Songs in Popular Culture
- The song "Wow" is featured the PlayStation 2 game Gran Turismo 4.
- The song "Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking" is featured in "17 Seconds", an episode from season 2 of Grey's Anatomy, "The Man on the Fairway", an episode from season 1 of Bones and the feature trailer for I Am Number Four.
- "How to Be Dead" was featured on the soundtracks to American Pie Presents: Band Camp and Wicker Park.
- "Chocolate" was featured in The Last Kiss starring Zach Braff.
- The song "Somewhere a Clock Is Ticking" was used as the background music for the video highlights package of the WrestleMania XXV match between Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker, as shown on ECW on 1 September 2009.
- "Spitting Games" was featured in the EA Sports game MVP Baseball 2004. It was also featured in a Liverpool FC football game in 2005 and on the BBC Wales TV series Torchwood in 2006.
- "Run" was featured in the soundtrack of the film Charlie St. Cloud, starring Zac Efron. The song was also featured in the season one premiere of Jericho, and in the season one finales of One Tree Hill and Mad Dogs.
- "Run" was mentioned in the second book of the Internet Girls series, written by Lauren Myracle. In the book TTFN, the character Angela Silver states that it is her new favorite song in the first few pages.
"Run was featured in a 2012 episode of the NBC show "Smash", being performed by Katherine McPhee.
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