Appearances in Other Media
The tune was featured in the 2004 movie EuroTrip as the Manchester United Supporters Club theme and was also played as part of a montage in two episodes of Seinfeld: "The Bizarro Jerry" episode in which Kramer finds himself working 9 to 5 at Brand/Leland, and "The Butter Shave" episode in which George fakes a handicap at Play Now. Of note, David Mandel has writing credits on EuroTrip and the two Seinfeld episodes. Alec Berg holds writing credits on EuroTrip and "The Butter Shave."
The song also features in a sketch in Not The Nine O'Clock News, in which Pamela Stephenson sings it in relation to her "husband", Rowan Atkinson. Atkinson, having come home from work, corrects Stephenson's lyrics ("I don't take the train, I've taken the bus for fifteen years!", Stephenson obligingly changes the lyrics), before revealing that "he spends all day with a whore" (again sung by Stephenson) and attempting to kill her. The sketch ends with Stephenson singing "and then he tries to strangle me".
In an episode of South Park ("Kenny Dies"), Eric Cartman briefly sings the song as he happens upon a truck that went off the side of a road.
In an episode of the 1997 sitcom Soul Man, Anthony Clark's character begins to play the song on a church organ.
On the season 26 finale episode of Saturday Night Live (host: Christopher Walken; musical guest: Weezer), in a "Mango" sketch, Mango (Chris Kattan) sings "Morning Train" as he's working out in his dressing room.
In the Drawn Together episode "Xandir and Tim, Sitting in a Tree", Jimmy Kimmel sings the song during a story in which Spanky Ham has left the Drawn Together house and taken a 9 to 5 job as a hostage negotiator.
The song was also featured in a 2004 television commercial for Connex Melbourne where a trainload of passengers take turns in singing a line from the song while the train pulls up at Burnley railway station where a woman boards the train. One of the passengers says "Sheena!" and the woman is then revealed to be Easton who responds with a scream; the ad concludes with all the passengers singing the chorus of the song as the train is shown leaving the station.
It was revealed in the documentary John Peel's Record Box that British radio DJ John Peel loved the record so much that he kept two copies of it in a small wooden box of his 142 favourite singles.
In the 7th episode of the mini-series Generation Kill (Bomb in the Garden), Corporal Josh Ray Person sings this song while waiting to move into combat.
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