Popular Culture
The song was also very popular in Spain in the late 1990s thanks to TV advertisements. It was a reference song for the ads of Retevisión, one of the first private telecommunications companies in Spain.
in series `1 episode 5 of the children's tv series children ward, the song is being played in the background during a scene
At the end of the fourth series of the new Doctor Who, a video of the cast and crew of the show (as well as The Proclaimers themselves) singing and dancing along to the song was released, as a farewell to David Tennant, Russell T. Davies, and other key players in the show's development; hailing the shift into the Steven Moffat era of the show.
In 2007, Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song, with minor lyric changes, for their video game Alvin and the Chipmunks.
On 11 September 2010, Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio ranked the original version of the song at #50 on the list of the 100 Worst Songs Ever, exclaiming, "We're halfway through our list! Doesn't it feel like your ears have walked through 500 miles of bad songs?"
The song has been associated with Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope for cancer. This was the favorite song of Liu Peiwen and his girlfriend Ling Hsueh, and she told him if he walked 1000 miles, she would try to get her mother to let her marry him. So he walked the distance of 1000 miles from his city to hers, where they subsequently married each other. It became an international news item in 2011, and was featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not in 2012.
The song is featured in the Family Guy episode "You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives."
The song is also featured on the How I Met Your Mother episode "Arrivederci, Fiero," in which it is revealed that the character Marshall has had a cassette tape with the song on it stuck in his car for years. Commentary on the song's unlimited replay value follows.
The song is featured in the movie Bachelorette. It is also featured in the movie The Angels' Share directed by Ken Loach, which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
The song is played at various times during Penn State football games at Beaver Stadium
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