"Everybody Have Fun Tonight" is a song by Wang Chung

Wang Chung (band)

Wang Chung are an English New Wave musical group.The group found their greatest success in America, with five Top 40 hits in the US, all charting between 1983 and 1987, including "Dance Hall Days" , "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" and "Let's Go!" .-Pre-history: The Intellektuals and 57 Men :Jeremy...

 from their album Mosaic

Mosaic (Wang Chung album)

-Cassette/LP:Side OneSide Two-Chart performance:*Year end charts*U.S.A.: #81 -Certifications:-Personnel:*Lead Vocals: Jack Hues, Nick Feldman...

. It was released as a single

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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 in 1986, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100

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 chart.

After their breakup in 1991, Wang Chung reunited in 2005 to perform this song on the television show Hit Me Baby One More Time

Hit Me Baby One More Time

Hit Me, Baby, One More Time was a 2005 reality show first aired by ITV on British television and later, as a new version, by NBC in the United States; both were presented by Vernon Kay. During each programme, five former pop stars sing their biggest hit along with a cover version of a contemporary...

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The song is featured on numerous 1980s compilation albums and still receives some radio airplay across the United States.

It has appeared in the "#2s" episode of VH1 Classic

VH1 Classic

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's One Hit Wonders series.

7": Geffen / 7-28562 (USA)

1. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight (edit)"
2. "Fun Tonight: The Early Years"

7": Geffen / GEF 13F (UK)

• Side One

1. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight (edit)"
2. "Fun Tonight: The Early Years"

• Side Two

1. "Dance Hall Days"
2. "Don't Let Go"

7": Geffen / P-2193 (JPN)

1. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight (edit)"
2. "Fun Tonight: The Early Years"

12": Geffen / 0-20551 (USA) and TA 2589 (UK)

• Side One

1. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight (12 Inches of Fun)"
2. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight (edit)"

• Side Two

1. "Everybody Dub Tonight"
2. "Fun Tonight: The Early Years"

12" (Promo): Geffen / PRO-A-2581 (USA)

• Side One

1. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight (Edit)" - 3:59

• Side Two

1. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight (LP Version)" - 4:47

Music video

The song's iconic music video, directed by Godley & Creme

Godley & Creme

Godley & Creme were an English pop music duo composed of Kevin Godley and Lol Creme. The pair began releasing albums as a duo after splitting from the pop band 10cc. In 1979 they directed their first music video for their own single "An Englishman in New York"...

, featured scenes of the band playing in a room with very rapid movement, similar to flip book

Flip book

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-style animation. The video was reportedly banned from some TV stations out of fear that the stop-motion filming style would cause epileptic seizures

Seizure

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.

A second version of the video was made, featuring hundreds of seemingly random photographs flashed in very fast succession. It was the original video that was reworked after reports of seizures surfaced.

Charts

Chart (1986)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	2
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...	4
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales Hot Dance Singles Sales is a chart released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States, established in 1985. It measures the sale of commercially released singles that deal with dance music and remixes...	4
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks Mainstream Rock Tracks Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...	25
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	76

Cover versions

• In one episode of Kids Incorporated
  Kids Incorporated
  Kids Incorporated, is an American children's television program that was produced from 1984 to 1993. It was largely a youth-oriented program with musical performances as an integral part of each and every storyline....
  
  , the song was sung by the gang at the "Rock in the New Year" special in December 1986. This was during the same time that the song peaked at #2 on the U.S. Hot 100.
• In the Alvin and the Chipmunks
  Alvin and the Chipmunks (TV series)
  Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated television series featuring The Chipmunks, produced by Bagdasarian Productions in association with Ruby-Spears Enterprises from 1983–87, and DIC Entertainment from 1988-90....
  
  episode "Big Dreams", The Chipmunks
  The Chipmunks
  Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...
  
   and The Chipettes
  The Chipettes
  The Chipettes are a fictional group of anthropomorphic chipmunk singers first appearing on the cartoon series Alvin and the Chipmunks in 1983. In this and related materials, the Chipettes served as female featured characters in their own right, starring in numerous episodes...
  
   sing a version of this song.
• A cover of the song was used in a Papa John's
  Papa John's Pizza
  Papa John's Pizza is the third largest take-out and delivery pizza restaurant chain in the United States, behind Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza. It is based in Louisville, Kentucky. Papa John's slogan is "Better Ingredients. Better pizza. Papa John's"...
  
   commercial to celebrate the restaurant's 25th anniversary, which first aired during the 2008 PapaJohns.com Bowl.
• A cover of the song was used in the opening number of Miss USA 1987
  Miss USA 1987
  Miss USA 1987, the 36th Miss USA pageant, was televised live on 17 February from Albuquerque, New Mexico on CBS. The ceremonies were hosted by Bob Barker...
  
   pageant in New Mexico in 1987.

Appearances/References in other media

• On VH1
  VH1
  VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
  
  's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80's, the song ranked #99.
• On season 7, episode 9 of the U.S. TV series Whose Line Is It Anyway
  Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series)
  Whose Line is it Anyway? is a comedy improv show hosted by Drew Carey on ABC that ran from August 5, 1998 to September 4, 2004, and subsequently on ABC Family since 2005...
  
  , Ryan
  Ryan Stiles
  Ryan Lee Stiles is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice actor whose work is often associated with improvisational comedy. He is best known for his improv and co-production work on the American and British versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the role of Lewis Kiniski on The Drew...
  
   uses the line "Everybody Wang Chung tonight!" in a game of "Whose Line".
• In the Beavis and Butthead episode "Customers Suck", the song's music video is played and mocked.
• In the infamous 1988 B-movie
  B-movie
  A B movie is a low-budget commercial motion picture that is not definitively an arthouse or pornographic film. In its original usage, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the term more precisely identified a film intended for distribution as the less-publicized, bottom half of a double feature....
  
   Hobgoblins
  Hobgoblins (film)
  Hobgoblins is a 1988 low-budget B-movie directed by Rick Sloane, often seen as a rip-off of Gremlins. It earned infamy after it was shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and is often regarded as one of the worst films ever made.- Plot :...
  
  , Daphne sings the song's chorus with the words "Everybody have sex tonight". In the MST3K episode, Tom Servo
  Tom Servo
  Tom Servo is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Tom is one of two wise-cracking, robotic main characters of the show, built by Joel Robinson to act as a companion and help stave off space madness as Joel was forced to watch...
  
   replies with "Everybody throw up tonight" and Crow
  Crow T. Robot
  Crow T. Robot is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Crow is a robot, who, along with others, quips and riffs upon poor-quality B movies.- Overview :...
  
   remarks that "Ironically no one in the band Wang Chung had sex that night".
• In the Cheers
  Cheers
  Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles...
  
  episode "To All the Girls I've Loved Before", when Frasier Crane
  Frasier Crane
  Frasier W. Crane, M.D., Ph.D., A.P.A. is a fictional character on the American television sitcoms Frasier and Cheers. He was played by Kelsey Grammer for 20 years, tying the record for the longest-running character on prime-time American television, which was set by James Arness, who played Marshal...
  
   enters the bar for his bachelor party
  Bachelor party
  A bachelor party , also known as a stag party, stag night or stag do , a bull's party , or a buck's party or buck's night , is a party held for a man shortly before he enters marriage, to celebrate his "last night of freedom" or merely to spend...
  
   and says he just heard a great song on the radio which said "Everybody have fun tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonight."
• In the late 80s and 90s, the Winnipeg Jets used this song (with the lyrics changed to "Everybody wear white tonight") as part of their Winnipeg White Out tradition during NHL home playoff games.
• In the 2001 comedy Out Cold
  Out Cold (2001 film)
  Out Cold is a 2001 American comedy film about a group of snowboarders in Alaska. It is the first feature film by the music video directing team The Malloys. The movie presents itself as something of a parody of 1980's "ski school" movies and makes a number of references to the film Casablanca...
  
  , Zach Galifianakis's character Luke says, "That's my motto: 'No regrets.' That, and 'everybody Wang Chung tonight'."
• In the fourth season's opener of That 70s Show, Eric Foreman finds himself in a possible future without Donna ("It's a Wonderful Life") where Fez is performing "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" while playing on an electronic keyboard.
• In the Angel
  Angel (TV series)
  Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon, in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999...
  
  episode "Dear Boy", the character Angel sings the song in a demon karaoke bar.
• In the film 13 Going on 30
  13 Going on 30
  13 Going on 30 is a 2004 American romantic comedy fantasy film starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. It has a similar premise to the classic short story Rip Van Winkle, in which a young person falls asleep and wakes up many years later as an older person...
  
  , Jennifer Garner's character Jenna says, "Everybody Wang Chung tonight!" during a party.
• In the pilot episode of What I Like About You
  What I Like About You (TV series)
  What I Like About You is an American television sitcom set mainly in New York City, following the lives of two sisters, Valerie Tyler and Holly Tyler . The series ran on The WB Television Network from September 20, 2002, to March 24, 2006, with a total of 86 episodes produced...
  
  , Val attempts to dance to this song while Holly and Jeff watch, unamused.
• In the Disney Channel movie Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
  Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior
  Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior is a 2006 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Brenda Song and Shin Koyamada. Koyamada plays a Chinese monk who visits the title character, an American teenager played by Song, claiming Wu is the reincarnation of a powerful female warrior and the only person who can...
  
  , when Wendy's mother laments about not fully understanding Chinese history and culture, Wendy's father mentions that "Everybody Wang Chung Tonight was about as cultural as we got."
• In the Veronica Mars
  Veronica Mars
  Veronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...
  
  episode "Ruskie Business", Logan Echolls
  Logan Echolls
  Logan Echolls is a fictional character on the UPN/The CW television series Veronica Mars, which debuted during the fall 2004 season on UPN.He is portrayed by Jason Dohring.- Background :...
  
   says: "Come on, everyone, let's Wang Chung tonight! What? Everybody Wang Chung tonight! Wang Chung or I'll kick your ass!" while drunk at an 80's themed party.
• In the Futurama
  Futurama
  Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
  
  episode "A Tale of Two Santas
  A Tale of Two Santas
  "A Tale of Two Santas" is the third episode in season three of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on December 16, 2001.-Plot:It is Xmas again and everyone is locking down for the arrival of Robot Santa. The Professor sends the crew to deliver children's letters directly to Santa at his...
  
  ", Leela uses the phrase "This wangs chung!" as a statement of irritation.
• The song plays in the background during the dance scene in the episode "Shock and Aww" of Arrested Development.
• In the How I Met Your Mother
  How I Met Your Mother
  How I Met Your Mother is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS on September 19, 2005, created by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.As a framing device, the main character, Ted Mosby with narration by Bob Saget, in the year 2030 recounts to his son and daughter the events that led to his meeting...
  
  episode "Purple Giraffe
  Purple Giraffe
  "Purple Giraffe" is the second episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on September 26, 2005.- Plot :...
  
  ", Marshall Eriksen
  Marshall Eriksen
  Marshall Eriksen is a fictional character in the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother, created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and portrayed by Jason Segel.-Character profile:Marshall is an easy-going, naive optimist from St. Cloud, Minnesota...
  
   says "Everybody had fun. Everybody wanged, everybody chunged" when discussing a party.
• Last song played every night before blink-182
  Blink-182
  Blink-182 is an American rock band consisting of vocalist and bass guitarist Mark Hoppus, vocalist and guitarist Tom DeLonge, and drummer Travis Barker. They have sold over 27 million albums worldwide since forming in Poway, California in 1992...
  
   took the stage on their Summer 2009 reunion tour.
• In 2011 movie Take Me Home Tonight (film) , Tori Frederking (Teresa Palmer
  Teresa Palmer
  Teresa Palmer is an Australian actress. She made her film debut in the suicide drama 2:37. Palmer was seen in The Grudge 2 in 2006, in December Boys, alongside Daniel Radcliffe, and in the 2008 children's fantasy Bedtime Stories, with Adam Sandler...
  
  ) remarks "I love this song!" to try to get Matt Franklin (Topher Grace
  Topher Grace
  Christopher John "Topher" Grace is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Eric Forman on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show, Eddie Brock/Venom in the Sam Raimi film Spider-Man 3, and Edwin in the 2010 film Predators....
  
  ) to dance as it comes on at a party.
• In the 2011 movie Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred
  Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred
  Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred is a 2011 independent comedy film. The film is the sequel to the 2010 film Fred: The Movie, based on the adventures of Fred Figglehorn, a character created and played by Lucas Cruikshank for Cruikshank's YouTube channel. It is a Halloween themed sequel...
  
  , Fred's archenemy, Kevin, plays the song on the piano while singing.

External links

• [ Chart Trajectory Information]
• [ Page for Everybody Have Fun Tonight Singles]

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C pop songs