parodies

A New Garbage Pail Kids TV Show Is Coming From the Team Behind Halloween

The Garbage Pail Kids are back and they’ll soon be bringing exploding heads, dripping mucous, other violent, disgusting things to HBO Max. Danny McBride and David Gordon Green, who made the most recent iteration of Halloween, are developing a new animated series based on the popular, gross-out Topps trading cards, which were infamously turned into…

io9 Germain Lussier May 26

WandaVision‘s Finale Nearly Featured Señor Scratchy’s Dark Secret

Although WandaVision had no shortage of mysteries and Easter eggs, fans overthought just every aspect of the show they could, even down to some believing Mephisto, the Marvel comics universe’s analog for Satan, was lurking behind the floppy ears of Agatha’s pet rabbit Señor Scratchy. They were wrong, but it turns out the bunny was…

Books & Comics Rob Bricken Mar 8

This Fun Fact Will Change the Way You Watch the Movie Airplane!

It’s no secret that the 1980 comedy movie Airplane! is a parody. But for some reason, I’ve spent my entire life believing that Airplane! was a broad parody of 1970s disaster movies. And while the movie clearly took inspiration from some of those films, it’s actually a very specific parody of a movie from 1957…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 18

The ’90s Version of Me Would’ve Loved This Imaginary ’90s Version of the Samsung Galaxy Fold

Before the iPhone came along, it was not uncommon for me to upgrade my cellphone every few months. It was an addiction, I’ll fully admit it, but it was also a fun time when mobile phones didn’t all look like a feature-less slab of glass. Companies tried every hardware gimmick imaginable to make their devices…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Mar 1

Stranger Things is Pushed Into Pure Absurdity in YouTube Parody

Anyone following io9 on the weekends has learned that I have a soft spot for ridiculous, low-budget YouTube parodies. The combination of enthusiasm and silliness is infectiously fun. In this new Stranger Things parody, all those elements come together to make something absolutely ridiculous. The people at devinsupertramp (how do they come up with these…

Television Julie Muncy Oct 29

Microaggressions are Banned in This Savvy The Handmaid’s Tale Parody

The Handmaid’s Tale depicts a world where female autonomy is banned, hemmed in by a hateful, sexist theocracy. But what if the target if that regime was a little different? In a clever segment from BET’s The Rundown with Robin Thede, Thede and co. imagine a world where microaggressions—primarily the microaggressions white people level at…

Television Julie Muncy Oct 22

What’s Your Favorite Parody Comic Book Cover?

Comics have given us some truly memorable cover art—from Superman’s debut in Action Comics #1 to the legendary “Spider-Man No More!” of Amazing Spider-Man #50. So many have become iconic that they’ve formed the basis for countless parodies and homages since. What’s your favorite spin on a classic cover? There are so many to choose…

io9 James Whitbrook Aug 1

Mark Hamill Does a Remarkable Han Solo Impression in This Bad Lip Reading of The Force Awakens

They’re often hit or miss, but the Bad Lip Reading YouTube channel has finally tackled Star Wars: The Force Awakens, enlisting the voice talents of Mark Hamill to put words in Han Solo’s mouth, because Harrison Ford was probably busy crashing a plane somewhere. It’s not quite as amazing as Bad Lip Reading’s version of…

io9 Andrew Liszewski Apr 6

MAD Magazine Made the Best Goodnight Moon Parody Yet

First published way back in 1947, some 70 years ago, Goodnight Moon is an iconic children’s book that has been parodied and copied almost as much as Monopoly has. But leave it to MAD Magazine to come up with one of the best, featuring Batman just trying to get a little shuteye in his Batcave.…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski Mar 14

The Rock Makes A Kick-Ass Bambi In SNL‘s Live-Action Disney Parody

Disney’s been having great success with live-action remakes of its classic animated films. So why not cast, as Saturday Night Live did last night, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as everyone’s favorite deer … and reconfigure the story as an over-the-top action thriller, with plenty of puns and guns for all? WHAM BAM BAMBI!

io9 Cheryl Eddy Mar 29

Sesame Street perfectly parodies House of Cards

Though only parents and maybe a handful of Underwoodian kids watching would understand the parody, Sesame Street pretty much nailed House of Cards in a skit about the Three Little Pigs. Frank Underwolf stars and recreates the same feel of the political drama—soliloquies, southern accent, plotting, etc.—only with muppets instead. It actually sums up the…

Sploid Casey Chan Feb 23

The Funniest Satirical Science Show You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Though largely unknown to American audiences, the BBC’s award-winning Look Around You is easily one of the most hilarious — and ludicrous — shows about science that you’ll ever see. Here are some of our favorite clips. The show, which was devised and written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, came in two incarnations. The…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 3

The Best Her Parody Yet Has a Punchline Worth Waiting For

In the new Spike Jonze film Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays a dude who falls in love with an operating system. But what if it the gender roles were flip flopped? This parody from HitFix shows a situation that might be all too familiar. https://gizmodo.com/her-review-loneliness-never-looked-so-beautiful-or-fu-1485058395 There aren’t any spoilers here (in fact, I haven’t seen the…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jan 15

A remarkably detailed fake study of Wolverine’s regeneration abilities

It’s a shame we don’t have actual superheros in our midst. Otherwise, scientists would put out research papers that look something like this amazing six-page study examining the discovery of a novel protein associated with the regenerative abilities of none other than Wolverine. Right off I gotta say that the work put into this parody…

io9 George Dvorsky Sep 24

The Death Star was my idea!

We’re suckers for a good Star Wars parody — and this retelling of those Windows 7 commercials with Stormtroopers and Chewbacca is exceptionally clever. But what is Chewie trying to tell us?

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 8

Spoof Angry Birds: The Movie Trailer Could Very Well Become Real Some Day

You’ve seen this Rooster Teeth Angry Birds movie trailer by now, right? Equal parts funny, cheesy and, hrm, hammy—just like the game! Sadly for society, I feel Rovio will actually make this happen someday. [The Next Web]

Movies Jack Loftus Mar 27

10 Greatest (and Weirdest) E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Spoofs

It’s been almost 30 years since E.T. and his uncomfortably shaped finger ruled movie screens. But Paul, opening this weekend Stateside, is full of little E.T. jokes, most of them featured in the film’s trailer. There’s just something about the little guy that makes you want to poke fun at him, whether it’s his childlike…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 17

Let Ke$ha explain the search for intelligent life on other planets

This is music video parody heaven, right here — a glitter-lipped songstress sings about the difficulties in finding life in the universe, in a spoof of Ke$ha’s “We R Who We R.” What rhymes with “prokaryote-ote-ote-otes”? [via Greg Laden]

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jan 6

The Johnny Depp Doctor Who movie couldn’t be worse than this…

The rumored Johnny Depp Doctor Who movie sounds horrendous enough, but just remember: It could always get worse. Just check out this new spoof that imagines what it would be like if Jack Black took the role. My favorite bit is where they say “You ain’t got Farscape to push around any more.”

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Jun 30

Hustler’s Highest-Budget Movie To Date: A 3D Porn Parody of Avatar

Yet another parody of Avatar has just finished production. It’s called This Ain’t Avatar XXX and it’s a 3D porno with production costs so high that Hustler, the company behind it, is calling it their highest-budget movie to date. The movie will supposedly be available in September. [MNN via Digg]

Movies Rosa Golijan Jun 18

parodies

A New Garbage Pail Kids TV Show Is Coming From the Team Behind Halloween

WandaVision‘s Finale Nearly Featured Señor Scratchy’s Dark Secret

This Fun Fact Will Change the Way You Watch the Movie Airplane!

The ’90s Version of Me Would’ve Loved This Imaginary ’90s Version of the Samsung Galaxy Fold

Stranger Things is Pushed Into Pure Absurdity in YouTube Parody

Microaggressions are Banned in This Savvy The Handmaid’s Tale Parody

What’s Your Favorite Parody Comic Book Cover?

Mark Hamill Does a Remarkable Han Solo Impression in This Bad Lip Reading of The Force Awakens

MAD Magazine Made the Best Goodnight Moon Parody Yet

The Rock Makes A Kick-Ass Bambi In SNL‘s Live-Action Disney Parody

Sesame Street perfectly parodies House of Cards

The Funniest Satirical Science Show You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

The Best Her Parody Yet Has a Punchline Worth Waiting For

A remarkably detailed fake study of Wolverine’s regeneration abilities

The Death Star was my idea!

Spoof Angry Birds: The Movie Trailer Could Very Well Become Real Some Day

10 Greatest (and Weirdest) E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial Spoofs

Let Ke$ha explain the search for intelligent life on other planets

The Johnny Depp Doctor Who movie couldn’t be worse than this…

Hustler’s Highest-Budget Movie To Date: A 3D Porn Parody of Avatar

This Is Supposedly the Final, Final, FINAL Look of the Foldable iPhone

Scientists Watch Brain’s Self-Cleaning Process During Sleep in Real Time

LEGO Super Mario Piranha Plant Sees 30% Off on Amazon While LEGO and Nintendo’s Official Stores Keep It at Full Price

‘No Data Centers’ Sign Found After Shooting at Indianapolis Politician’s Home

‘Dark Matter’ Season 2 Sees Joel Edgerton Forced Back Into the Multiverse

Astronomers Found the Closest Thing Yet to the Universe’s First Stars

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