The melody is the opening theme of the 1975 television series "Baa Baa Black Sheep", a fictionalization of the World War II wartime exploits of the United States Marine Corps Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-214, ancestor of the Corps's present-day VMA-214 "Black Sheep" Squadron. One of the squadron's real-life members, Paul "Moon" Mullen, adapted "The Whiffenpoof Song" for the squadron's use. The Whiffenpoofs can be heard singing it in the 2006 movie "The Good Shepherd", in the scene where Matt Damon's son tells him he wants to join the CIA. In the play "Serenading Louie" by Lanford Wilson, performed at the Donmar Warehouse in London in 2010, the song is sung by the cast and by Bing Crosby.