Popular Culture
- In the 2002 TV series The Basil Brush Show episode "Bad Boy Rock" Basil, Stephen and Dave perform Bright Eyes in rock music.
- During Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, "Bright Eyes" plays briefly on the radio, before Gromit hastily turns it off, rolling his eyes.
- In the BBC black comedy series League of Gentlemen, the character Pop sings "Bright Eyes" shortly after praising Watership Down for featuring "rabbits who talk and act like people."
- In the BBC comedy puppet series Mongrels, the character Nelson climbs into a petting zoo cage, commenting that the previous owner must "be on holiday". The camera then pans to a man unceremoniously carrying away a dead rabbit while "Bright Eyes" plays.
- It makes an appearance during an episode of BBC television series The Goodies featuring a scene spoofing Watership Down.
- In "Prime Minister," a season two episode of the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, a character asks Jemaine to sing "Bright Eyes," during sex, to make him seem more like Art Garfunkel, the character's spurned lover. After listening to him sing the first line, she decides against it.
| Preceded by "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor |
UK number one single 14 April 1979 - 19 May 1979 |
Succeeded by "Sunday Girl" by Blondie |
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