Antecedents and Descendants
- The opening gibberish of the song is sampled from Def Leppard's song Rock of Ages.
- The song was parodied by "Weird Al" Yankovic (with Tress MacNeille) as "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" on his 1999 album Running with Scissors.
- Other parodies have been made, such as "Pretty Fly for a Jedi" by comedy music group The Axis of Awesome, "Pretty Fly for a Draenei" and others. They are frequently and incorrectly attributed to "Weird Al" Yankovic on file sharing networks.
- The song is available as a marching band arrangement.
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