Motel 6 - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The band Yo La Tengo wrote and perform a song called "From A Motel 6" that is set inside a Motel 6 room. The title may be a play on the Bob Dylan song "From a Buick 6".
  • Justice Sandra Day O'Connor made a mention of Motel 6 in her dissent regarding private property rights in the U.S. Supreme Court's Kelo v. City of New London decision. Justice O'Connor stated "The specter of condemnation hangs over all property. Nothing is to prevent the State from replacing any Motel 6 with a Ritz-Carlton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory."
  • At Camp Nama, a secret detention, interrogation, and torture facility run by an army commando unit known as Task Force 6-26, some detainees were held in an area known as Motel 6, consisting of crudely built plywood shacks reeking of urine and excrement.
  • The short story All That You Love Will Be Carried Away by Stephen King takes places exclusively at a Motel 6 near Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Seattle disc jockey Bob Rivers lampooned the Motel 6 ads by Tom Bodett on his second album of Christmas song parodies, I Am Santa Claus. It features a narrator describing the amenities of "Manger 6" and declares, "We'll leave a star out for ya."
  • The band Luna (band) mentions in their song "Time to quit" from the album Lunapark (1992) the phrase "I love the Motel 6´s".

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