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The 1 Up Fever (2013), mockumentary about Bitcoin and augmented reality video games.; 2gether (2000), spoof of boy bands like N*Sync and The Backstreet Boys.; 7 Days in Hell (2015), a fictional documentary-style exposé on the rivalry between two of the greatest tennis players of all time who battled it out in a 2001 match that lasted seven days.
The first film parody was The Little Train Robbery (1905), which makes fun of The Great Train Robbery (1903), in part by using an all-child cast for the Western spoof. Historically, when a genre formula grows tired, as in the case of the moralistic melodramas in the 1910s, it retains value only as a parody, as demonstrated by Buster Keaton ...
This is a list of Honest Trailers episodes which have been published on YouTube by Screen Junkies. The series, created in 2012, consists of parodic movie trailers. It has been viewed more than 300 million times. [1]
The series later spun off a feature film sequel, The Nude Bomb, a TV-movie, Get Smart Again, and a short-lived mid-1990s TV series revival. It was later adapted as an eponymous 2008 movie . Don Adams also voiced the title character in Inspector Gadget , an animated Get Smart parody television series.
Many parodies end with the abrupt deus ex machina appearance of outside characters or pop culture figures who are similar in nature to the movie or TV series being parodied, or who comment satirically on the theme. For example, Dr. Phil arrives to counsel the Desperate Housewives, or the cast of Sex and the City show up as the new hookers on ...
[1] (However, that was actually Mad's second movie parody; the first had been Ping Pong three issues earlier.) Almost all of the parodies are of a single, particular film. However, Mad has occasionally done omnibus parodies of film series, such as the James Bond movies, the 1970s Planet of the Apes sequels, and the Twilight Saga movies. It has ...
Entertainment Weekly voted the film the "funniest movie on video" in their list of the 100 funniest movies on video. [ 52 ] A number of actors were cast to spoof their established images: prior to their roles in Airplane! , Nielsen, Stack, and Bridges were known for portraying adventurous, no-nonsense tough-guy characters.
Five further specials, including spoofs on the films Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Love Actually, were broadcast from 1999 to 2003, before the sixth and final series in 2004, and an additional Christmas special in 2005. Forty-eight episodes (not including the compilation episodes) were broadcast between 1987 and 2005.