In Popular Culture
Gano played Mr. Zank, the first of many substitute mathematics teachers, in an episode of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, entitled "X=Why?"
Gano is mentioned in the novel The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
Gano appears as a fictional version of himself, under a love spell, in the 1997 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch episode "Hilda and Zelda: the Teenage Years"'.
The song "Good Feeling" is featured in the "Best Prom Ever" episode of How I Met Your Mother. The song is played at a high school prom by a band called The 88.
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