Whoever came up with that must have gorged himself on those funny spotted mushrooms growing out in the Schwartzwald.
Tony Hendra was a National Lampoon writer. He did several Grimm-type fairy tale parodies as well as lots of other cynical and sarcastic essays. He published a bunch of them in “The Book of Bad Virtues”, which was itself titled as a parody of William Bennett’s ‘Book of Virtues’.
I think my favorite story, though a bit apocryphal, was of the life and times of the Singing Nun, a one hit wonder in the 1960s, with her song ‘Dominique’, who after she arrived in the US went bonkers and stayed that way. She eventually insulted the Pope to his face, dated Hell’s Angels founder Sonny Barger, became a “leather nun” in San Francisco, and generally went completely nuts.