Mr Benn in Popular Culture
- Bell X1 have a song on their Flock album entitled "Just Like Mr Benn".
- Festive Road, the first track on The Divine Comedy's 1993 album Liberation, is about Mr Benn.
- The song "PragVEC at the Melkweg" by Half Man Half Biscuit contains the line 'Just as I expected, the shopkeeper appeared.'
- The Oasis song "Shakermaker" has the lyric 'Mr Clean and Mr Benn are living in my loft'.
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