# Parodies/patisches that go over your head? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303 "2018-03-09T20:57:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/1 "2018-03-09T20:57:26Z")
Today I’ve started seeing (3 or 4 times now) a new commercial with a familiar beat to it, and recognized it from [a catchy song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSbXGsysAAk) from _My Little Pony_. Judging that the commercial was unlikely to be based on that, I googled to find that the MLP song was based on [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x3QzJn9gTk). I had no idea. Anyone else got examples of things that it took you forever to realize was an intentional play on something else? ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/2 "2018-03-09T21:27:34Z")
Well that definitely went over my head and I watch MLP regularly. There’s a fairly popular anime meme with a warrior woman “dressed” with bandages wrapped around her chest. I’m pretty sure this is a reference to something Japanese, but I don’t know what. Coincidentally they did this in a MLP comic. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/3 "2018-03-09T21:37:13Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > There’s a fairly popular anime meme with a warrior woman “dressed” with bandages wrapped around her chest. I’m pretty sure this is a reference to something Japanese, but I don’t know what. Coincidentally they did this in a MLP comic. That’s a [sarashi](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Sarashi). ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/4 "2018-03-10T23:16:49Z")
Der Tag des Malers (The Night of the Painter)(1997) by Werner Nekes. A review mentioned Balzac’s _Le Chef-d’œuvre inconnu_ and Rivette’s _La Belle Noiseuse_ which I’m familiar with, but it’s a very difficult film if you don’t recognize all the paintings being referenced. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2018, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/5 "2018-03-11T00:19:12Z")
I gave up a long time ago. I stopped listening to pop music in the 90’s, rarely watch network TV (online only), no cable or satellite. Keeping up with references to pop culture is too much work now. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/6 "2018-03-12T20:11:44Z")
I watched \* Kentucky Fried Movie\* a long time ago. It wasn’t until years later when I watched _Enter the Dragon_ that I realised that the one segment was a parody. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/7 "2018-03-12T21:53:43Z")
With the exception of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, all of the poems that Lewis Carroll parodied in his Alice books have been forgotten. I had never read any of the originals until I saw them in Martin Gardner’s annotation. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/8 "2018-03-12T21:55:20Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > I watched _Kentucky Fried Movie_ a long time ago. It wasn’t until years later when I watched _Enter the Dragon_ that I realised that the one segment was a parody. Same here, but I found the parody _Fistful of Yen_ to be a far more entertaining film than _Enter the Dragon_, which struck me as pretentious and dull. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/9 "2018-03-12T22:51:04Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Same here, but I found the parody _Fistful of Yen_ to be a far more entertaining film than _Enter the Dragon_, which struck me as pretentious and dull. Loo: And who are they? Dr. Klahn: Just lost drunken men who don’t know where they are and no longer care. Loo: And these? Dr. Klahn: These are lost drunken men who don’t know where they are, but do care! And these are men who know where they are and care, but don’t drink. I can’t remember anything from Enter the Dragon, But I remember this! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/10 "2018-03-13T11:50:48Z")
Scientist 1: A toy robot!! [panics, smashes through glass window to escape] Scientist 2: A toy robot? [stares at robot, confused by his colleague’s reaction] Toy Robot: Eat lead, sucker. [shoots Scientist #2 with chest-mounted machine gun] Scientist #2: Aaaahh! [mortally wounded, smashes through second glass window] ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/11 "2018-03-13T13:57:30Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Anyone else got examples of things that it took you forever to realize was an intentional play on something else? I bet most country fans who listen to [“Bud Light Blue” by Coffey Anderson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6BaMmzFJh8) will go to their graves without ever learning [where the refrain comes from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA52uNzx7Y4). ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/12 "2018-03-13T14:45:15Z")
Many Looney Tunes ones from old celebrities of the times that I only understood through this board or by googling… “How do you do!” “I wish my friend George was here” “I’m only three and a half years old” etc. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/13 "2018-03-13T15:18:31Z")
Gulliver’s Travels is one for sure. I know Swift is parodying politics and morality with the different groups of people that Gulliver meets on his journeys and I’ve read about them and had them explained in classes but we are pretty far removed from that time so most of it, while still appreciated, doesn’t quite hit home for us. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/14 "2018-03-13T15:19:12Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Many Looney Tunes ones from old celebrities of the times that I only understood through this board or by googling… > > “How do you do!” > “I wish my friend George was here” > “I’m only three and a half years old” > > etc. There’s a [non-Bugs Looney Tunes that is a sendup of Hollywood celebrities](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOFG_qmoH8I), that was completely obscure to me. This was shown in the normal Saturday morning Bugs Hour, and I can’t imagine any 8 year old in 1970 getting anything out of it. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/15 "2018-03-13T15:53:31Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Gulliver’s Travels is one for sure. I know Swift is parodying politics and morality with the different groups of people that Gulliver meets on his journeys and I’ve read about them and had them explained in classes but we are pretty far removed from that time so most of it, while still appreciated, doesn’t quite hit home for us. If you want a quick guide to the references in Gulliver’s Travels, see if you can find a copy of _The Annotated Gulliver’s Travels_, part of that whole “Annotated” series. The annotations are by Isaac Asimov! [https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Gullivers-Travels-Jonathan-Swift/dp/0517539497](https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Gullivers-Travels-Jonathan-Swift/dp/0517539497) (Wow! It’s gotten expensive. Look for a copy in the library.) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/16 "2018-03-13T16:41:07Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > There’s a [non-Bugs Looney Tunes that is a sendup of Hollywood celebrities](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOFG_qmoH8I), that was completely obscure to me. This was shown in the normal Saturday morning Bugs Hour, and I can’t imagine any 8 year old in 1970 getting anything out of it. Ah!! I remember one: the references within Loony Tunes to **Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men** - the whole Abominable Snowman with a Bunny Rabbit named George, I came to realize, is about George and Lenny in OMaM, where Lenny is the snowman, and Bugs is a combination of George and the Thing that Lenny can’t control himself over, like the bunny he killed, which happens before the book starts but is referred to. Whoa. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/17 "2018-03-13T18:56:51Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Loo: And who are they? > Dr. Klahn: Just lost drunken men who don’t know where they are and no longer care. > Loo: And these? > Dr. Klahn: These are lost drunken men who don’t know where they are, but do care! And these are men who know where they are and care, but don’t drink. > > I can’t remember anything from Enter the Dragon, But I remember this! Voice from the back: Where am I? Dr. Klahn: Put this man in another cell. And get him a drink! Guard: What would you like to drink? Prisoner: I don’t care. Regards, Enormous Genitalia ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/18 "2018-03-13T19:12:54Z")
This is Klaw’s bodyguard. He is tough and ruthless. This is his chauffer. He is rough and toothless. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/19 "2018-03-13T19:58:35Z")
I was a big fan of Brendon Small’s “Home Movies”. It was a Squiggle-animation series about a boy and his friends who made little movies. His next series was “Metalocalypse”. It was about a Part-American, part-Scandinavian death-metal band Dethklok. It was amusing but I’m sure most of it went over my head since I was not a fan of that music genre. I’m looking at a list of musician guest voices and it looks like it would be impressive if one were into the music. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303/20 "2018-03-13T20:31:26Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > I was a big fan of Brendon Small’s “Home Movies”. It was a Squiggle-animation series about a boy and his friends who made little movies. His next series was “Metalocalypse”. It was about a Part-American, part-Scandinavian death-metal band Dethklok. It was amusing but I’m sure most of it went over my head since I was not a fan of that music genre. I’m looking at a list of musician guest voices and it looks like it would be impressive if one were into the music. I loved both of those shows, but have no recollection of any of the guest voices. Huh. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parodies-patisches-that-go-over-your-head/810303.md?page=2)