# greatest chain of parody **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-chain-of-parody/501247 "2009-06-28T05:46:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-chain-of-parody/501247/1 "2009-06-28T05:46:14Z")
Are there any parodies of parodies? Parodies of parodies of parodies? Winner is the one with the greatest chain of direct parodies. Rule: Can be any genre - tv, music, movies, literature, etc - even cross genre (a song parody of a tv show) but the chain must be linear - it can’t be the greatest number of direct parodies; each successive parody must come from the previous one and not from the original source. Parodies should also be fairly non obscure and not merely something one did with one’s friends in high school, unless you know, it got millions of hits on youtube. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-chain-of-parody/501247/2 "2009-06-28T06:15:08Z")
**Scary Movie** parodying \*\*Scream \*\*which parodied the slasher film genre? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-chain-of-parody/501247/3 "2009-06-28T10:14:35Z")
There are parodies of _Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland_, which parodied a number of popular works from its era. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-chain-of-parody/501247/4 "2009-06-28T14:50:10Z")
_A Fate Worse Than Dragons_, by John Moore, has a scene that parodies the battle of wits from _The Princess Bride_. The book on the whole was sorta blah, but that scene was actually quite funny. “You need reading glasses. This is a bottle of _iodine_.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-chain-of-parody/501247/5 "2009-06-28T21:29:35Z")
Christian fish logo Darwin fish w. feet logo Christian fish w IXOYE (or the Greek script for JChRNS) eating Darwin fish w. feet Darwin fish with TRUTH (and feet) eating Christian fish with IXOYE Calvin (comic, not the theologian) pissing on Darwin fish with TRUTH Okay, I made up the one with Calvin. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-chain-of-parody/501247/6 "2009-06-28T22:55:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Christian fish logo > Darwin fish w. feet logo > Christian fish w IXOYE (or the Greek script for JChRNS) eating Darwin fish w. feet > Darwin fish with TRUTH (and feet) eating Christian fish with IXOYE > Calvin (comic, not the theologian) pissing on Darwin fish with TRUTH > > Okay, I made up the one with Calvin. OK, the first three are a definite chain, but the others are probably siblings, not descendants: The TRUTH Darwin fish eating the IChThUS fish is another parody of the original IChThUS fish, not of the IChThUS fish eating the Darwin fish. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-chain-of-parody/501247/7 "2009-06-28T23:19:44Z")
Family Guy parodied Airplane! which parodied movies ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-chain-of-parody/501247/8 "2009-06-28T23:46:21Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Family Guy parodied Airplane! which parodied movies Although a parody of disaster movies in general, _Airplane!_ was adapted in part from the film _Zero Hour!_, which was licensed for the film. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-chain-of-parody/501247/9 "2009-06-29T00:06:59Z")
Hmm… parody or homage? The shot of the monsters emergence onto the Scare floor in _Monster’s Inc._ is directly derived from that shot (yes, you know the one) of the seven Mercury astronauts in the _Right Stuff_… but in addition, the position of the character Randall (voiced by Steve Buscemi) is the same as the position of his character Rockhound in _Armageddon_ during the same parody / homage shot.