Pop Quiz Answers

1. “Moving in Stereo” – The Cars (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

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There was a hilarious, gender-reversed take on this scene in Stranger Things 3 episode “Suzie, Do You Copy?”

2. “Tiny Dancer” – Elton John (Almost Famous)

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If there’s ever been a more beautiful love letter to how music can bring us together, I’m not aware of it.

3. “Shambala” – Three Dog Night (Lost 3:10 – “Tricia Tanaka Is Dead”)

“Greatest 5 minutes in tv history”? No, but it is pretty awesome.

4. “Ride of the Valkyries” – Richard Wagner (Apocalypse Now)

ICONIC.

5. “Stuck in the Middle with You” – Stealers Wheel (Reservoir Dogs)

WARNING: This clip is graphically violent.

6. “My Sharona” – The Knack (Reality Bites)

“Evian is naive spelled backwards” will never not be funny.

7. “Where Is My Mind?” – Pixies (Fight Club)

“You met me at a very strange time in my life” might be my favorite last line in any movie. And Helena Bonham Carter is perfection.

8. “Then He Kissed Me” – The Crystals (Adventures in Babysitting)

I’ll never get over Bradley Whitford being the asshole boyfriend in this 80s classic.

9. “Crystal Blue Persuasion” – Tommy James and the Shondells (Breaking Bad 5:8 – “Gliding All Over”)

I couldn’t imagine a better song to set this montage to.

10. “The Blue Danube” – Johann Strauss II (2001: A Space Odyssey)

ICONIC PART 2.

11. “You Never Can Tell” – Chuck Berry (Pulp Fiction)

ICONIC PART 3.

12. “You Make My Dreams” – Hall & Oates (500 Days of Summer)

JGL has MOVES.

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“Hip to Be Square” – Huey Lewis and the News (American Psycho)

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WARNING: this clip is also graphically violent, as you might expect from a film called American Psycho.