Despite failing to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100, it was included on their greatest hits album The Singles 1992–2003.
Beginning as a poem Tom wrote for school, bandleader at the time Eric Stefani then shaped the arrangement with everyone contributing lyrics.
The horn section and quasi-ska rhythms remain inspired by those early Madness/Fishbone influences, while the emerging sense of flow and pop bounce makes the track a benchmark for the time and a notable milestone today.
[1]The song is based on a poem that guitarist Tom Dumont wrote about being addicted to television and how it can control one's way of thinking.
[4] Rhapsody, in a positive review, described it as "one of the album's highlights" and Allmusic called it "as exciting" as two of No Doubt's more successful singles, "Hella Good" and "Just a Girl".