References in The Media and Parodies
"Ironic" was covered by the pop punk band Four Year Strong for their 90's cover album Explains It All (2009). In the 1996 novel Naïve. Super by Norwegian author Erlend Loe, the protagonist watches the video for the song on television and dreams about "meeting an Alanis-girl and living in a house together with her". In the Jay and Silent Bob comic Chasing Dogma (1998), the character Tricia Jones is singing "Ironic" before Jay steps into the shower. In 2003, Ji-In Cho covered the song for the German version of the Fame Academy talent show, which became a success in the German charts.
In late 1996 a parody version of the video was released featuring a young girl, Allison Rheaume, who mimics Morissette's actions and wardrobe while lip syncing to the original song. At the end, her father notices her in the car sitting in the driveway and tells her to stop fooling around. This version of the video, directed by David Rheaume, was included on Morissette's CD/DVD The Collection (2005). Also, "Weird Al" Yankovic produced a parody version of the video in 2003 for his television comedy series Al TV, in which he takes the place of the fourth version of Morissette in the front passenger seat.
The single was added in the set list for Morissette's concert tour, Jagged Little Pill World Tour (1995). The song was added to the tour's video album Jagged Little Pill Live (1997). Since then, "Ironic" has been included in her albums MTV Unplugged (1999), Feast on Scraps (2002), Live in the Navajo Nation (2002), and The Collection, as well as 1997 Grammys and the MTV Unplugged compilation albums.
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