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Post by MolotovMocktail on May 17, 2024 15:37:49 GMT -5
Foghorn Leghorn was originally a parody of Senator Claghorn, a character from the Allen’s Alley radio show. Claghorn would use phrases that Foghorn would adopt, such as “Someone, I say someone’s a knocking” and “That’s a joke son, pay attention”, in addition to being a fanatically proud Southerner, to the point that he refused to use the word “no”, because it’s an abbreviation for “north”. That character has been largely forgotten, and like Bugs Bunny with the carrot, people don’t know the inspiration anymore.
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Post by Casey Jones on May 18, 2024 0:09:44 GMT -5
More of a copy/homage than a parody, but Scooby-Doo has definitely outlived the shows that inspired it - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis which inspired the individual members of the Scooby Gang, and The Archie Show and The Hardy Boys which inspired the premise (the Scooby Gang was originally even going to be a band like the Archies, hence traveling fruom town to town in a van). I hear the creators even got the name Scooby Doo from this song.
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Post by Casey Jones on May 18, 2024 0:14:08 GMT -5
What's more memorable, this Or this
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on May 18, 2024 6:26:24 GMT -5
If you live in the UK and go to a football match and sing along. I dont think anyone is saying "the away fans are singing La donna è mobile but have changed the words!" Along the same lines, any that use the tune of "Go West" as much as I love the Pet Shop Boys and the Village People, that tune is it's own thing now.
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on May 18, 2024 11:17:06 GMT -5
YMMV, but for me Dragonball Z Abridged has surpassed the original Dragonball Z. Yeah, that's a "you need to find hobbies outside the internet" take if I ever read one. If people remember DBZA in 10 years they would be lucky, whereas DBZ will live in people's heads all over the world for a few more decades (especially in Latin America and Japan for obvious reasons). "YMMV, but for me" The words are right there in my post, plain to anybody with eyes, but go off, I guess.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on May 18, 2024 11:39:04 GMT -5
It's not really the same thing but it feels like some characters end up outliving their source for so long that they end up having a life of their own separate to the original.
Like Mayor Quimby has been around for so long that I think the number of people who remember Kennedy enough to get the parody must be significantly smaller than it used to be, even if only in the sense of having a living memory of JFK
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Post by Fundertaker on May 18, 2024 12:20:32 GMT -5
Yeah, that's a "you need to find hobbies outside the internet" take if I ever read one. If people remember DBZA in 10 years they would be lucky, whereas DBZ will live in people's heads all over the world for a few more decades (especially in Latin America and Japan for obvious reasons). "YMMV, but for me" The words are right there in my post, plain to anybody with eyes, but go off, I guess. "Outlived the original in public memory" The words are right there in the title, plain to anybody with eyes, but go off, I guess.
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 18, 2024 12:47:57 GMT -5
Foghorn Leghorn was originally a parody of Senator Claghorn, a character from the Allen’s Alley radio show. Claghorn would use phrases that Foghorn would adopt, such as “Someone, I say someone’s a knocking” and “That’s a joke son, pay attention”, in addition to being a fanatically proud Southerner, to the point that he refused to use the word “no”, because it’s an abbreviation for “north”. That character has been largely forgotten, and like Bugs Bunny with the carrot, people don’t know the inspiration anymore. Exactly what I came to post.
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Post by Milkman Norm on May 18, 2024 13:01:26 GMT -5
It's not really the same thing but it feels like some characters end up outliving their source for so long that they end up having a life of their own separate to the original. Like Mayor Quimby has been around for so long that I think the number of people who remember Kennedy enough to get the parody must be significantly smaller than it used to be, even if only in the sense of having a living memory of JFK Quimby is very interesting because the character is inspired not by JFK, but by Vaughn Meader and his First Family act about the Kennedy family. So it's a reference to a long forgotten parody of a real thing.
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