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The Mary Tyler Moore Show opening sequence Blackhearts, Christie Front Drive, Sammy Davis Jr., and Twin Cities-based Hüsker Dü, the latter who also reproduced several scenes of the opening on location for their music video. The song was also featured in a long-running commercial for Chase bank in the mid-2000s, and was sung in the TV series "7th Heaven" in the episode "In Praise of Women" during the birth of the Camden twins. A dance version was featured in the 1995 Isaac Mizrahi documentary "Unzipped". The 2000 TV movie "Mary and Rhoda" started with a version of this song, with modern lyrics and a grunge sound. During