John Mayer, Kanye West, Adolf Hitler Bring on the Balloon Boy Parodies!

Late-night talk show hosts and bloggers alike take this tall tale to new heights

When you have a national news story involving a giant balloon, a puking kid and a farting dad, the genius it's bound to inspire is endless.

And by genius, we mean totally tacky parodies.

They began last night, when Jimmy Kimmel tried to convince us that security guard Guillermo was actually aboard the homemade space ship—fail!—and Conan O'Brien joked that Falcon Heene had climbed aboard a cruise missile and then time-warped to the 1990s, where he was piloting a certain white Ford Bronco. Even the flame-haired host admitted that was "stupid," but in these late-night pros' defense, they didn't have very long to for their jests to gestate.

The amateurs, however, killed it.

That somtimes-standup comic known as John Mayer took his time and offered this thoughtful tweet: "This unfortunate media display involving balloon boy undermines the hundreds of boys and girls actually lost to balloon flight every year."

Of course, he failed to properly link to @boyintheballoon, where someone is twittering away appropriately inappropriate comments as the voice of little Falcon.

"@TodayShow Sorry I threw up on your show. That mean old lady with the red monster eyes made me scared," the ghost writer types. "@JonGosselin1 You would make a much better dad for me then the one I have now. My dad makes you look like Ward Cleaver."

Jon Gosselin punchlines aside—really, too easy!—the 6-year-old is already the star of oodles of merchandise, from bird-watching T-shirts to conspiracy theory boxer shorts.

We weren't quite sure how we felt about the idea of involving Adolf Hitler in this story, but the fully subtitled four-minute video of the Führer reacting as if the head of a news organization is priceless.

This wasn't the only Holocaust reference. Many people gave Falcon the ol' Kanye West treatment. Some quoted the hip-hopper interrupting the kid to say "Baby Jessica was the best newsmaking child of all time," while others went the 1940s route with, "Yo Balloon Boy, Imma let you finish, but Anne Frank had the best attic hideout spot of all time."

Still, our favorite parody is possibly the simplest. A wise blogger created a Venn diagram of "Things that should be kept out of reach of children," such as rabid animals, firearms and homemade flying saucers. There's even a Michael Jackson reference.

That said, we're still waiting for a YouTuber to animate some Jiffy Pop popcorn raining down on Ft. Collins, Colo., with the salty, buttery fragrance being what finally lures the little boy from his box in the attic. Someone, please get on that.