The single was featured in three episodes of "The Simpsons": "A Streetcar Named Marge", "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer", and "Chief of Hearts". In "A Streetcar Named Marge", the lyrics are changed to describe the contestants of a beauty pageant. "The A.V. Club"s Nathan Rabin cited the scene as representative of the episode's satire on "loneliness and despair into crowd-pleasing entertainment through wildly inappropriate showmanship". In "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer", the song is used during Homer Simpson's search for a soulmate. Sarah Oliver of "The A.V. Club" felt it reflected the character's melancholy.