 The song was also featured in the 1990 film "The Spirit of '76", the 1993 film "Carlito's Way", the 1996 film "The Cable Guy", the 1999 film "Man on the Moon", the HBO series "The Sopranos" (Season 2, episode 5, Big Girls Don't Cry) and (sung in character by Seth MacFarlane as Glenn Quagmire, Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson, and Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown) the "Family Guy" episode "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas".The song appeared in the 1997 movie "The Devil's Own" with Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt, and a short extract of the refrain ("Our love is a like ship on the ocean...") in the 2015 movie "The Martian" directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon.In "Derry Girls", "Rock the Boat" is played during an episode that takes place at a wedding.