<P> In the 1997 movie Kiss the Girls, featuring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, the song "Goodnight, Irene" plays in the background during the scene in which Judd's character is attacked in her kitchen by the antagonist, a serial killer . </P> <P> In the comic, Li'l Abner, the character Mammy Yokum has a "lethal right undercut punch" called the "good night Irene punch". </P> <P> In the novel' Housekeeping' (1980), written by Marilynne Robinson, both Sylvie and Helen sing this song several times . </P> <P> The 1993 Moxy Fruvous recording "The Drinking Song" includes a reference to "Goodnight Irene": </P>

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