Cultural References
The second line was used as the title to James Herriot's book All Creatures Great and Small, which was centered around a veterinarian practice in 1930's Yorkshire in Northern England. Subsequently it became the title of the film and television series. Later Herriot used the rest of the lines of the refrain for the books that followed: "All Things Bright and Beautiful", "All Things Wise and Wonderful," and "The Lord God Made Them All."
In the 1970 film Beneath the Planet of the Apes, a congregation of mutated humans sing a hymn adapted from All Things Bright and Beautiful. Script-writer Paul Dehn specifically wanted his new lyrics to be used not as a parody, but to emphasise that the mutants genuinely regarded themselves as beautiful.
The hymn was parodied by The Goodies on their 1978 The Goodies Beastly Record as "I'm a Carnivore". They had previously recorded a cover of it on their 1973 The Goodies Sing Songs from The Goodies and an earlier version was heard on the BBC Radio show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, of whose cast all three Goodies were part, in 1966. It was also parodied by the Monty Python song "All Things Dull and Ugly", included on their 1980 album Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album and on the 1989 collection Monty Python Sings.
The title of the poem is also the title for the third studio album by the Synthpop act Owl City.
The Hong Kong animated McDull films contain a childish version of the song sung in a Cantonese accent by The Pancakes.
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