The New York Times reports Chris Elliot used the character Boilerplate from Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett's Heartbreakers Meet Boilerplate in his Alienist parody, because he thought it was a hundred-year-old spoof rather than a modern one. I suppose there's a joke or two to be made about not using family as researchers. That Boilerplate site that seems to have fooled Clan Elliot (photo from which shown above) is pretty amusing if you haven't seen it before.
