Awesome Parodies

(PG-13: Language) We’re always spellbound by the show How it’s Made. In this video from Jerk Circle, we learn about the little-known sandwich cookie disassembly plant, which breaks down excess cookies into raw materials, producing one-half the flour consumed in the U.S. Or not.

One of Conan’s running gags involves editing Alex Trebek’s lines from Jeopardy! to make him sound like an incoherent madman. The 73-year old invaded Team Coco’s turf to give Conan a taste of his own medicine.

Ok, the fact that Mario Wienerroither’s latest Musicless Music Video actually has drums and a guitar in it makes it a bit of a misnomer. But we still enjoyed the even more deconstructed than usual take on The White Stripes in this clip.

CollegeHumor pokes fun at the whole anti-Photoshop movement in this clip which shows us what a sexy model actually looks like before she is embellished with Adobe’s powerful, but often reality-distorting image editing tool.

(SPOILERS) True Detective is second only to Breaking Bad on IMDB’s ratings. An amazing feat, especially when you consider that its characters frequently spout occult metaphors in a Southern drawl. Catchy catchy bing bong.

“New research indicates that your brain got broken and you shouldn’t have done this.” The Onion stokes the stoner’s paranoia with this hilarious skit. The fun doesn’t stop here: their site has several slightly different versions of the clip.

Yes, we wish they would stop calling these “8-bit” too, but that doesn’t make 16-bit version of David Fincher’s Fight Club, visualized as a side-scroller beat-em-up any less awesome. Bonus points for the penguin level.

We don’t remember the quality being this bad on our TVs in 1995, buy we still laughed at this parody of Game of Thrones done in the style of shows like Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and especially Highlander.

In this sketch from the 2014 Spirit Awards, Patton Oswalt and 5SecondFilms simultaneously poked fun at the stripped-down style and pretension of some independent films, hipsters and crowdsourcing sites like Kickstarter.

The tale of an orphan who became a warrior, pioneer and worthy representative of his race. YouTuber doubleg1701 presents some memorable clips of Star Trek’s Worf over Kanye West’s Ridged Forehead Black Skinhead.

“Half-man. Half-undead. All hero.” YouTuber veselekov imagines what a late 80s Dark Souls II cartoon might look like. Protector 101’s Cleaning Up the Streets and Zero Call’s Battle of Young match the campy animation perfectly.

(NSFW: Language, Sbroilers) Collegehumor takes what should be a shallow joke – Oscars for frat bros – and runs with it. Find out which movie characters bros think they can beat in a fight, what makes them mad sad and more.

Investigation Discovery investigates and discovers a series of horrific murders carried out by the most obvious killer of all time. We wanted to laugh more, but were too busy being creeped out by Jim Parsons as the serial killer. Bazinga!

CGI Chuck Norris trumped JCVD’s real world epic split. YouTuber Linh Mai is here to even the score. The next time you look at the calm, peaceful and star-filled night sky, you won’t be able to stop yourself from chuckling.

(NSFW: Language) CollegeHumor imagines – or perhaps they were ordered to imagine – a local commercial for the recent Winter Olympics starring Russian President Vladimir Putin, sweaty gold and DJ Snowden.

While Pixar didn’t have any films worthy of an Oscar nod this year, artist Todd Spence decided to convert some of the years most acclaimed flicks into Pixar movies instead. More on Break. The Gravity one is our fave.

(NSFW: Language) Rodrigo Huerta aka El-Cid and Hans Van Harken made this hilarious and polished mashup of Spongebob Squarepants and the Watchmen movie. Patrick Star as The Comedian is freakin’ genius.

Universities – where nothing is guaranteed save for debt. We usually can’t sit all the way through Ryan Higa’s hyperactive skits, but he really hit the nail on the head with this one. Formal education needs a massive overhaul.

Jimmy Fallon revisits his real-life Twitter conversation skit. This time he goes catchphrase crazy with Jonah Hill. Their back and forth quickly escalates when they turn into human hyperlinks until they’re abruptly shut down.

The Onion suggests a new plan for Netflix users. For just $5 a month, you’ll be able to skim through Netflix’s library, judge what to watch by the posters, then never actually watch anything. It’s channel surfing 2.0.

Street Fighter Ryu (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) must meet with standards and practices before he can dish out his Shoryukens and Hadoukens. Another hilarious sketch from The Pete Holmes Show. BTW, it’s Tatsumaki Senpukyaku! We think.

Screen Junkies pokes fun at Alfonso Cuarón’s space opus, reminding us of the of suspension of disbelief and iron stomach required to watch the film, as well as the less than thrilling experience that awaits us when we watch it at home.

Dorkly uses the force of hindsight and imagines how Obi Wan Kenobi handed over baby Luke Skywalker to Uncle Owen. And we call Obi Wan the “Negotiator.” You should’ve left Luke with the muppet!