Appearance in Popular Culture
The 1949 film, A Letter to Three Wives.
The song appears memorably in a morbidly funny moment during the film Tromeo and Juliet, where a family in a car are singing the song before they get into an accident. In the following scene, the character Detective Scalus says, "They found a peanut alright, a peanut of death!"
The song also appears at the opening of the opera, The Abduction of Figaro, by Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. Bach).
This Morning With Richard Not Judy (TMWRNJ) by Stewart Lee and Richard Herring.
In Serial Mom, the 1994 American satirical comedy, Beverly Sutphin (played by Kathleen Turner) sings this song with her fellow prisoners as they ride on a bus en route to court.
A version appears on the 2009 Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds album, "Dracula Boots".
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