You Are Old, Father William is now mostly forgotten, and only the parody is remembered. Carroll's parody "undermines the pious didacticism of Southey's original and gives Father William an eccentric vitality that rebounds upon his idiot questioner". Martin Gardner calls it "one of the undisputed masterpieces of nonsense verse". Since then, it has been parodied further, including more than 20 versions by 1886 a version by Charles Larcom Graves, a writer for "Punch" in 1889, and "You are young, Kaiser William". In the Walt Disney animated film "Alice in Wonderland" (1951) the first stanza of the poem is recited by Tweedledee and Tweedledum as a
St. John's Conservatory Theater as Tweedledee and Mr. Zizzlebot, Ryan Woodard as Tweedledum, Joel Burke as The Narrator, and Richard O’Donnell as Belvedere Brumbleton, Derk Powers, The Knave of Hearts, and the Mad Hatter. The story of Alice is told by the Bells & Wheezle Circus Company, a European-style commedia dell’arte and runs 90 minutes. A contemporary Alice finds herself in Wonderland haunted by the Victorian Alice while interacting with all the usual classic characters. Original songs included "The Bells & Wheezle Circus", "Tic Toc", "Wish Myself", "We're All Mad Here", "Not For Me", "The Oswegatchie", "All Hail the Queen/Off with His Head", and