Circle K - Pop Culture

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The film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure features the well known line by Keanu Reeves's character Ted "Theodore" Logan, "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K."

In the Counting Crows song "Cowboys" a reference is made to "Circle K killers".

The OK Go song "No Sign of Life", from their album Oh No has a line that mentions the store: "Sarah's still down on the bench by the Circle K, crying, crying all day."

In "Isle Thing", "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of the Tone Loc song "Wild Thing", he sings, "Met this fine young thing/at the local Circle K/She made a date for half-past eight/So I said 'What the hey?'"

American punk band Screeching Weasel mentions Circle K in the lyrics to "Crying in my Beer".

Band Spiderbait has a song based on Circle K

Circle K convenience stores are known fondly and colloquially by Hong Kong locals as "O.K."

Punk band Teenage Bottlerocket references Circle K in the lyrics for the song "Skate or Die"

Numerous references to a 'Circle A' are made in the Marvel Comics series Runaways.

On Season 3 of True Blood, The Vampire Queen of Louisiana, Sophie-Anne LeClerq (Evan Rachel Wood) is having fun with lottery tickets, wins another hundred dollars and yells for her human Hadley to "Run down to Circle-K and get me another hundred of these."

Indie duo Sleigh Bells references Circle K in the lyrics to the song "You Lost Me", from their 2012 album Reign of Terror .