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Post by horsemen4ever on Apr 15, 2024 18:04:35 GMT -5
So what parodies do you think has out lived the source material in the public memories.
I think the most common examples are commercial parodies, for example SNL's Schmitt's Gay commercial, I am pretty sure it was a parody of a real bear commercial, but that sketch has outlived.
Another example the very first Chappelle's Show sketch, I would not remember the Eclipse commercial if it wasn't for the Chappelle Show parody.
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Post by dav on Apr 15, 2024 18:29:19 GMT -5
Would Airplane! count?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 15, 2024 18:31:05 GMT -5
Michael Jackson’s parody “Beat It” of Weird Al’s “Eat It” is still the bigger song.
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Post by FinalGwen on Apr 15, 2024 18:33:45 GMT -5
This edit has probably been seen by more people at this point than the original Police Squad.
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Post by BorneAgain on Apr 15, 2024 18:52:30 GMT -5
Lewis Carrol's original Alice books would have been understood in their time as satirizing various moralistic children's books of the era. However, all that literature has long since been forgotten outside scholars while the Alice stories endured, so now they just come off as highly creative and surreal children's books rather than the pseudo parodies they were created as.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 15, 2024 19:01:11 GMT -5
Lewis Carrol's original Alice books would have been understood in their time as satirizing various moralistic children's books of the era. However, all that literature has long since been forgotten outside scholars while the Alice stories endured, so now they just come off as highly creative and surreal children's books rather than the pseudo parodies they were created as. I don't know how true this is, but I once read an article that claimed that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally meant to be an angry and passionate rebut by Lewis Carroll against the recently accepted mathematical concept of imaginary numbers. Apparently Wonderland is what happens when you try to calculate the square root of -1.
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Post by BorneAgain on Apr 15, 2024 19:03:46 GMT -5
Lewis Carrol's original Alice books would have been understood in their time as satirizing various moralistic children's books of the era. However, all that literature has long since been forgotten outside scholars while the Alice stories endured, so now they just come off as highly creative and surreal children's books rather than the pseudo parodies they were created as. I don't know how true this is, but I once read an article that claimed that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally meant to be an angry and passionate rebut by Lewis Carroll against the recently accepted mathematical concept of imaginary numbers. Apparently Wonderland is what happens when you try to calculate the square root of -1. Yeah, I've also read that there's a general commentary on math in the Alice books that was so tied to the arguments of the time that are now entirely lost to contemporary readers that are completely unaware of the controversy and wouldn't care if even they did know about it.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 15, 2024 19:13:23 GMT -5
Lewis Carrol's original Alice books would have been understood in their time as satirizing various moralistic children's books of the era. However, all that literature has long since been forgotten outside scholars while the Alice stories endured, so now they just come off as highly creative and surreal children's books rather than the pseudo parodies they were created as. I don't know how true this is, but I once read an article that claimed that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally meant to be an angry and passionate rebut by Lewis Carroll against the recently accepted mathematical concept of imaginary numbers. Apparently Wonderland is what happens when you try to calculate the square root of -1. I remember the first day of Math 10. Teacher said we’d be covering imaginary numbers, numbers that existed because they didn’t exist and I realized I would fail that class. Which I did. It’s 20+ years now and I would likely still be in high school trying to pass that if I hadn’t gotten an amazing teacher the next year who got me to pass and I got the credits I needed to graduate.
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Post by horsemen4ever on Apr 15, 2024 19:26:38 GMT -5
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Post by bibboid on Apr 15, 2024 19:31:57 GMT -5
I loved Airplane! for thirty years before I ever realized that Zero Hour! even existed.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 15, 2024 20:40:12 GMT -5
Michael Jackson’s parody “Beat It” of Weird Al’s “Eat It” is still the bigger song. I'd argue that "Amish Paradise" is also a longer lasting hit than the original.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 15, 2024 21:15:59 GMT -5
Michael Jackson’s parody “Beat It” of Weird Al’s “Eat It” is still the bigger song. I'd argue that "Amish Paradise" is also a longer lasting hit than the original. Most of Al's parodies outlasted those who he has parodied. Because due to the nature of pop music he parodied a lot of one hit wonders.
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Post by Hit Girl on Apr 15, 2024 21:21:52 GMT -5
Craig David on Bo Selecta.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Apr 15, 2024 21:31:40 GMT -5
The Dover Boys cartoon by Chuck Jones. Lots of people remember “help help, save me, save me!” Hardly anybody remembers the Rover Boys adventure novels.
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Post by Soultastic on Apr 15, 2024 21:40:46 GMT -5
Cape Feare
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Post by Bo Rida on Apr 16, 2024 1:57:13 GMT -5
Buggs Bunny has to be the biggest example. The carrot eating is a parody of Clark Gable but that's forgotten and is now the reason people commonly think rabbits eat them.
I'm sure The Simpsons have similar but their cultural relevance is slipping.
Blink 182's video for All The Small Things probably counts too, think it's more known than most of what it's directly parodying.
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Post by hassanchop on Apr 16, 2024 3:07:13 GMT -5
Does the Verbalase animated video that cost $50K count?
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Post by Sephiroth on Apr 16, 2024 6:40:22 GMT -5
More people know the spoof of Orson Welles from The Critic than the actual radio commercial that inspired it
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Apr 16, 2024 6:57:52 GMT -5
Buggs Bunny has to be the biggest example. The carrot eating is a parody of Clark Gable but that's forgotten and is now the reason people commonly think rabbits eat them. I'm sure The Simpsons have similar but their cultural relevance is slipping. Blink 182's video for All The Small Things probably counts too, think it's more known than most of what it's directly parodying. Are you sure? "I Want It That Way" by BSB is still pretty iconic as far as I can tell.
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Post by salz4life on Apr 16, 2024 8:11:48 GMT -5
So what parodies do you think has out lived the source material in the public memories. I think the most common examples are commercial parodies, for example SNL's Schmitt's Gay commercial, I am pretty sure it was a parody of a real bear commercial, but that sketch has outlived. Another example the very first Chappelle's Show sketch, I would not remember the Eclipse commercial if it wasn't for the Chappelle Show parody. I remember wanting an Eclipse back when I was in high school. Memories.... LOL
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