In 1957, Peter Sellers recorded a rendition in a voice he created for The Goon Show, Willium "Mate" Cobblers. It reached No. 17 in the UK Singles Chart that year.
In one episode of Are You Being Served?, "The Hand of Fate", Mr. Mash cannot find the owner of a shipment of 27 galvanized buckets, and starts singing the song and accompanying himself by rattling the buckets around.
The Barron Knights used the tune and some of the lyrics of the song in a satire on punk, in the late 1970s.
British comedian Bill Bailey, along with the BBC Concert Orchestra, as part of his live show "Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra", mixed the song in as part of a "Cockney Arrangement" of the "William Tell Overture".
Somerset band The Wurzels sample the song's melody in their song Blackbird
The song was used, with different lyrics, in television advertisements for Hammerite and Smoothrite paint.
In the T-Bag series; 'T-Bag and the Revenge of the T-Set', in the third episode the character; T-Shirt starts singing the first part of the song when T-Bag is using a metal detector.
There is a sequence in the movie Yellow Submarine when the "real" Beatles are confronted with their look-alikes trapped in a blue glass sphere, inspiring John to go off on an abstruse invocation of Einstein's Theory of relativity, to which Paul's response is to sing "Any old Ein! Any old Ein! Any any any old Einstein!"
Scunthorpe United F.C. have adopted this song, and it is played before all of their home games.
In Top Gear Series 18, Jeremy and James sing the song in jest as Richard drives the old styleMorgan 3-Wheeler through a corner.
There is a scene in the movie "Chaplin" where Charlie and Syd meet just before Charlie's audition for Mr. Karno. Charlie and Syd greet each other by singing the chorus to "Any Old Iron".
In the 2001 Steven Spielberg movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence, while the rejected robots are being chased by the bikers for a "Flesh Fair", the commander of the illuminated hot-air balloon is repeatedly saying over a loudspeaker "Any old iron".
An episode in the fifth series of Steptoe and Son, which is set in a Rag-and-bone merchants' yard, is entitled "Any Old Iron", punning on the song title,, and the Cockney rhyming slangiron meaning a male homosexual. In the story, Albert thinks his son Harold may have gay leanings.
