# Your favorite Parody? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582 "2011-11-30T18:14:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/1 "2011-11-30T18:14:56Z")
a good parody can be a sort of backhanded praise to the original work or it can be completely mocking. What is your favorite? It can be a song, a poem, a book. I guess I’d say “Bored of the Rings” is mine, although even I admit it’s too long. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/2 "2011-11-30T18:27:16Z")
Forbidden Broadway has so many excellent ones it is so hard to choose. Just watch Christina Bianco’s send-up of Bernadette Peters in [See Me On A Monday](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CugVdbyX2A) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/3 "2011-11-30T18:53:35Z")
For me it’s the movie “Galaxy Quest” which is a parody of Star Trek and similar tv shows. It’s hilarious and I can watch it again and again. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/4 "2011-11-30T19:03:56Z")
[Bored of the Rings.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored_of_the_Rings) It was the incentive that allowed me to finish the trilogy. “Five nine is your height and 180’s you’re weight/You’ll cash in your chips around page 88.” ---
**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:** [November 30, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/5 "2011-11-30T19:06:12Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [Bored of the Rings.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bored_of_the_Rings) It was the incentive that allowed me to finish the trilogy. “Five nine is your height and 180’s you’re weight/You’ll cash in your chips around page 88.” I came in to mention this. Portions of this work are still permanently imprinted in my memory. **Alligator** , Harvard Lampoon’s previous book parody (of Ian Fleming’s James Bond books), is nowhere near as good. Nor is the National Lampoon book parody **Doon**. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/6 "2011-11-30T19:09:08Z")
National Lampoon on [What Every Young Girl Should Know About Sex](http://www.homepagedaily.com/Pages/article2573-what-every-young-woman-should-know-about-sex.aspx). This booklet came out around 1975, and it stays in my memory and still cracks me up! ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/7 "2011-11-30T19:16:30Z")
Michael MacDonald on _MADtv_ did a solo sketch where he played Steve Jobs announcing a new Apple product. It was a very flimsy metal bookshelf, called iRAQ. As it was slowly collapsing, “Jobs” kept turning to the audience saying, “It’s okay! It’s okay!” and he’d throw handfuls of cash at it. The more it collapsed, the more frantic “Jobs” became. Finally, when it did fall down, he distracted the audience by saying there was an even NEWER product in the wings, which would be released soon. He pulls the drape from an athletic sneaker, and announces iRAN. Priceless, priceless, priceless! ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/8 "2011-11-30T19:17:36Z")
Fear of a black hat, it’s the “This is Spinal Tap” of 90’s gangsta rap. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/9 "2011-11-30T19:38:31Z")
**Mad TV** ’s Limp Bizkit Parody [Posin](http://youtu.be/notL4pcNjdc), and my favorite, [Raging Rudolph](http://youtu.be/Q_RH44K0x_4). Also a fan SNL’s [Oprah’s Favorite Things](http://kaycaskey.blogspot.com/2007/11/oprahs-favorite-things-snl-parody.html). (Best link I could find) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/10 "2011-11-30T19:47:35Z")
_Blackadder’s Christmas Carol_ ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/11 "2011-11-30T20:02:41Z")
_Monty Python’s Life of Brian_ is probably my favorite movie ever. And I’m a Christian! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/12 "2011-11-30T20:07:43Z")
Nailin’ Palin… Just kidding - it’s a toss-up between _Galaxy Quest_ and _The Rutles_. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/13 "2011-11-30T20:09:17Z")
I adore Henry Fielding’s _Shamela_, a 1741 parody of Samuel Richardson’s 1740 novel _Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded_. Full title: _An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews. In which, the many notorious Falshoods and Misrepresentations of a Book called Pamela, Are exposed and refuted; and all the matchless Arts of that young Politician, set in a true and just Light. Together with A full Account of all that passed between her and Parson Arthur Williams; whose Character is represented in a manner something different from that which he bears in Pamela. The whole being exact Copies of authentick Papers delivered to the Editor. Necessary to be had in all Families_. And very funny. ---
**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:** [November 30, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/14 "2011-11-30T20:15:05Z")
Another one for BotR. Also, this morning I was rereading Dave Barry’s “teen vampire novel” (in _I’ll Mature When I’m Dead_). I always wonder how he ended up reading Twilight in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/15 "2011-11-30T20:17:05Z")
I was going to mention The Rutles too. Also, Police Squad is an extremely funny show that doesn’t really parody any one other show, rather a generic parody of all the old police and detective shows in the 60s and 70s. Something tells me I need to watch Galaxy Quest. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/16 "2011-11-30T20:25:25Z")
_Young Frankenstein,_ of course. And _Spaceballs_ deserves at least a mention here. (Mel Brooks is rather . . . uneven when it comes to parody, IMO; he did the Robin Hood legend in _When Things Were Rotten_ in the '70s and it was hiliarious – then he takes the same concept to the big screen and it’s **lame!)** ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/17 "2011-11-30T20:28:06Z")
_Airplane!_ ---
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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/19 "2011-11-30T20:37:25Z")
Mitchell and Webb: [Ambiguous Bond Villain](http://youtu.be/U6cake3bwnY) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/20 "2011-11-30T20:55:28Z")
**Bored of the Rings** , all the way, if you are talking pure parodies. If you want to loosen the definition to _spoofs_, then it becomes a much wider race… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582.md?page=2)