The song was parodied in an episode of Animaniacs, the plot of which was partly a parody of Apocalypse Now. At the start of the episode, a voice actor sings in a Morrison-like voice, “This is the beginning… the beginning of our story…the beginning…”. At the middle of the story, the word “beginning” is replaced with the word “middle”. At the end of the episode he says “This is the ending…the ending of our story…the ending…the ending…the ending…the ending.” and a Jim Morrison character is seen being run over by a golf cart.