In Popular Culture
- On an episode of the ABC drama Eli Stone, Victor Garber performed this song in one of Eli's visions.
- The song was featured in an episode of The Greatest American Hero "Don't Mess Around With Jim". It also inspired the episode title.
- It was played during the Life on Mars episode "All the Young Dudes"
- Josh Turner covered the song on his album Long Black Train.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic references the song in his own song, "CNR" from the album Alpocalypse ("You can spit in the wind or tug on Superman's cape, but Lord no, you just don't mess around with CNR").
Read more about this topic: You Don't Mess Around With Jim (song)
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“Cynicism makes things worse than they are in that it makes permanent the current condition, leaving us with no hope of transcending it. Idealism refuses to confront reality as it is but overlays it with sentimentality. What cynicism and idealism share in common is an acceptance of reality as it is but with a bad conscience.”
—Richard Stivers, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline, ch. 1, Blackwell (1994)