"Dance Hall Days" in Popular Culture
The song can be heard playing in the background during the strip club scenes in Bachelor Party (1984) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), for which Wang Chung also composed and performed the original soundtrack, and it was later featured in the movies Pretty in Pink (1986), Gotti (1996) and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997). It can also be heard in the movie Adventureland (2009), although it is not included on the soundtrack. The song is also used in the 2009 martial arts movie Blood and Bone. A remix version can be heard during the frat party scene in The Sure Thing (1985). It can also be heard on the Flash FM radio station and in the Malibu Club in the popular video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. The song also made a brief appearance in a commercial for the video game Major League Baseball 2K9 featuring Tim Lincecum. In the commercial, the animated Lincecum character is chastised for listening to the song. The actual Lincecum intones, "and we don't listen to that", as they are driving and listening to music. It was also featured in the 2009 film The Informers and in I Love You Phillip Morris and Duplicity. It is also heard in the 2010 film The Fighter. It is briefly heard playing during a party in an episode of Breaking Bad (S02E10), apparently a reference to the 80's crime dramas such as Scarface (1983) and To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) which the series ironically recalls. The song was featured in the ABC series The Middle in the season one episode 'The Fun House'.
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