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Song Parodies -> "Shakespearean Pie"
Original Song Title:
"American Pie"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Don McLean
Parody Song Title:
"Shakespearean Pie"
Parody Written by:
Spaff.com
The Lyrics
If music be the food of love, then parody be cheap dessert. Anyone for another slice of "Pie"?
A long, long time ago
I can still remember
How, alas, poor Yorick's jokes drew groans
He'd dance and sing and kiss my hand
Like Elsinore was Neverland
But then he went and joined the Skull and Bones
And now, Horatio, I get shivers
With every line the ghost delivers
All the Globe has been dark
'Cause something rots in Denmark
I can't recall a thing as weird
As when - dear old Daddy - reappeared
To say that he'd been incense-eared
The day King Hamlet died
So...
To - be - or to choose not to be?
That's the question I'm digestin' in my so-lil-o-quy
& When fortune aims its slings and arrows at me
Tell me how I'm gonna live through Act III?
Answer, please, iambically
Did you like Shakespeare in Love?
And did you rewind for scansion of
Gwyneth with her wardrobe gone?
Now, do you believe in English Lit?
Is brevi-ty the soul of wit?
If so then why's this bloody play - so - long?
Well, I know this role has real cachet
For each Branagh and Olivier
Mel Gibson draws blood nice
Man, I dig that Passion of Christ!
I was a young, great Dane in British schools
With my pet Ophelia and a dad who RULES
But I knew we'd - been played for fools
The day King Hamlet died
So here's the question:
To - be - or choose rather to be
Suicidal or to idle apathetically,
Or IS volition all it's cracked up to be
If "to die, to sleep, to dream" is love-ly?
Um, explain the question to me...
Less than TWO MONTHS since the obit ran
And Lord knows, frailty, thy name's wo - man:
My dumbass uncle wears Dad's ring
So I set the stage for a royal sting
What a script! I thought, The play's the thing
Where I'll catch - the conscience of the king
Oh, and while the king enjoyed the show
The players showed him whack his bro
The king stomped off and cried
O!!! J. yelled Homicide!
So Let's Make a Deal, Queen Mother, who
Is bee-hind curtain number two?
How now, a rat? I sliced him through
The day Polonius died
I was thinking...
To - be - or to go with Plan B?
Is it nobler just to soldier on Shakespeareanly
Or fly off to - the undiscovered coun-try?
Frickin' conscience makes a coward of me
Get me to a fun nunner-y
Hanky panky? Nope, Ophelia's cranky
Could she be ticked that I nailed that Yankee?
Maybe 'cause I knifed her daaaaaad?
She shouted Foul! in her wrath:
You'll never tread on my primrose path!
(Guess my joke 'bout "country matters" made her mad)
Now, the nymph went nutso north-northwest
Went'n' took a swim completely dressed
She sank just like a ship
So-o-o - here's the moral: skinny-dip!
Poor Laertes missed his tour de France
But, merde, this ain't no cheap romance
(Ask Guildenstern and Rosencrantz)
The day Ophelia died
And I was thinking...
To - be - or to other-than-be?
That's the question - screw depression - death sounds painless to me
This too too solid flesh should melt melt like brie
And resolve into a fondue - yum-my!
Serve it with some crumpets and tea
Oh, and there we were all in one place
Equipped with poison, swords, and Mace
With Fortune there to shape our ends
So come on - fence me nimble, fence me quick
Back-scratch me with your tainted prick
'Cause - Fie! - Bet your ass we're foiled again
So Laertes and I both got poked
Mom drank New Toxic Carb-Free Coke
The king was S.O.L.
Thus ends his sworded tale:
I said, My name ees Hamlet Junior, guy
You keeled my dad; prepare to die
(Yep, I stole that from The Princess Bride)
The day King Claudius died
I was thinking...
To - be - or choose alternately?
That's the question I'm pro-cessin' in Scene I of Act III
To end these shocks - or bear 'em heart-achingly,
Quoting Sonnet Number 73?
(That one's too depressing for me)
[Soft you now]
I met a girl named Juliet
And her boyfriend, whose name I forget
(What's in a name, man, anyway?)
I led Othello to his death
And made life a bitch for King Macbeth
Till the Bard said, Dude, you're in a different play
So meanwhile back at Elsinore
A bunch of guys - come to mop the floor
It's Fortinbras's legions
I guess we're now Norwegians
And the three co-stars I riled most:
Laertes, Mom, and King Claudi-os
Went off to hang with Daddy's ghost
The day that Hamlet died
I see dead people...
To - be - or choose oppositely?
Are we tougher if we suffer indefatigably
Or take up arms against a turbulent sea
Of the troubles fortune's slinging at me?
Screw it - let's go watch some TV
We were thinking...
[All:]
To - be - or to not freaking be
That's the question we're obsessin' 'bout interminably
But as for us, the answer's clear: NOT TO BE
Caught in THIS Shake-spear-e-an trag-e-dy!
~~~~~ THE END ~~~~~
[Horatio:]
Good-night, sweet prince.
[Hamlet:]
I'm not quite dead...
I can still remember
How, alas, poor Yorick's jokes drew groans
He'd dance and sing and kiss my hand
Like Elsinore was Neverland
But then he went and joined the Skull and Bones
And now, Horatio, I get shivers
With every line the ghost delivers
All the Globe has been dark
'Cause something rots in Denmark
I can't recall a thing as weird
As when - dear old Daddy - reappeared
To say that he'd been incense-eared
The day King Hamlet died
So...
To - be - or to choose not to be?
That's the question I'm digestin' in my so-lil-o-quy
& When fortune aims its slings and arrows at me
Tell me how I'm gonna live through Act III?
Answer, please, iambically
Did you like Shakespeare in Love?
And did you rewind for scansion of
Gwyneth with her wardrobe gone?
Now, do you believe in English Lit?
Is brevi-ty the soul of wit?
If so then why's this bloody play - so - long?
Well, I know this role has real cachet
For each Branagh and Olivier
Mel Gibson draws blood nice
Man, I dig that Passion of Christ!
I was a young, great Dane in British schools
With my pet Ophelia and a dad who RULES
But I knew we'd - been played for fools
The day King Hamlet died
So here's the question:
To - be - or choose rather to be
Suicidal or to idle apathetically,
Or IS volition all it's cracked up to be
If "to die, to sleep, to dream" is love-ly?
Um, explain the question to me...
Less than TWO MONTHS since the obit ran
And Lord knows, frailty, thy name's wo - man:
My dumbass uncle wears Dad's ring
So I set the stage for a royal sting
What a script! I thought, The play's the thing
Where I'll catch - the conscience of the king
Oh, and while the king enjoyed the show
The players showed him whack his bro
The king stomped off and cried
O!!! J. yelled Homicide!
So Let's Make a Deal, Queen Mother, who
Is bee-hind curtain number two?
How now, a rat? I sliced him through
The day Polonius died
I was thinking...
To - be - or to go with Plan B?
Is it nobler just to soldier on Shakespeareanly
Or fly off to - the undiscovered coun-try?
Frickin' conscience makes a coward of me
Get me to a fun nunner-y
Hanky panky? Nope, Ophelia's cranky
Could she be ticked that I nailed that Yankee?
Maybe 'cause I knifed her daaaaaad?
She shouted Foul! in her wrath:
You'll never tread on my primrose path!
(Guess my joke 'bout "country matters" made her mad)
Now, the nymph went nutso north-northwest
Went'n' took a swim completely dressed
She sank just like a ship
So-o-o - here's the moral: skinny-dip!
Poor Laertes missed his tour de France
But, merde, this ain't no cheap romance
(Ask Guildenstern and Rosencrantz)
The day Ophelia died
And I was thinking...
To - be - or to other-than-be?
That's the question - screw depression - death sounds painless to me
This too too solid flesh should melt melt like brie
And resolve into a fondue - yum-my!
Serve it with some crumpets and tea
Oh, and there we were all in one place
Equipped with poison, swords, and Mace
With Fortune there to shape our ends
So come on - fence me nimble, fence me quick
Back-scratch me with your tainted prick
'Cause - Fie! - Bet your ass we're foiled again
So Laertes and I both got poked
Mom drank New Toxic Carb-Free Coke
The king was S.O.L.
Thus ends his sworded tale:
I said, My name ees Hamlet Junior, guy
You keeled my dad; prepare to die
(Yep, I stole that from The Princess Bride)
The day King Claudius died
I was thinking...
To - be - or choose alternately?
That's the question I'm pro-cessin' in Scene I of Act III
To end these shocks - or bear 'em heart-achingly,
Quoting Sonnet Number 73?
(That one's too depressing for me)
[Soft you now]
I met a girl named Juliet
And her boyfriend, whose name I forget
(What's in a name, man, anyway?)
I led Othello to his death
And made life a bitch for King Macbeth
Till the Bard said, Dude, you're in a different play
So meanwhile back at Elsinore
A bunch of guys - come to mop the floor
It's Fortinbras's legions
I guess we're now Norwegians
And the three co-stars I riled most:
Laertes, Mom, and King Claudi-os
Went off to hang with Daddy's ghost
The day that Hamlet died
I see dead people...
To - be - or choose oppositely?
Are we tougher if we suffer indefatigably
Or take up arms against a turbulent sea
Of the troubles fortune's slinging at me?
Screw it - let's go watch some TV
We were thinking...
[All:]
To - be - or to not freaking be
That's the question we're obsessin' 'bout interminably
But as for us, the answer's clear: NOT TO BE
Caught in THIS Shake-spear-e-an trag-e-dy!
~~~~~ THE END ~~~~~
[Horatio:]
Good-night, sweet prince.
[Hamlet:]
I'm not quite dead...
© 2004+ Spafford-upon-Avon
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WOW! You sure do know your Shakespeare. Excellent work! 555!
Fivesooth, Fivesooth, Fivesooth. Congratulations, Spaff --- this parody of "American Pie" is truly a masterpiece. I had great fun reading it --- the pacing is superb, the humor is brilliant, and to both thine own self & The Bard's own self 'tis true. Well done! :-)
Spaff - Figured I'd better read this one first so I could finish it before ChuckyG posts TOMORROW'S entries...Wish I'd had this for English Lit Class back in High School, much better than "Cliff Notes"...5's
I bet God writes better than this, occasionally
There is nothing I can say that will do justice to this masterpiece, Spaff.
A masterpiece from the Bard of Spaffcom.
Fantastic.
Ugh. Number one, I hate being the 48th person to comment on a parody...or the 9th...whatever...because, without fail, someone has stolen my comment. Of course, my comment was "I'm speechless," but Ashkicksass stole my thunder none the less.
I will say, however, that considering the timeliness of this piece, following my plea in the 4th stanza of my own submission this week:
http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/billyjoel147.shtml
It is clear that you're trying to show me your knowledge of the Bard (and my favorite play, by the way) so that you can win my heart. It's just so obvious, Spaff. Sheesh... 5s...=)
I will say, however, that considering the timeliness of this piece, following my plea in the 4th stanza of my own submission this week:
http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/billyjoel147.shtml
It is clear that you're trying to show me your knowledge of the Bard (and my favorite play, by the way) so that you can win my heart. It's just so obvious, Spaff. Sheesh... 5s...=)
You're a bit like the Olympics, Spaff...you don't come around that often, but the anticipation is always high, and you never fail to deliver! Pity about the drugs controversy, though...:-) 555 (again)
Tee--Hee, Hear me laughing ,Spaffy ?/ Your poem is the home of all that's funny./ Now,ten "perfects" have been given to thee/ and now,here comes more"fives"to you from me/ pity,I can only give you three !
I'd give you fives but everyone does this song. C'mon, man, try a DIFFICULT one for once...
Pace-ophelia-cs, encycl-ophelia-cs and other -ophelia-cs all hail the might Spaff.
i'm truly impressed by this one....wonderful parody...top notch
Great parody! 555!
Nice parody, you Prosperian, Nobler than thy anus, Vacuous, King Richard the turd, Mal-odorous, overachieving, bubble, bubble, spoiled brain rubble, trash-bearded ankle yanker. Nice parody, I say.
Beautiful, Spaff. Ah well, that's another SOTM I'm not going to win ;-)
This has to be the most masterfully crafted "American Pie" parody I have ever read! Very well done, pacing perfect, hilarious to the extreme. My favorite part was the completely random "Yep, I stole that from The Princess Bride". Truely a classic parody if I ever saw one!
You're such a Ham-let, Spaff...that was a horrible pun..lol, good job
What a piece of work is thine parody!
Spaff, I haven't visited in a while and I am DAMN glad I did tonight. This is incredible! You touched on just about every important point in the play; You made wonderful puns; You mentioned Branagh and Olivier in the same line (somewhere Ken's heart just skipped a beat); You threw in hilarious asides (like the "I see dead people" line) and just generally demonstrated a superb knowledge of Hamlet and the Bard. You even managed a kick-ass election year pun putting Yorick in his grave and the Ivy League at the same time! It's almost an afterthought that your pacing and attention to the original song was excellent - and that made doubly difficult by the intricate detail of the play you put into that format. Tour-de-force is overused but this deserves the term. Brilliant!
Spaff --- regarding your thesis "If music be the food of love, then parody be cheap dessert" --- the first two lines of the last verse of my parody "A Lamer Stupid Rhyme" show that I agree with you 100%:
http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/procolharum1.shtml
http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/procolharum1.shtml
This was wonderful! Can't wait for the recording!
What rock through yonder window breaks? Lo, it is Spaff getting himself to a punnery. Bloody awesome, mate. We're all standing.
Um...wow? My kingdom for an ounce of your talent. Truly amazing, I'll be coming back to this one maybe...five times a day...
I loved the entire production but this line in particular really rocks:
Get me to a fun nunner-y
The higest vote getter I have ever seen on this site was another American Pie parody that pales in comparison.
http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/donmclean3.shtml
Pacing: 4.1
How Funny: 4.2
Overall Rating: 4.2
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Total Votes: 514
Spaff you should double this total in both votes and comments. Will Robert Lund be doing this one? It's a total hit.
Get me to a fun nunner-y
The higest vote getter I have ever seen on this site was another American Pie parody that pales in comparison.
http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/donmclean3.shtml
Pacing: 4.1
How Funny: 4.2
Overall Rating: 4.2
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Total Votes: 514
Spaff you should double this total in both votes and comments. Will Robert Lund be doing this one? It's a total hit.
Oops - my bad - I failed to notice that the American Pie parody referenced above was not comment enabled.
Johnny Dangle: Dang! - I'm starting to wonder if that "guaranteed total recall ability" package (which I bought off an infomercial for three easy installments of $79.95) is really all it's cracked up to be. I forgot about the clever way you tweaked the opening lines of Twelfth Night in your "A Lamer Stupid Rhyme." My apologies - I promise that THAT theft was unintentional. Thanks for reminding me of your lovely Procol Harum parody, however; that's the one that made me think of Phyllis Diller for the first time in years. I ended up name-dropping her in "Anyone But Bush," so thank you for letting me steal that idea too. I have now made it a goal to pillage your song one line at a time. Next on my list is "my keyboard is like cardboard." Heh heh.
To the rest of you: Thank you so much for your comments. You make me feel all warm and chocolatey. (I stole that from a TV commercial.) I will soon come back here and thank you each individually (a practice I stole from Melhi).
And, hey, if parody be dessert, give me excess of it.
To the rest of you: Thank you so much for your comments. You make me feel all warm and chocolatey. (I stole that from a TV commercial.) I will soon come back here and thank you each individually (a practice I stole from Melhi).
And, hey, if parody be dessert, give me excess of it.
Mighty Spaff, I am honored to see any of my lines borrowed by you anytime...please go ahead! And thank you for your gracious comment. I hereby dub thee Swami Spaffalaughananda, Amiright's Resident Parody Guru! OM NAMAH SPAFFAYA! ;-)
Spaff, I´m figuring you´re more likely to see a respone to your comment and question on my Roxette parody here.:
The story of Roxette is this (I´ll try to keep it as short as possible): 20 years ago Per Gessle was the leader of 5 man band called "Gyllene Tider" (Golden Times) that only wrote songs in Swedish. After becoming the most popular band in the country they decided to make English versions of their best stuff and try their luck abroad under the name Roxette. They failed miserably and during the try they also more or less killed their career on the homefront. But Per wasn´t ready to give up, fired the other 4 guys, went into studio to record totally new material together with female singer Marie Fredriksson, also one of our most popular artists and with similar aspirations to make it big worldwide. From that duo´s second album the single "It must have been love" was picked as soundtrack to the movie "Pretty woman" and another single "The Look" made it to number 1 on the billbord list in the US, making them the third Swedish artist/band after Björn Skifs ("Hooked on a feeling" ca 1974) and ABBA to do that.
The "Pretty Woman" single deal was probably a thank you from the record company. Per is a very allround writer who have been writing anonymous for lots of other artists. Example: Two Ozzy Osbourne songs from the 90s was apparently penned by him though he´s not credited for them officially.
After Roxette´s latest world tour Marie Fredriksson fell ill with cancer, she´s supposed to survive but the band is on a break. Instead last year Per revitalised his Swedish career with a solo album, and this year he brought the old 5 man band back to life, recorded a new album that is the number 1 hit of the year here and headed out on a nationwide tour that have broken all sorts of stadium records, including ones held by Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones.
If Marie Fredriksson will be up to it they plan to resurrect Roxette with a new album and tour in 2006.
And finally a shameless plug: I´ve made a new parody to your "A few of my resolutions", apparently it came up on a busy day during the weekend and noone noticed, or maybe it was the athletic subject, anyway, here´s the URL:
http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/robertlundschristmasalbum1.shtml
The story of Roxette is this (I´ll try to keep it as short as possible): 20 years ago Per Gessle was the leader of 5 man band called "Gyllene Tider" (Golden Times) that only wrote songs in Swedish. After becoming the most popular band in the country they decided to make English versions of their best stuff and try their luck abroad under the name Roxette. They failed miserably and during the try they also more or less killed their career on the homefront. But Per wasn´t ready to give up, fired the other 4 guys, went into studio to record totally new material together with female singer Marie Fredriksson, also one of our most popular artists and with similar aspirations to make it big worldwide. From that duo´s second album the single "It must have been love" was picked as soundtrack to the movie "Pretty woman" and another single "The Look" made it to number 1 on the billbord list in the US, making them the third Swedish artist/band after Björn Skifs ("Hooked on a feeling" ca 1974) and ABBA to do that.
The "Pretty Woman" single deal was probably a thank you from the record company. Per is a very allround writer who have been writing anonymous for lots of other artists. Example: Two Ozzy Osbourne songs from the 90s was apparently penned by him though he´s not credited for them officially.
After Roxette´s latest world tour Marie Fredriksson fell ill with cancer, she´s supposed to survive but the band is on a break. Instead last year Per revitalised his Swedish career with a solo album, and this year he brought the old 5 man band back to life, recorded a new album that is the number 1 hit of the year here and headed out on a nationwide tour that have broken all sorts of stadium records, including ones held by Bruce Springsteen and the Rolling Stones.
If Marie Fredriksson will be up to it they plan to resurrect Roxette with a new album and tour in 2006.
And finally a shameless plug: I´ve made a new parody to your "A few of my resolutions", apparently it came up on a busy day during the weekend and noone noticed, or maybe it was the athletic subject, anyway, here´s the URL:
http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/robertlundschristmasalbum1.shtml
Y'all protest too much, methinks. I reeeeeally appreciate all your kind and creative comments; they make this obsession even more compulsive. I was planning to write cheeky individual responses to each of you, but that would make this comment longer than the frickin' parody, so lemme just say:
Thanx, Brother Cookie & Johnny Dangle & P-Rob & Dee Liverance & Sister Kicksass & Johngleberry & Lee OJ & Sister Evenstar & Thought Fuzz & C4P & Peter chyd & Off Rhodes & Jackie & Looney 2nz & Philbo & Bobbo & Billy dba Florio & MAD & Brother Pooch & Smeagol & Stevenagh & AcoLime & GD'R!
And Peter: Thanx for all the Roxette info. I used to have "Look Sharp" and anxiously await an affordable (i.e., non-imported) Best Of. Also, the ooga-chaka cover of "Hooked on a Feeling" is one of my fave 70s guilty pleasures. Here in the States the "band" was called "Blue Swede." Horrible pun. I'll head over to your link now...
Thanx, Brother Cookie & Johnny Dangle & P-Rob & Dee Liverance & Sister Kicksass & Johngleberry & Lee OJ & Sister Evenstar & Thought Fuzz & C4P & Peter chyd & Off Rhodes & Jackie & Looney 2nz & Philbo & Bobbo & Billy dba Florio & MAD & Brother Pooch & Smeagol & Stevenagh & AcoLime & GD'R!
And Peter: Thanx for all the Roxette info. I used to have "Look Sharp" and anxiously await an affordable (i.e., non-imported) Best Of. Also, the ooga-chaka cover of "Hooked on a Feeling" is one of my fave 70s guilty pleasures. Here in the States the "band" was called "Blue Swede." Horrible pun. I'll head over to your link now...
3.14159265358979323846264 times as good as any other Don parody I've read. This one's clever humour, expert rhyming and intertextuality gave me the Shakes.
I swear, forsooth, great jobeth Spaff!
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!!
I sincerely apologize for not getting to this one sooner, but, alas, Lord Spaff, thou hadst me (and fives) from stanza one.
SOTM - Well maybe I have a shot at second place. Your many fine accomplishments are the mark for the rest of us to shoot for. Once again, I pay homage to your Spaffness. Do you have your acceptance speech written yet?
(SOTM) VERY nice. I like it.
(SOTM August) I was the second reader to comment on this Spaff.commian-Masterpiece (see above...way, WAY above) .... and my comment still stands.
To quote a certain extraordinarily-gifted parody-writing-genius's gracious comment on my own American Pie parody "American Pride".....
"...It's like having to write 16 frickin' parodies for the price of one. 8 1/2 minutes of nothing but lyrics lyrics lyrics from the first second to the last..."
....That "extraordinarily-gifted parody-writing-genius" I referred to is none other than our beloved Spaff.com, and he is right --- if "Blinded By The Light" is the "Mt.Everest" of parody-challenges, then "American Pie" is the "K2". And Spaff, you have planted your flag most magnificently upon its summit.
Well done, my friend, and thank you for continuing to inspire the rest of us, each and every day! ;-)
To quote a certain extraordinarily-gifted parody-writing-genius's gracious comment on my own American Pie parody "American Pride".....
"...It's like having to write 16 frickin' parodies for the price of one. 8 1/2 minutes of nothing but lyrics lyrics lyrics from the first second to the last..."
....That "extraordinarily-gifted parody-writing-genius" I referred to is none other than our beloved Spaff.com, and he is right --- if "Blinded By The Light" is the "Mt.Everest" of parody-challenges, then "American Pie" is the "K2". And Spaff, you have planted your flag most magnificently upon its summit.
Well done, my friend, and thank you for continuing to inspire the rest of us, each and every day! ;-)
My blind, stinking jealously at how good this is must have gotten the better of me earlier. This song is an endurance trial of rhyme and subject knowledge. Everything about this parody shows excellence of form and style. I think it's a testament to how good this is that I've never read the play on which this is mostly based and I still enjoy it. I guess what I'm trying to say is I've made myself jealous again so my earlier quasi-Shakespearian insult still stands.
What on earth are you on? And more importantly, can I have some? :)
(SOTM) And here I was talking up rap parodies when the word count of this one outdoes the majority of them. I could seriously read this one over and over and still be in love with it... *ignore lame Shakespeare-in-love pun here*... the way that the chorus is different each time is the cherry on top of this enormously cream-packed masterpiece.
Thanx, Ralphing Brat (x2) & Grandmaster Mel & Tracie & Michaelopedia & Ash & Looney 2nz (again)!
Sweet Indigo: 1. The toilet. 2. Yuck.
Johnny Dangle: I'm convinced that you put more thought into commenting on AmIRighters' parodies than we put into writing them. You. Da. Man.
GD'R: Thanx again. To your earlier comment: I had a parody that ever-so-slowly reached the 100-rating mark, and then ever-so-quickly dropped back to 0. So I try to pretend not to worry too much about numbers.
Sweet Indigo: 1. The toilet. 2. Yuck.
Johnny Dangle: I'm convinced that you put more thought into commenting on AmIRighters' parodies than we put into writing them. You. Da. Man.
GD'R: Thanx again. To your earlier comment: I had a parody that ever-so-slowly reached the 100-rating mark, and then ever-so-quickly dropped back to 0. So I try to pretend not to worry too much about numbers.
(Aug. 04 SOTM) Tears of joy run from my eyes reading this for the first time. We have a winner--again!
SOTM--What is even the point of me commenting on this a second time? It's still just as lame as it ever was...sheesh....;
Methinks she doth protest too much.
Well, hell...half of my "I'm being totally sarcastic, and this parody is FABulous" wink is missing! Sheesh. But Spaff knows I'm kidding. Or he should.
Read my first comment from when the song was first posted, Johnny...I have a total crush on this parody...and probably always will. And it, like the blind and thoughtless parody that it is, will never return my affection...Bastard.
Read my first comment from when the song was first posted, Johnny...I have a total crush on this parody...and probably always will. And it, like the blind and thoughtless parody that it is, will never return my affection...Bastard.
Methinks you didst not getteth my joketh, AIIIEEEE! But thatteth isseth okayeth, becauseth I meantteth itteth inneth alleth goodeth funneth, yethh preciouthh yetthhh yetthhh what hath itteth gotteth innnnethhh ittethh pocketsesssssss ??? ;-D
Hope you don't mind if I use fewer letters than you did, Mister D. Don't you hate it when you submit a comment...and then you realize...right afterward...that you're an idiot?
Oh, I got your joke alright...just a split second too late. I'd have the comment removed if I weren't so proud of the last line...which made me laugh...even if it didn't make anyone else laugh...
Oh, I got your joke alright...just a split second too late. I'd have the comment removed if I weren't so proud of the last line...which made me laugh...even if it didn't make anyone else laugh...
The last line to which thou dost refer did indeed make me chuckleth most respectfully, mi'Lady. ;-)
Well that's a relief!
SOTM good one! 5's
(SOTM) Awesome parody. So much stuff. I actually saw Shakespeare's first home in Stratford-upon-Avon when I was there once, when I was vacationing in England. Amazing parody.
This might be your best, and that is saying a lot. I particularly liked the way you justified putting "Pie" in your title. And I was also impressed your clever substitution for "helter skelter."
as the others have said a real tour de force .. my personal fave lines are the verse which features Guildenstern and Rosencrantz.........
Thanx, Aggro & Sister Evenstar (again & again) & Johnny Divine (again & again) & Patagio & Phil Nelson (I'm envious) & martha my dear!
Johnkins: You made my day by commenting on the "hanky panky" line. I obsessed over that and it's 100% your fault; I honestly was trying to reach the bar you set so high with "Hocus-pocus - watch the Congress soak us" (in "Budget Surplus"). So - thank you and damn you.
Johnkins: You made my day by commenting on the "hanky panky" line. I obsessed over that and it's 100% your fault; I honestly was trying to reach the bar you set so high with "Hocus-pocus - watch the Congress soak us" (in "Budget Surplus"). So - thank you and damn you.
Great Work, Spaffster
(SOTM) As above.
(AUG SOTM) - As above also. Great work. 5's aplenty.
I'm not nearly educated enough to catch more than a fraction of the references in this but I still love it; I'm pretty sure it's the only parody I've ever printed out. Songs of this caliber shouldn't be buried in the archives. And there should be a recording, dammit, even if it's just you singing over a cheesy midi in your Kermit voice. Come to think of it, that's exactly what needs to happen. Alright, maybe not but I think you get my point. And I don't want to get your hopes up, but there's a VERY GOOD chance you MIGHT get some points out of me in the SOTM. If I ever finish this long-ass comment and read the other entries.
http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3009.0;id=1746;image
Thanx, Gollum & Smeagol (again) & P-Rob (again)!
C4P: Hi-ho. Sounds like I owe you a new toner cartridge. Send me the bill.
Johnny "Helter Smelter" Divine: Thanx for the medal. I wear it non-stop.
C4P: Hi-ho. Sounds like I owe you a new toner cartridge. Send me the bill.
Johnny "Helter Smelter" Divine: Thanx for the medal. I wear it non-stop.
This parody is absolutely incredible! I printed it off and read it to my english class. They thought it was a total riot! MOST IMPRESSIVE!
Thanks, Prof. Dan. English teachers may well be my favorite category of humans, so I'm honored.
I can't argue with Professor Dan. You worked a lot of great, humorous references in here and made it all flow.
Thanx for stopping by again, Johnkins. You class up the joint.
And proudly, I am still a jealous bum. "Dude, you're in a different play" heh heh. May thou be damned, thy highness of humour, for thy cankersorous shard of Shakespearean culture.
2nz, I'm starting to wonder if all these blessings you're giving me are good for my health. Inexplicably, the other day my forehead started to grow like a mighty oak.
Well, since noone has posted about it HERE yet I'll be the first one to say "congrats" for having won the "Song of the Year" contest with this little silly ditty. :-)
me two - congrats Spaff - it got my 5 votes - designing and building a parody's work enough, but you've built the whole town with this one - there's something comforting about having such an undisputed Song-Of-The-Year 2004
Thanx a bazillion, PeterCHYD & Stuartiste. My next project will be setting Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" to a single verse of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat."
FIRST PLACE
http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php/topic,8407.0.html
http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php/topic,8407.0.html
555 thats it
Coryo: OK then.
Gratuitous brag: I saw Don McLean in concert the other night. He promised early on in the two-hour show to "sing the hell out of that Madonna song," and he didn't disappoint. He tore all the way through "American Pie," threw in an extra instrumental verse, then repeated the first verse and a couple of extra choruses just so everyone could sing along some more. What a guy. I stuck around afterward and got his autograph. Nyah nyah.
Gratuitous brag: I saw Don McLean in concert the other night. He promised early on in the two-hour show to "sing the hell out of that Madonna song," and he didn't disappoint. He tore all the way through "American Pie," threw in an extra instrumental verse, then repeated the first verse and a couple of extra choruses just so everyone could sing along some more. What a guy. I stuck around afterward and got his autograph. Nyah nyah.
Well, I've finally dragged my butt over here to see what won POTY last year. One hellacious effort Spaff. Even though much of this was lost on me I still LOLd in several places. You owe me a roll of paper towels and a new keyboard for making me spit soda all over it. Since copy/pasting the entire parody is a bit of overkill I suppose I'll cop out with TMGLTM. From a parody standpoint what's most impressive to me is varying all 7 choruses, which effectively gave you 50% more song to work with and probably 3 times as much work, which obviously paid off. Well, I guess that's about it....oh, since about 10 others shamelessly plugged here, I feel no shame in mine:
http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/donmclean67.shtml
http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/donmclean67.shtml
I stumbled on this site doing some research for work, and have been reading for about an hour now. In case Spaff ever comes back to look at this eighteen-month old parody I just had to leave a quick note to say that it is, undoubtedly, one of the five most ingenious things I have ever read in my life. I am in awe. Congratulations.
Red: Sorry 'bout the keyboard; you should learn to swallow rather than spit. I just read your "Pie" parody and you obviously know what you're talking about with the "50% more song" bit, so muchas gracias. I'll try to work a Layne Staley reference into my next one.
Cdaewa: And *that* is, undoubtedly, one of the best compliments I've received in *mine.* Thank you verrrry much.
Cdaewa: And *that* is, undoubtedly, one of the best compliments I've received in *mine.* Thank you verrrry much.
Why doesnt this have a recording?
Local Celeb: Because it hasn't been completed. Yet.
Ah! Cool!
Well Spaff...I've read this several times, but this is probably the only time an AmIRight parody has helped me in the "real" world so far. Guess what we're currently studying in Brit Lit? This actually is a great study guide in addition to being hilarious.
Always glad to help out, Cat. Just remember, come test time, that O.J. isn't actually in Hamlet. I think he's in The Taming of the Shrew.
http://www.spaff.com/poesy/shakespearean_pie.html
555 ... nothin's rotten dem marks, bro' :-)
Stan: Thanks, you pun k. Heh heh.
This just goes to show that if you give a man enough rope he can hang convention. Brutally awesome!! Notwithstanding the mental anguish and gargantuan effort this must have taken to write, you were able to persist against Robert long enough to get him to record an awesome and appropriately effective recording.
Thanx, Tim. Just goes to show what you can accomplish with enough persistence. And begging and whining and crying and threatening and torturing.
this is my favorite parody of this song but still my favorite story from william will always be romeo and juliet but still you make all your songs creative and thats why your very successful
Thanx, white trash. My favorite is Lord of the Flies.
Oh, wait. Different William.
Oh, wait. Different William.
i love english class except when i get words like verisimilitude
Yep. That's far too hexasyllabical.
i love shakespeare and i love this song.
one of the worst writers i think was mary shelley
but i always loved the shakespeare module
Come on, Sharon. You gotta love Frankenstein.
The book. The movie. The song. The town in Missouri.
The book. The movie. The song. The town in Missouri.
speaking of english literature, have you heard of the controversy about stephen king bashing twilight's stephanie meyer saying that she cannot write, what is your opinion on that?
True story: My friend went to a Stephenie Meyer book signing and asked her to inscribe his book with "You are the most Edwardesque man I've met." She refused.
ha ha i do not get it i heard of poesque
hell, spaff is a better writer than stephanie meyer and you do not see him getting all that attention.
a wise man once said that the road to hell is paved with adverbs. just like twilight or maybe its called adverb festival i forget.
jerry: Glad you laughed anyway.
timothy: Or all that money.
white trash: Tom Swiftie: "I have two buttholes," Tom said extraneously.
timothy: Or all that money.
white trash: Tom Swiftie: "I have two buttholes," Tom said extraneously.
thats a great joke do you mind if i put it in my song about adverbs
Oh yeah i forgot what another wise man said he said "that tragedy is tragedy and in the end all tragedies are dumb i would choose mid night summer dream over hamlet anyday anyone can build a house full of cards and blow it down but it takes a true genuis to make people laugh!"
white trash: (1) go for it, and (2) I'll bet that wise man was a comedian.
He lives in Denmark?, he might cross paths with Beowulf and Grendel.
Or Brigitte Nielsen.
I discovered this sometime last year. Schools should be required to use this as a study guide when their English classes read Hamlet. This still makes me laugh. Lol, back then I used to get this stuck in my head but I kept forgetting the choruses, so now I have a text document on my desktop with each chorus in it so if I forget one I can just look it up. An absolute masterpiece! RECORD AND PUT ON YOUTUBE & ITUNES!!!
Belated thanks, Ben. How 'bout if Robert Lund records it and I put it on the FuMP?
http://thefump.com/fump.php?id=1014
http://thefump.com/fump.php?id=1014
Genius. Epic.
By the way, wouldn't mind reading a parody of "Cecelia" titled "Ophelia" if you're ever inspired.
Visited again on whim. Still awesome, Mr. Spafford. You still da man.
I rated you on three sets of criterion: matching the original which includes the ability for the audience to pick it up and sing along with it spontaneously, technical excellence and humor and finally overall brilliance. In the last two categories as others have mentioned you were outstanding. Your technical coverage of the plot was so detailed however that you sacrificed a key element of the original, the repeating chorus. Because your chorus changes each verse to match every beat of the play which is a brilliant technical device for teaching the play, to fully participate the audience must learn each verse or the singer must have cue cards for each verse. Also, the meter is not perfect and easy to follow in every chorus. So I wound up giving you 13 points overall rather than a perfect 15. If I could have I would have given you an extra half point. But there were enough meter problems that could have been cleaned up with obvious to me edits that I had to take off at least a half point for that and on this system that meant a full point, sorry. That does not take away from the brilliance of your effort. It is really a quite extraordinary effort and you should put it up on YouTube ASAP! Perhaps the problems I perceive with the meter are just my own, but I am used to singing in difficult meters and I don't think that was it. I even tried singing in several dialects and that did not help either. :-) Great job though and wonderful punmanship!
PJF is a knucklehead. Ignore him
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