Other Occurrences of The Song
- The novel Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Chapter 1, paragraph 8
- The Canadian band The Dave Howard Singers released an industrial/punk version of "Yon Yonson" in 1987.
- The Children's Band Ralph's World released a version of this on their 2003 album Peggy's Pie Parlor. The lyrics have been changed slightly from what is quoted in this article.
- The phrase was also used in a TV promotion ("Altered States") for Calvin Klein perfume.
- In the video game Psychonauts, Sasha Nein will begin to recite this in an injury-induced daze if the battle with the mega-censor continues long enough.
- The song has also appeared in numerous children’s song books
- The computer game "Baldur's Gate II" has a gnome character who joins the player's party named Jan Jansen. He often bursts into very mundane stories about himself that never seem to end.
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