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What, in your eyes, are the greatest parodies of all time?

In my eyes, the Onion has managed to win this contest, with the following three things:

Bush: Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Over - Written prior to Bush actually doing anything, this article from 2001 accurately summarizes his two terms in office.

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades - This was of course before we got the first five blade razor.

Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere - Pretty much the best summary of the news of our time.

What are the greatest parodies in your eyes?

Space Balls!

I'd put "A Modest Proposal" up for Greatest of All Time, personally.

inb4 the American government

Jerk, on 29 January 2012 - 03:03 AM, said:

True. Hard to beat the classics, I suppose.

Sony releases new stupid piece of shit.

And I guess this is kind of a parody? If not it's still the best comedy sketch I've ever seen.



Sorry for it being backwards, its the only video I could find that wasn't a recording of the tv.

This post has been edited by CaptainBaconMan: 29 January 2012 - 09:50 AM

Vero and I love that sketch.

Titanium Dragon, on 29 January 2012 - 08:27 AM, said:

I also figure it takes a lot of balls to make jokes about eating babies in a time when it would've been even more genuinely offensive.

I don't know if this was the situation with him, but I'd think the people who took greater risks to make a joke would deserve some bonus points for that.

Blazing Saddles is pretty awesome. Not sure if it counts as a true parody though since there is not central story it is parodying.

Something by Weird Al, if songs count... Probably "Smells Like Nirvana" or "Amish Paradise."

ALSO THIS

Family Guy: Blue Harvest and Look out its a trap!

As a huge fan of Trapped in the Closet, this parody is a good homage to the original.

Seeing as I'm an uncultured lout, I've no pick myself but, I thought it was an interesting question to bring up to my friends at uni. Best answer I got was "The Little Prince" by Machiavelli.

Frank Zappa > Weird Al

SoulTH, on 31 January 2012 - 04:16 PM, said:

I felt like these (and the Abraham Lincoln thing) were just cheap humor (and not very good humor at that). The funniest thing Family Guy ever did with Star Wars was the random aside where the guy that said shooting the two meter wide hole in the Death Star was impossible and Luke was all "I used to bullseye womp rats with my T-16 back home; they're not much bigger than two meters" and gets upset for Luke calling him out like that.

I think quality parody should have a grain of truth to it, ALA A Modest Proposal and Tina Fey as Palin.

This post has been edited by Titanium Dragon: 03 February 2012 - 06:28 AM

Christ, where to begin with Blue Harvest? It's like they made a scene-by-scene recreation of the movie and just replaced any clever commentary they could've made about the movie with the formulaic Family Guy throw-away gags. Counter-example: the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory episode that replaced candy with beer. That was a good jab at a classic film.

But I haven't watched any Family Guy episode after the one where he and Stewie got locked in a vault. Either Seth MacFarlane was trying to prove that he could do a funny episode with cutaway pop culture references or he thought he'd make the show a little edgier by trying to explore "Brian wants to kill himself" thing. Either way, it's just one notch in a long line of terrible ideas.

Plus, I don't care how liberal you think you are: if Rupert Murdoch signs your paychecks, you're his stooge. It's not like any other network wouldn't have murdered babies to have you back when you were popular and funny, Seth.

SOAPBOX SOAPBOX SOAPBOX

I think that South Park is really great when it comes to parody and satire.

South Park is wonderful. I liked their tribute to Heavy Metal when Kenny was tripping out on cat piss.

Kaxbe, on 03 February 2012 - 01:23 PM, said:

Yes but in many ways the best things that South Park makes fun of are things that it plays straight, like the history of the Mormon Church and Scientology.

Oh? I guess it's a parody of the imaginary world in our minds.
I like Spy Hard, or any movie with Leslie Nielsen, really.

Craft, I was just messing around, I don't know what you're trying to say.

CaptainBaconMan, on 29 January 2012 - 09:47 AM, said:

When he mentioned divorcing his wife because she was a 'nigger lover', I couldn't stop laughing
His wife was blind too!

Dave Chappelle is our generation's Richard Pryor.

Or something. What the fuck do I know?

Space Balls.

As already mentioned several times by others already, I also find Space Balls to be a great parody. It's hard to think of any others because there were so many terrible ones over the years, like every movie made by those douches after they made Scary Movie and wouldn't stop.

Jerk, on 03 February 2012 - 09:10 AM, said:

fuck, thank you. You know what it's like not liking that shit when you know people who love it? Awkward.