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== Audio Plays ==
* In the [[Big Finish Doctor Who (Radio)|Big Finish Doctor Who]] audio, "Doctor Who and the Pirates", the Sixth Doctor sings [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIdDXQ2h1Pc "I am the very model of a Gallifreyan buccaneer" ] (and other songs from ''Pirates, Pinafore,'' and ''Mikado'' are parodied).
 
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* One episode of ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'' has Marcus and Franklin taking a long journey to Mars in the cargo hold of a freighter. After Franklin gets tired of playing [[Something That Begins With Boring]] (it doesn't take long), Marcus starts singing The Major General Song to pass the time.
** At the end of the episode, he sings the ''entire song'' [[Creative Closing Credits|over the credits]] in place of the normal music. Near the end of the song, you can hear the crew trying to make him stop. No, not the freighter's crew, the ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|production crew]]''.
* In the ''[[Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip]]'' episode "The Cold Open", the cast performs a sketch including a parody of the song: "We'll be the very model of a modern network TV show."
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* Doctor Cox's "Rant Song" from the ''[[Scrubs]]'' musical episode was based on the Major General's Song according to the creators.
* Used for Russian spies' elocution lessons in the Britcom ''Sleepers''.
* [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation|Geordi La Forge]] sings a few lines of it for Dr. Crusher when she's trying to persuade him to audition for her on-board production.
* [[Spitting Image]] did a parody of it with Neil Kinnock, basically to mock the fact that he had a tendency to speak very fast (and whose opponents thought he was speaking a load of rubbish).
* In a more memorable scene from ''[[Home Improvement]]'', Al sings the first verse of it in what he thinks is a sound-proof booth. It isn't, and as a result, he recieves a round of a applause when he comes out.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]],'' Mordin is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R5NyiqOlx0 The Very Model of a Scientist Salarian].
** Appears again in ''[[Mass Effect 3 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 3]]'' {{spoiler|as a [[Dark Reprise]] - Mordin sings it just before he dies.}}
* Colonel [[Tales of the Abyss|Jade Curtiss]] in this Youtube video. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydiP-q9Ndl0\]
 
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' a sober Barney completes an obstacle course while singing this.
* The ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' has "I Am The Very Model of a Cartoon Individual".
* ''[[Re Boot]]'' ended its third season with a recap of the entire season, set to the song's tune.
* In an episode of ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'', Brain sings a typically megalomaniacal parody of the song.
* In ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'' episode "Sir Nigel," Nigel Thornberry sings a pastiche of the song about his family.
* In a ''[[Veggie Tales (Animation)|Veggie Tales]]'' episode entitled "The Wonderful World of Auto-Tainment!", Archibald Asparagus sings the first two verses of this song when asked to sing about "Military Intelligence".
* In ''[[Mickey, Donald, Goofy: theThe Three Musketeers]]'', our heroes apparently crash a ''Penzance'' performance, as pigs sing some of the first lyrics.
 
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The plot of ''[[Iji (Video Game)|Iji]]'' summarised to the tune of the song: [http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=395662&view=findpost&p=3312123 here].
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' has a version [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0218.html here].
* ''21st Century Fox'' [http://techfox.comicgenesis.com/d/20001121.html has this] as part of a whole miniseries of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] spoofs.
* [[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]] gives us [http://xkcd.com/1052/ Every Major's Terrible], lampooning the stereotypes and downfalls of assorted academic fields. There are multiple renditions on [[YouTube]] by fans.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
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* [http://www.turoks.net/Cabana/IAmTheVeryModelOfAModernEsoteriscist.htm Not one,] but [http://www.turoks.net/Cabana/IAmTheVeryModelOfAnEclecticWiccanPagan.htm two] Neopagan versions.
* A "theater nerd" offers up [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMQ4phPPLHA A Very Model Halloween].
* There's a [[Ben Drowned (Web Video)|Ben Drowned]] version here: [http://z15.invisionfree.com/Within_Hubris/index.php?showtopic=1833 Statue of the Elegy].
* And, of course, ''[[TV Tropes (Wiki)|TV Tropes]]'' has [[Self-Demonstrating Article|this very article]].
* There's a fan-made [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twGP7CGy9_Y tribute] to the eccentric [[Let's Play|Let's Player]] [[Raocow]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk7R_s_zwlM Modern Major] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Rarity.]]
 
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