Careless Whisper - Appearances in Other Media

Appearances in Other Media

• Its first appearance in TV series was in Knight Rider (1982 TV series) in 1985, in Season 3 Episode 20 "Knight in Retreat".
• In the episode "The Great Eekscape" of Eek! The Cat, Bill Clinton played a sample of the song with his saxophone when Sharky went to the White House.
• The song is featured on the video games Karaoke Revolution Volume 3 and Singstar.
• Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for naming its episodes after songs from the 1980s, has an episode named after this song. In it, a character is beginning to question his heterosexuality.
• In an episode of Jesse, Jesse comments on Diego's dancing with "I guess guilty feet really ain't got no rhythm", referring to a line from this song.
• The song was used as the theme to 1997 TV series The Broker's Man, starring Kevin Whately.
• The song was featured in the 2000 Miss Universe Evening Gown Competition.
• In the seventh season of Friends, Chandler's ex-girlfriend Janice has invited herself to the wedding of Chandler and Monica, unaware that she is an unwanted guest. Janice asks the couple what song they would like her to sing at the wedding, "Lady in Red" or "Careless Whisper".
• In the Philippines, this song gained notoriety after a scandal showing celebrities Dr. Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili singing this song and dancing scantily clad, was uploaded to YouTube.
• Tatum O'Neal and Nick Kosovich danced a rumba to it in Season 2 of Dancing with the Stars.
• In the episode "Everybody Hates Homecoming" from the show Everybody Hates Chris, a boy holds a boombox over his head with the song playing to prove his love for Chris's little sister Tonya, a nod to a similar scene in the 1989 film Say Anything.
• In 1993, every candidate auditioning for a part in Boyzone was made to sing Careless Whisper.
• Comedians Hamish and Andy used the song on October 4, 2010, in a competition to see who could sing the softest, using a decibel-meter to measure the volume. Hamish won.
• Saxophonist Sergio Flores, widely known as Sexy Sax Man, plays the famous riff at public locations such as malls, events, stores and sometimes colleges in California.
• Tamia's cover of the song is featured in the film A Night at the Roxbury (1998).
• In Iran, the Anime series Akage no anne's intro song were replaced by the instrumental version of this song and it has made it to be known as Song of Anne in Iran.
• In the third episode of the second season of the British TV serie Misfits, the song is played when Nathan tries to seduce Simon, after he was bewitched by a magical tattooer.
• In Caravan Club, the fifth episode of the first series of The Inbetweeners, Simon dances to this song with a girl he's trying to have sex with.