Use in Media
- "Cherry Bomb" appeared on the soundtracks of Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, RV, Dazed and Confused and Cherrybomb (film).
- "School Days" appeared in the 1999 film Detroit Rock City.
- In the teen drama The O.C., in the Season 3 episode "The Man of the Year," Marissa makes an entrance to "Cherry Bomb," while dressed in a provocative schoolgirl outfit, to Kaitlyn's boarding school.
- In the 2007 movie Juno, the main character mentions her three favorite bands, one of which is The Runaways.
- In the 2007 novel, Derby Girl, by Shauna Cross, Oliver is said to have a poster of Joan Jett "in her Runaways days". The band is also referenced in a chapter title.
- In the 2008 novel Lonely Werewolf Girl, by Martin Millar, the main character's favorite band is The Runaways.
- A cover version of "Cherry Bomb" is available for download in music videogame Rock Band. The song was re-recorded by Cherie Currie and Joan Jett in 2010 for inclusion in Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.
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“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)