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Mutant superheroes, inspired by X-Men and the like.
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As Trihs points out, TMNT were at first a nearly line for line parody of Frank Miller’s Daredevil, where Daredevil became a ninja all of a sudden and Elektra made her debut. The Foot is a parody of The Hand, Splinter is a parody of Stick, and the ooze that mutated Splinter and the Turtles was, IIRC, the same ooze that gave Matt Murdock his radar sense.
[QUOTE=Kythereia]
I came in here just to mention that. I swear, kids (myself included) are going to be sitting down listening to Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre and singing, in the aisles, “Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit…”
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Our Topeka Symphony has done two programs of classical music used as cartoon soundtrack material. They also had slides and clips of the cartoons themselves.
[QUOTE=Mahaloth]
Well, is this a parody of anything specific? It’s more of a satire of the culture at the time.
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Dr. Strangelove was a reworking of a book called Red Alert. The book was serious, rather than satirical, so it could be said that the film was a parody of its source.
[QUOTE=pinkfreud]
Dr. Strangelove was a reworking of a book called Red Alert. The book was serious, rather than satirical, so it could be said that the film was a parody of its source.
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One could call Dr. Strangelove a twisted version of Red Alert. Peter George, who wrote Red Alert under a pen name, is credited for the novelization. I’d almost consider Dr. Strangelove a MSTIEing of Red Alert more than a parody of the genre. Though there are parody elements in there - Turgidson has a book called “Equivalent Cities in Megadeaths” which is a nod to Fail Safe.
The Pope and Michelangelo sketch from “Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl” is one of my favorite examples of this type. It parodies a 1573 incident involving the painter Veronese. His actual solution was to rename the painting, just as suggested in the sketch. Outside of art students, how many people have even heard of Veronese? I only know the connection because I Googled the sketch and read someone else’s mention of it.
[QUOTE=mobo85]
Although it doesn’t really count, I recall an anecdote about the Stan Freberg record St. George and the Dragonet, which was, as you can tell by the name, a parody of the Dragnet TV show. In some foreign country (Australia, perhaps?), the record was released despite the fact Dragnet did not air in that country. When Dragnet was aired, someone from that country told Freberg that he was surprised to see a TV show inspired by one of his comedy routines!
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It was indeed Australia.
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I suspect that when most younger folks encounter the line “We don’t need no… stinking badges” (or variants of it), they are more likely to think of Blazing Saddles than of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
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Blazing Saddles is of course a parody of Destry Rides Again