Talk:Frank Sinatra vs Freddie Mercury/@comment-50.129.227.120-20120620012828/@comment-50.129.227.120-20120620034456

No, I get that say Napoleon vs. Napoleon have something in common - they have the same name. However, that fact had no bearing on the content of the rap. Because neither character had anything meaningful in common, it was just a generic fight over who was better. The same would be true of a Rosa Parks vs. Rebecca Black rap, except that:

A. there would be a punchline with the word black in the rap somewhere

B. there would probably be a line about Rebecca Black singing about which seat should she choose.

I also didn't anticipate the three guidelines being hard and fast rules. There may be somebody who is a bit obscure or a bit discordant with their opponent, but just too funny NOT to do a rap about.

Also, Woody Allen and George Costanza are too obscure? I mean Seinfeld was perhaps the most successful sitcom of all time. I'll admit that As a rough gauge lets compare google hits:

Woody Allen: 35.8 million (and my god, think of the incest jokes!)

Seinfeld: 27.3 million (admittedly George Costanza has fewer on his own, but he was the most memorable character in the show, and Jerry would probably be his tag team anyway)

Christopher Walken: 7.81 million (I kind of picked him because he's a well-known actor whose accomplishments would look crappy next to Marlon Brando)

Rosa Parks: 5.9 million

McCaulay Culkin: 4.22 million

Willow Smith: 3.66 million

So you were right about Culkin (I guess I was just the right age when Home Alone came out), but not really the others.