Quotes / Parody Displacement

"[S]ometimes I wonder if it makes me a horrible person that for any song Weird Al has parodied aside from "Another One Bites the Dust", I'm far and away more familiar with the Weird Al version."

— Codiekitty

"There’s also a Sesame Street Newsflash in which Kermit (Kermit is a registered trademark of Disney's Muppets Studio, all rights reserved) meets the “Six Dollar Man.” Of course none of the kids who watch this DVD will know who The Six Million Dollar Man was… In fact, a lot of the parents who buy this DVD won’t know who the Six Million Dollar Man was. That’s a testament to Sesame Street’s staying power, or possibly the Six Million Dollar Man’s non-staying power..."

— ToughPigs' review of the Sesame Street Spoofs DVD

"That parody was the reason I won the Grammy, because it made the record so big it was undeniable," he says. "It was so big overseas that people were telling me they had heard my version of Weird Al's song."

— Chamillionaire, talking about White and Nerdy

"I didn’t actually know [Kiss Me] was a real song; [I]'d never heard it and assumed you had written it. I cannot even BEGIN to describe the reaction I had on hearing Kiss Me out in the wild on the radio."

— Sherbet42 on Kiss Me (Kill Me), a Transformation Horror-themed parody of Sixpence None the Richer's Kiss Me by JerryTerry and JuKay

"Weird Al" Yankovic: Well, first off, it's not my song, I mean... "Gump" was a parody.

Brian Posehn: What now?

Al: "Gump" is a parody of a song called "Lump" by The Presidents of the United States of America.

Brian: Hmm... well, that's clearly made up.

— Posehn, "My Phone Call With Weird Al"

"Some people watch Pull Over (That Metal Too Fast) and wonder why there's a weird anime girl in it. [W]ell, I don't blame anybody for not knowing why, but this 10+ year old video by one "JT Sexkik" is the reason. It also doesn't help that my mashup has eclipsed it in views more than threefold, but yeah. There you go."

— Triple-Q

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