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Subject: Tally Your Topics

Written By: agrimorfee on 11/21/07 at 9:45 am

I decided to make an account of what topics my parodies have tackled. Perhaps others can do the same--to share, to brag, to self-evaluate.

I counted each of my parodies, including multi-part submissions, but not collaborations and remakes. I will not include topics that have been done only once. As of 11/21/07, I have the following:

Animals:11
TV Shows:7
Random/Surreal: 39
Movies:13 (including Halloween Costume Entry "I Am E.T. Now")
School/College: 24 (includes 22 songs of The Pile Of Bricks opera)
Amiright Tributes/The Art of Parody Writing: 8
Food/Restaurants: 28
Bodily Functions: 7
Animation: 5
Nudity: 3
Sports: 3
Literary Characters (not Harry Potter-related):5
Harry Potter: 4
Technology: 2
Circumcision: 2
Sex:3
Christmas/Holidays: 19
Children/Parenting:28 (including the 20-song Mommy opera)
Horror (not from a movie): 3
Alcohol: 5
Stupid/Insane People: 11
Celebrities/Musicians/Historical Figures: 10
Politics/Current Events: 4
Fridge Penguin: 2
Love (or the lack of it): 4
Fantasy/Sci-Fi (not based on specific media): 3
Nursey Rhymes: 2
Toys & Games: 2
Commercials: 34 (including the 31 songs of The Residents Sell Out album)
Acne: 2
Occupations/Employment: 7
Cigarettes: 2
Weather Conditions: 3

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: skittlesking on 11/21/07 at 10:21 am

Through 11/21/2007

Not Counting Remakes/Edited Versions

AmIRight Situations and Tributes: 04 Written/ 04 Recorded
Animals: 02 Written/ 02 Recorded
Cleanliness or Hygiene: 05 Written/ 05 Recorded
Celebrity or Celeb Lifestyle: 02 Written/ 02 Recorded
Corporate Companies: 01 Written/ 01 Recorded
Cultural: 01 Written/ 01 Recorded
Current Events: 01 Written/ 00 Recorded
Drinking: 02 Written/ 02 Recored
Employment: 03 Written/ 02 Recorded
Fashion: 01 Written/ 01 Recorded
Financial: 02 Written/ 02 Recorded
Gambling: 01 Written/ 01 Recorded
Games: 04 Written/ 03 Recorded
Horror: 03 Written/ 03 Recorded
Internet and Technology: 02 Written/ 02 Recorded
Movies and Television: 03 Written/ 03 Recorded
Paranoia: 02 Written/ 02 Recorded
Relationships: 01 Written/ 01 Recorded
Sci-Fi or Paranormal: 01 Written/ 00 Recorded
Seasonal: 03 Written/ 02 Recorded (Halloween, Mardi Gras, Thanksgiving)
Self Depreciation or Embarrassment: 05 Written/ 03 Recorded
Sexual: 02 Written/ 02 Recorded
Sexual Orientation: 03 Written/ 03 Recorded
Somber or Comforting: 01 Written/ 00 Recorded
Sports: 01 Written/ 01 Recorded
Toilet Humor: 01 Written/ 01 Recorded
Weather: 01 Written/ 00 Recorded
Weight or Food: 07 Written/ 07 Recorded
Who I Am: 02 Written/ 02 Recorded
Writing: 01 Written/ 01 Recorded

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: Matthias on 11/21/07 at 1:27 pm

Sweet idea, Aggy! This might take awhile to classify my parodies, but I'll take a swing at it when I get a chance.

(PS: This list may also help me come up with parody topics to challange people to in future Ages/Decathlon contests)

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: Matthias on 11/21/07 at 2:28 pm

(Reevaluated)

-20: Seasonal
-18: Movies
-17: Television
-15: Redneck
-15: Lifestyles
-12: Horror
-12: Weight/Food
-10: Medical
-10: Celeberties
-10: College/School
-9: Employment
-9: Drinking/Drugs
-8: Sex
-7: Sports
-7: Transportation
-7: Amiright
-7: Tourism
-7: Animals
-7: Fantasy
-6: Technology
-6: Relationships
-6: Boobs
-6: Religion
-6: Fashion
-5: Cartoons
-5: Violence
-4: Song Satire
-4: Places Of The World
-4: Current Events
-4: Music
-3: Harry Potter
-3: Childhood
-2: Nerd
-2: Embarasment
-2: Tribute (Red Ant, and Arwen)
-2: Lord Of The Rings
-2: Money
-2: Books
-2: Art
-1: Games
-1: History

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: skittlesking on 11/21/07 at 3:18 pm


-Seasonal: 17
-Movies: 17
-Food: 14
-Cultures/ Lifestyles: 14
-Television: 13
-Redneck: 13
-College/School: 12
-Fear/ Horror: 11
-Fantasy: 11
-Medical: 10
-Employment: 10
-Relationships: 9
-Amiright: 9
-Celeberties: 9
-Drinking/ Drugs: 9
-Technology: 7
-Sports: 7
-Animals: 7
-Tourism: 7
-Sexual: 6
-Song Satire: 6
-Boobs: 6
-Litature: 6
-Transportation: 5
-Cartoon: 5
-Religion: 5
-Current Events: 5
-Games/ Toys: 5
-Fashion: 5
-Geography: 4
-Harry Potter: 3
-Daily Life: 3
-Cleanliness: 2
-Back To The Future: 2
-Violence: 2
-Money: 2
-Annoyances: 2
-Nerds: 2
-Art: 2
-Embarassment: 1


Matthias, Boobs is Sexual:) 

(I also personally consider Movies & TV to be closely related, but it's perfectly cool keeping those separate)

Then again, I don't think most people have 6 songs about one body part.

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: Matthias on 11/21/07 at 3:22 pm


Matthias, Boobs is Sexual:) 

(I also personally consider Movies & TV to be closely related, but it's perfectly cool keeping those separate)

Then again, I don't think most people have 6 songs about one body part.


They're a duet actually, and boobs aren't sexual doing things to boobs is sexual.

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: skittlesking on 11/21/07 at 4:15 pm


They're a duet actually, and boobs aren't sexual doing things to boobs is sexual.


Ok,fine, but aren't they a body part. . .what if you did a song about feet, are they a category too?  You just wanted to type boobs. . .I see how it is. . . .bad bad Matthias. . .hooked on twins. . . :o

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: Kristof Robertson on 11/21/07 at 4:58 pm

Damn you and your eye-catching topics, Aggy!  ;)

This was difficult; a lot of my parodies crossed multiple topic areas, so the tally is a bit random....I managed to whittle down to 41 topic areas ( :-\\

Relationships 20
Celebrity 20
Rants and Annoyances 19
Sex & Sexuality 19
Injury and Illness 18
Kinky/Naughty 17
Animals 15
Movies 12
Politics 10
Music 10
Parody Writing 9
Sloth, Gluttony, and Fatness 7
Work 7
Religion 7
Fashion 7
Booze 6
Sport 6
Rednecks and Hillbillies 6
Tribute 5
Dating 5
Geography 5
Dead Folks 5
Embarrassment 5
History 5
Mad sh** 5
Toilet Humour 4
Capitalism 4
Old Folks 4
Nostalgia 3
DIY 3
Surgery and Anatomy 3
The Royals 3
Problems and Fears 3
Toys and Presents 3
Santa Incidents 2
Drugs 2
Eggs on Drugs 1
Crime 1
Tea 1
Taking The Piss 1
Extraterrestrials 1

(Looks like I need to up my "Eggs On Drugs" quota.....)

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: skittlesking on 11/21/07 at 5:52 pm


Damn you and your eye-catching topics, Aggy!  ;)

This was difficult; a lot of my parodies crossed multiple topic areas, so the tally is a bit random....I managed to whittle down to 41 topic areas ( :-\\

Relationships 20
Celebrity 20
Rants and Annoyances 19
Sex & Sexuality 19
Injury and Illness 18
Kinky/Naughty 17
Animals 15
Movies 12
Politics 10
Music 10
Parody Writing 9
Sloth, Gluttony, and Fatness 7
Work 7
Religion 7
Fashion 7
Booze 6
Sport 6
Rednecks and Hillbillies 6
Tribute 5
Dating 5
Geography 5
Dead Folks 5
Embarrassment 5
History 5
Mad sh** 5
Toilet Humour 4
Capitalism 4
Old Folks 4
Nostalgia 3
DIY 3
Surgery and Anatomy 3
The Royals 3
Problems and Fears 3
Toys and Presents 3
Santa Incidents 2
Drugs 2
Eggs on Drugs 1
Crime 1
Tea 1
Taking The Piss 1
Extraterrestrials 1

(Looks like I need to up my "Eggs On Drugs" quota.....)


The last few seem like you were just having fun:)  Tea and Egss are both foods, Santa is seasonal, Piss is toilet humor and Extraterrestrials are Sci-FI, but your list is far more fun.

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: Matthias on 11/21/07 at 7:25 pm


Ok,fine, but aren't they a body part. . .what if you did a song about feet, are they a category too?  You just wanted to type boobs. . .I see how it is. . . .bad bad Matthias. . .hooked on twins. . . :o


Yeah. You got me... I'm a Boobaphile.

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: Step-chan on 11/21/07 at 9:29 pm

I have 119 parodies at the moment... I'll have to get back to it here in alittle bit.

Edit: It's abit tricky to figure out what the categories should be....

A few are mixers because of this.... So I'll have to override some mixed ones.

I know that at least a couple will be called random or medley.

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: Step-chan on 11/21/07 at 11:25 pm

Anime- 44(45 including rewrite)
Naughty/Sexual- 8
Toilet Humor- 5
Random/Medley*- 9(10 including rewrite)
Cat-girl- 8(9 including rewrite)
Tribute- 3
Nirvana- 1(Just a silly parody about them being magically turned into babies)
Drunken theme- 3
Drugs- 1
Video game- 14
About myself- 3
Sinus allergies- 2
SUV- 1
Calvin and Hobbes- 1
Scooby Doo- 2
Internet search- 1
111 voters- 1(an honest look at them)
Trolls- 2(ditto)
Selling "Stationery"- 1(I used the wrong spelling which led to the next one)
Poking fun at the grammer police- 1**(The grammer police didn't even comment on this one....)  ::)
Pirates- 1
FCC- 2
Humidity- 1
Hunger- 1

I specialized some of them abit.... But that's the only way I could think of it, of course some of the parodies are actually in more than one category, but I tried to seperate them by what category has the most emphasis for each parody. I also counted the ones I did once(Because some of my one timers are among my best) and added rewrites to the total in parenthesis.

*This category is one of my more experimental types, it's mixed different themes from other categories.. including anime and video games, others are more general with no real direction, other than being random.

**Song parody title: "Let's Stand Stationery".

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: wildcard on 11/25/07 at 8:33 pm

Halloween/monster 5
Everyday things we do/items 4
Food 3
Nursery rhyme 4
Tribute  5
Travel 4
Bugs  3
Cat/dog mess 2
Video game 3
I’m insane 9
Just insane 1
Star Wars  2
Love 2
Against an idea 3
Bowling/garden/hobby 6
How to 1
Cartoon/ character 3                                               
Early pieces redone for improvement/ lousy/ I’m not telling/ where do I put this? 45

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: Red Ant on 11/25/07 at 9:44 pm

Too many that I could classify more than one way (e.g. should "Frankly, Farmers, It Isn't Mutilated Cattle"  go under "animal" or "wtf was I on when I wrote that"?), and I kinda got distracted making this list, but ballpark numbers (5 or more in a topic)

Song/Artist Satire: 38 (could have swore this was closer to 50, but ah well...)
Semi not-PG themes/women: 20
Annoying/stupid people: 17
Tributes in one form or another: 16 (~10 to authors or the site)
Disgusting (poo, vomit, etc.): 15
Misheard Lyrics: 14
Parodies about writing parodies: 12
Holiday: 11
Death/sickness/disease/injury: 8
Language: 7
Movie/TV based: 5
Political: 5
Drugs: 5
...
...
...
Sex Changes: 2 (good to come back full circle!)

Single topics include vampires, werewolves, dam collapses, the Space Shuttle, snipers, a fake country called "Vachina", earthquakes, the Pope, a detachable fetus and a suicidal anus. And yes, I've written about Uranus once or twice, too.

Right at my 200th parody, I compiled an artist/genre/stat list here. Unfortunately I never thought of including topics, and sorting 309+ parodies now down to individual topics is just too much like work.  ;)

Ant

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: philbo on 11/27/07 at 12:56 pm

Back when I only had five hundred or so, I had them all tallied (well, the first three or four hundred, anyway) in my little amiright application, and could give an immediate list by genre, category, whatever.  But I've rather let that go in the last couple of years... I've been meaning to categorise into mini-pages to go on my author page (rather like this one for my (sac)religious parodies), but never had the time.  Not so many nights in hotels recently, I guess.

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: Kristof Robertson on 11/27/07 at 5:27 pm


The last few seem like you were just having fun:)  Tea and Egss are both foods, Santa is seasonal, Piss is toilet humor and Extraterrestrials are Sci-FI, but your list is far more fun.


Not really, Dave....

Tea is not a food to Brits and aussies, it's a way of life!

The egg referenced is Humpty Dumpty, who wouldn't like to be thought of as a foodstuff!

"Taking The Piss" is UK/Aussie slang for "making fun of"; so definitely NOT toilet humour

The story in "U F'n Os" REALLY HAPPENED TO ME (honest, officer!) so it can't be Sci-fi... ;)

Y'see the trouble I cause myself, dude?  :D

Subject: Re: Tally Your Topics

Written By: skittlesking on 11/27/07 at 8:41 pm


Not really, Dave....

Tea is not a food to Brits and aussies, it's a way of life!

The egg referenced is Humpty Dumpty, who wouldn't like to be thought of as a foodstuff!

"Taking The Piss" is UK/Aussie slang for "making fun of"; so definitely NOT toilet humour

The story in "U F'n Os" REALLY HAPPENED TO ME (honest, officer!) so it can't be Sci-fi... ;)

Y'see the trouble I cause myself, dude?  :D

Ahh. . .ok, well I sit corrected

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