# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/61 "2011-12-03T14:30:44Z")
The _Samurai Cat_ series by Mark E. Rogers. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/62 "2011-12-03T20:26:07Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Don’t worry; you and me, we can start our own church. _Splitters!_ ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/63 "2011-12-03T21:14:27Z")
I take my Holmes canon very seriously, and would never listen to a parody of Sherlock Holmes… except that I did. Firesign Theater did a brilliant homage: [_ **The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra** _](http://firesigntheatre.com/media/media.php?item=gros-tl). iTunes doesn’t have the full album, but [the first section is on a “Best Of”](http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/shoes-for-industry!-the-best/id202211213) (worth buying for their other note-perfect parody: _ **Nick Danger!** _, a manic send-up of old radio detectives. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/64 "2011-12-04T03:55:48Z")
So many to choose from, I couldn’t make up my mind–then someone mentioned _Lampoon_’s _Yearbook_, and that’s it! The entire oeuvre is available in a single volume, with a 39th anniversary reunion wrap-up, and I like to say it’s one of the great comic novels of the Twentieth Century. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/65 "2011-12-04T04:02:08Z")
Carol Burnett playing Scarlet, wearing the green velvet drapes with the curtain rod running across her shoulders. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/66 "2011-12-04T16:28:37Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > 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. BotR was great. > [@](#): > > Me beastie. Me do dat thing. ---
**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 4, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/67 "2011-12-04T18:36:55Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > … _Lampoon_’s _Yearbook_… I like to say it’s one of the great comic novels of the Twentieth Century. My man! I’ve said the same thing many times. It can be read, carefully, cover-to-cover. _“I never met a man I didn’t know.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/68 "2011-12-05T15:42:50Z")
Firesign Theatre’s takes on the private-eye trope - Nick Danger (part 1) [The Church Of the Subgenius](http://www.subgenius.com) is a brilliant send-up of religion, but not for everyone. The Pajama Slave Dancers’ parody of over-the-top arena rock, [“I Want To Make Love To You”](http://www.snakefoot.com/bsb/salami.MP3) is funny stuff. Rest of the [album](http://www.snakefoot.com/bsb/) is good for a chuckle - at least worth the price of admission. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/69 "2011-12-05T21:53:11Z")
Here’s one I first heard on a reel-to-reel back when I was a small tyke: Homer and Jethro with [_We Didn’t Sink The Bismark_.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da6rYqI8z_4&feature=fvst) ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582/70 "2011-12-05T23:25:20Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > [Porklips Now](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrnNeIIumJg) (part 1 of 3 linked, you can easily find the others) What I was going to say. “I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no socks.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-parody/604582.md?page=3)