"Working for the Weekend" is a song released in 1981 on the rock band Loverboy's second album Get Lucky. The song contains more of a pop feel than the other songs that the band produced, but this new sound proved to generate a lot of success, as the song reached #29 on the pop singles charts, and #2 in mainstream rock in the United States in January 1982.[1]
"Working for the Weekend" is ranked #100 on VH1's 100 greatest songs of the 80's.
[edit] Appearance in other media
- It was featured in the final scene in The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.
- It also appears in the 2003 film Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
- In the Ben Stiller movie Zoolander, the song is used over a montage of Derek 'working' in the mine with his dad and brothers.
- It was featured twice in the 2008 film Gutterballs -- once during the first "fight" scene and once again after the notorious rape scene.
- It was featured in the 2006 film Click in a scene where Terry Crews pulls up next to Adam Sandler in his convertible, playing the song and singing along with it, and Sandler mutes him with his magic remote featured in the movie.
[edit] Television
- NBA Entertainment used this song in the Mid 1980s to feature Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
- It appeared in an episode of the television show Scrubs, when the Todd was auditioning to be in an air band.
- It was featured in a 2010 Reese's television commercial.
- The old music video with this song appeared in "Beavis and Butthead".
- It was featured in the Regular Show episode "Caffeinated Concert Tickets".
- It appeared in a notable SNL sketch featuring guest host Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley, where the two men dance to the song at an audition for Chippendales.
- At the 2005 MTV Movie Awards, in Jimmy Fallon's parody of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, as Padme's ship is landing, Fallon can be seen sunbathing while playing air guitar to this song.
- The song was featured on the February 17, 2011 episode of 30 Rock, It's Never Too Late For Now. Pete Hornberger says that he used to be in a band and Frank Rossitano asks him which band he was in. A clip of the music video with Pete on stage with the band is shown. Aghast, Frank exclaims, "You were in Loverboy"?
- Ths song is heard in a 2011 TV commercial for the 2012 Toyota Camry, which features NASCAR driver Kyle Busch.
- The song was mixed martial artist Kyle Kingsbury's entrance theme at UFC 139.
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[edit] Other Media
- It was featured in the YouTube Machinima series "The Bad Assassin"
- It was featured as a recurrent song every Friday at 5pm on radio station Z100, New York, to kick start the weekend as the "5 o'clock whistle" from 1983 to 1985
[edit] Cover versions
The song was covered by former American Idol contestant and country music artist Josh Gracin on the 2005 soundtrack to the film Herbie: Fully Loaded.
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