Awesome Parodies

…aka Square’s checklist. We grew up with JRPGs, but as CollegeHumor points out we could do without a lot of their tropes, from the convoluted storyline to the final boss. Also, we heard a rumor that monsters are coming back.

(PG-13 Language) “Uncaged, Unaccountable, F**ked Up.” The Onion takes on Vice with a parody of their hardcore, no holds barred, cinema verité style of journalism. The series premieres 8/3/15, and is sure to be packed with F-bombs.

In Zamboni Grenade’s skit, a burglar tries to use chloroform on his victim, only to find out that it’s not like in the movies where the compound can knock someone out within seconds. But he’s got time.

“Because water is free. And freedom should flow like water.” Meet the Timmy Brothers. They are passionate about handcrafting water. Paul Riccio pokes fun at the hipsters who ruined the word “artisan” and sound worse than PR robots.

A deli in Brooklyn, NY is being forced out of the neighborhood by a 250% rent increase. To help their neighbor, Douglas Cameron and Tommy Noonan made a parody ad campaign showing the store’s items at 250% their actual prices.

Sad Hill Productions parodies the classic Mexican standoff from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, but with Han Solo, Boba Fett and Greedo in place of Eastwood, Van Cleef and Wallach. Place your bets as to who shoots first.

(PG-13 Language) Seeing that just about everything else on Earth has been reviewed or unboxed, Fitsthislewits decided that the good old board game of chess had yet to be covered. Sadly, we think he has a few of his facts wrong.

(PG-13 Language) It happens to all of us who use Facebook. We see that it’s a friend’s birthday and try to post something that someone else hasn’t already said. CollegeHumor envisions how this would work in the real world.

(PG-13 Language) Videogamedunkey can’t enjoy his new online membership until he figures out the website’s anti-spam riddle. But this is no ordinary Captcha. Brace yourselves. This is more intense than an entire season of 24.

How It Should Have Ended knows how Idiots vs. Dinosaurs should’ve ended: badly. So if you somehow end up in a dinosaur park, follow these tips. You’ll probably die anyway, but at least you won’t be remembered as a moron.

BBC gave their fans at the San Diego Comic-Con a bit of fan service featuring Orphan Black‘s Alison and Donnie Hendrix. They were presented in three hilarious themed montages: a sitcom, a horror flick and a Spanish soap opera.

Inside Amy Schumer imagines an on-call emergency service that will listen attentively to anything you want to talk about. Well, almost anything. We wouldn’t be surprised if this becomes a real thing.

(PG-13 Language) Looks like Inside Out destroyed CollegeHumor’s hearts. Here’s what they think the next round of Pixar movies will be like based on what they saw from the Disney studio’s latest movie.

Nacho Punch parodies Magic Mike and shows us something rarer than a ripped Romeo. It’s not a guy taking off his clothes while dancing, but a guy who’ll go with you to watch a movie about a guy taking off his clothes while dancing.

(PG-13 language) Mascha Halberstad’s stop-motion animated short pokes fun at the overdone style of big budget Hollywood trailers, though in this case, there’s a slight mismatch between the hyperbole and the hero of the film.

Adult Swim joins in on the Shia LeBeouf motivational speech memefest by mashing up Shia’s intense delivery with Dragon Ball, Attack on Titan, Kill La Kill and other anime in Toonami.

Illustrator Marco D’Alfonso pokes fun at the horrible Batman & Robin and its nippled suits by mashing it up with Rolling Stone‘s infamous Janet Jackson magazine cover. The poster measures 11″x 14.5″ and has a 0.25″ border for framing.

When Arnold said “I’ll be back,” he didn’t ever say where he was going, or how long he’d be gone. ADHD sets the record straight on where this T-800 went when he went off screen. Terminatin’ is exhausting business after all.

Margaret Cho and her all-female writing staff cover every base in sexism and have fun flipping the script on gender inequality, as they take over Hollywood and the entertainment industry in this rather biting video from Funny or Die.

(PG-13 Lyrics) We Did It! ruins the glory of those compilations of people doing awesome stuff by juxtaposing them with a reality check. But the truth is, we need Steve. He’s the floor with which we measure how high we can go.

Once there was a boy who had no name… He couldn’t sleep, and that was a shame. Author Chuck Palahniuk pokes fun at his darkly satirical novel Fight Club with a softened up version targeted at his aging audience and their kids.

After pointing out what Ultron should have done in Avengers: Age of Ultron, How It Should Have Ended demonstrates how the heroes could have made their lives easier, if time and licensing (and stupidity) were not issues.

Capt. Picard and the NCC-1701-D fight Darth Vader and the Death Star in a battle to determine who’s dorkier. Is it the jargon-spewing slumber party or the cult of rave toys? All we know is we wish there was a Star Riker show.