"Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)" (1971). Ella Mae Morse had a US top 10 hit with "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet", from the film Broadway Rhythm (1944). The (unnamed) milkwoman was an occasional character in British sitcom Open All Hours, the object of Granville's desire. Despite working early mornings just as Granville did, she was also a part-time university student and a divorcee, representing aspirations of a life lived beyond the terraced streets of the local neighborhood. Episode 3 of the third series of television comedy series Father Ted is entitled Speed 3 and centers around the lascivious behavior of milkman Pat Mustard, Ted's feud with him, and the tragic outcome. In Raymond Briggs' graphic novel Ethel and Ernest, based on the true story of Mr. Briggs' parents, Ernest Briggs (Raymond's father) is described as being a milkman for the R.A.C.S. Anna Burns's novel Milkman features both a real milkman and an Irish paramilitary known as 'Milkman' who sexually harasses the protagonist before being killed. In 1984, the band Level 42 released their song, Kansas City Milkman. The meaning of the song portrays a milkman as an average blue-collar worker, without enough disposable income to travel, hence his knowledge of the world outside of his hometown is naive and limited to what he reads in the newspapers. Also the message is that his ignorance is bliss, asking the question if he would he really want to know the true nature of the world. The irony of the song is that it is written by Mark King and Philip Gould, British people with the tacit assumption that Milkmen were equally common in large American cities as they were in Britain during that era. Gallery See also Milkmaid Milkman joke Yakult lady References External links Food 52: A History of the American Milkman The Milkman's Comeback Means Dairy At The Door And More Dairy industry Transport occupations Milk transport