Parody
My Old Flame
A song that goes rapidly off the rails around the one-minute mark, with some Halloween relevance.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 25, 2020 -
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Category: Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Horror, Music, 1940s, Parody
The CB Bears
What fad of our current era will date as badly as CB radio?The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 11, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Fads, Humor, Parody, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Cartoons, 1970s
James Blonde
Use embedded player, or listen at the source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 12, 2020 -
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Category: Humor, Parody, Satire, Spies and Secret Agents, 1960s
The Mashuganishi Yogi
Use embedded player, or go to the source.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 04, 2020 -
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Category: Humor, Parody, Satire, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1960s, India
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish
In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays "Coke Ennyday", a cocaine-shooting detective who is a parody of Sherlock Holmes. Ennyday is given to injecting himself from a bandolier of syringes worn across his chest, and liberally helps himself to the contents of a hatbox-sized round container of white powder labeled "COCAINE" on his desk.
Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 24, 2020 -
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Category: Addictions, Detectives, Private Eyes and Other Investigators, Drugs, Humor, Parody, Movies, 1910s
Peter Pain Parody
Alex and I never coordinate our posts, but sometimes they achieve thematic synchronicity. Yesterday, for instance, he posted about losing weight and I posted about obesity.But his post from today, about Corporate Icon Peter Pain, happened magically to dovetail with my leisure-time reading of last evening, when I was enjoying THE THING FROM THE GRAVE, a collection of the work that artist Joe Orlando did for the fabled EC Comics. I read Orlando's Peter Pain Parody, and then this morning found Alex's post!
BTW: the whole line of EC reprints from Fantagraphics is worthy of your attention.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 05, 2019 -
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Category: Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Comics, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, 1950s, Parody, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise
Ask Lovecraft
Many, many videos here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 20, 2019 -
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Category: Columnists: Advice, Gossip, Etc, Eccentrics, Horror, Parody
Mystery Illustration 83
Which famous sex symbol actress of the Fifties and Sixties is seen here, imitating Elvis Presley?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 18, 2019 -
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Category: Imitations, Forgeries, Rip-offs and Faux, Movies, Music, Sex Symbols, 1950s, Parody
Superthunderstingcar
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 29, 2019 -
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Category: Evil, Humor, Parody, Inventions, Puppets and Automatons, Television, Science Fiction, 1960s
Downright unacceptable and illegal
Poe's Law states that it can often be almost impossible to tell the difference between a parody of an extreme belief (such as creationism) and a sincere expression of that belief.Something like that is going on with the video below. It's apparently a sincere video statement, recently posted on the British Army's YouTube account, by a high-ranking British officer, Gen Sir Mark Carleton-Smith. But as you watch it, it's hard not to get the impression that he's parodying the popular image of a British officer. Monty Python is surely to blame for this!
More details: the guardian
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 15, 2019 -
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Category: Military, Parody
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