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Stargate SG-1 had several episodes mocking itself and the sci-fi genre. Wormhole X-Treme!, 100th episode with a show-within-a-show which is a parody of itself. Stargate SG-1: The Lowdown, a behind the scenes look ahead of the seventh season, proceeded the premiere of Fallen (Stargate SG-1) 200, 200th episode with many imagined storylines of ...
"Word Crimes" is a song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic from his fourteenth studio album, Mandatory Fun (2014). The song is a parody of the 2013 single "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke, featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I.
In the parody, the villain can be a bumbling, over-important, arrogant fool himself. Much is made of the use of innovative gadgetry, which the protagonist uses to his advantage. The main villain is sometimes completely unseen behind a chair with a menacing voice, smoking, drinking or stroking a cat. Humour is an important component of this genre.
HIP HOP (55A: Little Simz's genre) Little Simz is an English HIP HOP artist. Her 2021 album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (2021) won the Mercury Prize, which honors the best album from a musical ...
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 ...
Spoof/Parody Humorous Recreation of a book, film or play, either to pay homage or to ridicule the original Mel Brooks , Joe Alaskey , French and Saunders , Mitchell and Webb , I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue , Dom Joly , Peter Serafinowicz , Weird Al Yankovic , Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker ; Films and TV shows: Airplane! , Family Guy , Shriek , Look ...
The plot is a broad parody or spoof of the traditional country-house whodunit, familiar to mystery fiction fans of classics such as Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. The cast is an ensemble of British and American actors playing send-ups of well-known fictional sleuths, including Hercule Poirot , Miss Marple , Charlie Chan , Nick and ...
Casino Royale is a 1967 spy parody film originally distributed by Columbia Pictures. It is loosely based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming; the first novel to feature the character James Bond. The film stars David Niven as the "original" Bond, Sir James Bond 007.