Editing Eddy Merckx (section)

== Popular culture ==
[[File:Stamp of Ajman - 1969 - Colnect 267416 - Eddy Merckx 1945 Belgium.jpeg|thumb|Merckx on a 1969 Stamp of [[Emirate of Ajman|Ajman]]]]

=== Music ===
* The single ''[[Vas-Y Eddy]]'' (1967) by Jean Saint-Paul is notable for being the first recorded song about Merckx
* ''[[Eddy Prend Le Maillot Jaune]]'', a song by Pierre-André Gil was released after his first Tour de France victory
* The single ''[[Bravo Eddy!]]'' by Jean Narcy was released in 1970
* ''[[Eddy Est Imbattable!]]'' by Pierre-André Gil was released in 1971
* Merckx is mentioned in the 1974 song ''Paris-New York, New York-Paris'' by [[Jacques Higelin]]
* ''Eddy Merckx'' is a song by the Belgian band [[Sttellla]] on the album ''Il faut tourner l'Apache'' in 1998

=== Films and series ===
* A 1973 Danish short film was made, [[Eddy Merckx in the Vicinity of a Cup of Coffee]], starring Merckx and [[Walter Godefroot]]
* In the 1973 comedy film [[The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob]], Merckx was cited by Louis de Funès as the author of Che Guevara's famous quote: "The revolution is like a bicycle: when it doesn't move forward, it falls''."''
* The 1974 documentary film ''La Course en Tête'' by [[Joël Santoni]] looks at the racing and private life of Merckx
* The 1976 Danish documentary film [[A Sunday in Hell]] focuses on the contenders Merckx, [[Roger De Vlaeminck]], [[Freddy Maertens]], and [[Francesco Moser]] in the [[1976 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]] race of that year
* Merckx has a cameo in the 1985 sports drama film [[American Flyers]], starring Kevin Costner
* Merckx is the rival – more or less fantasized – of [[Benoît Poelvoorde]] in the 2001 film [[Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert]] by Philippe Harel
* In 2005, he appears in episode 39b of the second season of [[Space Goofs]], where his character provides the Earth's core with energy, pedalling a stationary bike
* Merckx has a cameo in the 2012 French-Belgian comedy film [[Torpedo (2012 film)|Torpedo]] by Matthieu Donck
* The Flemish movie, set in the seventies [[Allez, Eddy]] was released in 2012
* Eddy Merckx is the subject of an autobiographical fiction written by Christophe Van Staen, entitled Eddy Merckx, Nobel Prize? (Lamiroy, 2019)

=== Comic books ===
* [[Les Fabuleux Exploits d'Eddy Merckx]], a [[Celebrity comics|celebrity comic]], was released in 1973. It was translated in different languages
* Eddy Merckx appears in the comic strip ''San-Antonio Fait un Tour'' published by Fleuve Noir in 1973
* He appears as a speedy messenger in the comic book [[Asterix in Belgium]] of the [[Asterix]] series by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, published in 1979
* A tribute to Eddy Merckx is paid in the 1987 [[Boule et Bill]] album nr. 24, Billets de Bill
* Merckx also appears in album 79 (1988) of the [[Robert en Bertrand]] series and album 247 (1996) of the [[Spike and Suzy]] series.<ref>{{Cite web |date=3 January 2024 |title=Suske in de Gele Trui |url=https://suskeenwiske.ophetwww.net/versus/artikel/kader.php |website=suskeenwiske.ophetwww.net |language=nl}}</ref>
* Another tribute is paid in one of the adventures of Donald Duck, who must compete against the champion of his uncle's rival: "Dydy Berkxz"