Awesome Parodies

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.

Remember when TLC stood for The Learning Channel? Joel Haver and his friends Mitsy Sanderson and Ben Ball poke fun at just how inane their shows have become. After countless 90-Day Fiance variants, we wouldn’t be surprised if they made Before the Wall, The Wall: Happily Ever After, and The Sidewalk spin-offs.

The only thing the bears in those Charmin commercials seem to care about is how soft their toilet paper is. It turns out that there’s a reason behind their strange obsession – at least according to this hilariously weird video from Joel Haver, Droodle, and Daxflame.

(PG-13: Language) Do you want to know how to make your photographs look old-timey? Well, Aussie comedian Sam Campbell’s tutorial probably won’t help you much – especially because it requires the worst piece of 1990s photo editing software we’ve ever seen.

(PG-13: Language) Anyone who has had dealings in the real estate industry knows that there are a fair share of A-holes and D-bags in the business. Aunty Donna’s hilariously profane sketch is reserved especially for those real estate agents who have risen to the level of the C-word.

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

North Korea isn’t known for its sense of humor. But with a little nudge from There I Ruined It, The Central Military Band of the Korean People’s Army is forced into performing the Monty Python song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life from The Meaning of Life. Now try this with Every Sperm Is Sacred.

Do you need a better way to eat your spaghetti? How about a new way to dust your house? This off-kilter short film by Jared Lapidus pokes fun at those commercials for superfluous products and the people who need them. And then things really weird… and really dark.

The first couple of Resident Evil games were groundbreaking but also suffered from some of the wonkiest controls, cameras, and load screens in the history of video games. TikTok user lake_skywalker perfectly captures the gameplay of Resident Evil 2 if it was remade with real live characters.

OwlKitty envisions what James Cameron’s 1997 classic Titanic might have been like if Leonardo DiCaprio fell in love with Cat Winslet instead of Kate Winslet. Relive classic moments like the intimate portrait, the third-class dance, and flying on the ship’s bow. And we thought that cats didn’t like water.

Every Star Wars fan has heard of Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and Mace Windu. But Goat-on-a-Stick introduced us to one Jedi we’ve not come across before. His name is Jake. He’s only mastered a single Jedi skill but it’s more than enough to get by. We wonder if he’s the same Jake that works for State Farm.

Imagine, for a moment, that Hogwarts wasn’t a school of witchcraft and wizardry and instead taught its students computer coding and hacking. That’s what Alex Skor of Inventor Headquarters did when he reinvented the world of Harry Potter as a high-tech cyberpunk adventure, loaded with fun and geeky easter eggs.

Are you feeling stressed out? Perhaps you could use a little light reading material to help ease your tension. This parody kid’s book is filled with sensory pleasures like the fur on a soft puppy dog, a cozy warm blanket… and swearing like a truck driver.

The talented vocalists of Eclipse 6 put together this great holiday-themed parody of Hamilton which recasts the part of Alexander Hamilton with a similarly brilliant outsider who will someday guide Santa’s sleigh. This story has a much happier ending too. (Thanks, Rob!)