I give up! I know I saw a link to this silly glam rock band here or on the blue, but I can't find now and it's driving me NUTS! [more inside]
posted by maryh on Apr 29, 2009 - 7 answers

Old Cartoon filter: Looking for "Kitchen of the Future" style parody cartoons. [more inside]
posted by toekneebullard on Apr 11, 2009 - 10 answers

My firm has just announced one-week furloughs for most employees. What struck me as odd was that the email included an attachment labelled "Activities". When I opened it, it was a list: "Top 20 Things to do While on Furlough". Examples:

* Clean out your garage and other storage places and hold a garage sale.
* Go hiking with your pet.
* Renew your library card.

It's like management is just begging to be parodized. Alas, I have not the comedy chops to do it well. Anyone want to suggest some good parody "activities" I could pursue whilst on furlough?
posted by zainsubani on Mar 27, 2009 - 46 answers

Subtitling that "Downfall" clip has been done to death. Are there any other great scenes from foreign films that are ripe for language interpretation? [more inside]
posted by Unsomnambulist on Mar 11, 2009 - 3 answers

Where can I find a copy of the Condensed Watchmen that was formerly found at scans_daily? [more inside]
posted by hindmost on Mar 9, 2009 - 1 answer

A few years ago, Amnesty International (I think) ran an awareness campaign about child soldiers by putting up posters about a summer camp where they could send their kids to be tortured, molested, beaten, and taught how to use rifles. Where is it? [more inside]
posted by Phire on Feb 16, 2009 - 2 answers

Bad Idea Jeans could easily be one of my favorite commercial parodies of all time. Did they exist in real life? Is the reference on the bottom of this page real? [more inside]
posted by namewithhe1d on Feb 2, 2009 - 8 answers

A friend is writing a play and needs profane and puerile nicknames for fast-food franchises for dialog between two wage-slave burnouts about past jobs. [more inside]
posted by porn in the woods on Dec 9, 2008 - 36 answers

I am trying to find a specific internet video from a few years ago. The video is a parody of a highly technical product promotional/sales company. There is one man in a suit explaining the company's production innovation, design, etc., as he stands in front of equipment racks. About half-way through, you begin to realize that it's all just technical gibberish. My google-fu is failing me.
posted by mdpc98 on Sep 29, 2008 - 7 answers

I'm trying to find a comic strip about A.N.W.A.R. drilling that I saw awhile back. (more inside) [more inside]
posted by Raichle on Jul 5, 2008 - 2 answers

SeattleFilter: What does "[t]his photo opportunity © Getty Images" mean? [more inside]
posted by saeculorum on Jun 21, 2008 - 14 answers

Do you know any fake James Bond title songs? [more inside]
posted by lord_yo on Apr 26, 2008 - 40 answers

I haven't watched The Simpsons regularly since about season 12 or 13, but in those episodes I did happen to catch on TV, I have never seen them directly attack President Bush. I do remember back in the 'golden age' they used to regularly poke fun at Clinton (to name but one example, Clinton playing the sax and Moe telling him to "get back to work"). I'm wondering if regular watchers of The Simpsons can point me to episodes from season 13 onwards where they did directly parody or attack Bush.
posted by Effigy2000 on Feb 14, 2008 - 19 answers

I'm looking for recommendations for fake science books, or humoristic books in the style of a science book. Examples: the Haggis-on-Whey books, or J.K. Rowling's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them". [more inside]
posted by easternblot on Jan 21, 2008 - 35 answers

Does anyone remember a short comic parody of objectivism using an archetypal 1950s character in the style of "Vault Boy" from Fallout? [more inside]
posted by brownpau on Nov 26, 2007 - 4 answers

Looking for a series of short Matthew McConaughey parodies I heard on the radio earlier in the year. [more inside]
posted by monkeybutt on Oct 24, 2007 - 2 answers

Does anyone know if a DVD copy of the 1996 movie "The Golden Boat" by Raoul Ruiz was ever made and if so, where it can be purchased?
posted by pazoozoo on Oct 4, 2007 - 1 answer

Is the Weekly World News satire, parody, something in between or something else entirely? And how does it compare to or contrast with other similar works of media such as The Onion?
posted by christopherious on Jul 30, 2007 - 17 answers

Books that imitate/parody/use-as-inspiration the story of Jesus? [more inside]
posted by deeper red on Jun 26, 2007 - 37 answers

I'm looking for the name of a series of parody classic science videos, in the style of what you used to watch in high school, but with complete nonsensical (science wise) content.
posted by defcom1 on Jun 6, 2007 - 6 answers

I want to find The Game of Life (Sucks). [more inside]
posted by greta simone on Feb 1, 2007 - 9 answers

Trying to find specific soft-drink ads played at movie theaters. They were spoofs on MTV hip-hop culture. [more inside]
posted by melt away on Nov 30, 2006 - 8 answers

Sometime within the last month, someone blogged a great parody of Aaron Sorkin's writing style, imagining a discussion between a pitcher and a catcher (or maybe a manager) conferring on the mound. [more inside]
posted by felix on Nov 16, 2006 - 11 answers

"No, I'm your husband." "No, shoot him! He's the imposter!" Where'd this come from? [more inside]
posted by papakwanz on Nov 5, 2006 - 27 answers

I'm looking to identify an Eighties rap song for a friend. The only problem is that we don't know any of the words and I'm only (maybe) familiar with it through an FM morning show type Parody (Vaguely recalled from my eighties childhood). Warning: May involve Reagan. [more inside]
posted by sourwookie on Oct 19, 2006 - 7 answers

A while back, a designer friend tipped me off to an amusing web site that appeared to be a high-end consulting/design firm. Upon further reading, it becomes clear that the site is a parody, filled with all sorts of (well written) buzzwords and nicely styled layouts. It's a parody of consulting/design sites, I guess. Hard to describe. I'm hoping, dear hive mind, that my NyQuil-tinted remembrance of this site is enough.
posted by Merdryn on Sep 14, 2006 - 7 answers

Anyone ever hear a hilarious radio special on the CBC called "Not the History of Rock and Roll"? There were two of these produced. I've heard Part 2, it's got really funny impersonations and faux interviews of David Byrne, Michael Jackson, James Brown and others. I'm trying to locate the first part. Anyone have an idea of where to find it?
posted by storybored on May 29, 2006 - 3 answers

Have you noticed anyone parodying Bill O'Reilly on TV? [more inside]
posted by gregb1007 on May 8, 2006 - 3 answers

Looking for parodies of Asian philosophy in Western Media... [more inside]
posted by GilloD on Apr 11, 2006 - 21 answers

SNL Skit. Barry Gibb Talk show. What Bee Gees song are they parodying? [more inside]
posted by filmgeek on Feb 25, 2006 - 6 answers

Who was Arte Johnson parodying with his "veeeery interesting" shtick on Laugh-In? [more inside]
posted by alumshubby on Nov 15, 2005 - 14 answers

A while ago, on my old site, I posted this parody of MeFi. (It was subsequently, um, noticed. Yeah, sorry about that.) I thought a fitting tribute would be to post it to my user page. As is plainly obvious, tis fux0red for I am not l33t. Or else, there's some sort of cotton-pickin' interference, as the anchor tags seem to be all kerfluuey. Help, pwease?
posted by solistrato on Sep 11, 2004 - 5 answers

I once found a site that had humourous movie scripts, abbreviated with snarky dialogue added in. Some of the scripts were brilliantly funny (The Matrix is one I remember in particular), and I can't for the life of me remember the name of the site and I don't have it bookmarked. I had thought the word abbreviated was in the title, but a google using that term and movie scripts didn't yield any results, neither did a lot of guesses about what I thought the site was called. Help?
posted by Cyrie on May 19, 2004 - 3 answers

I might want to post a picture of W Bush with a potentially inflammatory caption on my blog. Probably NOT a good idea for me to just grab an AP photo..? (Inside, dere is more.) [more inside]
posted by Shane on Mar 1, 2004 - 15 answers