Parodies
The series has spawned a number of imitators and parodies including Chicken Soup for the Vegetarian's Soul and MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head: Chicken Soup for the Butt, as well as a line of licensed products, including greeting cards, calendars, gift products, pet food, clothing, games, DVDs, and Bibles. A parody can also be found within the PC game A Vampyre Story: a book titled Chicken Soup for Those Without a Soul is in the library. In 1999, Jessica Zafra released a parody of the book called Chicken Pox for the Soul, full of cynical suggestions such as "While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love". Also, the book is mentioned in comedy cartoon Family Guy, in which Brian uses the book as inspiration to write his own book in similar style, in that way provoking all books similar to this one (Brian needed only 2 hours to finish it).
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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)