Musically, Schmidt and Smith had developed a tight sound over their many years of playing together. Unfortunately, the band fell apart just as other female led groups such as The Go-Go's and The Pretenders were breaking out. In 2005, the band appeared in the PBS documentary, "If You're Not Dead, Play", which detailed the Akron Sound that sprung out of the Ohioan punk rock and new wave scene in the second wave during the 1980s. "Bountiful Living" was used in the soundtrack of the Klaus Nomi documentary film, "The Nomi Song" (2004). Chi-Pig members Susan Schmidt and Deborah Smith co-wrote the Devo song "Gates of Steel" with Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh. Smith went on to a career as a lawyer. Schmidt (now Susan Schmidt-Horning) earned a PhD in History at Case Western Reserve University and taught at the Cleveland Institute of Art and at Case before joining the department of history at St. John's University in Queens, New York. Schmidt-Horning has published numerous scholarly articles about music and technology, and her first book, "Chasing Sound", was published by Johns Hopkins University Press.