Parodies
Actors Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving sing a parody of "Ten Green Bottles" called "Ten Fat Trannies" in the 1993 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
In Sue Townsend's novel The Secret Diaries of Adrian Mole (1982), Adrian's class starts singing "Ten Green Bottles" on the bus during a school trip. They then start singing "Ten Green Snotrags" and the bus driver yells at them.
In the episode "Summer" (2000) of the television show The Vicar of Dibley, Rev. Geraldine and the other members of the church council chain themselves to the church in protest. In the middle of the night, to combat boredom, Frank Pickle (the most dry and boring council member) starts singing, "One hundred thousand green bottles, hanging on the wall. One hundred thousand green bottles, hanging on the wall. And if one green bottle, should accidentally fall, there'll be ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine green bottles, hanging on the wall!" By this time, everyone has joined in. In the film "Nothing But the Night" 1973, children on a field trip on a school bus sing this song for an extended period of time annoying the bus driver.
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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)