The song is parodied or pastiched in other media: In the video games "Mass Effect 2" and "Mass Effect 3", the character Mordin Solus sings a short pastiche, "I am the very model of a scientist Salarian". Another pastiche of the song (among many on YouTube), also inspired by "The Elements", is the "Boy Scout Merit Badge Song", listing all the merit badges that can be earned from the Boy Scouts of America. In 2012, the webcomic "xkcd" published a pastiche of the song that lists the faults associated with undergraduate majors, called "Every Major's Terrible". This comic then became the subject of various musical adaptations. A nonsense pastiche of the song in 2017 film "Despicable Me 3", sung by Minions, was uploaded to YouTube by Illumination Entertainment as a singalong challenge; the video has been viewed more than 15 million times.