Television and Film
In the 1992 straight-to-video movie Aces: Iron Eagle III starring Louis Gossett, Jr., they sing their version of Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (full rendition from the album Born to Sing) during a party and dance scene.
En Vogue also recorded the theme song for season one of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, along with Dawnn Lewis and Holly Robinson-Peete.
In 1993, besides being the musical guest, the group appear in a "Wanda" sketch in a season four episode of In Living Color. They also appear in the A Different World episode "Mind Your Own Business", as a group of country bumpkin sisters who want to sing.
The group also appears in three episodes of the Charles S. Dutton sitcom Roc, with one of the ladies playing a love interest of Rocky Carrol's character Joey, who has to choose between staying with Joey or touring with the rest of the En Vogue ladies. En Vogue recorded a brand new theme song, entitled "Live Your Life Today" for Roc's later seasons.
In the 1995 film Batman Forever, they appear in a cameo appearance as a group of prostitutes who want to seduce Batman, but are disappointed when it is Robin who shows up instead.
En Vogue has appeared in Sesame Street specials including Sesame Street's 25th Birthday: A Musical Celebration and Elmopalooza in 1998. In Sesame Street's 25th Birthday, the four original members sang "Adventure" about their adventures with some of the Sesame Street characters. The second song was "I Want a Monster"; a song about having a monster as a playmate. It appeared on Elmopalooza and was recorded after Robinson's departure – featuring Terry Ellis, Maxine Jones and Cindy Herron.
On May 11, 2009, the group appeared on ABC's The View to perform and to announce their future reunion tour. On June 7, 2009, the group appeared on A&E Network's Private Sessions, performing select hits and discussing the group's past, present and future.
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“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
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“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)