i don't know whether you remember the firesign theater, the psychedelic comedy troupe the seventies. my brothers and i used to recite whole sketches to each other. in fact, me and jim were doing that right up to his death last summer. but anyway i want to point out to you that the firesign theater are prophets for our time, and for every time. in 1974 they put out an album (not their best, true) called the tale of the giant rat of sumatra, a sherlock holmes parody. but it turns out that there really are giant rats in sumatra. well at least in papua new guinea. here are the best: