In Popular Culture
Since its introduction, the song has been used several times in films and other media to denote a windfall (or happy turn of events - financial or otherwise) or sometimes to denote greed, for example, as seen in a scene from Chuck Jones's 1957 cartoon Ali Baba Bunny in reference to Daffy Duck.
While the song does not appear in the 1933 Warner Bros. film, 42nd Street, it was however included in the 1980 Broadway stage musical adaptation of the classic film.
Alvin and the Chipmunks recorded a pop version for the 1985 Alvin and the Chipmunks episode "The Gold of My Dreams." It appears during Homer's fantasy sequence in The Simpsons episode "HOMR", and is hummed by the dean in a scene in the Nutty Professor 1996 remake.
Currently on American Public Media's Marketplace program, when the closing stockmarket numbers are announced, an instrumental version is used as background music when the financial markets close higher (alternately, instrumentals of "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" is used for a mixed closing, whereas "Stormy Weather" is used for a low closing).
Read more about this topic: The Gold Diggers' Song (We're In The Money)
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