Guns N' Roses occasionally played an excerpt of the song during their 1993 world tour, as an introduction to their song "Patience".
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In late 1968 or early 1969, when The Who played a rough assembly of their new album to critic Nik Cohn, Cohn gave a lukewarm reaction.
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Sweet and Sour Squid", the song is parodied by Plankton and Squidward as "Clarinet Wizard".
Their 2011 Halftime show was themed around The Who, including the iTunes, Who are You, Won't get Fooled Again, Behind Blue Eyes, and Pinball Wizard.
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The performance was energetic, but problematic: a problem with John Entwistle's bass guitar briefly delayed the start of their set, only to have the BBC's power cut out during the second verse of "My Generation", resulting in only the audio being transmitted for the last part of this song and "Pinball Wizard"; the video resumed for "Love Reign O'er Me".