Rags to Riches (song) recordings by Sunny & the Sunliners (#45 in 1963) and Elvis Presley (#33 in 1971) also made the Billboard charts. Tony Bennett's version was used at the beginning of the film "Goodfellas", just after Henry Hill closes the trunk of the car and says in voice-over, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." The song was also used in an episode of "Columbo". The opening line of the song was sung regularly and exuberantly by the character Carmine Ragusa on the television series "Laverne & Shirley", typically when he had good news. "Rags
Moe Goes from Rags to Riches in a very sonorous voice.' And then it said in brackets, 'Think Jeremy Irons.'" He recorded his lines during the summer of 2011. The episode originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 29, 2012. When airing the episode was watched by 5.1 million viewers, making it the second highest viewed program in the Animation Domination line up. "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" received negative reviews from critics. Hayden Childs of "The A.V. Club" criticized the episode for its lack of satire, and wrote that "some of the funniest and best episodes [of season twenty-three]