In Popular Culture
- The song was covered by the band Common Rotation on their album The Big Fear.
- Jimmy Eat World quotes the song in "A Praise Chorus" on their 2001 CD, Bleed American.
- Don't Let's Start is the name of an upcoming film, with characters that take their names from various They Might Be Giants' songs, such as Ana Ng.
- The song is referenced in Ernest Cline's novel, Ready Player One.
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)