Appearances in Other Media
- ABBA perform parts of the song live in the film "ABBA: The Movie" (1977).
- The song made an appearance on The Simpsons in the episode "Mother Simpson".
- On 12 December 2006, the song was played by NASA during STS-116 as the wake up song for Christer Fuglesang, also from Sweden, in honor of him becoming the first Nordic astronaut.
- Bernd Stromberg, the main character of the German TV series Stromberg sang this song in the 9th episode of the 2nd season ("Die Kündigung").
- After stating that health care reform would be President Barack Obama's Waterloo, the Facebook page of United States Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) was inundated with links to a YouTube video of the song once the legislation had passed.
- In 2010 Waterloo was voted second best Eurovision Song ever
- On the 5 December 2010 on the UK channel ITV 1 on a poll of The Nations Favourite ABBA song, Waterloo came #17.
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