Popular Culture
- "Heat of the Moment" was repopularized in 2005 when it was featured in the motion pictures The 40-Year-Old Virgin and The Matador.
- In the episode 2001 "Kenny Dies" of the TV show South Park, Eric Cartman sings the song to the United States Congress to convince them to reverse a ban on stem cell research (telling them that he wanted to save his 8-year-old friend Kenny McCormick from muscular dystrophy), eventually leading members of Congress in a sing-along.
- The song is featured in the Season 4 episode "Shuffle, Ball Change" of Cold Case.
- The song is a playable track in the video game Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s.
- The song is in the score of the musical Rock of Ages.
- In Sleepaway Camp one of the characters is wearing this song's cover on his shirt.
- The character of Bobo sings part of the song on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 after a performance by Pearl Forrester and Observer.
- It was featured in the Supernatural episode "Mystery Spot".
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Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)