• A version of the rhyme appears at the beginning of
Robert Crumb's comic strip, "Crybaby's Blues". • In
The Simpsons season 4 episode 20 "
Whacking Day," Bart performs a rendition of "Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit" in a Christian school. • The American bean brand
Bush Brothers and Company wrote a related song with the singer
Josh Groban. The lyrics include a direct reference to the rhyme: "They'd yell about the musical fruit // They'd say the more that I ate, the more I'd (toot)". • In a "Dot's Poetry Corner" segment of
Animaniacs, Dot recites a variation entitled "Ode to a Veggie", that goes "Beans, beans, the musical fruit / The more you eat, the more they kick you off the air if you finish this poem." ==General references==