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Title: PARODY

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PARODY

by Don L. F. Nilsen, and
Alleen Pace Nilsen

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Parodies of ASUGammage 2013-2014 Season
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Southwest Airlines Boarding Instructions in
Parody Form
https//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TxNrizGdhtY
?vqhd720rel0showinfo0start0end

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Another Visual Parody
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Jack Webb on Johnny Carson Show Parody of
Dragnet
https//www.youtube.com/watch?vcjquGpmgwOo

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Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez

While we usually think of parodies in relation to
written work, art can also be parodied as
happened to this 1656 painting of the Spanish
court by Diego Velázquez , who was the leading
artist of the Spanish Golden Age.
The artist is standing to the left with his
paintbrush and palette. Especially notice the
dog, the children, and the dwarf when you look at
the next slide.

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Pablo Picasso painted this parody in 1957.
Notice how much bigger he made the artist and how
he stylized the figures and the windows. __
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Parodies Illustrate Deconstruction Followed by
Re-Construction

Wolcott Gibbs wrote in The New Yorker that parody
is the hardest form of creative writing because
the style of the subject must be reproduced in
slightly enlarged form, while at the same time
holding the interest of people who havent read
the original.
Further complications are posed since it must
entertain at the same time that it criticizes and
must be written in a style that is not the
writers own.
The only thing that would make it more
difficult, he concluded, would be to write it
in Cantonese.

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Why We Like to Parody Childrens Literature

Obviously, it is easier for people to enjoy a
parody if they know what the original was.
In our increasingly diverse culture, memories of
classic childrens books may be one of the few
things we have in common.
Advertisers, broadcasters, cartoonists,
journalists, politicians, bloggers, and everyone
else who wants to communicate with large numbers
of people, therefore turn to the array of
exaggerated characters that we remember from
childhood books as in the picture on the next
slide which parodies Maurice Sendaks 1962 Where
the Wild Things Are to advertise an upcoming
comedy festival.

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Famous Childrens Literature Characters and What
They Represent

Chicken Little to represent alarmists
Pinocchio to stand in for liars.
The Big Bad Wolf to warn us of danger.
Humpty Dumpty to point out how easy it is to fall
from grace.
The Frog Prince to give hope to women of all
ages.
Judith Viorsts The Terrible, Horrible, No Good,
Very Bad Day to let us know that things might get
better.

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Margaret Wise Browns 1947 Goodnight Moon has
inspired all kinds of parodies.
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Besides this Sweet Dream book and Goodnight,
Goodnight, Construction Site, Michael Rex has
written Goodnight Goon A Petrifying Parody.
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Identical Pieces of Childrens Literature Can Be
Parodied for Different Purposes

In the 1980s, Alleens childrens literature
students brought in a full page advertisement
from APS (the local power company) showing
Dorothy and her friends from The Wizard of Oz
happily walking up a brick road with the caption
Were on our way to more efficient fuel
alternatives.

In her most recent class, students brought in a
cartoon in which the Wicked Witch was saying,
Forget the slippers. I want the Tin Mans Oil!
In the saddest cartoon, Dorothy and friends had
sold the Tin Man to a recycling center in
exchange for bus fare back to Kansas.

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Humpty Dumpty

In the old days when Humpty Dumpty fell off the
wall, he was always surrounded by sympathetic
bystanders trying to put him back together again.

A cartoon in the fall of 2009 showed the poor
fallen egg being shunned by a donkey and two
wizard-like characters saying, Salmonella!

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The House That Jack Built

In the 1980s, students laughed out loud at a
full-page ad for U. S. Plywood showing a darling
couple standing in a newly paneled room.
The adoring wife was proudly saying, This is the
room that Herb paneled!

A recent Tom Beck cartoon showed the proverbial
Jack standing near the house he just built with a
big screw through his belly.
Nearby a bureaucrat and a Supreme Court Justice
are holding up EMINENT DOMAIN and PUBLIC USE
signs.

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Hansel and Gretel

In a funny cartoon from the 1990s, Gretel was
solemnly quizzing the Witch on the nutritional
value of the food in her enticing house.

In the fall of 2009, a popular televised
advertising campaign showed Hansel and Gretel
fearfully wandering into Wall Street and dropping
bread crumbs along the way in hopes of being able
to find their way out.

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The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

This year her house is boarded up with a
FORECLOSURE sign on it. In a second cartoon a
realtor is standing in front of it, and saying to
a colleague, It looked kinda dumpy, but
appraised at a million-two.

In the 1980s, she was happy to be a huckster for
Hawaiian Punch as she happily served it to all of
her children while keeping to her modest budget.

Julie Andrews Turning 79
In order to commemorate her 79th birthday, Julie
Andrews made a special appearance at Manhattans
Radio City Music Hall for the benefit of AARP.
One of the musical numbers she performed was an
updated version of My Favorite Things from The
Sound of Music. Here are the new lyrics

Boxtops and nose drops and needles for knitting,
Walkers and handrails and new dental fittings,
Bundles of magazines tied up in string,
These are a few of my favourite things.
Cadillacs, cataracts, hearing aids and glasses,
Polident, Fixodent, false teeth in glasses,
Pacemakers, golf carts and porches with swings,
These are a few of my favourite things.
When the pipes leak, When the bones creak,
When the knees go bad,
I simply remember my favourite things,
And then I dont feel..so bad.

Hot tea and crumpets and corn pads for bunions,
No spicy hot food or food cooked with onions,
Bathrobes and heating pads, hot meals they bring,
These are a few of my favourite things.
Back pain, confused brains and no need for
sinnin,
Thin bones and fractures and hair that is
thinnin,
And we wont mention our short shrunken frames,
When we remember our favourite things.
When the joints ache, When the hips break,
When the eyes grow dim,
Then I remember the great life Ive had,
And then I dont feelso bad.

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Whenever a book gets popular enough, even if its
a grammar book, there is room for a parody.
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LEWIS CARROLL Was a Master at Parodying Common
Poems

Twinkle, twinkle, Little Star, How I wonder
where you are, became Twinkle, twinkle, Little
Bat, How I wonder where youre at.
With most of his parodies, Carroll was protesting
the didacticism and the sentimentality imposed on
Victorian children and their parents.

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G. W. LANGFORDS POEM

As a protest, Carroll turned it into a song for
the Duchess to sing to a piglet wrapped in baby
clothes
Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes.
He only does it to annoy
Because he knows it teases.

G. W. Langfords poem not only preached at
parents but threatened them with a reminder of
the high mortality rate for young children
Speak gently to the little child!
Its love be sure to gain
Teach it in accents soft and mild
It may not long remain.

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ISAAC WATTS ORIGINAL POEM AGAINST IDLENESS AND
MISCHIEF

How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!

Lewis Carrolls Parody
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale?

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Part of Mark Twains WAR PRAYER, Which Was a
Dark Parody of Self- Righteousness

Oh Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers
to bloody shreds with our shells
Help us to cover their smiling fields with their
patriot dead
Help us to lay waste their humble homes with a
hurricane of fire . . .
Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives,
protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy
their steps, water their way with their tears.
We ask it in the spirit of love, of Him Who is
the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful
refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and
seek his aid. Amen.

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MEL BROOKS and MONTY PYTHON Famous Film
Parodies

Blazing Saddles
The Producers
Robin Hood, Men in Tights
Young Frankenstein

Monty Pythons Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python The Meaning of Life

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A Montie Python Parody

The Life of Brian--Always Look at the Bright Side
of Life
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vjHPOzQzk9Qo

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ADD TO THESE LISTS OF CONTINUING MEDIA PARODIES

Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest
It was a dark and stormy night.
Harvard Lampoon
Julia Moore Poetry Contest (The Sweet Singer of
Michigan)

MAD Magazine
National Lampoon
MAD TV
The Onion

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Different Kinds of Parodies

Quentin Tarantinos 1994 film Pulp Fiction,
parodies the flamboyant characters, mystery, and
personal greed found in thriller fiction.
Jeffrey Katzenberg worked for the Walt Disney
Corporation from 1975 to 1984. He left in
disappointment when he did not get the promotion
he thought he deserved. In 1994, he joined
Steven Spielberg and David Geffen to form
Dreamworks. One of the first things they did was
to create the Shrek film with the purposeful
intention of getting even with Disney by
parodying such Disney icons as Beauty and the
Beast, Cinderella, Dumbo, The Little Mermaid,
Peter Pan, Pinocchio, and Sleeping Beauty.

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Parody of 60 is the new 50
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A Parody of the News

Auto-Tune the News
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vtBb4cjjj1gI

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Western Tall Tales Parody the Exaggerated Fish
Stories that Travelers Send Home

Alvin Schwartz was a well-known collector and
editor of western folklore for kids. Examples
include
Tomfoolery
The Cats Elbow
Whoppers
Chin Music
Kickle Snifters.

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Parodies of Songs

Weird Al Yankovic
Eat it (Michael Jacksons Beat it)
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vZcJjMnHoIBI
Fat (Phat)
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vt2mU6USTBRE
White and Nerdy (Parody of Ridin)
http//www.youtube.com/watch?vN9qYF9DZPdw

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PARODIES OF THE RHYTHM AND RHYME IN EDGAR ALAN
POES BELLS

Hear the sledges with the bells
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the Icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight . . . . . .

Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

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In Parody, Bells ? Pills, Tea and Flutes
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DEMER CAPES PARODY

See the doctors with their pills---
Silver-coated pills.
What a world of misery their calomel instills.
How they twingle, twingle, twingle in the
icy-golden night.
You have taken two that mingle.
And you wish youd had a single
While your cheeks are ashy white
Oh, the pills, pills, pills
Pills, pills, pills, pills.
So ends my rhyming and my chiming on the pills.

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BARRY PAINS PARODY

Heres a mellow cup of tea, golden tea!
What a world of rapturous thought its fragrance
brings to me!
Oh, from out the silver cells
How it wells!
How it smells!
Keeping tune, tune, tune
To the tintinnabulation of the spoon
And the kettle on the fire
Boils its spout off with desire,
But he always came home to tea, tea, tea,
Tea, tea, tea, tea.

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ANONYMOUS PARODY OF BELLS

Hear the fluter with his flute,
Silver flute!
Oh, what a world of wailing is awakened by its
toot!
How it demi-semi quavers
On the maddened air of night!
And defieth all endeavors
To escape the sound or sight
Of the flute, flute, flute,
With its tootle, tootle, toot
Of the flute, flewt, fluit, floot, Phlute,
Phlewt, Phlewght,
And the tootle, tootle, tooting of its toot.

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C. F. LUMIS PARODY OF ANNABEL LEE

It was many and many a year ago,
On an island near the sea,
That a maiden lived whom you mightnt know
By the name of Cannibelee
And this maiden, she lived with no other thought
Than a passionate fondness for me.
(The poem continues by developing the nature
of his fondness for Cannibelee and ends with the
idea of being eaten. He named it A Poe-em of
Passion.)

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THOMAS HOOD JR.S PARODY OF ANNABEL LEE

It was many and many a year ago
In a District called E.C.,
That a Monster dwelt whom I came to know
By the name of Cannibel Flea,
And the brute was possessed with no other thought
Than to liveand to live on me!

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BARBARA ANGELLS ULABEL LUME

I was a child and she was a child
And childishly childlike wed romp.
But we loved with a lovelier love than love
In this old barge on the swamp.
With a love that made the winged seraphs in
heaven
Foam at the mouth and stomp.

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This is Holly Chivers original poem, written
before Edgar Alan Poe wrote The Raven

While the world lay round me sleeping
I alone for Isadore
Patient Vigils lonely keeping,
Someone said to me while weeping
Why this grief forever more?
And I answered I am weeping
for my blessed Isadore.

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After Poes The Raven, Holly Chivers wrote his
Humpty-Dumpty A La Poe

As an egg, when broken, never
Can be mended but must ever
Be the same crushed egg forever
So shall this dark heart of mine
Which, though broken, is still breaking,
And shall nevermore cease aching
For the sleep which has no waking
For the sleep which now is thine.

Chivers parody of Poes The Raven is very
dark. He wrote it when Poe died, and the death
in the poem refers both to the death of Poe, and
the death of Chivers lover, whose name was
Isadore.
Chivers felt that Poe had stolen his own poem,
entitled, Isadore.
Chivers original poem read as follows