The folklorist/singer Saul Broudy did his whole dissertation on the Moose-Turd Pie joke. It had graphs of audience reaction and all kind of fancy analysis!

Coincidentally, I did MY folklore dissertation on the way folkloric phrases (like "See you later, alligator") enter pop culture, and then often become folkloric phrases again. I focused mainly on proverbs, though, so "see you later" was not actually one of my examples.

Bill Haley did a lot of songs based on children's folklore. In addition to "See You Later" he did songs on "pat-a-cake," "here we go round the mulberry bush," and other rhymes.

And Cluin, sad but true: an anagram of my real name: penis with neck!