Ted Leo "Bottled In Cork"

A good decade ago, my friends and I were mocking the entertainment news of the day: Coming to Broadway, was a musical adaptation of James Joyce's "The Dead."

Really? Joyce's "The Dead"? As a musical?

The Irishman's wordy, dense stories of introspection just did not seem ripe for musical adaptation.

We joked about future musicals:

Death Of A Salesman: The Musical
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being: The Musical
Atlas Shrugged: The Musical

It all seemed fairly ridiculous. But little did we know, that now everything was open to musical adaptation.

In the last decade, musical movies, non-musical movies, kids movies, punk albums, brief encounters of Rock N Roll Legends and absurdist British comedy sketches from the 1970s have all be adapted into musicals.

And this trend fans out to other media, with TV shows based on Twitter feeds and blockbuster summer movies based on great literary sources like, um, the board game Battleship.

So, this parody video---featuring an awesome, non-parody song---is probably a decade late of sharply observing a strange, lame trend.

But it's hilarious all the same.

Ted Leo And The Pharmacists - "Bottled In Cork" (Official Video) from John Hodgman