Awesome Parodies

“He was the best around. Nothing’s ever gonna keep him down.” To promote its second season, the YouTube Premium series Cobra Kai enlisted the help of ESPN and created this high quality parody of the sports networks’ 30 for 30 series for a recap of The Karate Kid.

Maybe we’re too old, but we’ve never really quite understood the fascination with watching gamers stream. But gaming isn’t the only thing you can broadcast from your desktop to build a fanbase, as spreadsheet guru Makro shows off in this hilarious parody.

Game of Thrones is coming to an end, and HBO will need some new programming to help pick up the slack after it’s gone. SNL decided to give the network some ideas for spin-offs, with a little help from guest host Kit Harington. We’d so tune in for that Arya show.

“Journey into the mind of a director who’s constantly journeying into his own mind.” Screen Junkies takes on the staples of a Tim Burton movie, such as big spooky mansions, fat and rich villains, pale characters looking for acceptance, revenge or both, and much more.

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Mix Black Panther, a ton of marine life and a sprinkling of Magic Mike and you get the new Aquaman. Screen Junkies pokes fun at the hit movie’s celebration of excess – excessive locations, excessive battles, excessive screaming and more more more.

There’s much buzz these days about the upcoming barrage of foldable smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X. Squirrel Monkey’s latest retro tech video imagines what these phones might have been like some 20 years ago.

Reddit newbie MaggieePearl asked her boyfriend Jason Velasquez for advice on how to best interact with the unforgiving world of the link-sharing platform, and rather than just walk her through a few tips on Reddit etiquette, he made this video instead.

The Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America is the perfect reference book for identifying our flying friends (and enemies). It features 50 snarky descriptions of annoying, dumb, and stupid looking avians you might find in your backyard.

How It Should Have Ended points out the plot holes and Kingpin’s dumb mistakes in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Seriously, how does nobody know that Kingpin dies to bullets?! Also, Batman gets jealous that the Spideys got to hang out.

After watching the short film Water Closet this week, we’ve got another cautionary tale about using public bathrooms. SNL’s hilariously weird sketch is a Willy Wonka-esque tale of a young man who visits a particularly nasty toilet.

Sure, BloodBlitz cheated by adding some blood and explosions, but for the most part their Toy Story gone evil trailer parody is made from actual footage from the classic Pixar franchise. Seriously, Babyface is the stuff of nightmares.

(PG-13: Language) Screen Junkies pokes fun at this year’s Academy Award nominees and the controversies revolving the ceremony itself. Take your pick from movies with lessons that are obvious yet still unheeded. And Black Panther. Yes it deserves to be there, so stop it.

There’s nothing worse than walking into your house to discover a cockroach doing push-ups on the carpet. But the roaches in this SNL commercial parody are even more of a nuisance than in real-life. Don Cheadle seems to enjoy playing slimy vermin these days.

ArtSpear Entertainment twists what we’ve seen of the Captain Marvel movie so far and gives us a different kind of hero. One who’s aware that she’s the center of the movie, and has lethal cosmic blasts coming out of her hands. Yeah this one’s no hero at all.

Clearly inspired by SNL’s Weekend Update, SYFY’s new series features up-to-the-minute commentary on news of the world, as interpreted by a couple of aliens who don’t understand what the deal is with the human race. Premieres 2/27/19.

Nora Ephron’s 1998 film You’ve Got Mail is regarded as one of the best romantic comedies of the ’90s. But as Wisecrack points out, there’s more to the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan flick than meets the eye, and it has more in common with Orwell’s 1984 than you’d think.

(SPOILERS) How It Should Have Ended plugs up the Aquaman movie’s loopholes and points out the problem of having an origin story after the hero has already joined a super team. Because Superman is the answer to everything.

Screen Junkies skewers Netflix’s adaptation of the sci-fi thriller novel Bird Box. Watch and laugh at the emotionally abusive mom, the long cliché setup, the bad guys who have vague abilities, and that freakin’ impossible boat ride.

What’s more horrifying than The Horde’s carnivorous The Beast? How about a weatherman with an IQ of 48 who loves lamps and can summon a trident? Funny or Die is onto something with this Anchorman and Glass mashup.

(PG-13: Language) “Before that.” Comedy duo BriTANicK come out of their online hibernation to give us a skit about a wise detective and a client who turns out to have astounding memory under pressure. The latter needs to work on his parody skills though.

They Shoot It AND Edit It! Portland commercial production company Droptree pitches their services in a hilarious way – instead of a traditional showreel, they shot an infomercial packed with every cliché in the book. Be sure to check out their Angelfire website too.

Chris and Jack poke fun at a sci-fi/horror trope, as a dangerous alien creature hides within one member of their exploration crew, and the leader decides it’s a good idea to do try old blood test method from The Thing… but not everyone agrees with his methodology.