The song was featured in the 1983 film Risky Business, starring Tom Cruise. Cruise's character, Joel Goodson, famously lip-syncs and dances in his underwear as this song plays after his parents leave him home alone. The scene is widely regarded as a cinema classic.
.The song was featured in the TV series ALF, The Nanny, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Growing Pains, Scrubs and South Park. Most recently, the song was sung on the episode "Girls (And Boys) On Film" from American TV series Glee, in a mash-up with Kenny Loggins' song "Danger Zone" from the 1986 film Top Gun, also starring Cruise.