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If there is anything I am missing in here, and recent things, feel free to contact me here. But before you send me stuff, please look through this amazingly long list to make sure I have not already put it on this page. Thank You. Some of the movies that
focus directly on Nirvana includes "Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!",
"Teen Spirit: a Tribute
to Kurt Cobain", "1991: The Year Punk Broke", "Hype!",
and the movie that had a small viewing audience at the Sundance Film Festival in
1998 entitled "Kurt and Courtney." There are also tons of bootlegged
Nirvana concert videos around, various tributes and much more so look for that.
It is worth to mention that Nirvana appeared in the
popular show "Saturday Night Live" in 1992 and 1993. They also
appeared in the british "Jonathan Ross" show in 1991 and in the
British "Top of the pops" in 1991. In February 1994 they appeared on a
French show and a couple of Italian ones, near the end of February 1994. They
were also on MTV's "Headbangers Ball" once and at the 1992 MTV Video
Music Awards in Los Angeles, CA. Of course, a ton of television stations, radio
stations etc. have done interviews with the band and they've appeared in other
TV shows besides the ones I just listed. I just want to mention the most
important ones. The purpose of this file is to list non-Nirvana related movies
and TV shows where Nirvana is still present in some way .. for example with a
poster.
Since a lot of people submit this info, it is worth to
mention that an episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" featured a brief study
of the Kurt Cobain murder theories. They basically talked a little with Tom
Grant and talked about some of the evidence supporting the theories. This info,
however, does not really belong on this page and thus I will not talk about it
further.
Kurt's favorite movie was entitled "Over The
Edge," and ironically was the first movie role of actor Matt Dillon. It was
about a bunch of teenage kids who didn't like authority, and end up rioting at
their local school at the end of the movie. Kurt once confided in a rare radio
interview that he would like to possibly be in a movie someday. Unfortunately,
that was never meant to be. [Info courtesy of Brian Peterson]
There was an Italian movie entitled "Nirvana"
in 1998, but had nothing to do with the band. It featured Christopher Lambert,
but received horrible reviews.
The movie called "Mad Love" opens with
"Love Buzz" playing in the background, during the opening credits.
This movie stars Drew Barrymore and features music from L7 and others.
In the movie "Mad Love" with Drew Barrymore,
in the scene where her character, Casey, is "losing it", she is
cutting pictures of eyes out of magazines and sticking them all over the walls,
as she believes they will protect her. If you look closely you will notice a
picture that is clearly Kurt Cobain. It has been awhile since I saw the video,
but I do remember that several of my friends and myself noticed that it was
Kurt's picture on the wall.
Speaking of Drew Barrymore, in another movie she stars
in, "Boys on the side", there is a scene where you can clearly see a
large Nirvana poster with the "Bleach" cover. Pretty cool :)
Pat Smear has a tiny part in the cult movie "Blade
Runner". He's also got an appearance in the Prince video "Raspberry
Beret" and he has a short appearance in No Doubt's popular "Don't
Speak" video. Pat is now supposedly working on the movie story of his
former band "The Germs."
In the movie "Austin Powers: International Man of
Mystery", starring Mike Myers, Dr. Evil's son [Seth Green] walked into a
room wearing a blue Kurt Cobain T-shirt, while listening to Nirvana's
"Smells Like Teen Spirit".
In "Jerry Maguire" - 'Cush', the football
player who Jerry was trying to sign, was in a hotel room playing an acoustic
guitar trying to sing "Something in the way." It is possibly the worst
cover of any song in history!!! His brother who also appears shortly in the film
wears the Sliver T-Shirt.
In the movie "Hackers" there is a scene with
a large Nirvana poster, in the main characters room.
Same info from different source: In the T.V show "California Dreams", in the
garage, there is a poster of Kurt seen in many episodes. [Someone said that it
was actually a poster of Tom Petty and not Kurt Cobain ... NFC]
In the movie "D2: The Mighty Ducks", two punk
kids are jumping on their beds and there is a Nirvana poster in the background.
In the movie D2 the mighty ducks are back, after one of
the punk kids is kicked out of the game, he threatens to beat up on of the
Iceland team members in the time out box while wearing a nirvana shrit.
The movie "Empire Records", with Liv Tyler,
has a Nirvana tour poster when Nirvana was touring with the Meat Puppets in late
1993. It is an orange poster with a pirate skull face on it.
In an episode of the show "Millenium", the
main character Frank Black was investigating the dissappearance of a boy from
Seattle. He went into the boy's room and there was clearly a poster of Kurt
Cobain on his wall!
If you ever watch "The Man Who Knew Too
Little," pay attention to the apartment where Bill Murray's character was
supposed to do that acting thing but the criminal got there instead. In the
backround, I remember seeing a Kurt Cobain poster above the bed.
I've also heard that Dave Grohl was in an episode of
the X-Files, he was just passing by through a secruity metal thingy in the FBI
entrance hall. It was season 3 of The X-Files in the episode "Pusher".
In an episode of CHICAGO HOPE, one of the doctors
accidentally kills a kid and goes to the kids house to apologize, and in the
kids room there is a huge IN UTERO poster on the wall in the background.
In an episode of ER, Matthew Glave's caracter Dale
Edson says "Do you think he pulled a Cobain?" when he was talking
about a guy possibly comitting suicide.
On one episode of "Daria" there was a
conversation on the bus that went like this: In an episode of "Sabrina - The Teenage
Witch", One of the aunts says "My date was so fun. He even played 4
lines of Smells Like Teen Spirit with his nose" [Gary noted a correction:
"Salem the cat says: 'Your headmaster played Smells Like Teen Spirit???
With his nose?' Sabrina: Yea the first 2 verses' ... NFC]
In "Sabrina - The Teenage Witch", the two
aunts are meditating and the older one says: "Have we reached
Nirvana?" [This, of course, has nothing to do with the band Nirvana .. it's
just a reference to the religious belief ... NFC]
On The Show Called "Catwalk" [With Neve
Campbell ... NFC] these 2 Girls were Photocoping Some Pages And There Was A
"Nevermind" Poster On The Wall Behind Them!
In the movie "Point of No Return" if you look
really closely at the posters on the wall in the main character's room you'll
see a Nirvana poster.
In the show "My So-Called Life", the Rolling
Stone commemorating Kurt after his death was shown more than once. This was in
the Halloween episode i believe. One character, Rayanne comments and says
"Ugh, I still can't look at him".
Same info from different source: I was watching a rerun of Married With Children one
night and Peg said "Al, we're gonna go see the greatest show in the
world." Then Kelly asks "Nirvana?"
In the movie "I know what do you did last
summer" [With Jennifer Love Hewitt and Sarah Michelle Gellar ... NFC], one
of the girls go to the house of the sister of the person who they believe they
roadkilled - to shoe her an anuary so that she can identify Billy Blue. Here you
can hear a radio playing Leadbelly's "Where did you sleep last night",
which was covered by Nirvana.
There is a show called "Breaker High", where
there was a scene in the class room where someone was talking about the real
meaning on Nirvana. Then the main charater said "Nirvana rules" he had
a walkman on and "Teen Spirit" could be heard in the backround.
In an episode of "Father Ted" (an UK show),
they were talking about music or something and one of them says something like
"How can Kurt Cobain still be making music if he shot himself?".
In Father Ted, Ted says to someone 'We were just
talking about that fella Kurt Cobain. Blew 'is head off with a shotgun' and
Dougal says 'How did he survive that then?'
On an episode of Father Ted (Irish comedy starring the
late Dermot Morgan) they have an American priest rond to stay and Father Dougal
McGuire (Arnod O'Hanlon) says in an Irish accent "You know who was american?
That fella Kurt Cobain. He shot himself in the head. How did he survive that
then?" The audience fell about laughing and Ted replies "er, Dougal,
he didn't survive - he's dead." and then Dougal looks very confused and
says "oh... right you are then Ted!" and walks out of the room. It was
very funny.
In Father Ted, Father Dougal says to ted 'Ted Ted come
here, this rabbit, it looks like Kurt Cobain'. Then Ted says: 'How could a
rabbit look like - OH MY GOD IT DOES LOOK LIKE KURT COBAIN!'
In one episode of "Daria", Jane is asked
whether she would like to crash Brittany's party, and she says "Oh no, I'd
much rather stay home and listen to my brother practice the opening to Come As
You Are."
In a episode of "Jonovision", a girl came on
stage with a Kurt Cobain shirt on. A hypmatist hypmatised her and she said to
Jono: "Why does everyone hate K. Cobain? - Cause he did heroin?" On WCW (World Championship Wrestling) - Diamond Dallas
Page enters to music that is a rip off of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Also WCW Raven has the begining to 'come as you are'
and there is a bunch of crap added in the middle and the begining of 'come as
you are'. It starts back up again near the end.
The show "Inside stuff" on ESPN recently
played Teen Spirit!
The movie "The Babysitter" [Starring the
lovely Alicia Silverstone ... NFC] has a scene with 2 guys in a record store,
and in the backgroud you see briefly see a "Bleach" poster and an
"In utero" poster.
In Dangerous Minds, there's a party in the school, and
a guy says "Should I get a Tupac CD, or a picture of Kurt Cobain?". He
didn't say it exactly like that, but something like it.
In an episode of Marienhof (a german show) - there was
a Nirvana poster on a wall in an alley. It was black, It had the cover of In
Utero (the text wasn't on it), and it said Nirvana, Live '94.
One of the Don Cherry Rock 'em Sock 'em videos has the
main riff from Teen Spirit being played over and over and over.
In an episode of a comedy show called "Make Me
Laugh", the object of this game show is that there are 3 contestants and 3
comedians trying to make each of them to laugh. Cuz every second you don't laugh
you get a $1. And one of the jokes that the comedian was telling to this Alcohol
and Drug councelor was ... On a old episode of "Saturday Night Live"
(from like 94' maybe) they had a sketch called "Weekend Update with Kevin
Nealon" and he would talk about recent news and stuff like that. One of his
top stories was.... "and in recent news, Kurt Cobain has almost reached
Nirvana!"
I was watching Saturday Night Live about a year ago, I
can't remember who the host was. They had this sketch on that was a sing and
dance sketch about opposites. One of the lines was "Like Kurt Cobain and
fame." Also, on that same episode, they had a sketch about the MTV Video
Music Awards. They had Madonna and Courtney Love on it and Madonna was dressed
and acting all Buddhist. Madonna was saying, "You have to reach Nirvana,
not break it up." And Courtney Love got all pissed and they got into this
fight. Sorry I can't remember the host.
I remember watching an old episode of Sat. Night Live
last year from around 1993 in which it had paradys of all the popular bands
doing an infomercial for some product and it had David Spade dressed like Kurt
Cobain and singing a song. (it also showed Adam Sandler doing his Eddie Vedder
impression singing Even Flow w/ different lyrics)
Same info from different source: Recently when I was watching an episode of "Home
improvement", during a portion of the show where Tim is on the set of his
show the camera does a flash of the audience cheering and in the first row there
is an extra with a sliver t-shirt on. I'm not sure which episode it is but I'm
sure it's around the 3rd or fourth season.
There was a Nirvana poster in the house of these two
people that were fighting in the show "Cops"!
About 6 months ago on Comedy Central's Daily Show,
there was a bit about Lollapalooza's financial problems. At the end of the
segment, Jon Stewart said, "At least one thing is for certain...this year,
once again, no Nirvana."
On "Unhappily Ever After", I think it first
aired 10/24/98, Ryan and Tiffany were talking about 1988. Ryan said, "Kurt
Cobain was still in one piece."
It was on episode of the Troklesons last season I
think. The main character Dorathy Jane, think that is her name. Well anyway she
sneeks out to go to a college dorm. When you get to the guys room. You can see a
Nevermind poster hanging on the wall for about 10 mins of the show. It is the
one when they're in the pool swimming under water.
In the movie "Forrest Gump", the original
version of The Youngbloods' Get Together appears, when Forrest comes back from
Vietnam, and Jenny talks about what has happened when he was away.
There was a Ruby Wax show over here in England (Winter
'98 I think) where they were talking about Kurt Cobain's death, and talking
about how much shit and stress we have to put up with these when you read the
news etc. I think one of the other guests was Joana Lumly.
And in Neighbors (the Australian soap aired in the UK
if you dont have it in the US) the other day, Paul said he wanted to name his
pet (Iguana?) "Kurt Cobain" and Madge said "who?".
In "Neighbours" Harold accused Paul of
listening to disturbing music. Libby went up to Paul in the cafe and started
talking to Paul. She said something like "My dad used to try to stop me
from listening to Nirvana" and Paul laughed and said something like
"Nirvana isn't disturbing".
I was watching 'Neighbours' once and a couple of the
characters were playing slow boring music and one of them said "We need a
bit more energy and excitement in our music like Nirvana's Love Buzz".
On an episode of the Australian soap "Neighbours"
a guy called Luke says: "That's like calling Nirvana's Love Buzz a love
song" ... [It's possible that this 'Love Buzz' thing from Neighbours is
actually just one scene rather than two different ... NFC]
In Neighbours some character was a hot guitar player
and criticised another lame acousticer by saying "this love song is awful.
It's got to have bite, like Nirvana's "love buzz" [Another "Love
Buzz" scene ... hmm probably the same as above ... NFC]
On neighbours, Billy Kennedy has the poster of Kurt and
his vandalism guitar on his wall.
In Uk soap "Neighbours" one of the characters
Paul went through a rebelious phase where he named his rabbit Kurt and attempted
to play HSB (I think) on guitar. This ended when Libby told him that she too
liked Nirvana but felt the band conveyed wrong messages.The show is famous for
its "morals" as it is viewed by 5-8 million UK kids every day. It
pissed me off so much.
I remember watching the Australian soap Neighbours a
couple of years ago and Paul was being hassled by his parents for listening to a
rock band called Battery Acid. His friend Libby said she and her brother also
got hassled for listening to a band called Nirvana.
Also last week in Neighbours a character called
Toadfish was being laughed at for listening to "Seattle Grunge". Funny
thing is though, it was the Star Trek nerd who was taking the piss! A few weeks
before Toadfish's cousin Tad was looking through his CD collection and came
across the Foo Fighters and Everclear albums.
In today's episode of Neighbours "Toadie" and
his new girlfriend were talking about being new on college campus and how
paranoid you are of everyone. They both smiled and at the same time said
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get
you" which is obviously an altered version of the Territorial Pissings line
"Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you".
In the new movie "Dead Man on Campus" one of
the roomates has a theory that kurt is not dead but living in mt. St. Helens
with Vince Foster, this is because they are being black mailed by Bill Gates!
Same info from different source: Last night I went to see the movie 8MM staring Nicholas
Cage and noticed something I could add to your list. In the movie, this missing
girl had a diary that she hid at her house before she left so her step dad
wouldn't find it. When Nicholas Cage found it, it showed a quick glimpse of the
cover which was scattered with pictures cut out of magazines. Somewhere near the
bottom was a picture of Kurt that said "Cobain" underneath of it.
In a recent episode of the X-Files a woman was talking
about her boss and she said something similar to "He reminds me of one of
those tragic musicians, like Jim Morrison or Kurt Cobain."
Same info from different source: I remember I saw an episode of "Trisha"
(could have been "Moesha), where they created a school news paper, so one
of the journalists was making an article for the news paper, and Moesha asked
her: "What is this??" so she said "It's my tribute to Kurt
Cobain" so Trisha said something like "Hmm, i was thinking about
something more current", or something like that.
Also a couple of weeks ago in England on a show called
Moesha i think there were two boys on where one was dressed as Kurt Cobain and
one was dressed as Marilyn Manson but had a Fender Jagstang guitar with him.
In an episode of "Lois & Clark" the bad
guys have some project called "Nirvana". However its not related to
the music band Nirvana ...
On the VH1 show Rock and Roll Jeopardy they do each
eppisode based on 2 differnt rock era's. On the show w/ one era 1991 on the
video screen during the whole show was huge picture of Kurt.
Once was on rock and roll jeopardy they asked a
question and it was basically what is the name of courtney love and kurt
cobain's daughter and there was this rolling stone special that was on vh1 once
and they showed the cover of rolling stone, with kurt after he died, in the
background a few times.
Tonight while I was watching Jeopardy, there was a
catagory called, "Who's The Parent" or something close to that. The
question was "Frances Bean Cobain" And the girl said, "Kurt
Cobain and Courtney Love"
On Saturday April 15, probably a re-run, I was watching
Rock and Roll Jeopardy, and the final Jeopardy question was something like
"Who was Squirel's song 'Mighty K.C.' and Neil Young's 'Sleeps with Angels'
a tribute to?" And every single one of them got it wrong, only one person's
answer actually started with the letters K and C. Obviously it was Kurt.
I was watching Fox Files and they did a story about a
college whos basketball team lost the championship and they had a big party on
the street And Fox Files used "Smells like teen spirit" in the
backround of that story.
I also saw a "Married with Children" episode
with Bud and Kelly standing in line to get tickets for a band called
"BBD" and they asked their father Al to stand in line for them , and
there was a guy who looked exactly like Chad Channing , it probably was him and
he said to Al " Hey this line is not for John Tesh concert" and Al
answered "yeah ,well it least John tesh didint have to urinate on his fans
to win their respect"
In a german Soccer show called "Ranisimo"
they sometimes play Territorial Pissings when they show the highlights of the
week.
On the show "Mystery Science Theater 3000"
(The one with the guy and the robots) They were watching a movie. In it,a guy
walks into a huge building,and on the floor is written "Nirvana". Tom
Servo immediatly begins to sing the opening to "Come As You Are" only
as,"Come,as you are,to my mall....."
Garner added a little correction, as well as some more
info, to the info above; "The movie they were Watching was entitled
"Overdrawn At The Memory Bank" Starring Raul Julia, which was the 22nd
episode of MST3K's 8th season. And it was Crow T Robot who sang "Come As
You Are", Not Tom Servo. This link will take you to the movie summary for
that episode on MST3K's website. Unfortunately, it dosen't mention the Nirvana
reference... http://www.scifi.com/mst3000/experiments/822/" Thanks to
Garner.
In a scene of the show "Mystery Science Theater
3000" they are making fun of the movie 'The Head That Wouldn't Die' and in
one scene, it zooms in on a lab table with a needle on it, and one of the guys
in the audience says, "Meanwhile, back in Kurt Cobain's house". The
episode was aired October 30, 1993.
In the show Mystery Science Theater 3000, while the
gang is watching The Giant Gila Monster, one of the main characters is playing
the ukelele for his crippled little sister and Joel riffs, "Yep, smells
like teen spirit".
Also on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the gang is
watching Angel's Revenge and during one scene, a woman is dunked repeatedly into
a pool and hanging by a rope when during an underwater shot of her, Tom Servo
says "It's the Nirvana album cover!"
And on Mystery Science Theater 3000, the gang is
watching a short called A Day at the Fair and while the parade band is passing
through, Servo starts singing "Here we are now, entertain us, we feel
stupid, and contagious"
ok , I was flipping through the channels and i saw this
movie called "Trojan War", with Jennifer Love Hewitt, well there was a
part where this guy was practicing a pick up line to say to a girl he's wanted
to go out with forever, and in the background, you can see a sub pop poster (a
large poster) and you can see different bands listed like TAD, Mudhoney , etc.
and in the middle, you can see in big letters "Nirvana" , just thought
i'd tell ya that.
I was looking at your list of Nirvana in movies and on
TV, when I vaguely remembered an episode of the show Sliders where they changed
the past or something and went into the future and they had a Kurt Cobain
Christmas Album. It was a couple years ago so I don't remember it well.
Same info from different source: I saw on Lois and Clark, they had a case and for some
reason the were flipping through 12" Lps and it had various funny titles by
Jim Morrison etc.... It had Kurt Cobain "Christmas Carols" on one of
the LPs [I don't know if this is related to the "Christmas Album"
described above in "Sliders". Micah Jasper claimed that this episode
doesn't exist, which is likely. He confirms the "Sliders" episode
described above, though ... NFC]
I was watching COPS on time a while ago and this guy
got pulled over for ripping off a store and the CD case for bleach was sitting
in the front seat!
I saw an episode of "The new adventures of Love
Boat" and in the background you could hear a part of "Lithium"
played by some other band, but not Nirvana. Anyway I'm sure that it was a cover
of Nirvana's "Lithium". [It was most likely not Cobain's Nirvana's
"Lithium" .. NFC]
And then there was recently a program on NBC or CNBC
about the movie "Kurt & Courtney". They showed some intervievs
with Kurt and the guest in the program was Nick Broomfield.
I`m from Germany so I saw the big black/white poster of
kurt Cobain in the room of a main character in the soap called "Schloss
Einstein"
In another German soap called "Gute Zeiten,
Schlechte Zeiten" they played "Something in the way" in the
background while they were discussing a problem.
At the 5th aniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain, the
music channel Viva 2 brought a special of Kurt Cobain / Nirvana (in 2Rock). They
played all songs + some songs of Live! Tonight! Sold out!!, a video clip of foo
fighters and a video clip of hole - violet. They showed short intervievs,live
shows and private film cuts. [On the 5th anniversary, channels like MTV and MCM
also had some brief Nirvana specials ... this list is not really intended to
mention those, though .. NFC]
In the movie Foxfire, the oriental girl Goldie is being
yelled at by her father about her room looking like a drug den. On the wall
behind her you can see a really small picture of Kurt Cobain.
Ok, in an episode of X-Files (called 'The Host',
episode two of season two), Scully's flipping through a National Inquirer type
magazine and you get a quick glimpse of one of the pages and it has some crap
about Kurt and Nirvana.
One day I was flipping through the channels, and on the
show "Bill Nye: The Science Guy" they were playing the beginning of
the song "Come as You Are" for about 5 seconds.
A while ago I was watching Bill Nye: The Science Guy, I
think it was a show on air pressure, but anyway towards the end they had a
Smells Like Teen Spirit parody. I think they named it Smells Like Air Pressure.
Same info from different source: Same info from different source: Hi. this hasn't exactly been mentioned... a long time
ago, on Bill Nye the Science Guy, they played the opening to Smells Like Teen
Spirit DURING the actual show. This is different from the Smells Like Air
Pressure or whatever remake-thing.
There was an episode of Bill Nye the science guy where
they cover All Apologies.
A few months ago on either Dateline or 20/20 they had a
special on heroin and cocain, they showed a clip of Nirvana playing live (can't
remember which song).
I was watching an episode of "Travellers" one
day when I heard the worst "Teen Spirit" rip-off ever. The song was
the same rythym, the same tempo, and had the same drum and bass parts, but the
guitar part was backwards. (i.e. high notes were low, low notes were high.)
The other day I was watching a french tv show (from
Canada but a french one) it is called 'Ā la recherche de Carmen Sandiego' (The
english version is called 'Where in time is Carmen Sandiego'). If you don't know
what is is well it's kind of a questionnaire and they were talking about
deodorants. So the participants had to replace in order events about deodorants
one of them was the release of Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana in 1991.
Pretty cool.
I was watching "Full house" (or was it
Blossom?) and one of the girls went to a friends house and they were playing a
card or board game, and in the background I saw the Nirvana picture with all of
them in the water.
I think the movie is called "Little Witches"
but anyway, they are chanting and saying stuff like "help us raise the
dead" when one of the girls says: "Let us make contact with Kurt
Cobain!"
I was watching Cartoon Planet (a show that features
Space Ghost, Brak, and Zorak) when all of a sudden Brak said "I went to the
zoo one day and I saw this monkey and then we went to Seattle and there was this
awesome band playing and I was singing (Smells Like Teen Spirit plays)
"With the lights out, we throw boogers! Here we are now, throw more
boogers!"
I dont know if you'd want to include this but on
Backstreet Boys Live on MTV, when Carson asked what ninties groups the band was
influenced by or just plain liked Nick Carter said that he liked Nirvana!
When the backstreet boys were on there they ALSO got a
question about what Nirvana's first album was, but the idiot who said he was
influenced by them said 'Nevermind' was the first album.
In australia they had this virtual reality place called
"intencity" anyway during the commercial for this place they had the
start to breed playing over and over. so like it was just the intro been looped.
I remember when i was in school one day and we watched
this video about sprains and springs and there was a total rip off of smells
like teen spirit as the background music for the whole movie. I mean you could
tell right when it came on.
In one of the episodes of "the bold and
beautiful" one of the models wear a t-shirt with the cover of incesticide.
In the movie "The Rock", Nicolas Cage is
talking to Sean Connery and comments on Connery's long hair and he says
"What? Am I not in style?" and Cage goes "Not unless you are a
twenty year old guitarist from Seattle" [referring to Cobain, I suppose ...
NFC] - then Connery goes "What?" and Cage says: "It's a grunge
thing."
On an episode from Season 5 of the show "Party of
Five", the Hole song "Malibu" is playing in the background while
Julia is talking to her roommate. Also in an past episode of the show, Julia's
husband at the time, Griffin, is talking about going to a Foo Fighters concert.
[I just included these non-Nirvana pieces because I love Party of Five :) ...
NFC]
I remember about 4 years ago I was watching a show
called 'Clarissa Explains It All' on Nickelodeon and the whole show Clarissa was
trying to convince her parents to let her go to a Nirvana concert with her
friend Sam. She kept talking about how the band was cool and how much she loved
Kurt. It was really cheesy. [Someone said it was actually a Pearl Jam concert,
but several claim it was a Nirvana one. In fact I've been getting about 5
e-mails from people saying it was a Nirvana show and 5 e-mails from people
saying it was a Pearl Jam show. Personally I think it was a Pearl Jam show
"Clarissa" went to. William Moore noted something interesting though; "
I have to verify the one about Nirvana being on "Clarissa" and some
people saying they weren't. I know for a fact on one of them it was a Nirvana
concert. Though, there were Pearl Jam concerts also. Sam did talk about going to
a Nirvana concert, but he also talked about going to Pearl Jam concerts Brandon Conner added the following about "Clarissa
Explains It All": To CLOSE this topic, Neil Manson added the following
about the show: There's one episode of 'Clarissa explains it all' when
Clarissa is having a dream that aliens were in her room and she was yelling
"What do you want!? What do u want?" then the aliens go "well, we
want a box set of Nirvana CDs!"
A few years back Mark Hamill (A.K.A. Luke Skywalker)
was on Howard Stern's E! show. He came in with his 17 year old son who was
wearing an Incesticide shirt.
In an german show called "Quatsch Comedy
Club" a artist made jokes about life after death...he said something like
"people who kill themselves will have problems."and he named some
stars that killed themselves...the last one was Kurt Cobain...he said
"remember Kurt Cobain...living with a hole in the head can't be funny...
In the movie "The Curve" [aka. "Dead
Man's Curve, also starring the lovely Keri Russell ... NFC] Matthew Lillard is
telling his friends girlfriend that she and him belong together. She said you
belong together, like Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
Also there is a little used music store by my area and
on their commercial they are talking about old cds and flashing alot of there
covers and they show nevermind. This is all over the state of minnesota or maybe
the midwest in the USA.
I live in Ireland and On the English programme "
Harry Enfield and Chums" there is a sketch where Kevin and His friend are
in Kevin's room with A girl. Kevin is looking for some music, he bends over and
picks up a cassette (Incesticide) and asks the girl if she likes Nirvana, she
says "I used to but not any more".
Smells Like Teen Spirit was also used as the background
music for some English tv ad.
I was watching the Adam and Joe show last night, and
there was an interview with The keyboard player from the Doors. He was talking
about how Janis Joplin, Jimmi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain saying
that they were all 27 when they died, or something like that.
On the (April?) '99 British music quiz show "Nevermind
the Buzzcocks" they did the round where they have make their team member
guess the album cover. This time it was Nirvana Nevermind. One bloke got up and
laid on his belly on the desk pretending to swim whilst the other hung a fiver
above his head. The team member guessed correctly. After the round finished,
Marc Lamar said something about Kurt's suicide note reading "It's better to
burn out than fade away" which was a quote originally from Neil Young (I
think), and then he joked about how old Neil Young was.
In 1992, FOX had a summer replacement show called The
Ben Stiller Show (Ben Stiller of "Something About Mary" fame). The
show only had a few episodes and was quickly canceled. A few tidbits on the
show, it was sketch comedy and featured Stiller, Andy Dick, and Jeanine Garofalo
(sp?) among others. Comedy Central showed the reruns of this like four years
back, and that's where I saw this. They were doing a sketch called "The
Grungies," and it was about this band who looked and acted like Pearl Jam,
it was set in Seattle, and the guys were trying to get a recording contract. The
problem was, they'd destroy their instruments after every show and didn't have
enough money to get new ones. Some of their friends let them borrow instruments
if they promised not to smash them. They were going to play a show for some
record executives, and when the night came, they played a song that was exactly
like Lithium with words about how they were dirty, lazy slackers. They then
proceeded to smash their friend's instruments.
Hey i'm from boston and on one of the channels at
midnight theres a radio show and in the beginning they play aneurysm
Same info from different source: Here in Spain there is a show called "La casa de
los lios" and at least in 2 of the episodes one of the co-stars wears a
Nirvana t-shirt (the one with the face of Kurt).
In another spanish show called "Pepe y Pepa"
(the typical show about a family) the daugther is the typical stereotype
"grungy-kurt cobain clone" (the ridiculos people talking all day about
how cool Cobain is and that they want to kill themselves. That they hate
everybody and all this stupid false things about kurt). In the room of this girl
there are 2 nirvana posters, one of them the one with the face of kurt and the
dates of birth and death, the other one just with the word "Nirvana".
Also she wears Nirvana t-shirts lots of times, including of of the Sliver
single. And the most important thing, in one of episodes she was reading a
Spanish Nirvana special magazine in her room then her father enters the room and
starts to talk with her then he looks to the cover of the magazine (with Kurt's
face) and says:
Father - "Who is this guy" In some cop show with Don Johnson ["Nash
Bridges", according to Micah ... NFC] , the cops get this briefcase, and
when they open it, they flip through it and the guy is reading "Smells like
teen spirit, heart shaped-box, who is interested in some kids old diary?"
and some other dude says " that sounds familiar, oh yeah these are songs
written by Nirvana, Kurt cobain wrote these, he killed himself, this must be his
diary" or some crap like that.
'Ajent Orange' sent in this correction concerning the
info above: The "Nash Bridges/Don Johnson" episode was not related to
Kurt Cobain's Diary. It was about a guy who happened to own the supposed
notebook that Kurt Cobain used to hand write all of Nirvana's lyrics, and he was
playing a deadly game where the object was to capture the briefcase that
contained this coveted item. Just wanted to set the record straight.
In COPS, two people were fighting, and there was a big
nirvana flag in the back, the one where kurt has his sunglasses on and is
staring forward and dave and krist are standing behind him.
In the Pulp Fiction movie soundtrack Nirvana is
thanked. I know they weren't in the movie or anything, but its a soundtrack for
a movie and I thought that would count. [I believe Quentin Tarantino, who
created 'Pulp Fiction', was a friend of Kurt ... NFC. Here is some more info
about that courtesy of James Emmons: Nirvana were big fans of Quentin Tarantino,
and vice versa. Nirvana had personally asked him if they could have a song in
the movie and Tarantino said that they could. However, after shooting the film
he realized he couldn't find a good place to put a Nirvana song (therefore they
couldn't be featured on the soundtrack). Instead, Tarantino put them in the
"Thanks" section. Interestingly, Quentin Tarantino's name is spelled
"Tarentino" in the In Utero "Thank You" section. I'm not
sure why it was spelled the wrong way (probably just an error by the band)]
Iain added the following comment about the Pulp Fiction
thing: I remember watching the olympics one time and they were
doing the part with the horses and one female rider's horse was named Nirvana.
Right after she said what her horse's name was some reporter said
"Nirvana?'' and then they showed the band NIRVANA in concert. I can't
remember what song but i think it was at an IN UTERO concert.
On the episode of Beavis and Butthead: Washing the dog,
Anderson hands them the dog cos it has been rolling in it's own shit. Butthead
says it smells like Teen Spirit then Beavis says it smells like your butt.
[Nirvana video's have also been in a couple of episodes of this show ... NFC]
Same info from different source: I remember about 2 years ago I was watching a show
called "Keenen Ivory Wayans Show" and right before a commercial the
Band of the show (called something like The GIrls) played the intro to smells
like teen spirit exactly as on nevermind a couple of times over. They made it
seem like it was there own song, they gave no credit to Nirvana.
A few months ago on the Larry King Show on CNN, Larry
was interviewing some guy thats on the news program "60 Minutes" and
he said that after Kurt died he made a negative statement about the death of
Kurt Cobain. He got over 20,000 letters in the mail from people who were upset
about what he said about Kurt.
I just saw a pop-tarts commercial and in the background
you could hear (or atleast it sounded like) a cheesy Rape Me cover. No words of
course but it had a striking resemblance.
There's a scene in an old episode of "Beverly
Hills 90210" that has the "In Utero" poster in the background,
when Dylan and Brenda are at one of Dylan's rehab centres.
In Hollyoaks (UK soap) the main character, also called
Kurt, had a rare Nevermind poster on his wall in every episode for about 3 years
that I haven't seen on sale anywhere..
Same info from different source: In an episode of Inspector Frost called Deep Waters
there is a Nevermind poster on the wall in one of the University halls (the
poster is the album cover)
The trailer for the film 'Chasing Amy' has Smells like
Teen Spirit playing.
I was watching MTV the other day and the new girlband 'Hepburn'
were on and they said that their biggest influence were Nirvana. [This sorta
info is not exactly what I'm looking for, for this list, though. Just so you
know ... NFC]
In an episode of the English sitcom 'I'm Alan
Partridge', Alan is having a conversation with Ben and it goes like this: On the news there was a picture of Kip Kinkel (the kid
from Orgeon that shot kids at his school) and he had the Heart-Shaped Box
T-shirt on. I also read an article about Kip and one of his friends was
describing him and he said something about Kip being quiet and listening to
Nirvana a lot.
On the fifth anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death, MTV
Brasil did a three, maybe four hour special showing Unplugged, All the music
video some interviews and some other live videos. Some from Live! Tonight! Sold
Out!, some not. It wasn't much. [Again, several TV channels made tributes to
Kurt on the anniversary. I can't and won't add info about all those specials on
this list ... NFC]
On the game show Jeopardy there was a category where
they named albums and you had to name the band. Anyway one question was
Nevermind, Incesticide, In Utero. Some old guy got it right and said Nirvana.
In Toronto, we have a all-sports radio station called
the FAN 590 AM. For one of the segments they use SLTS for the intro music.
I was watching the Real World Boston and in the episode
where Montana loses her job at the kids club, Cyrus and the other dude, the
logger one are eating at Hard Rock Cafe. Directly between them, behind the table
is a case wiht Nirvana stuff. There is a small painting I think of Kurt the one
on the tribute t-shirt. I couldn't see what the other stuff was cause there was
a glare but I'm sure everything in the case was Nirvana related like I've seen
in other Hard Rock Cafes.
Same info from different source: Some time ago my mom was watching figure skating and
she called me in and some guy was skating to Smells Like Teen Spirit, and when
it was over the announcer said something to the effect of "Move over Eddie
Vedder, Cobain lives!"
In a commercial for the Danish company "DSB",
a Nirvana poster is visible in some kid's room.
In a Danish documentary called "Nicky the
kid" or something like that, there is a scene where they are listening to
Nirvana and you see a Nirvana poster as well, in the documentary.
In the show "Charlot and Charlotte" the song
"Smells like teen spirit" is played.
Yesterday I was watching the dutch program called 'explosief'
(it's kinda like rescue 911) and they played scentless apprentice during a
segment on sumo-wrestling :-)
In one re-occurring skit, during the show "Kids in
the hall", with a bartender named "Buddy"..im not exactly
sure....there is one part of his monologue where you can see a picture of kurt...the
one we always see of him as a child.
Same info from different source: On the commercial for realworld in seatle they were
talking about how the roommates would be working for a radio station, then there
was people in a car changing the radio staion from some crap to Smells Like Teen
Spirit. Then the people in the car started headbanging and stuff.
on VH1's Rock & Roll Jeopardy there is one episode
where the category is something like "grunge" and the first question
thing says something like "they came on to the seattle scene with bleach
but made their name with nevermind" they also mention STP, pearl jam, alice
in chains.
On the MTV series Road Rules (i think season 5) the
group gets a clue to go to Seattle and in the background "Heart-Shaped
Box" is playing.
On an MTV episode of Road Rules they played aneurysm.
Same info from different source: In an episode of 'Wayne's world' (I don't remember if
it was on SNL or an MTV special) wayne talks about Nirvana's 'Heart-Shaped Box'
video, saying stuff like: "Is he saying 'Hey Wayne I got a complaint?' Well
listen here man (to Kurt) if you got something against me, say it to my face,
not national like this."
Same info from different source: There was a sketch on MAD TV where a girl was stuffing
a Thanksgiving turkey and her father is relaying details about her little
sister's date to her, because she has her hands full and cannot answer the
phone. The girl stuffing the turkey asks, "is he cute?", and the
father asks the girl and then answers back, "Cuter than Dave Grohl.....".
I can't remember what the rest of the line is, but someone else probably has a
tape or something.
On Israeli television, they play "Stay away"
on the background of the commercial for 'Melrose Place' and Beverly Hills 90210.
On comedy central on a episode of Win Ben Stein's
Money, one of the catagories was called "Pink Floyd the Barber."
On an episode of MTV's fanatic with Marilyn Manson, the
fanatic said something like "what is your opinion on 'selling out"'
and manson said "from the begining we considered ourselves 'sellouts' so
there was no suprise in the future, I think that is something that affected Kurt
Cobain is when fans [dork fans] started calling Kurt a sellout." That is
about what he said but not word for word.
On MTV when they had Wanna be a VJ Too they asked the
contestants questions and they asked what the three bands that should go in the
Hall Of Fame for the 90's and NIRVANA was number 1. Also on the same show they
had a clip of SLTS video and they asked what year was it nominated for the MTV
Music Awards. Also on MTV they had Metallica TV and Matt Pinfield
asked,"What famous Television Show did NIRVANA parody for their In Bloom
video" and Lars Ulrich answered and got it right Ed Sullivan. Also on MTV
the special 9 days that rocked the 90's and NIRVANA was number 3. Also on MTV
the Buzzworthiest video was SLTS. Also on MTV they had a special 9 movie moments
that made the 90's and they played SLTS when they had the movie Clueless.
[Again, this is not the sort of info I'm looking to include in this list ... NFC]
On the Finnish TV show "Double Trouble",
there was a guy in a church and he said: "First I belived in Buddha. Then I
belived God. Then Jesus. Then I belived in Nirvana & then I believed in Kurt
Cobain."
On the television show "Noodles For Pauly"
(some weird family/sitcom show) the main character, Pauly, is talking about just
seeing a music video, and he wanted to know who the 'big, tall doofy guy who was
next to Kurt Cobain' was. Well, his son, Dan, goes 'Dad, don't you know
anything, thats Krist Noveselic!' and Pauly goes 'Does he get as many women as
Kurt?" and then Dan goes, 'You just don't get it do you.' The episodes at
least six years old.
In the movie "Dream For An Insomniac" they
quote a Nirvana song, but I can't remember which one.
Same info from different source: In some old episode of the Swedish television series
"rederiet," one or two posters of Nirvana, including the ever-famous
In Utero tour poster, is featured when the character Jussi is going to bed.
Throughout the episode the posters are featured several times.
A show called "channel one" played the bleach
version of school during the closing credits. This was on an anniversary of
Kurt's death. For your information: This show is brodcasted in schools in
America (not on regular TV only. It is a special news program for schools, but
technically it is a TV mention.
A while ago on SNL they did a skit about women and they
were talking to (a fake) courtney love (via satellite) and at the beggining she
was calm and she was dresed nicely and the interviewer said whats wrong I mean
you are the widow of Kurt Cobain (That's not exactly how he said it).
In an episode of Unsolved mysteries, there is a chick
that is looking at the back of the unplugged CD by Nirvana. You can clearly see
it.
In an episode of unsolved mysteries from 1996, they do
a thing about the women who was the lead singer of a seattle band called the
gits. she had been murdered on her way home one night, and alot of seattle bands
played tributes and benifit concerts to find the killer and and robert stack
says"many seattle based rock bands helped to try to find the killer,
including nirvana [and it closes up on a in utero era pic of kurt] and he
continues to say" in one of kurt cobain final performances.
On the Family Channel, there is a show with an episode
where this teen daughter wants to encourage her mom so that she can go to the
Nirvana Concert Live with Backstage passes. The whole show is pretty much based
on that.
In an episode of "Frasier" (from around
1996), Fraiser was talking to his producer (Ross) in her programming room, next
to the studio and outside in the hallway you can see a Big Nirvana poster. It is
blue and had a big NIRVANA in white on top, and a bunch of fine print on the
bottom. The poster looked like it was from the days of Nevermind.
There is a Pop Tarts commercial where they play the
beginning of 'Lithium', just the guitar riff, not the part with the lyrics.
Recently on the VH1 program "Behind the
music", they featured REM's music career. When they got to "everybody
hurts" they started talking about Stipe's friendship with Kurt and his
death. They asked Stipe about it, Stipe said (not exactly these words) "I
was sad and upset, I felt like I lost an ally in music. I respected him as a
person and a friend, I wish he was not dead ............" One could clearly
see that he was very sad.
In a episode of VH1's Rock of Ages they are talking to
some teenage cheerleaders and to some younger cheerleaders about the video SLTS.
The teenage cheerleaders know about nirvana and think that the cheers that the
cheerleaders do in that video is sexy. The younger cheerleaders didn't know who
nirvana was and one of them said, "Isn't Teen Spirit a deoderant, does this
scary guy singing go and sniff deoderant (or something like that.)" Later
in that same show they are talking to young chefs and the hosts asks if any of
the chefs like to listen to music while they cook and one said, "I like to
listen to Nirvana because of all the cursing."
Last week there was a show on the Dutch Television the
name of the show was "KLOKHUIS" and on the background there was a song
of Nirvana: MILK IT from In Utero.
In the movie "Muriels Wedding" one of the
characters says to another "u cant be cool listening to Abba, listen to new
mucic like Nirvana and etc."
On the show family matters Steve Urkel invents the
"Urkel Brush" which is a tooth bruish that you use and it plays music
from a built in radio and when urkel changes the music while Carl Winslow tests
it out Urkel goes to a harder station and the opening riff to breed is
played...then the aa battery in the the toothbrish magically turns into 160
volts and electricutes Carl.
In the short lived saban seires "super human
samuri cyber squad" (what an idea) the bad guy sees the good guys (in their
un knowingly knowing each other in their other identity style) listening to
something and he says "Why don't you listen to some good new music like
white zombie or nirvana?" this was at least 4 years ago and why the two
bands were put together i will never know.
Smells like Teen Sprit was used for the advertisement
for 'City Central', a TV show on BBC1.
There was some Scottish show, Crow Road, here in
Croatia, and in one scene when one boy is waking up in his room, you can see two
big posters of Nirvana on the wall. One is Kurt screaming - from concert
(Amsterdam, Paradiso - 91) and another one is similar to the "I hate
myself..." poster. It is from the same day, but it's not that weird looking
solo with Kurt, but the whole band.
Same info from different source: I was watching TV, well actually just listening to it
blaring in my ear. And they had this commercial for like a Rollar derby thats
coming to town, and the backround music was Breed.
I was watching MTV and saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers
video "Under The Bridge", and the guitarist in the video is playing a
guitar that looks like the Jag-Stang (The guitar Kurt invented). It was one of
the blue-green ones and had all the same characteristics. The guitar used in
this video is most likely a Jaguar (which is "half" of the Jag-Stang).
I was watching old episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 and
Tori Spelling's character, Donna, and this guy were at a place where there was a
concert and there was a HUGE line. Tori's character goes: "Great, what are
we gonna do now?" and the guy goes "There's only one thing to do,
apply for a job at this place so we can go in" - or something like that.
The guy goes "Don't worry I did the same thing for a Nirvana concert."
The Canadian film "Hardcore Logo", mentions
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, and Courtenay Love several times in the movie. I can't
quote exactly which times. However, I recommend the film to anyone who is
interested in 3-chord rock. The movie is about an old-school canadian punk band
that reforms for "one last tour". The movie also includes a segment in
which DOA perform, reportedly the band of which courtenay and kurt saw when the
met each other.
In Israeli TV there's a commerciel for the movie
"Empire Records" starring Liv Tyler. In the beginning of the
commercial you can clearly hear "SLTS" from Nevermind.
SLTS was also used on a Car Insurance commercial on
Channel 2 in Israel.
In an episode of Clueless, when it was on abc, the main
character Cher [Rachel Blanchard] was talking to a boy on the phone named Sonny.
Sonny says "The music industry went downhill after Kurt Cobain died",
or something to that effect and then Cher replies: "That's not true, what
about Alanis Morrisette?" I think in another episode the girl mentions
Courtney Love.
On the show Royal Canadian Air Farce (a canadian comedy
show) one of the guys is playing some famous singer (I forgot who, maybe John
Elton) and its all songs about dead singers, and one song is called something
like "Don't cry for me Kurt Cobain" (thats not the name, but its
close).
On the Comedy Central show "Win Ben Stiens
Money" a game show kinda like Jeopardy, one of the categories was
"Cities Near Kurt Cobain's Birthplace". The category was never chosen,
so I don't know what the question was. I'm sure they would have called Aberdeen
his birthplace, rather than Hoquiam, WA.
On the Sunday 18th of July 1999 edition of the show
"Mark Lamarr Leaving the 20th Century", Mark Lammar was joking about
how Rock stars all feel the need to express their depression through their music
and making fun out of bands like Radiohead. Then he finished and Alice Cooper
came on stage as a guest. Alice Said "You know one thing, you missed the
whole Seattle Movement". Mark laughed and said he couldn't exactly talk
about Kurt Cobain, then he put his fingers to his mouth and made the noise of a
gun going off and everyone laughed.[Hmmm ! ... NFC]
On MTV's Beavis and Butt-head they had a foo fighters
video (can't remmember which one) and Butt-head goes look at the drummer and
beavis goes what and its the drummer from Nirvana he's singing (thats not how he
said it).
On VH1 they had a special on One Hit Wonders and it was
Devo's video for whip it and the announcer said that a lot of bands covered
their songs and they said Green Day and Nirvana and then they showed a picture
of Kurt.
Here in the UK we have a quiz show called
"100%" where 3 contestants have to choose from 3 possible answers to a
question, they get a 100 questions. Anyway, question 29, 'Nineties Pop Music':
Kurt Cobain was the lead singer of which group? On VH1 Behind The Music of Weird Al Yankovic they were
talking about the Smells Like Nirvana Parody and they were talking about Kurt,
Dave and Krist. and showed Nirvana Clips of interviews and concerts. [Please, no
more info on VH-1 and MTV specials now ...]
For those of you who live in Cleveland, on the late
radio station 107.9 "The End" they had a promo for the station in
which they clearly play the beginning guitar riffs of "Very ape".
In Turkey there is a film called 'Cilgin Bedis'. There
is a girl in the movie and in her room there is a poster of Kurt.
On a mexican/spanish tv show called "Rola la Rola"
(it's similar to vh1's music jeopardy) Nirvana was once one of the categories.
Unfortunately no one picked it.
Kurt was mentioned on a UK tv series today. Its an
Australian show called "Blue Heelers" and this particular episode was
called "Collateral Damage". There were two police officers who were
investigating drug allegations at a high school, a female officer called Maggie
(who used to attend the school their investigating) and a male officer. Anyway,
while checking the lockers for drugs Maggie finds her old locker and opens and
says to her male collegue "Look, theres still my picture of Kurt Cobain on
the door", the male officer then says something like "He's dead
now" and Maggie responds with "Well he wasn't at the time".
In a show on Mtv Brazil called "Os Piores Clips Do
Mundo" (The World's Worst Videos) they recently played "Territorial
Pissings".
In the new comedy "American Pie" there is a
black & blue NIRVANA sticker behind the main character's computer.
Also, in American Pie there is a scene where you can
see the smiley face.
In the movie "Natural Born Killers" with
Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, I've heard the Melvins' song 'Spread Eagle
Beagle'. [Kurt helped produce this song, and added extra percussion to it ...
NFC]
In the movie Soldier, this soldier guy gets stranded on
this planet where a ton of other planets dump their trash. The soldier dude
walks around and finds a whole bunch more stranded people, he goes to their
little town and in this one room there is a thing hanging from the ceiling made
out of cds. Most of the cds are Nirvana cds, but not all of them, this is very
difficult to see, because the movie makers didn't want to have to put in the
trademark stuff, so they slightly painted over it. People have told me they
chose Nirvana cds because the producer or something was a big fan.
On Conan O' Brian in 1995 Conan did a sketch called 'A
Demographic Minute'. Anyways, it was something like 'The mind of a thirteen year
old boy' and throughout the entire thing 'Lithium' was playing.
On some soap (I think it was 'Days of our lives') and
no, I don't have the episode date; Nirvana's 'Something in the way' could be
heard, and man, it was hacked up! It went from the first two lines right in to
the chourus.
On an episode of "Step by step" Frank is
having a midlife crisis so he dresses like Elvis and says "I'm gonna start
a grunge band".
On the former "End" radio station, for you
Clevelanders, they had this show where they interview bands and they were
interviewing Sugar ray and asking members of the band "If they could talk
to one person, alive or dead, and just talk with them about anyting, who would
it be?" and one guy said "Kurt Cobain".
There was a program called "The Unashamed Poshness"
on 20/7/99 Sky One (UK) about upper class people in Britain. They were at a
teens club and Smells Like Teen Spirit came on. The crowd went mad and at the
end of the song, right at the end of the program they all started singing the
words.
Another one is from an English soap opera called
Eastenders, from about 5 years ago, when one of the characters - Bianca - was
staying in a bedsit, she had the In Utero poster on her wall.
In the movie "Coal Miner's Daughter" (a movie
about the life of a country music star in the sixties), the main character
Loretta Lynn, is told to calm the baby down. So she goes outside with the baby,
and starts singing Leadbelly's version of In The Pines (aka. 'Where did you
sleep last night'). Nirvana covered that very song on their unplugged set.
[Please don't submit any more info about movies with a song in it that Nirvana
covered at some point. Thanks ... NFC]
On a show called "Naked", a program about the
human body, on British TV (an episode about puberty) a guy sat in his bedroom
listening to Tourette's. He also had a picture of the band on the wall.
This new girl on the show called "Home and
Away", aired since about 1989, is in her early 20s. She lives alone, and at
the front door there is a wall of posters. I noticed there was that Kurt Cobain
signed poster with Kurt sitting in the recording studio. Its black and white,
and a pretty common poster i think. He is resting his head on his hand and his
arms rest on the guitar. Also there is a close up poster of Kurt (black and
white also) sweating and his hair covers most of his face, he is just screaming
into the mic. Really close up picture, only his head is there. There is also a
poster of Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam in much the same pose as the Kurt
one..really close up singing into the mic. The vedder one is in color. This girl
appeared in about June 1999, and we first saw her apartment/house in July 1999.
Her wall of posters first appeared (and is constantly appearing in the
background now) since 15th July 1999.
I was watching a movie called 'Danielle Steel's A
Perfect Stranger' and this guy was going to his ex-wife's house to see his
daughter. He went inside his daughter's room and there was a huge Nirvana In
Utero poster on the wall.
In a couple of episodes of 'Shortland Street' on
British television this guy in the show called Nick is wearing a Nirvana
Incesticide t-shirt.
I was watching an episode of Fox Files a while back
about young exibitionists and while it showed them partying in the streets, the
song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" played in the background.
At the begining of the nascar pennsylvania 500, Breed
was being played with a mix of some other crap.
On Mtv's Fanatic There Was A Guy Who Was Obsessed with
horror movies and he was going to meet the guy who plays Norman Bates in the new
Psycho movie and as they are getting into the limo, they are playing 'Come as
you are' in the background.
The dutch comedian Theo Maassen used a Nirvana song in
his latest show. He said something like 'nobody understands me' and then he used
a song from Nirvana.
Lithium is mentioned in an episode for the 2nd season
of 'The critic', when the main character Jay is teaching English for cab
drivers, he writes on the board "life is hell the only thing that keeps me
going is Lithium". Also later in the same episode they say something about
grunge or something. [As someone correctly pointed out, the show is most likely
referring to the drug Lithium and not the song by Nirvana ... NFC]
This afternoon, I was watching a french television
documentary about the english band Oasis. It's called "Behind The
Mirror" and Noel Gallagher mentions Kurt Cobain. He says that Kurt was a
great artist, a great man and that he was really sad when he learned that Kurt
had killed himself. He also says that the band have dedicated the song
"Live Forever" to him the day after his death during one of their
gigs.
I was listening to a talk show on the radio, and on two
seperate occasions they mentioned Kurt Cobain. The 1st time a guy (he was
probably 90-years-old, considering the following statement that he said and his
vioce) called up and said "What's that crap that you play during
commercials?" And the talk show host said "We're having a Kurt Cobain
marathon" and he disconnected the caller. the 2nd occasion was when they
were discussing John Kennedy Jrs death, and some person was making a joke about
it, and then the talk show host said "I heard that same joke about Kurt
Cobain's death"
On this afternoon childrens game show in Australia
called "pick your face" where kids about 13 have to gather clues and
stuff and find the identity of a famous person. One of the segments was Kurt
Cobain and had 4 pieces that were all mixed up and the children had the put them
together and say who they were, two kids got it right and one said he was some
football player. It also had a small like biography of him when the first kid
worked out who he was.
This afternoon I was watching an episode of "The
Rebel" with Lorenzo Lamas. I don't know if The Rebel is the original title,
whatever. Again, Kurt Cobain is mentioned. The episode deals with the story of a
punk rock star who can't assume his success. At one moment the rock star says
"I could finish like Kurt, a bullet in the larynx". Then Lorenzo Lamas
aka Reno Raines replied cynically "You want to finish like Kurt Cobain. He
left alone his wife and his daughter and you want to be like him? Think to
that."
Last week, on Politically Incorrect, Bill Maher (sp?)
was talking about suicide. And he said : "Friends don't let friends marry
Courtney Love."
An australian kids show called 'Squawk! TV' showed this
scout camp where the kids had made a set of speakers out of 2 orange juice
containers and they were playing In Bloom on them.
In an episode of Silk Stalkings, Detective Ryan is
interrogating some guy, and the guy (talking about his son's suicide) says
something like: "He jumped off a bridge the day after that rock star Kurt
Cobain died. Some hero..."
On a local Baltimore/Washington DC radio station, 99.1
WHFS, on the morning show with Lou Brutus and Alan Scott back in about April of
1999, they were talking about a guitar that was singed by many bands and that
they were gonna give it away as a prize. And this was the dialogue I remember: On the Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Jay, during a
Jay-Walking brigade, he interviews a girl if she believes in the supernatural,
and she said how she and a friends were upstairs in her room, playing on the
Ouija board, when all of a sudden, it wrote out she was gay, then a poster of
Kurt Cobain fell of the wall.
In the movie A Civil Action w/ john travolta and robert
duval, When john travolta was telling the media 'do these kids deserve to die of
the local water contamination problem?' he was showing a couple of pictures of
kids and the second picture it looked like the kurt cobain picture when he was a
kid. The one that was mentioned about being in the bar on kids in the hall.
In Sonic Youth's video "Dirty Boots" some
girl in dancing in the front with a white Nirvana T-shirt on.
On the Showtime sitcom "Rude Awakening", A
woman tries to sell a necklace made out of syringes to another rich woman, and
the rich woman says: "I love it, it's Kurt Cobain meets Cartier!"
In the new show on MTV, Downtown, there's a scene where
this guy and girl are playing some game, and Aneurysm starts playing in the
background. [No more MTV-related info now, please ... NFC]
In that new show downtown on Money Television, in this
weeks episode, I guess, they started playing Aneurysm. Surprised me.
On the CBS 7pm news on 8/18/99, they had a segment on
school drug tests or something and they showed footage of kids walking around in
a school, and at one point they had the camera on this one kid for a while and
he was wearing the white Nirvana shirt with the picture of them on the bed with
Kurt holding the can opener.
Hey. My name is just im 16 and im from minnesota. Last
night i saw detroit rock city and at the beginning the boys are playing in a
band and one of the guitarist has a fender mustang the white and red one like
kurts. Plus alot of kiss songs that nirvana covered and it is funny as hell.
On one episode of the game show Jeopardy, one of the
categories is something like, "lyric titled CDs." The hint answer was,
"Oh well, whatever, nevermind..." The contestant answered,
"Nirvana- Nevermind".
On a recent commercial advertising beds n' such for
college kids , you hear Smells Like Teen Spirit in the background playing while
you see a college kid sleeping in a box.. - KKD
On Fox's Fox Files, they were doing a segment on the
college riot at Michigan University, and in the back ground, they played Smells
Like Teen Spirit.
In the comic strip Robotman, the robot and Monty were
talking about reaching the heavenly state of nirvana when Robotman said
something like "To all the readers at home, we are talking about the
heavenly state of nirvana, not the Seattle grunge band." The last panel
show three guys somewhere who are stereotypical grungies who are confused about
it and thought it was about Nirvana.
I was watching the NBC show 'Jesse' [starring Christina
Applegate] and when Diego's Parents were visiting from Chile Diego's dad said
"isn't buffalo the # 1 suicide city in the US?" and Jessie said
"no its Seattle" and Diego's dad said "how come I wanna kill my
self?" [This could be related to Kurt, I guess ... NFC].
On Sports Page (a Vancouver sports show like
Sportscenter or Sportsdesk), they played all of SLTS during the plays of the
week.
In, the television show-soap opera "Days of Our
Lives" there was a clear showing of the In Utero cd booklet in a jukebox in
a lounge that the scene was taking place.
In 'Home and away', in a recent episode where Will is
Dating Peta, there is A Nirvana poster Of Kurt (In black and white) from the Mtv
unplugged video!
Hey, on one episode of the cartoon network's Cartoon
Planet, space ghost, brak, and zorak sing a song called "Smells like
cartoon planet." The song only borrows from the SLTS title, the music is
different, i didnt recognize it.
On an episode of Saturday Night Live, the were doing a
spoof about the A&E Biography show, and their main interest was Courtney
Love. The shows host, after the audience is shown a video clip of the fake
Courtney Love (played by Molly Shanon), picks up a beer, and shotguns it. Then
he says: "What I just did is called shotgunning, and it was a shotgun
Courtney's husband, Kurt Cobain, used to blow his head off."
On an episode of Home Improvement where at the
beginining, Tim burns some hate mail, you can see a man in his early 20s wearing
a Nirvana - Sliver shirt.
Krist appears on the 'Suck You Dry' video clip from
Mudhoney (1992).
On the cartoon network show "Space Ghost Coast to
Coast" at the end of a few different episodes they cover a whole lot of
songs, one being entitled "Smells Like Cartoon Planet", while not a
cover, it has different lyrics, and beat to it, it still is in a nirvana style
of beat.
i was watching muchmusic and they were going on about
some of the great musicians of all time and the reporter was in what seemed to
be some kind of gift shop and as they named the "great" musicians
(most of whome were never very good) they would aim the camera at merchandise
for that particular band or whatever. well they never said nirvana but did zoom
in for a split second on a black nirvana t-shirt with a nirvana smilie on it.
I was wacthing a movie on the movie channel called
national lampoons dads week off. The dad(Henry Winkler) was talking to a girl
that followes him arround, when her ex shows up. Henry says to the ex"im
taking her to nirvana". Then the ex says"A rock concert, listen Kurt
cobain has been dead for 4 years"
on Home And Away, an Australian soap, also aired in
England, where the girl lives with her fake gran, shes new to the show, just
inside her house in between the door and stairs theres a poster of kurt with an
acoustic guitar, this has been shown a few times.
hey i was watching a episode of mad tv and i can't
really remember much about it but a guy was trying to check into a rehap clinic
and the woman at the front desk says something like "uh do you want the
kurt cobain suite?"
i was reading your thing and somebody said something
about channel one and i remember wacthin it in school back in 97 give or take a
few years and they were doin a timeline thing for the seniors for that year and
in the 1994 clips the first one is from the unplugged clip where kurt is pulling
hair behind his ear and smiling.
In 'The Crow: Stairway to Heaven' TV series Kurt Cobain
is mentioned. A guy in a record store is talking about dead musicians and he
mentions Hendrix, Morrison and Cobain.
On the cartoon "Freakazoid" one of the lyrics
to the song is "Floyd the Barber cuts his hair....."
I think I heard "tourettes" playing at the
begining of National Lampoon's Senior Trip.
On an episode of "Rock and Roll Jepordy"
there was this category called album covers. One question was something like
this: "That's little Spencer Eldon swimming on this band's Nevermind
cover." The contestant answered "Who is Nirvana."
In "Fucking Åmål", Johan Hult has a Kurt
Cobain poster on his wall which says "NIRVANA".
On an episode of SNL, about '93 there was a sketch
mocking the 'Real World' with Sandler, Spade, Snider, Meadows, and Mike Meyers,
who is from Doublin. Anyway, while they were all arguing, in the background,
they were playing 'come as you are'.
On a local comercial for a music store they do a shot
of a shelf full of cds and you can clearly see nirvana's in utero cd on one of
the shelves.
In February 1997 There was a german Movie from RTL
which was called "Der Parkhausmörder". In this movie a girl listened
to heart shaped box in her living room.
In December last year, 1998, there was a TV movie from
RTL, too. I forgot the name, but they play something in the way 3 times in the
full length in this movie. The movie was about a young girl which was rebelling
against their parents.
In a subtitled movie called "Atomica"
(Spain-1997), Kurt gets a mention. I saw it late at night, but it said something
like "Don't end up like Kurt Cobain". what I actually recall being
said was more detailed...(yes, i wrote it down!) This girl asks her male
companion ... "Don't you remember Kurt Cobain?" .... "Wouldnt you
have given the world to save him?".... "now save your friend"
(this guys ex-friend was a heroin addict on the brink.... the addict does later
die from an overdose in the film). But after that woman's cobain comment he did
attempt to save the addict, but it was all too late.
In the movie 'toy story' one of the alines says
"nirvana is coming" [This is not related to the band, but just being
in the state of Nirvana ... NFC]
Same info from different source: On the Big Breakfast (an UK Breakfast show), a guest
was talking about deodorants. Teen Spirit was the mainframe and the presenter
said something like, "This deodorant was, of course, the inspiration for
Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit wasn't it?"
On this Rally car program in Australia they played
about 1 minute of smells like teen spirit to the video of the cars
On the television show "Smack Down", which
airs on UPN - the announcer made the comment "It smells like soco" and
the other announcer made the comment "I have heard of 'Smells Like Teen
Spirit' but not "Soco Spirit".
I was watching a cable in the classroom special about
Matthew Sheppard's death and in the beginning it showed a girl's notebook,
scribbled on the inside was MTV's logo and NIRVANA's logo in blue ink!
There was an episode of Oprah about the shootings and
peer pressure and the 1 kid was wearing a Kurt Cobain/In Utero shirt. The pic
off 12-13-93.
I saw this music quiz show (aired on UK play) called
Mark and Lard's Pop Upstairs. This is how it went: On the begining of the cartoon show "Freakazoid"
there is one line that says "Floyd the Barber cuts his hair".
On the UK's National Television Awards, one of the
winners said that:"Comparing our cast with our rivals is just like
comparing Frank sinatra with Nirvana." - I think she missed something
though. Both Frank and Kurt are dead!
In the Netherlands we've got a well-watched program on
TV called 'Big Brother', it's sort of an experiment, where 9 people have to live
in a small house together for over hundred days, the house is equiped with 40
camera's, so everything the inhabitants do is caught on camera [sorta like the
'Truman show']. They have no contact with the outside world and there is a big
fence around the house. The inhabitant that succeeds in staying in the isolated
house for 100 days wins a moneyprice of 100.000 dollars. In one of the first
episodes of the show you see one of the inhabitants writing 'Nirvana' on the
wall. In a recent episode of 'Big Brother' there was a surprise for the
inhabitants of the house, singer Anouk came to visit and she had champagne, a CD
player and some CD's with her. When they sit down to drink something, Anouk
put's Nirvana's Unplugged in NY in the CD-player and during a minute or so you
hear the unplugged version of Nirvana's 'Come as you are'.
In "The Fast Show", on a segment called
"Indie corner" the guy said: "....which was the biggest mistake
since Kurt Cobain tried to do some interior decorating with his head and a
shotgun"
In Placebo's "Every me and every you"
videoclip there's a guy waiting in line to enter a concert and he his wearing a
Nirvana shirt!
On the Big Breakfast, Johnny Vaughan (the host) was
talking about a soccer team that were doing really badly and another guy said
that what they need is team spirit and (you guessed it!), Johnny said
"Smells Like TEAM Spirit!" and it got a whole bunch of laughs. Later
on in that show, he was talking about something (I wasn't really listening) and
he said "Can you imagine if the ghosts of great singers like Kurt Cobain
and Elvis suddenly started flying through your window."
I was watching Sky and for the trailer of a film called
Masterminds they used music from In Utero's 'Scentless Apprentice'.
I just watched a movie called "Billys Hollywood
Screen Kiss"(1998 on stars). There's this gay guy(Billy) and a Straight
gut(Gabe) and billy is asking gabe about his girlfriend and Gabe says she plays
drums and Bill says what do you do and Gabe says I play bass and billy says you
two are a regular Kurt and Courtney. Gabe just replies ya.
Same info from different source: In the wrestling promotion called ECW, a wrestler named
Tommy Dreamer sometimes wears the black and yellow nirvana face shirt. One the
wrestlers used to come to the ring with Smells Like Teen Spirit as his entrance
music (the real version, not some crappy knockoff). Also, at the ECW live shows,
they'll sometimes play Lithium, Come As You Are, or In Bloom before the matches.
On an old episode of Mad Tv there was this skit with a
Hari Krishna band playing in an airport. One of the members said "Were
going to Nirvana and I don't mean heaven, I mean the top of the charts."
On an episode of Jonovision special Guest Em Gryner
said that she would put Kurt Cobains head in a 90's time capsule.
There this show called Madison and in one of the
episodes a guy was killed. He came back from the dead and told his friend that
being dead wasn't so bad because he's been seeing a lot of Kurt. He also said
that Kurt is depressed and all he does is play his guitar.
On the Camila Scott talk show(canadian) there was this
episode with celebrity look-alikes. This one guy looked exatly like Kurt Cobain.
It was scary. Even the way he moved and talked was like Kurt.
In the drama show 'Party of five', Claudia is trying to
get her brother to let her boyfriends band play at Charlie's wedding, and the
conversation went something like this: I was flipping channels when I heard 'Smells like teen
spirit' in the background on the 1998 or 1997 mister universe competition when
the winner was announced and it played the whole time until it went to the
commercial break.
In the movie "Girl" (itself based on the book
of the same name about the Portland rock underground in the early nineties -
very unrealistic), there's a character called Richard who hasn't showered for
weeks and people are starting to comment on his smell. The reason given for him
not showering is that Kurt Cobain never did (!)
Same info from different source: I noticed this in canadian film 'Fun': In one scene
where two girls are getting ready to go to sleep, there is a poster of Kurt from
rio performing live, among the bunch of other music posters.
In the X-Files episode that aired on 12/5/99 (in the
US), Agent Mulder asks a murderer who's in a hospital bed what happened to him.
The kid replies, "Too much Teen Spirit," then Mulder says, "It
smells like murder."
Same info from different source: Same info from different source: Hi. I was flipping through channels the other day, and
then on the German channel they started playing the intro to Breed and then it
showed Kurt Cobain and then a bunch of kids moshing. I don't know what revelance
it had to the news, since i don't know any German, but it was still cool.
I just wanted to say that Kurt Cobain was once
mentioned in an episode of "The Renegade". In this episode, there was
a rock singer who, unable to bear the stess of being a celebrity, decided to
plan his own kidnapping. So when Lorenzo Lamas came to know about the plot, he
began questionning this guy about his motives and here's the conversation that
took place(at least it was something like that): On Eastenders,(UK soap), some kid ran away and his Dad
said,"I hope that he just doesn't do a Kurt Cobain on us."
In a german late-night-show called Harald Schmidt Show
the host was making jokes about the Mini-Playback Show (another german tv-show
in which kids try to look like musicians). Then he says that a kid being asked
who it wants to portray answers Kurt Cobain.
In a music video by the german band Tocotronic you can
clearly see the vinylcover of Nevermind standing besides a record player. The
title of the song is "Wir sind hier nicht in Seattle, Dirk".
In the roadmovie "A boy called hate" the main
actor and main actress are sitting near a fire in a desert. They're doing some
talking and then the guy says: "Look over there. If you look closely at the
fire you can see Kurt Cobain raised from the dead". Then the two laugh a
bit.
On a finnish tv show called "Elämän suola"
a guy said "I'm interested in languages and strings, the ones that are on
guitar (language and string means the same word in finnish)", then he
grapped an acoustic guitar and played few notes of "Come as you are".
Also, on a finnish motor sports show called "Ruutulippu",
once when they showed Trial motorcycle driver Tommi Ahvala doing some stunts,
"Come as you are" intro was played behind.
I was just watching Conan 'O Brian and they had a joke
where Conan held up an ad in a newspaper for something. It was a picture of a
dog but it had the words "Scrappy- 1991-1994, died like his hero Kurt
Cobain" under the picture.
Same info from different source: In Jeopardy was mentioned in a Teen Tournament episode.
The category was 'famous song titles' and the answer was "Nirvana didn't
sweat over the title of this 1991 hit". A girl named Kristi Jones asked the
correct question.
On a talk show in Australia called "the
panel" (5 people sit at a desk and discuss news) they were talking about
the release of the kurt and courtney movie.....Then they started going into the
"who killed kurt" debate, then one of the guys said "id kill
myself too if I were married to Courtney love!
Nirvana was supposedly asked to be apart of the 1992
movie "Singles." The movie focuses in on the Seattle scene, and a few
people that live there. There is live footage of Alice and Chains and
Soundgarden in the movie, and well as a few members of Pearl Jam having small
roles and going under the band name "Citizen Dick" with the stars of
the movie Matt Dillon and Bridget Fonda.
In the movie titled "Marilyn Chambers Desire"
at the beginning of the movie one of the stagehands is wearing an In Utero tour
t-shirt.
Although not a movie, but a music video, the rock band
Oasis have a picture of Kurt on the wall in their "Live Forever" video
off of Oasis's 1994 "Definitely Maybe" album.
Same info from different source: The trailer for the film 'Chasing Amy' (featuring Ben
Affleck) had Smells Like Teen Spirit playing in the background.
When the Melvins appeared on the HBO show Reverb,
Melvins leader Buzz Ozbourne starts telling a lady he is trying to by a house
from about all of his accomplishments. He mentions that Kurt Cobain was a huge
fan of his band. It was a setup gag that Buzz is supposedly trying to get the
house basically given to him because of his fame. He also mentions his part as
the godfather of grunge. The lady later replies for him to go from the Beverly
Hills mansion back to Seattle.
At the 1997 Billboard Music Awards comedian host David
Spade after the running of a clip of Mama Cass Elliot on Scooby Doo from the
1970's came back with "What's next, Kurt Cobain on Rugrats?"
On the cartoon "Space Goofs" one of the
characters while flipping television channels says "Oh great, one more
channel to Nirvana!" then you hear rock music playing off of his TV.
Cartoon icons Beavis and Butthead have reviewed two
Nirvana videos to my knowledge: Smells Like Teen Spririt & Heart Shaped Box.
Kurt even saw the episode where they reviewed Teen Spirit. They thought Nirvana
was cool both times. When watching the Heart Shaped Box video Beavis says that
the video has given him nightmares. He also says that he wants to fix up his
room like the actual Heart Shaped Box room that appears more towards the end of
the video. [Courtesy of Brian Peterson]
It was on episode of the Torklesons last season I
think. The main character Mary Joe, think that is her name. Well anyway she
sneeks out to go to a college doorm. When you get to the guys room. You can see
a Nevermind poster hanging on the wall for about 10 mins of the show. It is the
one when there in the pool swimming under water.
In 1996, Metallica held a contest where they would come
to winner's house: a promotional gig on MTV for their Load album, and play
there. Well the winner just happened to live in Aberdeen, WA. The same place
Kurt, Krist, and the Melvins all lived in their childhood.
The who killed Kurt Cobain murder talk show episodes
are starting to rack up as well. Cobain has been the subject of at least one
episode of such shows as Geraldo Rivera, Montel Williams, Jerry Springer, and
Maury Povich. Hard Copy, Inside Edition, American Journal, and dozens of other
entertainment television shows have also televised many Cobain related stories.
Others shows that have mentioned Nirvana before have included EXTRA,
Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, Current Affair, and CNN Showbiz Today.
[Courtesy of Brian Peterson]
I don't know if this counts but, on an old episode of
the Real World on MTV the two people Sean and Syrus were talking in a bar and on
the wall over their table was a monument of Kurt Cobain.
In the January-February issue of 411 video magazine
(its a skateboarding vid. mag. in case you didn't know) there's a section where
some skaters are trashing a bunch of computers while "tourette's" is
played in the background. It's awesome cuz it fits perfectly w/ the video.
ECW wrestling promotion back in 94, Raven (ECW
Wrestler) was cutting a promo and said "the world is full of kings and
queens, they'll blind your eyes and steal your dreams, Kurt Cobain didnt make
it, and left a generation of tourtured souls behind" Another ECW Wrestler
TAZ had the entrance of "Breed" sometime around 91.
In Seattle there is a show similar to Saturday Night
Live called Almost Live. It airs right before SNL in Seattle. During the opening
segment, the host John Keister was talking about his goatee. He said something
like, "Yeah, it's a grunge thing. I'm gonna go to the Nirvana concert
now." This show was from November or December of 1994 so John Keister must
not have know that Kurt had died. Later during the same show they played a clip
of Stay Away.
In English crime drama 'Trial & Retibution III'
they was a house with a poster in it. I only noticed it 'cause I have the same
poster myself. It features a large pic of a sweaty Kurt with Nirvana written at
the top and 'Smell like teen spirit' at the bottom, it also has a smaller pic of
Dave Krist and Kurt at the bottom.
On Law and Order today (1/5/00) some cops were
investigating about a kid who was murdered. They made this kid out to be
sensitive, and while they were interviewing some skater kids the girl says,
"Chris was sensitive. In my Modern Lit class he recited a Kurt Cobain
song." There we go, Kurt!
In Croatian TV show called "briljanteen" the
background song was "Smells like teen spirit"!
Sky One recently showed an episode of their teen
documentary/soap "Sixteen" in which a teen watersports fanatic was
training for the european championships. As he was taking off to practice, Breed
(or at least the start, played on a loop) was played very loudly in the
background, and I think played again later towards the end of the program.
When i was watching MTv (don't ask why). They had a
show called "do what?" that basically showed people how to play
instruments and dance like there favorite trendy people. The only interesting
part was when dwezil zappa was showing on guitar some various chords, etc. When
he got to the bar chords section he played the basic riff. Then a video went on
and it was nirvana's Smells like Teen Spirit and at the bottom of the screen it
showed how to play that song on guitar. It was pretty accurate except they
didn't play the verses like kurt did.
On Danish DR-1 there was a show called "Adam and
Eve" where you see a poster with Nirvana.
I was watching Rock & Roll Jeopardy the other day
and a category was "Tall". Anyway, the question was: "at 6'7, he
was the tallest member of Nirvana." It took the guy a minute but he finally
answered Krist Novoselic.
On an episode of "the Sopranos" on HBO, a
girl on Tony Soprano's daughter's soccer team tries to commit suicide after the
coach molests her. Somehow, the topic comes up at the table during dinner.
Tony's reply to the matter: "Well, it's not like she pulled an f-ing Cobain
or something." Those words may not be exact, but it's pretty close.
in the ecw the wrestler balls mahoney wear the kurt
with wings t shirt pretty often. the wrestler raven was doing an interview about
two weeks ago while wearing a silver t shirt. it sounded like silver was playing
in the background to. i think it's because he's doing this angle wear his
childhood was all bad and stuff.
In the WB11 show "Dawson's Creek", the gay
guy, Jack, meets a hot guy who is into rock, and when Jack is asked to go to a
festival called "Capefest", he replies sure because he loves rock, but
then the hot guy asks "Oh yea? Then name your favorite Foo Fighter"
and Jack replies.."Courtney Love."
In another show also on WB11 "POPULAR", a
girl named Carmen just made the cheerleading squad and before rehearsals asks
her friends "Well how do i look?" and one of the girls replies
something like "Like you have teen spirit"
Same info from different source: Hi! On 4/8/99 on Fox they aired a show called "Fox
Files," which was basically an in-depth news show that lasted only a few
episodes. Anyway, on that day they did a report on parties and riots on college
campuses and while they showed the footage they played a good chunk of SLTS in
the background. An obvious homage to Nirvana on a very dark day in music
history.
Also, in another Daria episode, Daria goes over to
Jane's house and, while I can't remember the exact conversation, Jane says
something about either going out with Daria or listening to Mystik Spiral (Trent's
band) practice the opening to CAYA. (Sorry, I know you don't want MTV but what
the hell)
I was watching a show called Nash Bridges, anyway they
had a case that someone stole the actual paper that Kurt wrote the SLTS and CAYA
lyrics on, or his rough draft. Then they found the guy and he goes to jail.
In the new movie 'down to you' the girl of the movie
paints album covers and one has the 'Nevermind' nirvana cover with her and her
sister swimming around in the background.
Last year (1999) there was an Icelandic TV show called
"Kolkrabbinn" (Octopus or cuttlefish n english). In one episode,
someone in "kolkrabbinn" was talking about how you could make yourself
happy and everybody else around you if you were feeling unhappy or bad. Then he
said you could sing for people, then someone with guitar went to an old people's
home somewhere and started to sing and play "Polly" for them. That was
cool. Plus, last year (again) on April 8th I e-mailed them and asked them if
they could talk about Kurt Cobain because then is was 5 years since he was found
dead, and they did. They talked about him in 3-4 minutes and played the
"Heart Shaped Box" video at the time. When they were reminding people
about they're "Best Of" episode, they played "Smells Like Teen
Spirit" in the background!!
I was watching VH1's Top 100 Songs of Rock'n'Roll
today...Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (what else?) came in at
#41 in the overall category..and #1 (AWESOME!!!) in the category for best Rock
song of the DECADE (90's).
On MST3k (I think it was "The Brain that Wouldn't
Die") there's a shot of some hypo needles and Mike says "Later at Kurt
Cobain's house.."
On Clarisa Explains It All her friend gets her a
"New Nirvana album' (Incesticide on tape).
On the news in Boston (i think was channel 7) they were
having a review of the 90's and had this short special/tribute to all those
musicians who had died in that decade, and of course they had Kurt Cobain and
they showed a short clip from the Heart-Shaped Box video.
VH1 gave Johnny Rotten (of the Sex Pistols) a TV show
that is all his, it's called "Rotten Television". In the show, he
wanted to interview some celebrities and confront them about some issues he has
with them. He said something like this: "I wanted to interview Courtney
Love, also known as Kurt's money, but she declined to interview" He went on
to call Courtney a fake, asking "she thinks she's a rebel, but what is she
rebelling against?"
Just wanted to mention that there was a commercial on
Fox promoting Seattle and there's a whole flash of clips but you can clearly
catch Kurt Cobain singing in concert at one of his In Utero shows. You can also
see the winged mannequins in the background. There is also this channel Musique
Plus and they would have this show called SPAM and my understanding of it was to
put sports and music together in the midst of talking and there's an episode in
which the SLTS video is playing side by side next to a football game. That's it!
Yesterday (February 9, 2000) they mentioned Kurt on the
American game show '21'. the question was "What band did the late Kurt
Cobain sing in?" I don't remember what the choices were, but I thought you
would like to know.
Hey, I recently rented Best of Adam Sandler on SNL, and
in operaman they show a pic of Eddie Vedder and he mumbles a bunch, he goes on
to sing french but he says "Beat Nirvana KISS MY ASS-A" Which I guess
means when the new Pearl Jam album beat In Utero.
There are two episodes of The Simpsons with references
to Nirvana. The first was in 'Treehouse of Horror 2' and when Lisa wishes for
world peace you see a top view of America and all the children join hands to
form the 'mercedes' symbol whilst chanting the opening bit of 'Territorial
Pissings' (Come on people now...). The other was very vague. In the episode
where Bart copies a daredevil, Marge says "Oh well, monkey see, monkey
do" which, as we know, is the opening line of 'Stay Away' from 'Nevermind'.
In a movie called "Night of the Demons 2"
this group of teenagers r in this haunted funeral home and the 1 kid
says"whats that smell....it smells like teen spirit" an dthis other
kid says " no it smells like your ass"
I was flipping through the channels the other day, and
I saw a clip that crappy show "blind date" were on of those
"thinking bubble" things popped out of some guys head and he was
thinking "This is better than a Foo Fighters concert!", then later on
he thought "I want to have 2 Kids and name them Kurt and Courtney".
on the show @Discovery.ca, a science show on the
Discovery Channel in Canada, one of the "articles" is an interview on
what loud music does to us. at the very beginning, a clip of Lithium from
Reading (i think, one of the shows from the official music video, with someone
dancing) live.
I was watching fox last april 8th ( of all days) and
fox was having some fox files news show running and they where talking about out
of control college students rioting on the city streets and campus the only
school I remember was michigan state university but they where showing clips of
the riots they played smells like teen spirit
Nirvana was on 'who wants to be a millionaire' (tv
show) although they were not the answer to the question, the question had
somethin to do with what band protested or filed a lawsuit against ticketmaster
for its monopoly in 1994. The answer was pearl jam, but Nirvana were one of the
possible answers.
Same info from different source: I was watching "Who Wants To Be A
Millionaire" and the question was, what was the #1 video on MTV's countdown
of all time videos and "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was one of the
choices.
Just saw "Who wants to be a millionaire",
which had the question "What band was named after their lead singers great
grandmothers favorite recipe". The choices were a) Pearl Jam, b) Nirvana
c)Meat Loaf and D)Sugar Ray
On the Feb. 10 episode of the TV show "Who Wants
To Be A Millionaire?" there was a question that was something like
"Which artist did 'Weird Al' Yankovic parody in the songs 'Eat It' and
'Fat'?" and one of the choices was Nirvana!
Kurt was mentioned on the show "Who wants to be a
millionaire" on Tuesday the 22nd of February. The question was "Kurt
Cobain's music is often referred to as falling under which musical
category?" Or something like that. The answer of course, was
"Grunge" Just a couple of minutes ago, Frances Farmer was
mentiond on "Who wants to be a Millionare." The question was something
like "Whose biography was titled 'I know who the caged bird sings
for'?" or something like that, and one of the choices was Frances Farmer.
I saw nbc's "who wants to be a millionarie"
type of show "21" and one of the questions i think it was for 7 points
and it was something like this - what is the name of the band late singer kurt
cobain performed in? - there where four possible answer and i think they were
nirvana, korn, limp bizkit and i don't remember the other one, anyway the guy
got ir right!
I saw a Nirvana poster in the background in a movie
called "too yong, too fast" in a scene where a man is trying to rape a
women and in the background you see an In utero era poster.
Once on Much Music in an interveiw with the backstreet
boys (I hate this band) a questions was asked "If you could bring one
person back from the dead who would it be?" and Nick Carter replied
"Kurt Cobain".
a few weeks ago, i was watching that show cops, at like
one am, and in the house of this guy who was supposedly beating his wife or
mother or whomever she was, there was a nirvana poster. it was the one of them
in black and white with kurt in the front of dave and krist and he has the huge
white sunglasses on. the assailant dude was standing right in front of the
poster, so it got a lot of airtime. it was a nice shot of it too.
A while ago on an Irish music quiz for teenagers called
"2 Phat",the question for the star prize (an exclusive honda scooter)
was "Along with dave Grohl, which ex-Nirvana member joined the Foo
Fighters?" The person didn't know the answer.
In an Icelandic tv show called "getu betur"
they were asking the last question about music, and they showed 3 pictures of
very famous music people and then they showed a picture of kurt cobain smiling
while playing teen spirit.
On a BBC1 documentary about Lea Betts (a girl who died
in 1995 from taking ecstacy) they recreated the night of her 18th birthday (when
she died) with actors. During the recreation of the party they played 'About a
girl' and 'Come as you are' as well i think.Also two people at the party were
wearing Nirvana tshirts. Show was on the 8th of March at 9:30 on BBC1.
Today [March 12, 2000] on American MTV, they had this
show about famous rock feuds and it featured Nirvana and Pearl Jam. It showed a
few clips of Kurt saying that he hates Pearl Jam.
Same info from different source: In an episode of "Roswell",There was a black
and white poster of Kurt Cobain Playing an acostic guitar. His signiture is on
the poster ontop of the guitar,it is not his actual signature though!
A couple of nights ago on Channel 4 they had a special
late night edition of Hollyoaks, a British soap opera about some teenagers. They
threw a party and one of the main characters was in the party wearing a
longsleeve Kurt Cobain tribute shirt.
I was watching "Smack The Poney" a British
comedy scetch show made by women and they had a scene about some unlikely
flatmates. One of them was a really bad bass player. She was sitting in her room
talking and you could just about make out a black+white photo of Kurt on the
wall behind her.
In a new movie just released called "Whatever It
Takes" there is a scene where a couple characters enter a crowded party and
one of them says, "Smells like teen spirit in here!"
Today (March 27th, 2000) I watched on RTL (Germany) the
US military series: J.A.G. There talking two guys about the special unit, called
Foo Fighters. the one guy asked the other: "Do you mean the band with Dave
Grohl?"
hey, in the new movie High Fidelity, John Cusack's
character makes three references to Nirvana. A. Mentions someone's
dissapointment when his fav band opens for Nirvana. B. Includes "Smells
Like Teen Spirit" in some top five list. C. Asks one of his employees who's
starting a band who their influences are, Nirvana comes up as an example.
Uk chat show 'TFI Friday' had John Cusack on talking
about his new movie 'High Fidelity' and they showed a clip of it the clip showed
Cusack and these guys who work in a record shop. And everyday they choose a 'top
five songs to play today' list and one of them is "Nirvana smells like teen
spirit from Nirvana's nevermind" says Cusack in the movie and this other
guy when hearing this says something like "Nirvana? how orginal.." or
"how safe".
Back in I forget if it was 1996 or 1997, but on WCAX
TV's "1996 (or '97) in review, then they played "All Apologies"
when they reviewed August. I could easily tell because my brother Ben was
singing along.
In the Danish version of "Who wants to be a
millionaire?", they asked which band Lars Ulrich was the drummer in. Among
the answers were Nirvana. Though, Metallica is obviously the correct answer. The
show was aired on April 7, 2000.
I was watching the Disney show Bugjuice (im not sure if
thats the name of it) and its a "real life" show where they tape kids
at summer camp. In one of the episodes, in the background, you can see a kid
wearing the black/yellow Nirvana smiley face shirt. Marilyn Manson and Hole
shirts have also been shown before.
I just wanted to inform you that on a recent episode of
the WB11 show ROSWELL (4/17/00), a black and white closup poster of Kurt Cobain
appeared in the room of one of the main characters, Michael.
Ok on MTV's new TV movie "Jailbait" one of
the main characters, Amanda, is talking about her boyfriend and how people are
calling him a martyr and she says something like "...when I've got my own
personal martyr for a boyfriend, like Kurt Cobain" or something along those
lines, I can't remember right now.
In the commercial for the program "Baren" on
Swedish TV3, the opening of Nirvana's "Breed" is in the background.
There was a news report on a Russian news station
(4/20/00) about a teenage boy in Russia who killed two of his peers. At the
scene of the crime, photos were taken of the two victims and one closup was
shown of a boy's hand which had KURT written on it in large lettering. The name
probably pertained to Kurt Cobain.
Comedy Central has a standup comedy show called Premium
Blend. On one of the episodes a woman sang a song in which she said something
like "I'll go to Seattle and visit the grave of Kurt Cobain." The line
wasn't funny (not offensive, just not funny) and it seemed really out of place
in the song.
Today (April 27) RTL aired a show called "Die
Motoradcops" in which Smells Like Teen Spirit was played! (at 20.27
o'clock).
Same info from different source: An American tv movie which I have forgotten the name of
where the main character kills his Girlfriend's abusive father has a scene where
they are sitting beside a campfire.Guy points and says"look close you can
see Kurt Cobain rise from the ashes" or something like that.
I remember very well, I was watching TV and the real
world came, from the first season, and one of the members had a band. They went
down to a radio station to promote their album, and on the DJ's desk you could
easily see an enlarged picture of the nevermind album.
I recently saw an interview with the Seattle band The
Presidents Of The USA on Irish TV. The interviewer compared their quirky music
to Nirvana's more serious attitute to their work. He did this a couple of times,
and each time one of the band members, who had been goofing around with an
acoustic guitar, played the start of Smells Like Teen Spirit.
I was watching a music video station called the box,
and somebody requested a grop called "Papa Roach", well in the video
they go into peoples rooms, and one person has a nirvana poster in the
background.(the one where he is holding a canopener) One time on NBA Inside stuff they used the song LOVE
BUZZ as their highlight song
Well
on the VH1 show of Video Killed the radio star that had 4 episodes beening shown
from 8-12 showed the Director of Smell Like Teen Spirit his name was Samuel
something like that welll it said That he never talked to the band again after
the video he said he gueesed they didnt like it. Well it then showed him talking
about 7 months or so after Kurts death he directed Courtney video about kurt
"Body Parts" he also did the video for gabrage with Stupid Girl which
butch vig is in the band. Just thought u like to know.
It was the other day, a comedy/sports gameshow on
Britain's BBC 1 channel called 'They think it's all over'. anyway, there's a
section called 'guess the sportsman' where someone describes the person. anyway,
some person called dude love came on, so jonathan ross (same guy whose show
nirvana played territorial pissings on) said 'second name is same as nirvana's
kurt cobain's wife second name' and, surprisingly, david gower (50 yr old former
england cricket captain, very posh) got it and said 'love'.
Same info from different source: Tonight (Saturday 27th May) on the UK music quiz show
'A Question of Pop', Nirvana featured in one of the questions. It was a 'What
Happened Next ?' question. A clip of the performance of Territorial Pissings on
the Jonathan Ross show (as shown on Live, Tonight Sold Out! video) was played as
it neared the end. Then the question 'What Happened Next?' was posed. The team
gave the correct answer which was obviously the fact that Kurt, Krist and Dave
finished the song and then smashed up their instruments as normal.
On a recent episode of Craig Kilborn, they came back
from commercials playing Teen Spirit. Also, on an earlier episode Dave talked
about his Seattle days for a few seconds.
Last week on question of pop a show like question of
sport on t.v they showed a clip of nirvana playing negative creep on their what
happened next section.
in the breaker high episode, the charactors name is
Jimmy... then Cassidy comes along and does a really ugly headbanging thing
trying to look cool.. it's quite funny seeing her making a total fool of
herself. and it's when denise (i think) was sending a videotape home to tell her
parents that she wanted to leave the ship :)
on our australian soapie 'Home and Away', in the
characters house, Peter, as you walk through the front door, there is a picture,
one of the huge ones, of kurt playing guitar on the wall. It is clearly shown in
every episode of her house.
In the Australian soap "Home and Away", the
character Joey has a poster of Kurt Cobain in his room.
Last night I was watching HBO and they had the movie
"Girl" Playing, it's basically about this girl that is kind of dorky
and stuck up and turns into a grungy groupy.. Anyways they mention Kurt Cobain a
lot and how "everyone wants someone that looks like Kurt Cobain and sings
like him on their record label"..Also I think the guy on their.. his name
was Todd Sparrow..In a lot of parts he looks just like Kurt cobain..
today in drivers ed... we were learning about the
"blind sides" or "no zones" for big trucks. we watched a
movie.. caslled "the saftey zone" it was about the topic... during
parts of the movie they played...can you guess?.... "smells like teen
spirit". I dont know what that has to do with truck driving...and i wonder
why people think they can use that song for just anything.
Yesterday (6/14/00) i was watching an episode of
"family guy" this animated tv show. well anyway petter was trying to
persuade his wife not to quit her job so he said, "you cant quit Louise,
what if Kurt Cobain quit?" then they showed this little segment about what
if Kurt quit drugs. It was basically saying that he would still be alive and
successful and courtney would be washed up. It was mean to courtney but pretty
funny. I was watching that dumb show "21" or
something like that and one of the questions was "who was the late Kurt
Cobain the lead singer of?" and there was 4 choices. I don't remember all
the choices but I know one was Green Day. The guy got the question right.
I heard on a few interviews that Ethan Hawke used Kurt
Cobain as inspiration when doing the movie Hamlet.
About a week ago on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,
Penn and Teller were the guests, and they were doing this magic trick where Penn
would get a dead musician who died of an overdose to write something on a
napkin. They had a bunch of CDs with bands like Sublime, Blind Melon, Jimi
Hendrix, and Nirvana. When Teller showed Jon the Nirvana CD he said that Penn
thinks he died of an overdose, but he actually shot himself (makes shooting
motion towards his head), but that maybe if he hadn't been on drugs, he would
have shot Courtney.
In the movie "Girl" with Dominique Swain and
Portia de Rossi there is this band of three weirdos in school called 'the 3
apocolys' and so the guitarist didnt bathe, and someone says "ugh what is
that smell". The drummer (his best friend ) says "hey greg doesnt
bathe coz someone told him kurt cobain never bathed."
Hey, I just saw a Honda motorcycle commercial on USA
Network while watching WWF Wrestling. It had an obvious Smells Like Teen Spirit
ripoff song playing in the backround, it was in a higher key, and had an added
part at the end. Just thought this information might be helpful to your site.
I was watching a show yesterday (July 3, 2000) called
"blind date". well during a blind date little bubbles will come up and
say funny things about the date. well during this episode the first thing that
caught my eye was a little bubble came up and it said "this is funner then
a foo fighters concert". then later on another 1 comes up and says
"yeah, we are gonna have 2 kids and their names will be kurt and courtney".
At school a few years ago, I was in some science class
and we were watching a video about genetic engineers or something. It had some
woman talking about how you can still live a healthy, normal life as a
scientist. It was so stupid that it was funny. Well, anyway, when it showed her
having a "normal life", she was walking around her house while Smells
like Teen Spirit was playing on her stereo.
About three to four years ago I was watching ECW
wrestling and they were interviewing Mick Foley (Cactus Jack at the time) and he
said to Joey Styles 'Whats your faviorite song' and Joey said Smells Like Teen
Spirit by Nirvana and Mick Foley sat there and sang the first verse and the
chorus!
On channel nine (in california) there is a sports
show,im not sure of its name,it always plays a keybord version of 'smells like
teen spirit',on either their updates,or during a broadcast of a baseball game.
There's an english tv show named dancing in the
streets... a few chapters in the last one in the end they talk about nirvana and
plays smells like teen spirit...
hey, i was watching Vh1's Rock and Roll jeopardy and
the one category was something like "TAll People". i wondered if
they'd say anything about Kris Novelselic. well, the last question of the
category was something like, "this man was a 6'7" bassist for
Nirvana". of course the answer was Kris Novoselic. i thought that was
pretty cool.
Firstly the DumDums a soft rock/pop group over here in
Britain were on a kids TV show called FBI last Saturday and one of the members
was asked something like "what would be your ideal festival lineup"
and the first thing he said was "I would reserect Nirvana".
I was just watching Rosie O'Donnell and she had Alec
Baldwin on. They were talking about Celebrity "Who Wants to Be A
Millionaire" and "Celebrity Jeopardy" and how they dumb down the
questions. Alec was saying about how he was watching Celebrity Jeopardy once and
the people were really stupid. "There was a bunch of young Melrose Place
like model-good looking calendar guys and there was a question like 'what was
the play "Amadeus" about?' and you know of course it's John Lennon and
these guys are like (in dumb surfer accent) 'ugh...I dunno, is it Kurt
Cobain?'"
In the Larry Sanders show, (a comedy spoof of a talk
show), Courtney Cox was the special guest. When the co-host was talking to her,
he told her that he was sorry about what happened to Kurt Cobain, mistakenly
thinking that she was Courtney Love.
Last week on fox on a show called American High where
they follow highschool students around for a year. One of the students named
Kaytee said how she felt different than other students and how she started
listening to Nirvana & worshiping Kurt Cobain and the whole Grunge movement.
On one of the sports channels some guy said 'As I've
written before, penalizing Walton for an injury-plagued career is like
penalizing Nirvana from the Musical Pantheon because Kurt Cobain had some
emotional problems'
I can't recall the episode numbers, but in the episode
when an older man can see when people are going to die, he dreams of his death
with an abvious heart-shaped box reference, and when the paper is dropped off at
the door of Mulders hotel room it has a story of kurts death on the cover.
In a FOX show called American High , a show about
students in their life at high school , one girl in the show mentioned "I
worship Kurt Cobain and listen to grunge music" . She was a girl that could
play guitar and sing.
On an english show called "A Question Of Pop"
one of the rounds is "guess the album cover" One of those albums was
Nevermind, obviously without the writing
A few weeks ago, in a new contest-programm a question
was something like: "Name of the band whose meaning is liberation of mind
and soul in the buddist culture". The guy succeeded, answering
"Nirvana".
If you're ever heard about FIB (Festival International
of Benicasim), in the tv advertisement a guy appeared laying in his bed, and you
can see a nirvana flag on the wall. It was that black flag with the smiling face
and nirvana word in yellow colour
2 From Rock and Roll Jeopardy: Category: Rhymes with
Drum "I think I'm" This, "or maybe just happy" sang Kurt
Cobain. The answer was Dumb, and they got it right. Kurt Cobain was mentioned on Friday nights
Law&Order on NBC! Well the two detectives were looking for a teengae boy and
were questioning two so called freaks. The first "freak" told the
detectives that the boy they were looking for was a real sensitive guy. The
second claimed that HE WAS NOT sensitive. The First "freak" shot back
with "Yeah he was sensitive. He even recited a KURT COBAIN song in poetry
class!"
In an episode of the Danish documentary "Basserne",
Nirvana's "On a Plain" was played in the background briefly.
There's a documentary on a german tv channel called
3sat. the title is something like "autobahnausfahrt ost" which means
"highway exit east". it´s about people who had great plans all their
life but ended up there at the highway exit. however, in the preview they played
"polly"(acoustic).
I was watching a cartoon somewhere on tv, called
"the pink panter" and they sad: "Hey, do you want to kill
yourself, just like Kurt Cobain?" and then the other man says: "oh
that guy from Nirvana"
Anyway i was watching an episode of "Inside
Edition" and they were doing a story about girls getting raped at woodstock
and other concerts, and a girl was standing outside wearing the Nirvana yellow
happy face t-shirt.
There was this documentary series called 'Dancing In
The Street', i think it had about 6 episodes. one of the episodes focused on
punk rock, it was mainly about the sex pistols + the clash and the rest of 70's
punk movement in britain, but at the end it had a little piece on Nirvana, and
how punk rock was taking a new direction. It had a closep of the Nevermind vinyl
and played some Nevermind songs over the top. cant remember what songs , it was
all pretty cool though.
I was just watching an A&E Biography on Frances
Farmer. Once it was over, the narrator said something like, "Another
Seattle area fan of Farmer's was the late Kurt Cobain." He then went on to
mention that Courtney's wedding dress was once owned by her and how they named
their baby Frances (even though she wasn't really named after her). He even
mentioned the song "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle"
and the lyric "She'll come back as fire/to burn all the liars..."
In The Netherlands there is a program called
"Domino d-day". They try to break the world record in domino. In one
episode they used "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at the end of the show.
A radio station here in Central Florida airs a
commercial for their station that has some hot blonde chick wearing leather
reciting the first part of Come As You Are, then it cuts to a graphic for the
station and plays the actual clip.
There is an Irish ad for Monday night TV on net work 2
(really shitty Irish station) and the courus of "Smells like teen
spirit" is playing in the background! There is also a car ad with the same
song on in it!!!
In the video to the single "kung-fu" by U.K.
band "ASH" there is a picture of Kurt on one of their guitars at the
end
A few weeks ago on Dawson's creek episode 4.02,
"Failing down", Dawson is talking to Pacey's older sister Gretchen
about music he is trading in. The conversation that took place goes like this:
G: Vanilla Ice?? Dawson what were you thinking?? D: I don't know I was 10, who's
got good taste in music when they're 10? G: By the time I was 10 I could rattle
off the name of every band on the sub pop label, and I was telling anybody who
would listen that a guy named Kurt Cobain was about to change the face of music
as we knew it.
Same info from different source: Hi, it's me again to inform you that in a recently new
mexican soap opera called "Primer Amor, a Mil por Hora" a kurt cobain
t-shirt can be clearly seen. In the plot of the soap opera, two rebel teenage
girls hang around in the their apartment time after time... and you can se
posters of Iron Maiden, Sex Pistols and Pearl Jam.....but in the center of the
room you can clearly see a black t-Shirt of Kurt Cobain that has his name with
big red letters under his image.
Today i was watching the children's movie "the
indian in the cupboard". the main boy goes up into his 2 older brothers'
room to find something. on the wall in the background is a black and white
poster...only the bottom 2/3rds shows up, but it's obvious that it's nirvana.
view a picture of the poster in the movie here: http://images.honesty.com/imagedata/h/036/45/20364505.jpg
In the made for TV mini-series about the Beach Boys, in
the second "episode" if you will, the band is backstage at a concert
which supposedly to took place in the early 70's. In the background (but still
in focus, and in clear) of one of the shots, there's a guitar case leaning
against the with a number of stickers on it. Among and Erine Ball guitar strings
sticker, and a D'daddario stickers, there is one black and yellow Nirvana
sticker. This is one of the many continuitys in the film. It was a poorly
reseached film from the get-go. Things like the recording equipment they used in
the film where dead wrong (in one scene where the parents, and one of the kids
where recording a song in the garage, they used a two-track Nagra open reel for
multi-tracking, first off you can't multi-track on two tracks, and second very
few american studios were into multi-tracking, and there were no consumer multis
out either). And a lot of amps they used didn't even exist at the time.
On a kids/early teens TV show recently here in Ireland
they showed an interview with new Irish band JJ72 and during it the band
mentioned being influenced by Nirvana and they played a clip of Smells Like Teen
Spirit.
On the Late, Late show, Friday, the 25th [of November,
2000], Jewel was on, and during 5 questions, (The second, I think) the question
was about the birthplace of Starbucks. Jewel answers "Kurt Cobain's
earthbound heaven: Seattle." Oh, by the way, on the same episode, Dave
Grohl and the Foo Fighters play a cover of "Stairway to Heaven."
On an episode of The Simpsons, bart and homer was
waching tv or some thing or there was a big crowd and auto the bus driver said
it must be a nirvana concert
On the British TV show "Question of Pop"
there was a picture board where you had to correctley geuss who the celebrity
was. Noddy Holder (from Slade) choose a picture of Kurt (I think it was from the
In Utero tour) with his hair in his face. Noddy incorrectley guessed Sheryl
Crow.
Hey guys, just thought id let you all know that I was
watching ABC's Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and guess what one of the
questions was? Well, it was who played bass for the band Nirvana!
Thought you might want this for the news
section/Nirvana in TV/Movies. I was watching the game show "Who Wants To be
A Millionare" and Nirvana came up a few times on the show. The first
contestant had to put the bands in order based on when they got an MTV Best New
Rock Video Award. The optionts (in correct order) were Living Colour, Nirvana,
Alanis Morrisette, and Natile Imbruglia. Later on in the night, a girl was given
the question, "Which of the following guitarists was a band member of both
Jane's Addiction and Red Hot Chilli Peppers?" The answers were Dave Grohl,
Dave Navarvo, Dave Matthews, and Dave Stewart. The girl answered wrong when she
said Dave Grohl.
Our High School was having another one of those
bore-to-death drug free programs, and we were watching clips of Football,
because the instructor was showing us things we could not do if we use drugs.
But the Football tape turned into a Football tape! In the background, the
popular Foo Fighters song "My Hero" played in the background the
entire time.
The host of the show "Os Piores Clipes do Mundo"
makes fun of the videos, and in each show he make fun of the lyrics, using a
literal translation, so he did it with the Sliver video. He said something like:
"What a lyric! Well Kurt Cobain had the right to do it".
In heath class we watched this video about smoking..
some HBO special ..the kid was talking about how he got all this free stuff from
marlboro..and clearly in the background you can see a nirvana poster...
i was reading your list and seen a thing about a
question of pop well i have another one about it because last night when i was
watching it some guy got a the question which read 'dave grohl from the foo
fighters was in which band before the foo fighters' the team messed around for a
while but they eventually correctly answered nirvana
In school recently, I had to watch a video about self
esteem called "The Big Picture". The narrator was mentioning how being
rich doesn't necessarily mean a person is happy. Then, a picture of Kurt
appeared, along with the words- "Kurt Cobain. Lead singer of Nirvana.
Suicide. Age- 26. Found dead inside mansion." At the end of that segment, a
more blown up photo of Kurt's eyes appeared with photos of a few other dead
celebrities. The narrator said, "these people didn't see the big
picture." Also, during an earlier scene, "Breakout" by the Foo
Fighters was playing.
There was a British 2 part drama on BBC1 recently
called "Second Sight" about a cop who finds he is going blind. He is
investigating the murder of a teenage boy and in the boys room there is a poster
of Kurt Cobain from MTV Unplugged.
Offspring made an appearance on a Muchmusic (Canadian
Music Station). When asked by the interviewer what they thought was punk's
greatest moment of all time, one of the members responded by stating it would be
when Nirvana smashed their equipment on Saturday Night Live. He also stated that
he thought Nirvana was a punk band that was just classified as grunge by media
to make them more marketable.
I don't know if your a fan of NFL football but on
saturdays playoff game between the RAMS and the SAINTS. Outspoken t.v. anchorman
Dennis Miller (who is known for his obscure references relating football and all
aspects of life) made a reference to Kurt during a fumble. The referee dove in
the pile of players who were fighting for the ball prompting Dennis Miller to
remark "Watching the referee dive in the scrum like that reminds me of how
Cobain used to stage dive".
There is A BIG picture of Kurt Cobain In The Swedish
movie "Percy Tears (Percy Tårar)"
I don't know whether this could work for your site, I
hope so, O.K., two weeks ago I watched a TV contest show called "Mejores
Amigos" is a TV. contes with people that are good friends obviously,
anyway, in the last part of the show the group of friends have to notice to a
friends of theirs what are they talking about, the first time they asked him
about his favorite group and the guy guessed "NIRVANA", then they talk
about his favorite song and the guy guessed: "CAYA" and they won a
tour to Cancun...pretty cool.
These quotes were taken out of a brazilian soap opera: The other day I was watching an episode of the
Sopranoes when this guy was asking Tony Soprano about a local musician. Tony
replied, "The kid's played two shows and he thinks he's a fucking
Cobain"
I was watching a show on TLC called "Trauma: Life
in the ER" and it was showing this doctor talking about his patients and
stuff like that. Well, while he was in the break room, you could easily hear
CAYA being played. Then he and another doctor started singing along to it!!!
Then he said something to the effect of "This is the best part of the
day!" (I guess he was referring to getting to listen to Nirvana) (3-6-01)
Yesterday I was watching "The Weakest Link"
which is a quiz show we have in the U.K. One of the qustions was : "Which
member of nirvana was married to Courtney Love?" The man replied with
"Axel Rose" !! I thought he must have been preety thick to get that
wrong!!
I was watching behind the music on sinead o conner, and
she was talking about some pain she went through as a kid and that music was the
way she got through it, and she says something like "If it wasn't for
music, then I'd be kurt cobain right now".
On the commercials for the Puffy trial on mtv the song
'come as you are' is playing in the background.
In the german movie "Das kleine Arschloch"
the ashole said something like "Go on and we´ll be like Jim Morrison or
Kurt Cobain". His friend answered "But Jim Morrison is dead. And also
Kurt Cobain".
In the stage production of "FRED", a girl
finds the body of a dead man, wearing a Bob Dillian neck tie (The tie is refered
too throughout the whole play) in her yard. Her friends also happen to turn up
dead bodies, yet hers remains the only murder victim throughout the play. One of
her friends is a surgeon, and towards the end of the play, all the main
characters are gathered around giving each other updates on the situation, and
the Surgeon is in tears because a 14 year old girl has died on his operating
table that day. The dialog went something like this: I watched an episode of the Daily Show (with Jon
Stewart) last year and the guest for the day were the magicians Penn and Tellar....
they were going to speak to the dead using CD of dead musicians. One of the CD's
was Nirvana one and I can't remember which one. They ended up using a Hindrix or
Morrison CD I think.
In the movie "Finding Kelly", the two main
characters are looking for a missing teenager. In one of the scenes, they are
talking to a goth-type girl, and mention that they are going to have a tribute
to Kelly, the missing girl, in a school newspaper. The goth chick then asks with
excitement "A tribute? Like what Rolling Stone did when Nirvana broke
up?!"
There was an episode of Mad About You in which Paul
Reiser says to someone who is dressed like a whore "What are you...Courtney
Love?" I realize "What are you" is grammatically incorrect
On the NZ music channel Juice TV they run a long
commercial which asks at the start "what is juice tv?" and then it
shows a few seconds of a whole bunch of music videos and at the end it shows a
few seconds of the Smells Like Teen Spirit video clip, and the words SPIRIT
appear on the screen.
I recently watched the movie josie and the pussycats
and in one of the scenes the future manager of the pussycats puts on a cd in a
virgin megastore and everyone starts to say "I should buy anything created
by 'fill in major corporate logo'" or something along those lines...one
girl, however doesn't buy it and the manager scoffs and says "Pshaw! Smells
like teen spirit" I was watching old SNL's on Comedy Central some time
ago and the host was Emilio Estevez; and the musical group was Pearl Jam and at
the end after they played their song Eddie Vedder pushes his flannel off his
chest and there is a big K on the pocket of his shirt. Emilio just sort of nods
like he knows what this is for. This is a reference to Kurt. This episode first
aired a week after Kurts death was announced.
Also on an old SNL, Nirvana plays their song and at the
end when the host says good night you can see Dave and Krist but Kurt is
missing. Dave and Kris Hug and fall on the ground.
And finally, on the other SNL that Nirvana is on, at
the end you can see Kurt eating something.
On the British tv show BROOKSIDE, Mike Dixon had The
Smells like Teen Spirit poster up on his wardrobe door, and i think he was
jammin a nirvana song on his guitar.
In school we get this show on tv called Channel 1 it is
brodcast to a lot of school everday and today they did a thing to show stuff
they did in the past and they played music in the background and showed pictures
and one of the songs was Nirvana's smells like teen spirit.
On the first eviction version of Big Brother in
Australia The host was talking to the evictee's husband when she noticed his
mike was unplugged she then said " Are we Unplugged? A bit Nirvana are
we?"
In the movie entitled: 'Hard core logo' they mention
kurt, referring to rock stars over time that have died. its relevant to the
story when you watch it. they mention him later on in the movie sort of the same
thing as they mentioned before and then something else is mentioned about
courtney.
In the movie "Gossip " with Kate Hudson.
Derrick (James Marsden) and Jones (Lena Headey) tell the bartender that Travis
(Norman Reedus) is a rock stars son and that they can't say which rock star it
is . After they give them some free drinks , people find out. Someone asks
"is it Cobain" , someone answers "No too young, maybe Dillion".
In the movie Bring It On, a cheerleader movie starring
Kirsten Dunst and Eliza Dushku, the movie is about cheerleaders in a competition
battling over plagerized cheerleader moves with feuds between the Clovers and
Toros, when Kirsten who plays a perky cheerleader captain named Torrance walks
into Missy (played by Eliza) and walks into her brothers room, there a bunch of
posters on the wall featuring several punk bands and also a little bit of
Nirvana, there was a Nirvana poster in the room with the band from the Rolling
Stone cover, and her brother was playing a guitar in that scene.
In the polish soap opera called "M jak milosc"
one of the characters has a Kurt Cobain poster in his room. You can see it in
couple of episodes.
"I write only because in one episode of a mexican
tv novela, one of the girls appear with a shirt with Kurt's face"
A few days ago.. (7/15/01) I was watching an r.e.m
behind the music late at night. For a brief session, they talked about Michael
Stipe and Kurt Cobains friendship, and how his death effected him and the rest
of the band.
Today (7/19/01) starting at about 9 PM or so, was a
thing on VH1 about famous Rock and Roll bands who have lost their fame and came
back. At the beginning of their show, they were talking about how Bon Jovi made
a brief come back in 1992, then it said "...however, Grunge was ruling the
airwaves" and for a brief, maybe 1 second, it showed a black and white
picture of Kurt, Krist, and Dave..
I saw the new movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch and
during a scene with one of Hedwig's early bands he finishes a song and says
something along the lines of "That was written by Kurt Cobain, that kid has
a bright future ahead of him."
In a very popular mexican program called "otro
rollo", one time the band that play in the show open the night with SLTS.
An ad on Irish tv for a mobile phone company features a
girl with a Kurt Cobain t-shirt.
This isn't anything really big, but last night(7-16-01)
my mom was watching the weakest link, and there was 1 question about Nirvana.
The question was like, Who was Rock Singer, lead singer of Hole, Courtney Love
married to? Well, the guy got the question right, and even went on to win the
game in a sudden death.
On an episode of Dawson's creek, Jen and Dawson discuss
music in a cd shop. Jen mentions Nirvana.
On the nationally known radio program, The Bob &
Tom Show, they had a comedian talking about how hard it was to play the guitar
and how rock stars had it so easy. Then he said, "yeah, i can't believe
this guy Kurt Cobain shot himself. I mean how hard is it doing herion and having
sex with courtney Love," and he went on to say some other things about
Kurt. Every once in awhile, the cast of the show will make a comment about
nirvana.
This year in school, we had a assembly where they
played a movie. In the movie, it said don't have unprotected sex, suicide is
bad, and don't do drugs. Then with that they showed dead rock stars with heart
shaped box playing in the background. Then they showed a pic of Kurt and it read
age 27, died of apparent heroin drug overdose/suicide.
On the show Primetime Glick on Comedy Central George
Wendt spoke of Kurt. When asked who he'd at his fantasy dinner table, he said
Babe Ruth, Kurt Cobain, and Cleopatra cause he always liked an egyptian tha had
a nice ass.
In the episode "Boca" of The Sopranos, Tony
and Medow are talking about her friend slitting her wrist. 'Medow: She slit her
wrist, ok!!' 'Tony: Jesus, it's not like freaking Cobain here, so she slit her
wrist.'
There is an episode of Mad TV where there are these two
guys putting away boxes or something like that. And they're talking about
something and one of them says, "Like when they compare Lennon to when Kurt
Cobain killed himself." And the other guy says, "Kurt Cobain killed
himself?" And he answers, "Yeah." And the guy goes, "Well, I
guess that is why Courtney Love was looking so sad." And the other guy
asks, "What?" And he says, "Courtney Love was Kurt Cobain's
wife." And the other guy asks, "Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were
married?
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