Love Potion No. 9 (song) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Melodic Hard Rock band TEN featured the lyric on their song "Black Hearted Woman" on their 2000 album Babylon.
  • The recording by the Clovers features in the film American Graffiti (1973).
  • It was featured in the movie of the same name.
  • It also appeared in the musical Smokey Joe's Cafe.
  • As a pop-culture reference, it is found in the animated film, Shrek 2. The bottle of love potion that the Fairy Godmother gives to the King of Far Far Away has IX (the number nine in Roman numerals) on the side of it.
  • The Sims game series features a "Love Potion 8.5", that is probably a reference to both this song and the movie.
  • One of the books in Dav Pilkey's Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot series features a reference to "Hate Potion #9".
  • The 8th edition rules of the live action role playing game NERO features a "Love Potion #9" that can be created with the game skill Alchemy.
  • In a season 1 episode of Fraggle Rock The Trash Heap gives Wembley a bottle of Love Potion #9, which causes everyone who smells it to fall in love with him.
  • The Cyndi Lauper song "I'll Kiss You" mentions love potion number 8 being a failure, but number 9 succeeds.
  • It was performed by American Idol contestant James Durbin during Season 10 of the reality show.
  • The song "Poetry in Motion" performed by Johnny Tillotson references the "number 9 love potion".

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