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" The song itself is a response to and parody of "Download This Song" by MC Lars. It is also a spoof of the ending song during the credits on Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star with all the former child stars. [3] "Don't Wear Those Shoes" Polka Party! (1986) Original, although the intro is in the style of The Kinks' "Father Christmas". [1]
"Craigslist" is a song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a style parody of the Doors, and contains lyrics inspired by postings at the online classified advertising service, Craigslist. [1] Yankovic described the idea of the song coming about thinking how it would be "anachronistically weird" for Jim Morrison to scream about ...
"Couch Potato" is a parody song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of the Academy Award winning song " Lose Yourself " by Eminem . In it, the narrator details his obsession with watching television and the television shows he watches.
One of Foxx’s best sketches was a parody of Sir-Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back.” “Baby Got Snacks” doubled down on the original song’s embrace of women with curves to hilarious extremes.
The song is a parody sung in the style of Bob Dylan, and all of the lyrics are palindromes as is the title. [2] [3] [4] For example, the song's first line is "I, man, am regal—a German am I", which reads the same when reversed. [5] [6] [7] The song did not chart at the time of its release, but later became the subject of critical and ...
A voting system of 1 (worst) to 5 (best) enables readers to vote on how well it matches the pacing of the original song, how funny it is and its overall score. A 555 is a perfect score meaning the parody should be read by everyone while a 111 score means the parody is not funny, does not match the pacing and is pretty much pointless.
This record is a parody of the 1975 summer blockbuster film Jaws, with Goodman interviewing the shark (whom he calls "Mr. Jaws"), as well as the film's main characters, Brody, Hooper, and Quint. Goodman makes full use of his practice of "break-in" music sampling, in which all of the interview answers are lyrics from popular songs from that year.
This song is heavily referenced in a Funny or Die skit featuring Huey Lewis and Yankovic, spoofing the movie American Psycho (2000). In the original movie, there is a scene in which Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) gives a critique of the Huey Lewis and the News song "Hip to Be Square" to an intoxicated Paul Allen (), before he brutally murders him with an axe.