Heights High Mr G cancels a production of "Anything Goes" one week before opening.
• In the play Dancing at Lughnasa by Irish playwright Brian Friel, the song "Anything Goes" is played on the radio and sung by Gerry Evans to Aggie and Chris. The song basically sums up the entire concept of the play: times changing and people changing with them.
• In an episode of Gilmore Girls, "You're The Top" is sung with slight lyrical changes.
• The song "Anything Goes" is played on Galaxy News Radio, a fictional radio station, in the post-apocalyptic video game Fallout 3.
• During the latter half of Bioshock, "You're The Top" can be heard playing from a Rapture radio.
• Title song used as the title of the 2008 autobiography by John Barrowman, who starred as Billy Crocker in 1989, 2002 and 2003.
• In an episode of Married...with Children called "Can't Dance, Don't Ask Me" Steve teaches Kelly to tap dance to "Anything Goes"
• In the Mission: Impossible episode "The Fortune" (from the 1988 revival series), the movie was the favorite film of Luis Barazon—one of the targets. Further, the segment of the movie where the title song is performed is "the part he likes the best". Also, the phrase "Anything Goes" was the second level password needed to access Barazon's financial records so that the money the Barazons stole from their country's treasury could be returned.
• Title song was used in a mash-up with "Anything You Can Do" on the TV show Glee.
• Anything Went was a parody of Anything Goes, partly shown on Mathnet, the rest being left to the viewer's imagination.