Awesome Parodies

Have you had it up to here with being asked to tip for every little thing? KurtToons pokes fun at America’s out-of-control tipping culture with a parody of what life is like now that self-checkouts are asking us for tips, too. How about big companies just pay employees a living wage so we can stop this madness?

In this animated short film by Job, Joris & Marieke, a narcissistic social media influencer suddenly becomes invisible and loses the one thing he values more than anything – the ability to garner attention based on his appearance. It’s a funny but sad look of the shallow nature of social media. In Dutch with English subtitles.

“Your father is dead, young Tampax!” Comedian and actor Alasdair Beckett-King pokes fun at some common tropes in fantasy films. He kicks things off with the start of the journey for our hero – including the thinly veiled exposition and the seemingly endless list of characters you’ll need to memorize for the story to make sense.

Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon wouldn’t exist without Star Wars. In fact, it started out as a script he pitched to Lucasfilm. But what if the filmmaker got to make an actual Star Wars movie? Auralnauts pokes fun at Snyder’s tendency to drag things out with slow-motion, grandiose music, and gloomy color filters with the unofficial Snyder cut of A New Hope.

Ridesharing apps like Uber and Lyft can be very convenient. However, since they started more than a decade ago, they’ve also been mired in problems because of unskilled drivers, legal issues, and rising costs. Honest Ads offers their predictably cynical take on these services and the issues they’ve created for nearly everyone except their shareholders.

Leslie Nielsen appeared in dozens of serious roles before hitting his comedy groove with the Airplane and Naked Gun series. This hilarious edit from Your_Kryptonite7 envisions what might have happened if the slapstick straight man turned up in the Star Wars saga. His brief showdown with Yoda and his speech to the Galactic Senate are our favorite moments.

Trailers are carefully edited to get people hyped about upcoming movies. But Daniel Thrasher has a theory that it’s all about the action and never about the dialogue. To prove his point, he edited himself into various trailers and said some totally random stuff. It helps that he spoke with conviction, of course.

We’ve been known to drop a little cash at the tables and the occasional slot machine in Vegas, but we also recognize that the house always wins. Honest Ads dishes out the harsh reality of the psychological manipulation and mathematical advantages at play in these billion-dollar gambling establishments.

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon movie looks pretty epic. But we think it could be even better if they swapped out Joaquin Phoenix’s Napoleon with the version from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. YouTuber Dogfoody brings that idea to life with this special Ziggy Piggy edition of the trailer. At least this Napoleon has a French accent.

These days, you can stream movies at home on a big TV in 4K resolution with high-quality sound, all while being able to pause the movie to get up and go to the bathroom. But movie theaters still exist for some reason. Honest Ads offers a short promo video explaining all of the benefits, including sticky floors and ridiculously overpriced concessions.

Time travel movies are unrealistic in many ways – not the least of which is time travel is impossible. In this video, comedian Alasdair Beckett-King points out another major problem that most science fiction movies neglect to address – one that would quickly spell disaster for their protagonists.

Early science fiction movies weren’t exactly deep or thoughtful. Comedian Alasdair Beckett-King pokes fun at the clichés of the genre, including thinly-veiled political messages, primitive special effects, low-budget props, stilted dialogue, and rampant sexism.

A24 is the studio behind such dark and intense movies as Midsommar, Men, and The Lighthouse. Imagine what might happen if the indie studio released Mike Myers’ bizarre live-action version of Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat. It might look something like this terrifying horror edit from YourMovieSucksDOTorg.

With the success of The Last of Us, HBO has proven that video games can be turned into quality television programming. During his guest spot on Saturday Night Live, TLOU star Pedro Pascal joined the cast of another famous video game franchise turned prestige TV drama, with a little help from Nintendo.

There I Ruined It is back to demolish another popular song – this time taking on Lady Gaga’s hit song Poker Face, and transforming it into something straight out of Texas in the 1940s. If you’re into steel guitar, fiddle, and jangly old pianos, this one is for you.

All of the intrigue, none of the foolishness. Saturday Night Live roasts The White Lotus. In this universe, the resort is operated by a black and latino staff, and they’re not taking any crap from the whiny, entitled guests. We had to watch it twice before we realized that guest host Aubrey Plaza was even in the sketch.

Filmmaker Davy Force was commissioned to make a series of TV commercials from the future for the video game Journey to the Savage Planet. He’s compiled a video of some of these ridiculous ads, which are like a live-action version of Rick and Morty’s Interdimensional Cable. Some days we could really a pack of Brain Wipes.

With hits like White and Nerdy, Amish Paradise, and Like a Surgeon to his name, “Weird Al” Yankovic is considered by many to be the greatest novelty song creator of all time. Al breaks down his most iconic tracks in this GQ interview video, which reveals a far more accurate history of his career than his biopic.

Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, there’s been a newfound interest in alternative social media platforms. One of the more popular has been the decentralized Mastodon. Squirrel Monkey imagines what it might have been like if you had to install the service using 3.5″ floppy disks. Funny thing is, there’s a Mastodon DOS client.

(Spoilers) Since Andor takes place a few years before 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV, it only stands to reason that the TV series should have come out in the mid-1970s. Auralnauts created this retro-style TV intro based on the Disney+ show about the reluctant hero who would rise to become a hero of the Rebellion.

RPGs and fantasy movies often send their characters on a quest for a mythical object. The Minute Hour and animator slouch take a jab at the trope with a cartoon about a man and his quest to capture an orb that possesses such mysterious powers that even we shall not understand them by the end of the video.

We’ve always enjoyed learning about science and nature from Kurzgesagt. They explain all kinds of theoretical events and technologies with an authoritative voice. SilentSushi edited together some random bits and pieces from their videos which make absolutely no sense when taken out of context. And then there’s this video.

(PG-13: Language) Conversations between humans and aliens date back to the very first Star Wars movie. This hilarious comedy sketch from Wizards with Guns pokes fun at the trope by imagining what might happen if one of those creatures spoke a language nobody could understand without reading the subtitles.