<Li> 2003 The Haunted Mansion - the song is shortly featured and performed by Shelby Grimm, Harry J. Campbell, William T. Lewis, Tim Reeder, and Bob Hartley . </Li> <Li> 2010 Scooby - Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster - Shaggy Rogers sings of this song to Velma Dinkley performed by Nick Palatas . </Li> <Ul> <Li> The song was featured in a 1931 Fleischer Studios "Follow the bouncing ball" cartoon, that featured Betty Boop and the voice of Eddie Cantor . An earlier Fleischer cartoon "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (1926) was released in the Phonofilm sound - on - film process, as part of the Song Car - Tunes series . </Li> <Li> In a 1952 episode of I Love Lucy, "Lucy's Show Biz Swan Song", the song was sung by Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz (Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance), while the characters were auditioning for Ricky's "Gay Nineties Revue ." </Li> <Li> The song's patter is parodied in a popular The Rocky Horror Picture Show . Audience Participation line for the song "Eddie". lines like "By the light (not the dark but the light)" become lines like "From the day he was born (not the night but the day)" and "She tried in vain (not the artery but the vein)". </Li> <Li> In the January 27, 1976 episode of the ABC sitcom Happy Days, titled "Fonzie The Superstar", restaurant owner Arnold (Pat Morita) and Laverne and Shirley (Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams), stall for time by singing the song (very badly) onstage, for a teen audience waiting for Fonzie (Henry Winkler) to come out and sing . </Li> <Li> In an All in the Family episode (S6 E15), Archie Bunker and Barney Hefner sang the song as part of a minstrel show . </Li> <Li> The song is featured in the second episode of Boardwalk Empire . </Li> <Li> In 1991, the song is sung by a group of human - themed Muppets called, The Three Ds in the preshow of Muppet * Vision 3D . </Li> <Li> Kidsongs, included in the music videoLet's Put on a Show (1995). </Li> </Ul> <Li> The song was featured in a 1931 Fleischer Studios "Follow the bouncing ball" cartoon, that featured Betty Boop and the voice of Eddie Cantor . An earlier Fleischer cartoon "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (1926) was released in the Phonofilm sound - on - film process, as part of the Song Car - Tunes series . </Li>

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