This song was used in the television cartoon Tiny Toons, and featured Plucky Duck as Particle Man, acting out the actions in the song (mostly getting beaten up).
A line from this song inspired the Terry Pratchett catch phrase "Millennium Hand And Shrimp." Terry was using a computer program to create random sayings from various sources, and it used the line "He's got a watch with a minute hand, a millennium hand and an aeon hand," spliced with a Chinese menu offering a dish with shrimp.
They Might Be Giants lyricist John Linnell told Rolling Stone: "It does kind of echo the [1967] Spider-Man cartoon theme. Triangle Man was based on a friend's observation that Robert Mitchum looked like an evil triangle when he took his shirt off in Night of the Hunter. Nothing else not explicitly stated need be inferred. If the money were right, I'd consider a whole TV series."
See your Spotify stats (with number of plays and minutes listened) and discover new music.
Music data, artist images, album covers, and song previews are provided by Spotify. Spotify is a trademark of Spotify AB.