<P> In The Goldbergs episode "Han Ukkah Solo", Erica Goldberg is challenged to write a Hanukkah song . She does, but her words are sung to the tune of "Happy Birthday To You". Her music teacher tells her she can't use it because "I'd have to pay those old ladies hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I've already spent our budget on construction paper ." </P> <P> In the 30 Rock episode "Goodbye, My Friend", TGS cast members begin to sing the song following an announcement about the royalty fee for singing "Happy Birthday to You" on a television show . The cast is interrupted after the first line by a character entering the scene . In the Community episode "Mixology Certification", a scene starts with the last two words of the song ("...to you"), implying it had been sung in its entirety, before Pierce confusedly asks, "How come we only sang the last two words?" </P> <P> In the 1987 documentary Eyes on the Prize about the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, there was a birthday party scene in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s discouragement began to lift . After its initial release, the film was unavailable for sale or broadcast for many years because of the cost of clearing many copyrights, of which "Happy Birthday to You" was one . Grants in 2005 for copyright clearances allowed PBS to rebroadcast the film as recently as February 2008 . </P> <P> In 2010, the Western classical music conductor Zubin Mehta conducted the orchestra to play variations of Happy Birthday in the styles of various Western classical music composers including Wagner, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, and in the Viennese, New Orleans and Hungarian composition styles . </P>

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