# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Turble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Turble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turble)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/41 "2011-12-01T18:56:55Z")
[Amazon Women on the Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYwY7hPuIuw). Seriously funny stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/42 "2011-12-01T19:43:55Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I was going to mention The Rutles too. Bingo. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/43 "2011-12-01T19:50:27Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > 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. I preferred its sequel, _Joseph Andrews_–in which Pamela/Shamela’s younger brother is pursued by a lecherous lady. Also made into a film in the '70s starring Peter Firth and Ann-Margret. But that’s not what I came in here to mention. My favorite parody is _Stiff Upper Lips_, which sends up those Merchant-Ivory-type films I adore. I quote from it often, as the situation warrants, or even if it doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/44 "2011-12-02T04:29:19Z")
National Lampoon’s high school yearbook parody. IIRC, they had a small one in the magazine, which proved popular enough that they came out with the full-blown parody some time later. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2011, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/45 "2011-12-02T04:50:03Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > _Murder by Death_ is among my favorites. You gotta love a movie that has a character named Lionel Twain. :smack: How the hell did I miss that joke all these years? ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/46 "2011-12-02T05:09:19Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > you + Charlotte = beer Glad you enjoyed it, i was in highschool in the 90s and that movie hit all the right spots. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/47 "2011-12-02T07:10:57Z")
National Lampoon’s High School Yearbook parody takes first prize for me. .Edit: I see one other genius agrees with me so far. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/48 "2011-12-02T13:12:16Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > :smack: How the hell did I miss that joke all these years? This is a whoosh, right? They make a big deal about the sign that gives the house number and the hiost’s name: “22 Twain”, pronounced “Two-Two Twain” (= “Choo Choo Train”) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/49 "2011-12-02T13:15:33Z")
Lewis Carroll was a master parodist. For me, it’s a toss-up between [“You Are Old, Father William”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_Old,_Father_William) and [“Hiawatha’s Photographing”](http://people.virginia.edu/~ds8s/carroll/hia.html). ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/50 "2011-12-03T00:07:50Z")
Ripping Yarns by Michael Palin from the Pythons. Except for the episode, Across the Andes by Frog or somesuch, which is crap. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/51 "2011-12-03T00:18:29Z")
[Porklips Now](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrnNeIIumJg) (part 1 of 3 linked, you can easily find the others) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/52 "2011-12-03T00:23:59Z")
For Christmas time, my favorite is the parody of the 12 days of Christmas: Indian style and animated. (As always, the obligatory note here that it was made by an Indian band from Australia, so take the cliches in jest) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/owK5tHjL0aE/hqdefault.jpg "12 Days of Christmas") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owK5tHjL0aE) "On the 10th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 10 minute yoga ([Indian guru] think the lotus, feel the lotus, drive the Lotus [drives away in a Lotus car, parodying the shameful profits those guys make]) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/53 "2011-12-03T00:39:33Z")
> [@Reloy3](#): > > Maybe more of a spoof than pure parody, but Rustler’s Rhapsody is a terrific send up of the singing cowboy genre. Most of the time, I even prefer it to Blazing Saddles (heresy, I know). Don’t worry; you and me, we can start our own church. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/54 "2011-12-03T01:51:37Z")
If I can’t have _Bored of the Rings_, I’ll raise you [The Cheap Detective.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cheap_Detective) I believe Neil Simon in an interview said, “Peter Falk _is_ Humphrey Bogart.” “Marlene, I’d like you to meet the girls.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/55 "2011-12-03T02:26:31Z")
“He made me play war. He was a Stuka dive bomber and I was Poland.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/56 "2011-12-03T02:50:45Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > “He made me play war. He was a Stuka dive bomber and I was Poland.” 🙂 I never would have been able to watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine without laughing at Louise Fletcher had I seen TCD first. 🙂 ---
**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:** [December 3, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/57 "2011-12-03T02:51:34Z")
> [@kelly5078](#): > > National Lampoon’s high school yearbook parody. IIRC, they had a small one in the magazine, which proved popular enough that they came out with the full-blown parody some time later. I have this magazine! I haven’t read it in years and years but it is funny as hell. Ich bin ein Kefauver senior. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/58 "2011-12-03T03:04:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “Marlene, I’d like you to meet the girls.” 🙂 I beg your pardon, it’s["Sweethawt, I’d like you to meet the girls."](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_VY4A9DRC0) Don’t watch if you haven’t seen Bogart movies. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/59 "2011-12-03T04:34:56Z")
The Lola Falana Christmas Special from SCTV is a side splitter. It PERFECTLY captures that Vegas glitter approach to Christmas, which of course, completely misses anything that any normal person would mistake for Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/60 "2011-12-03T04:36:36Z")
The Key of Awesome’s [Glitter Puke](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7n8GqewJ2M), a parody of Kesha’s “TiK ToK.” I’m a big Kesha fan but I loved their imitation of her, including the Auto-tuned vomiting and the contract that said “Ke$ha must act like a drunken whore at all times.” They also did a parody of Kesha’s “We R Who We R,” but it wasn’t nearly as good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582.md?page=4)