Editing Stuck in the Middle with You (section)

==In popular culture==
The song is used in [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s 1992 debut film ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'', during the scene in which the character Mr. Blonde (played by [[Michael Madsen]]) taunts and tortures bound policeman Marvin Nash ([[Kirk Baltz]]) while singing and dancing to the song.<ref name="digitalspy_reservoir-dogs">{{Cite web |last=Reynolds, Simon |date=7 January 2013 |title=Quentin Tarantino's music moments: 'Stuck in the Middle', David Bowie |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/at-the-movies/a451459/quentin-tarantinos-music-moments-stuck-in-the-middle-david-bowie.html#~oALx6fK9wyy4XC |access-date=7 April 2014 |website=Digital Spy |publisher=National Magazine Company Ltd |quote=Alongside the bloody violence and salty dialog, Quentin Tarantino movies are often marked by ingenious juxtaposition of image and sound. Ever since Michael Madsen's razor-wielding Mr. Blonde danced to 'Stuck in the Middle With You' in Reservoir Dogs, the filmmaker has become synonymous with memorable musical montages. }}</ref> In an interview with ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', Tarantino recalled:<ref name="rollingstone_reservoir-dogs">{{Cite magazine |last=Halperin, Shirley |date=21 August 2009 |title=Quentin Tarantino on Five Key Soundtrack Picks, from 'Reservoir Dogs' to 'Inglourious Basterds' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/quentin-tarantino-on-five-key-soundtrack-picks-from-reservoir-dogs-to-inglourious-basterds-20090821 |access-date=7 April 2014 |magazine=Rolling Stone |quote=From Pulp Fiction to Kill Bill to his latest, Inglourious Basterds (opening this weekend), Quentin Tarantino matches scene with song like a sommelier pairs just the right bottle of wine with a nice steak: perfectly. So how does a cut make it from his turntable to the big screen? The revered director filled us in on his method through five key movie music cues. }}</ref>

<blockquote>That was one of those things where I thought [the song] would work really well, and [during] auditions, I told the actors that I wanted them to do the torture scene, and I'm gonna use "Stuck in the Middle with You", but they could pick anything they wanted, they didn't have to use that song. And a couple of people picked another one, but almost everyone came in with "Stuck in the Middle with You", and they were saying that they tried to come up with something else, but that's the one. The first time somebody actually did the torture scene to that song, the guy didn't even have a great audition, but it was like watching the movie. I was thinking, "Oh my God, this is gonna be awesome!"</blockquote>

The song appears in a [[2020 in American television|2020]] [[TV commercial]] for [[IBM]].<ref name="IBM">{{Cite web |title=IBM Cloud Super Bowl 2020 TV Commercial, 'The Most Flexible Cloud' Song by Stealers Wheel |url=https://www.ispot.tv/ad/ZErg/ibm-super-bowl-2020-the-most-flexible-cloud |website=iSpot.tv |format=Ad ID: 2661332}}</ref>

The song is used as the theme song for SiriusXM Radio's ''The Michael Smerconish Program''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kachejian |first=Brian |date=29 October 2020 |title=Top 10 Stealers Wheel songs |url=https://www.classicrockhistory.com/top-10-stealers-wheel-songs/ |access-date=9 February 2023 |website=ClassicRockHistory.com |language=en-US}}</ref> and snippets from various cover versions of the song are used as the show's inter-segment "bumper" music.