One song, many spoofs

[Doctor Q]

I'm sure most of you know the Modern Major-General Song from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.

Here's a performance of it:

I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General​

and one with lyrics:

I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General​

Just for fun I looked for spoofs of it on YouTube. It takes a lot of words to make your own version of this patter song. I'm sure that many of us geeks know Tom Lehrer's The Element Song but I found many other takes on the song too.

Here are some spoofs I came across, some of them so-so and some pretty good. (I omitted the worst of 'em; you're welcome.)

The Very Model of a Modern Apple MacBook Pro​

I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major Googler​

The Model of a Psychopharmacologist <--- my personal favorite​

I Am The Very Model of a Modern Office Manager (stand-up comic)​

I am the very model of a popular YouTube auteur​

the very model of a modern Major-Liberal (poorly synchronized)​

The Sarah Palin Song - I Am the Current Model of Republican Vice President​

Exemplar optimus recentis maioris ducis sum (words in Latin)​

The Element Song​

Do you know other good spoofs of the Modern Major-General Song?

Do you know other frequently spoofed songs we could play this game with?

 

[rick snagwell]

I'm sure most of you know the Modern Major-General Song from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.

Here's a performance of it:

I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General​

Just for fun I looked for spoofs of it on YouTube. It takes a lot of words to make your own version of this patter song. I'm sure that many of us geeks know Tom Lehrer's The Element Song but I found many other takes on the song too.

Here are some spoofs I came across, some of them so-so and some pretty good. (I omitted the worst of 'em; you're welcome.)

The Very Model of a Modern Apple MacBook Pro

I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major Googler

The Model of a Psychopharmacologist <--- my personal favorite

I Am The Very Model of a Modern Office Manager (stand-up comic)

I am the very model of a popular YouTube auteur

the very model of a modern Major-Liberal (poorly synchronized)

The Sarah Palin Song - I Am the Current Model of Republican Vice President

Exemplar optimus recentis maioris ducis sum (words in Latin)

The Element Song
​

Do you know other good spoofs of the Modern Major-General Song?

Do you know other frequently spoofed songs we could play this game with?

i've actually never heard this tune, but i def like the apple macbook pro one. the bill gates part is funny.

 

[Doctor Q]

I found three more!

I am the very model of a Singularitarian

Obama! A Modern U.S. President

A Very Model Halloween
​

 

[Doctor Q]

Another I came across: I Am the Very Model of a Princeton Seminarian

I am the very model of a Princeton Seminarian.
When I arrived, it's true, I was a boring Trinitarian;
Confined within the constructs of my heritage confessional;
But now I can equivocate just like a real professional.

I've known the tension and the angst of circles hermeneutical;
My quest for authenticity has been so therapeutical;
I've been a fool; thought I was cool for being neo-orthodox;
But now I've seen the light while dancing naked at the equinox.

I used to think in black and white my doctrines Calvinistical;
But now I know to claim absolute truth is egotistical;
I thank thee, God, that I am not like Hodge predestinarian,
I am the very model of a Princeton Seminarian.​

There was apparently a spoof of the song by the Animaniacs, named I Am the Very Model of a Cartoon Individual, but I can find only the audio, not the video.

 

[Doctor Q]

From Johns Hopkins University: The model of a modern university

Best line: "And we spell Johns Hopkins without using an apostrophe."

 

[Astroboy907]

XKCD

 

[Doctor Q]

We now have a spoof based on the number pi.

 

[Doctor Q]

Political commentary to the tune of our favorite song:

 

[Doctor Q]

Thanks to coronavirus social distancing, we have a new spoof of the Modern Major-General song.

 

[Doctor Q]

I spotted one from 2007:

I am the very model of a Modern Homosexual​

 

[mrsmith1]

Here's another from a Doctor Who audio adventure
1. I Am the Very Model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer

• "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" from The Pirates of Penzance
• Lead Vocals: Colin Baker
• Backing Vocals: Dan Barratt, Helen Goldwyn, Nicholas Pegg

 

[Doctor Q]

Here's another from a Doctor Who audio adventure
1. I Am the Very Model of a Gallifreyan Buccaneer

I especially like operatical ... piratical!

 

[Doctor Q]

From last year, a pandemic version from the U.K.

Modern Major General Covid-19 Parody

 

[Khalanad75]

Mordin Solus from Mass Effect 2:

Yakko Warner:

 

[Doctor Q]

It's been quite a while since I found the parodies above, but I happened upon another one today.

"I Use a Rhyming Dictionary To Complete My Parodies"

Read the lyrics by Rex Ungericht

Hear it performed by Skip Briggs​