The song appeared on the MTV cartoon series Daria.The song was used in an episode of The Simpsons entitled " That 90's Show".The intro to "Closing Time" is briefly heard in the Friends episode "The One with Rachel's Date".In 1998, "Closing Time" was heard right before the credits in the final episode of Melrose Place.The song was prominently featured in the 2011 film Friends with Benefits.The song was featured in the 2010 film Due Date.The song was featured on the 1998 charitable album Live in the X Lounge.
The song was referenced in the Soultaker episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000."Closing Time" was the final song in the polka medley "Polka Power!" on "Weird Al" Yankovic's 1999 album Running with Scissors. The "trick" of the video is that each shot was done as one long, continuous shot, with no cuts or editing, and therefore relies on proper timing during the filming to get the two sides of the video lined up properly. However, they still end up missing each other by mere seconds and never meet up. At the end of the video, they both wind up at the same nightclub. As the video progresses, Dan and his girlfriend switch sides of screen, as they attempt to meet up. The other side features a woman (played by Denise Franco), who is playing the part of the singer Dan Wilson's girlfriend. One side shows the band playing the song in a rehearsal space. It features two continuous shots, running side by side on the screen. The music video was directed by Chris Applebaum. The memorable line repeated throughout the song's stanzas, " Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end" is often mistakenly attributed to the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger. The book So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star ( ISBN 0-7679-1470-8) by Semisonic's drummer Jacob Slichter indicates that the song was written partly in response to the anxious, and at times precarious, state of the band during the opening of Wilson's new bar, The Rehab Lounge, which closed in late 2008 however, Slichter has also indicated that the song was written by Wilson "in anticipation of fatherhood", and that it is about "being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar".
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