The One with the Fountainhead

This is a parody about Ayn Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, modelled around a two part episode of the Television show Friends.

I consider this piece my funniest yet.

Read Online

• The One with the Fountainhead - Part 1
• The One with the Fountainhead - Part 2

Sources

• Part 1 - Source in text format (requires XML-Grammar-Fiction’s Screenplay-Text processing, in order to render)
• Part 2 - Source in text format (requires XML-Grammar-Fiction’s Screenplay-Text processing, in order to render)

Suitability

This work was enjoyed by people who were only familiar with either the Fountainhead or the Friends T.V. show.

Licensing

Well, since this work is a parody of The Fountainhead (written by Ayn Rand and now still kept by the Ayn Rand estate), and contains characters from there, I am theoretically protected by the Copyright’s “right of parody” as part of ”Fair Use”. There are other parodies of Ayn Rand works online and possibely offline, and no one was sued yet.

However, I have used characters and concepts from the T.V. show Friends, and while some parts of my work parody the show in some respect, I consider it as an ordinary fan-fiction work of Friends, rather than as a parody of it. As a result, I consider it a derivative work of Friends, which, like it or not and according to the contemporary Copyright Law, may mean it is encumbered by the claims of its copyright holders. Again, I’ve seen other fan fiction of Friends around the Net.

All the text in The One with the Fountainhead is original, and as far as I’m concerned can be used under the terms of the Creative Commmons Attribution-ShareAlike licence Unported (CC-by-sa), either version 3.0, or at your option any later version, but like I said, the situation is more complicated than that.

I’m putting it here on this site in hope it will amuse or inspire people, and also because it may encourage people to read the Fountainhead, or watch some episodes of Friends, both of which I can highly recommended. I’m not charging people any money to download, build, or view the works, but I have some web-commercials which I’m making some small money from, and which I hope are acceptable to the copyright holders. Please don’t sue me.

Links

Other Parodies of Ayn Rand’s Works

• A list of other Parodies on Ayn Rand’s Books
• Another Fountainhead Parody. Much shorter than this one, but still cool.
• A third parody - I did not read it yet, but I may in the near future.
• Become an Objectivist in Ten Easy Steps - very amusing!
• Objectivist C - an Uncyclopedia entry.

Friends-related

• Friends on the Wikipedia. Also see their “Running gags in Friends” page.
• The Friends’ Café
• The Friends’ Place

Other Sources of Inspiration

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Star Trek - The Next Generation - an old Internet cross of the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Star Trek - The Next Generation. Incredibly funny, and inspired me to cross Friends and The Fountainhead in a similar fashion.
• The Fountainhead - the actual novel by Ayn Rand, which I have read, and enjoyed immensly and it is probably my favourite “Adult-oriented book”. I have heard mixed opinions of it from other people who have read it, but even people who hated the book appear to enjoy my parody.