In Pop Culture
- It is featured in the video game Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and available as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series.
- It is featured in the video game True Crime: New York City.
- The video features Chuck D of Public Enemy, who also appears on the song.
- The song was used in the Hal Hartley film Simple Men.
- In season six, episode 16 of Gilmore Girls, when getting ready for an event, "Kool Thing" can be heard in the background.
- Brian Molko of Placebo said that this was the first song he ever heard by Sonic Youth, adding that if it were not for them, his own band would never have existed.
- In season one, episode 8 "Desperate Souls" of Once Upon a Time (TV series), while Emma was messing with a toaster
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