Parodies
"Weird Al" Yankovic wrote a parody called "Achy Breaky Song." The lyrics describe Yankovic's annoyance with "Achy Breaky Heart", as well as several alternatives he would rather endure rather than having to listen to it any more, including being "ti...to a chair and kick...down the stairs". This parody appears on his album Alapalooza. Run C&W also parodied the song as "Itchy Twitchy Spot" on their debut album Into the Twangy-First Century.
In the Hannah Montana episode The Way We Almost Weren't, Billy Ray Cyrus' character Robby Stewart is seen in a fictional setting writing Achy Breaky Heart in a New Mexico cafe in 1987. He tries the words "itchy twitchy heart" and "herky jerky heart" but is unsatisfied. Jackson suggests he use the words "achy breaky," but Robby blows it off as "the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Another episode sees him chasing a mouse around the house until it ends up in the piano and sees that it's a good player. He proceeds to ask if it knows Achy Breaky Heart.
In 1994, Bill Nye the Science Guy made a spoof called "ACDC Charge" that is exclusive to Electric Current
A caricature of Billy Ray Cyrus (named "Billie Rae Cyprus") sang a brief parody of this song in a 1993 episode of Animaniacs during the Pinky & The Brain short "Bubba Bo Bob Brain". In the parody, "Achy Breaky Heart" is replaced with "Empty Hollow Head", with lyrics describing the caricature's inability to understand what he hears.
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“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)