This song appears in the college slacker film Accepted, starring Justin Long, Jonah Hill, and Lewis Black, and is on the movie's official soundtrack. In the film, the song plays while the class is taking a group picture. The song also appeared in one of the trailers for Adam Sandler's Christmas movie Eight Crazy Nights.
This song contains references to a couple of things Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo was interested in at the time he wrote it in 1993. In 2006, Cuomo mentioned that beat poet Jack Kerouac was one of his favorite philosophers at the time. In the notable breakdown of the song, which the band often refers to as "Beach Boys Breakdowns," Cuomo sings the line, "On the road with Kerouac", a reference to Kerouac's seminal work On the Road.
Weezer rarely plays this song live, but a recorded live version can be found on an EP entitled The Lion and The Witch, which was released in 2002. In the recording, bassist Scott Shriner (who was new to the band at the time) flubs the lyrics during the bridge, causing the rest of the band to erupt in laughter. At the end of the song, frontman Rivers Cuomo proclaims, "That was freakin' Nobel Prize quality right there. Scott just won a Grammy!"
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