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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Famous quotes containing the words pop culture, pop and/or culture:
“There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today’s pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.”
—Charles Krauthammer (b. 1950)
“Compare the history of the novel to that of rock ‘n’ roll. Both started out a minority taste, became a mass taste, and then splintered into several subgenres. Both have been the typical cultural expressions of classes and epochs. Both started out aggressively fighting for their share of attention, novels attacking the drama, the tract, and the poem, rock attacking jazz and pop and rolling over classical music.”
—W. T. Lhamon, U.S. educator, critic. “Material Differences,” Deliberate Speed: The Origins of a Cultural Style in the American 1950s, Smithsonian (1990)
“Both cultures encourage innovation and experimentation, but are likely to reject the innovator if his innovation is not accepted by audiences. High culture experiments that are rejected by audiences in the creator’s lifetime may, however, become classics in another era, whereas popular culture experiments are forgotten if not immediately successful. Even so, in both cultures innovation is rare, although in high culture it is celebrated and in popular culture it is taken for granted.”
—Herbert J. Gans (b. 1927)