Awesome Parodies

(PG-13: Language) “At Omni, we care more about putting other apps out of business than we do about making a good, simple, useful app.” CollegeHumor pokes fun at bloated apps and services that keep adding functions in a bid to lock us in to their ecosystem.

2016 has been one cruel year, but it also gave us Dave Chappelle back on primetime. On his Saturday Night Live stint, the comedian parodied Negan’s infamous scene from The Walking Dead with the help of some old friends. Mirror here.

Screen Junkies rightfully delivers a beat down to Independence Day: Resurgence, a sequel that no one really wanted, and inevitably ended up being worse than we all thought it would be. Goldblum, you traitor.

(PG-13: Language) “Behind Every Great Host is a Great Guest.” Ryan Reynolds dropped by Conan‘s Apollo Theater special to promote edible underwear, a dolphin documentary, his fling with Coco and more. Or not. Roll the clip!

PNTGRM’s well-written unofficial Seinfeld retro visual novel casts Jerry and the gang as high school students in an anime world. Seinfeld observes George as the latter seeks his senpai’s approval, Elaine has a suitor, and Kramer does Kramer things.

We always thought the pipes in the Super Mario games just led to the sewer, but it turns out that they lead somewhere much, much darker, at least according to this short by Nukazooka, which could also be called Super Mario: The Upside-Down.

An all-around vlogger – make-up tutor, gadget reviewer and life hacker – thinks it would be nice if she got some damn appreciation from time to time. Communitychannel made a twisted parody of YouTubers for Halloween.

We’ve sat through our share of TED Talks, and while many of them are quite engaging and informative, there are certain patterns which have emerged over the years. This parody from CBC’s This is That sums up some of the cliches of seminars quite nicely.

Musician Seth Everman sat down at his synthesizer and decided to see if he could improvise the soundtrack for a generic Nintendo or SEGA game. The result? As one YouTube commenter put it: “Is this the leaked soundtrack for the next Zelda?”

There’s an app for just about everything, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few ideas yet to be executed. Mario and Fafa present a few concepts which they think should be made. We’re pretty sure U.S. presidential campaign writers are already using Wing Zingers.

(PG-13: Language) We know that in real life, Gordon Ramsay is a softie, but on TV, he can be a real a-hole. YouTuber Sam Wilber envisions a world in which Chef’s Hell’s Kitchen persona takes on the adorable kids on MasterChef Junior. Alexa, Season Pass, please.

Auralnauts reinvents the story of Star Wars in this mock trailer which stars C-3PO (or is it Creepio?) as the main protagonist, chopped up from bits of the original trilogy, prequels, and a commercial for breakfast cereal (which we still have a box of in the Awesomer office).

(PG-13) “You must close all 517 pop-ups using the office’s deadliest computer mouse!” Ever wondered what The Office would’ve been like if Michael Scott was a psychopathic puppet? Chris Capel did. Props for the top notch acting.

…or half of it, as least. The one man blockbuster factory dropped by The Late Late Show to recreate scenes from some of his most popular movies. Sadly, they skipped Magnolia to make time for freakin’ Jack Reacher. Oh well, at least Edge of Tomorrow is here.

Jeff Wysaski hit the Internet jackpot with his Obvious Plant parody signs. Now you can be an Obvious Planter with Jeff and Archie McPhee’s High Five This Sign. The book contains 23 tear-out signs that will lighten up your town’s poles.

“Can we please just get down from the mountain?” “Noooo.” Legolambs is back with another hilarious musical movie parody. This time they take on Cliffhanger, a movie where Stallone tries to make as many distinct pained expressions as possible.

“Aren’t all stormtroopers technically death troopers?” Your boy from far, far away is back with his reaction video to the final Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer. Watch as he slowly loses his temper at the inept Empire.

The evil spirit is left in its prison, Waller elects to call Batman instead of trusting people they didn’t trust enough to be free, and Captain Boomerang gets to do something. But to counter El Diablo’s point, a bomb isn’t “just fire”, you know?

YouTuber Aldo Jones spent about a month making the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer look freaky. Witness the Empire’s creepiest Star Destroyer, the Death Party Troopers, the Rebel soldier ALF and more.

“Where are your feathers? Where are your feathers? Why can’t you fly?” Bad Lip Reading turned this year’s already ridiculous first Presidential Debate into a game show. The Time to Act game is actually a decent idea.

The root crop of all evil. Nick Massey and Katrina Naficy spent months and 300 potatoes making this horror movie parody. It’s about a girl who summons an evil spirit that fills her life with potatoes. And the Oscar for Best Blood-curdling Scream goes to…

“Maybe if you take Hortiolis, the weather will change. But you know, it won’t.” There is no one-size-fits-all treatment for clinical depression. But as Cracked shows, antidepressant medicines are marketed in the US as if they were simple painkillers.

“People who think it’s stupid or unnecessary to have four cameras don’t understand… you can take one picture and you’ll have four of that same exact picture!” Nigahiga takes on the latest, slightly better iPhone with his prediction of where Apple will take things in 2017.