Parodies
"Weird Al" Yankovic wrote a parody titled "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*" for his 1989 film UHF. As the title implies, this song merges the lyrics from The Beverly Hillbillies theme song ("The Ballad of Jed Clampett") with the tune of "Money For Nothing". Dire Straits members Mark Knopfler and Guy Fletcher perform guitar and keyboards respectively on the track. The famous video was also parodied by Yankovic, with the removal men replaced by blocky, computer-generated versions of Jed Clampett and Yankovic himself. The parody video was used as a dream sequence midway through the film.
Satirical puppet show Spitting Image also parodied this song, randomly calling it "Making Nice Curtains." It features a puppet of Mark Knopfler singing about yuppies and that their music "can be played to your granny and aunts." Sting appears as he does in the real video, singing the line: "I want my, I want my, I want my royalties..." but is silenced as a guitar hits him on the head.
US Saturday morning children's television show Pete McTee's Clubhouse had commercials parodying the song with the lyrics, "I want my Pete McTee."
The 1984 University of Florida football team used a parody of the song, "I Want My SEC," in response to being stripped of its Southeastern Conference title.
In 2003 comedian Bob Rivers wrote a parody called "I Want My MP3".
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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)