Cultural Impact
The song's title inspired the title of a short story that was made into a pornographic film, Behind the Green Door. People "in the know" realize that the Mitchell brothers were inspired by an anonymous underground short story that was in circulation (via mimeographed copies) from the time of the Second World War.
It is also behind the name of a live album by Irish American punk band Flogging Molly, Alive Behind the Green Door.(this may only reference the Irish bar in Los Angeles Molly Malone's where they record was recorded and has a green door. It is also where the Molly in their name comes from.)
It is also the name of a letter written by David Berg, the former leader of the cult once called the Children of God and later renamed "The Family"-—he used it as a term for molesting little children.
Psychobilly band The Cramps covered the song on their 1981 album, Psychedelic Jungle.
The Spanish pop-punk group Los Nikis made a Spanish version of this song in 1986.
"The Green Door" is the name of a saloon in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as well as Park Hall, Maryland
Within the American intelligence community, "green door" is a slang verb, meaning to restrict an individual's or organization's access to information and/or locations. "We green doored them" or "The situation has been highlighted by the 'Green Door' compartmentation and exclusion".
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