Orinoco Flow - Uses in Popular Culture

Uses in Popular Culture

Samples of the backing track are used in Rebel MC's hit single "Tribal Bass" which reached #20 in the United Kingdom in 1991.

The song is played during an episode of Cougar Town, and over the end credits of an episode of Peep Show.

In season 1, episode 6 of South Park ("Death"), Stan's grandpa locks him in a room and plays a parody of the song to illustrate what it feels like to be old.

The song features in the 2010 film Shrek Forever After, and during a climactic torture sequence in David Fincher's American adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The chorus is sung by the fictional character Alan Partridge in the TV series I'm Alan Partridge.

In 1989, iris breeder Cy Bartlett named a cultivar "Orinoco Flow".

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