Willson's hometown of Mason City, Iowa, the song is honored (along with the whole plot of The Music Man) in a building called "Music Man Square", which is located next to Willson's boyhood home. In one large room, there are 76 donated trombones hanging from the ceiling. In popular culture In the romantic comedy The Other Sister, it is used as Carla and Daniel's love song. In the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, "Once More, with Feeling", Spike remarks to Buffy "The day you suss out what you do want, they'll probably be a parade! With Seventy Six bloody Trombones playing!" In Chile, the instrumental march version (with Leroy Anderson's orchestration) was used as a theme song for radio Portales news show La Revista de Portales. It was used because of an earlier use on the news show La bitácora en Portales. In the Netherlands, the tune was used for theme song of the popular radio and television show Dik Voormekaarshow. Jack Black sings the song in the 2011 film Bernie. References 1957 songs Hugh Jackman songs Songs from The Music Man American marches Songs about music Songs about musicians Songs written by Meredith Willson