In season 2 of Sports Night episodes entitled Kyle Whitaker's Got to Sacks and The Reunion.
Melankomas was mentioned in a second-season episode of Sports Night as a contender for "Athlete of the Millennium."
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Since then he has appeared in numerous films and television series, including Seinfeld, Mad About You, the pilot of Sports Night, Green Lantern, and in 2012, The Philly Kid.
The song is part of the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever, and is featured in numerous other films, including No Escape (1994), Mallrats (1995), Boogie Nights (1997), Detroit Rock City (1999), The Wedding Date (2005) as well as television series, Sports Night, Desperate Housewives (both, coincidentally, with star Felicity Huffman dancing to it), and Flash Forward.
He has also directed a wide range of television including Arrested Development, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Freaks and Geeks, Sports Night, Felicity, Action, The Tick, MTV's Austin Stories and HBO's Mind of the Married Man, The Sopranos and How to Make It in America.