One day Mark E. Smith is walking down a street (I think Salford)and he saw a little girl crying. He asked her what was wrong and she said she lost her Teddy Bear. So he says,"Don't worry. He went gigging with a rock band." The little girl calms down and every now and again Mark E. Smith would send a postcard from Mark E. Bear.

...but he kept it up until she was 28!

* Frank Skinner's house band are now performing snippets of Fall songs in between guests on his current show
* Former Black Flag singer and current Rollins Band leader Henry Rollins is an avid fan of The Fall, stating of Smith "after well over 27 albums the man still keeps spewing forth the highest quality vitriol. I never get tired of this guy. I have pretty much all those records. I like 'em a lot, and I wouldn't wanna be caught in an elevator with him when it wasn't working." [13] Rollins traditionally plays at least one Fall song per week on his radio show, Harmony In My Head[14][15]

* The Fall's song "Hip Priest" (1982) was used as the soundtrack to the climax of the 1991 film version of Silence of the Lambs.

* From Saturday 6th August 2005, The Fall's "Theme From Sparta F.C." (2003) was used as the theme music to the Final Score section on BBC Television's afternoon sports show Grandstand. Also, Smith was recently invited to read out the classified football results on the BBCi interactive service "Score".

* "Touch Sensitive" (from The Marshall Suite) was used in the UK as a soundtrack to an advert for the Vauxhall Corsa, for which Smith claims he was not paid.

* This Morning With Richard Not Judy – a late-nineties British comedy programme – had a regular sketch involving a creature called The Curious Orange. Its name was derived from the song Kurious Oranj (from I Am Kurious Oranj), which was played at the beginning of each sketch. Stewart Lee, one half of the comedy partnership who wrote the show, is an ardent Fall fan and regularly promotes the group in his articles for such publications as The Wire and The Guardian.