In Films and Television Programs
"At Seventeen" is featured in the movie Scotland, Pa. (2001) and can also be heard playing in the background in one scene in the 2004 movie Mean Girls. The movie, which features a character named "Janis Ian", addresses the topic of teenage cruelty and alienation. "At Seventeen" is also mentioned in Jeffrey Eugenides's 1993 novel The Virgin Suicides, where the song is used by four girls imprisoned in their own home and essentially cut off from normal adolescent experiences to communicate with the narrator and his friends. The song is featured in The Simpsons episodes "A Streetcar Named Marge", "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)", and "Chief of Hearts". In the 30 Rock episode "The Break-Up," Tina Fey's character sings "At Seventeen" at a karaoke club.
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