Parodies Galore!

Ricky and Brandon discuss their favorite parodies in anticipation for the new Scary Movie. They delve into why they don't seem to exist as much anymore and what they would like to see get parodied in the future. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:19

Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Mother Film Podcast. We are the sires of satire, the lauders of laughter, the havers of haha's. My name is Brandon, and with me as always is Ricky. Ricky, how are you today?

SPEAKER_03 0:40

Doing pretty well. You know, a parody, more like pair of D's. Oh, well, as you see good night, everybody.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Because we're not topping that joke. Uh yeah, we we took a week off. Ricky, uh, how were you last week? Did you did you do okay without the podcast?

SPEAKER_03 1:06

Yeah, man. I I got my uh coworkers like just constantly like so I got two of them, and um, they're like, you know, competing on who's our biggest fan. Um they were just uh Yeah, they um they have been dying. Yeah, yeah, they've been dying for uh the this episode.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

So I noticed you're missing an arm. Is that because they tore it off saying bring another episode back next week or else?

SPEAKER_03 1:34

Please don't give them any ideas. Um yeah, like uh let's not they are freaks, I tell you.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

Got us they are lovely, but they are freaks. I am glad that they are listening, and we have such a dedicated fan base so soon. That they are willing to tear you limb from our rank.

SPEAKER_03 1:58

Willing to murder me for more content.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

I you know what that would be the ideal peak, is I would love it if someone eventually murdered me, like John Lennon style, because they were just obsessed with me. I think that's ideal.

SPEAKER_03 2:12

So that's like the way you want to go out?

SPEAKER_01 2:16

Yeah, no, 100%.

SPEAKER_03 2:18

I mean shit. I could I could just make that happen, like, you know, it's just like show up, like what's up.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

No, but it ha it has to mean something, right? It ha I have to put out some episodes, we have to put out like a bunch of episodes where someone's gonna listen to it.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Completely misconstrue the message, but be like, if I don't kill Brandon, then I'm not a real fan. And I as much as I'd hate to die, I think that'd be the best way to go out, you know? From a a sort of loved one. I mean, they love me, I don't know who they are.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

Um I'm trying to like. Yeah, like like I I guess um it's like I would like, you know, as long as we're like famous. Like if we're like yeah, like if we're like so s well, successful, you know. Sure.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

Yeah, like so that's true, that's true. If we only have like a hundred subscribers and then I get murdered, yeah, it's like, oh man. I mean it feels more culty.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

Yeah, like this person did love you, but it's like, you know, nobody cares.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

Like yeah, if we only had a hundred subscribers and then I got murdered by a fan, then it feels like I kind of was asking for it. You know what I mean? Like we didn't have enough.

SPEAKER_03 3:30

To all the the sickos out there who are like listening, like you can't do it yet. No.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

Not yet.

SPEAKER_03 3:36

Yeah, we will tell you when it's okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:39

Exactly. Yeah. So if you want to murder me because you're such a big fan of me, you need to start tweeting about the show. You need to uh get get a bigger fan base. Exactly. Once we start getting sponsors and uh you know, just having millions of followers, then you can murder me because then it's impactful. Yes. That's that's what I want to get across.

SPEAKER_03 4:01

Yeah, and also like make sure that I can like cover the show without you. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Because like I'm I'm not getting murdered, like in this.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Yeah, no, not no, of course. Would you would you replace me? Yeah. Or do you think you would do like AI thing? Or would you solo it?

SPEAKER_03 4:19

Uh we'll we'll across that that that bridge when we come to it.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

A lot of options to choose from. The possibilities are endless.

SPEAKER_02 4:31

What if I got your murderer to replace you? Oh snap.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Oh man, that's like that's like a true like power dynamic thing. It's like you kill me and gain my powers.

SPEAKER_03 4:43

But it's like shit, dude, because like he would he would have to do it from prison, or it's like this meant so little that he wasn't even like convicted. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 5:00

Which that would hurt my feelings. Yeah. That would that would very much hurt my feelings if someone murdered me, and they're just like, whatever, man. Like, oh no, a snarky white guy died.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

Oh it would be be great if like someone was like planning this and they listened to this and they're like, geez, it's so complicated. Forget it. Maybe someone says go.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

Too many rules.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

This is 100% getting played at the trial. Oh, oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. Um, oh well, it in the week that I was gone, I saw two movies. Uh, I did text you that I saw Michael, um, and I figured we might as well finish up that so we predicted that it was gonna be bland and boring, but make lots of money, and then we followed up by saying that was correct, and I did get to see it, and yep, it is a bland by the numbers movie, takes no risks, uh, though I do believe I did text you right as soon as it started that um I was surprised that they opened up with Michael Jackson Bluey Kid, which I thought was very funny.

SPEAKER_03 6:03

I uh because like my my uh co-workers have seen it and they they enjoyed it, and I told them, and they were like uh uh the one like gave me like like a look like oh, oh god, no. Yeah. When I told him that uh joke. It's like it's a trope, you know.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

Yeah. Well then because then I saw the Devil Wars Prada 2 and I texted you, man. I'm really surprised that this movie started off also with Michael Jackson blowing it. And then we I think you just respond with Hollywood has no ideas left.

SPEAKER_04 6:40

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

Same old, same old. Uh Devil Wars Prada 2, pretty good. Uh it's still fun. Uh first one's significantly better, but yeah, I was happy I saw the second one. Second one's still fun. Um I did want to uh point out that in the Michael movie it does end with like an Avenger style ending where it's like his story continues in the sequel. So like there's going to be a Michael Jackson 2 movie, which not a chance they address anything in that one, but I st it's still I audibly laughed when they finished with his story continues, which I believe was the name of one of his like compilation albums or maybe one of his last albums, but it still was very silly that it got like a tease for a sequel.

SPEAKER_03 7:29

Yeah. I mean, I I think I told you like you know, cause it made so much money, like it makes sense. It's just like I don't w where does the first one end? Like what time period?

SPEAKER_01 7:49

I believe it is 93. I believe it's like I I could be wrong. It was either late 80s or like early 90s, it's him d just doing a final tour with the Jackson 5. Um which I think it said late 80s or early 90s. Or no, it no, that's right, it ends twice. There's two endings basically, because it does like the Jackson 5 final concert, and then it cuts to like the 90s where it's him doing another concert by himself, and you just go, You did the exact same scene back to back. It's just the next scene is him being solo instead of with his brothers. So there's not a lot in that movie at all. There's also a CGI monkey, which that was insane.

SPEAKER_03 8:36

Yeah, I think my my biggest thing with it was the fact that Jafar Jackson was playing him. It's like you have a d direct family relation to him. They're not yet gonna go like very dark with it. It's gonna be like cause like the family involvement's pretty high.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

So the yeah, all the producer credits was every single Jackson, except Janet, who's not in the movie at all. She actually asked not to be involved in the film. But I remember watching it, going like, where's Janet Jackson? Like, did they just ignore that she exists? And no, she was she said, Nah, I'm not interested. But that I think that's enough of uh of our top of the show. Ricky, I think we need to get into our subject today. What are we talking about today?

SPEAKER_03 9:26

Well, as my wonderful joke uh alluded to, um, we are talking about it.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

I assume I assume they just stopped laughing from that first. This is great. Yeah, the standards done.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

Um yeah, we are talking parody films.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

That's right. And now, when I was researching parody films, one of the interesting things that I came across is that there's a lot of loose definitions for parody. Have you did you come across this too?

SPEAKER_03 9:58

I was like right before we we started, because I hadn't looked up any like rankings or anything, but I was like, but I wanted to like look it up to like see if there were any big ones that I was for forgetting, and I found some where I was like, oh yeah, I mean that that is like but there were like some that were listed that I was like I don't view this as a parody.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

Yeah, I saw uh one thing stated the Barbie movie was considered a parody, and I was thinking like parody of what? Like I think there's there's satire in it for sure, but just because it's using the Mattel toys, it's not like they're parodying the toys. I mean it gets very loosely. I don't consider it a parody film.

SPEAKER_03 10:44

No, and and that was also another thought I had is like satire versus parody.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:50

So like one of the uh big ones um that I found in like this ranking that I saw was Tropic Thunder. Yeah, that got brought up a lot.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

And they do parody movie trailers at the beginning, but that's all I would consider.

SPEAKER_03 11:02

I mean, you could say it's like I mean, I guess they say it's parodying war films, but I don't think of it as a parody like my definition.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

No, I I don't think of it as a when I think of like a parody of a war film, that that doesn't really pop into my head. Like, if anything, it's more of a satire on Hollywood. Yep. But yeah, I I saw that one quite a bit too, and it never struck me as parody. So my my kind of categories for parody were either genre parodies or very direct parodies. So genre parodies, things like uh The Naked Gun, not another teen movie, uh Hot Fuzz, kind of parodying like the cop drama movies.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

That was one that I was shocked that I didn't think of, that I had just thought of that I just found from um the the Alist. I was like, oh yeah, Hot Fuzz and Sean of the Dead are both parodies. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Yeah, both really good parodies. And I I would consider them more genre style, where like they might be parroting some specific things, like for example, Hot Fuzz, they do the point break, you know, shoot in the air, but like the actual plot, beat for beat, they're not really parodying anything in particular, as far as I'm aware. Uh same with Sean of the Dead, there's a thousand zombie movies, so you could loosely go, Oh, maybe he's parodying Dawn of the Dead with a title, but that's more or less where that comparison ends. Um, but then you have movies that are more specific parodies, so anything Mel Brooks, so Space Balls being a parody of Star Wars. Um, you have Austin Powers being a parody of James Bond, obviously not Mel Brooks, I'm changing thought. Um Walk Hard kind of blends because it is obviously trying to be uh walk the line, but also parodying every movie music biopic ever. And we'll talk about it because I re-watched it, and my god, is it still strong? And then, of course, you have stuff like the scary movies, which is why we're doing this, because the new scary movie is coming out, I believe, this Friday, correct?

SPEAKER_03 13:03

Today, as a recording, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Ah, see. And yeah, and then of course, that franchise generally it was it probably focused more so on Scream in the first one, if I remember correctly. But you know, it also did the I Know What You Did last Summers, and then like as two and three came on, they did like The Ring, The Grudge, Eight Mile even got parodied in the third one, which is not a horror film, but still has a good fun bit. Uh Ricky, what are some of your favorite parodies?

SPEAKER_03 13:36

So, um, I think I have a clear-cut number one that could possibly be the funniest movie ever made to me.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

Can can I guess? Yeah. Is it Airplane? It is. Yeah, I rewatched it. Like it's it still holds up really well.

SPEAKER_03 13:56

Like, I think I rewatched it a couple times last year, and it's just like, yeah, it's just so damn strong.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

So uh I didn't know this because in my mind I always thought Airplane was just a parody of general disaster films, but apparently it is a parody of a specific movie or two, actually. I believe it's Airport and Zero Hour, which you have to pronounce that way because it has an exclamation mark.

SPEAKER_03 14:19

Yep, it's um that is like the uh main thing is the airport um movies.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

Yeah. I I watched a side-by-side comparison, and they really do take lines straight from that movie and say them the exact same way, and then just add like a little joke or just the funny background gag. What are some of your favorite jokes in Airplane? Because I could talk about this movie forever.

SPEAKER_03 14:43

Um there's like uh just Leslie Nielsen in general, like like um, you know, it's uh don't don't call me Shirley. Yeah, of course. Like the uh shit hitting the the fan, or like they like throw shit at a fan. Um it's like Kareem Abdul Jabbar, like them recognizing him as Kareem Abdul Jabbar, but he's you tried Dragon Bolt and up and down the court. But he's like so aggressively trying not to be Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Um the the the little boy and girl who are like adults. Um my god. I forgot about that line. I uh take it like I like my man black, and like the little boy's like, what do I do with this?

SPEAKER_01 15:38

You know, like if they're children, their little children's like, how do you like your coffee? I I take my coffee black, like my men.

unknown 15:44

I was like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 15:47

I forgot about that joke.

SPEAKER_03 15:48

The um, oh gosh. Is it I think Barbara Billingsley was the mother on Leave It to Beaver. I could be wrong, but like Yes, no, you're right.

SPEAKER_01 16:01

I I wrote that down as the Jive translator.

SPEAKER_03 16:03

Okay, and like, yeah, she's like she speaks Jive in the film, which is amazing.

SPEAKER_01 16:09

Chump don't want help, chump don't get help. Jive ass got no brains. Like seeing Mrs. Cleaver say Jive ass got no brains, like I'm trying to think of what a modern day equivalent that would be. Like we don't really have a lot of wholesome TV shows as much anymore.

SPEAKER_03 16:30

It's definitely influential though. It's like cause like um the Azucker brothers, um, you know, they would go on to do scary movie three and four. Um, and like you you can definitely see like um the uh three for sure.

SPEAKER_01 16:47

Yeah, the um like just the influences and yeah, their flavor of comedy.

SPEAKER_03 16:54

Yeah, and just even you know, parodies that they didn't have anything to do with, um, take influence from. Oh, for sure. Um yeah, I love when like they're walking through the the airport and like um they're like dealing with all like the people like trying to like sell them stuff or something, and then it's like the dude just punches them in the face.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

And it's just one after another of just like donations, girl scouts, like he's just constantly kicking ass and flipping them around. Um I forgot that airplane does every time that the guy keeps trying to tell his backstory, people keep killing themselves. There's like the old woman like hangs herself, another guy lights himself or is about to light himself on fire. Oh man, it's there's so many good bits in there. Um it it's weird because like I have heard someone say, like, yeah, there's a lot of jokes in there that don't hold up, and like I know what they're talking about, but there's still jokes where I'm like, oh god, I still think it's very funny.

SPEAKER_03 17:54

And I think part of why why it's great is like you like get these actors who are mainly known for like serious stuff, like um Lloyd Bridges, um Robert Stack, like uh these guys, and like they're like playing it like fairly seriously, and but it's like the comedy's just still there, and it's so great.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

It's it really is a masterclass of like we're gonna do a lot of insanely silly things, and for the most part, not always, not through the entire movie, but a good 95% of the film, they never acknowledge the joke. They just kind of let it happen. Exactly. And I I watched some other Zuckers, I watched uh Hotshots recently, and that one I still don't think I've ever seen it. It's fun, it's still like funny and silly and goofy, it's got you know some of that Zucker flair. That one, it felt like there were times when there's a lot more like, whoa, that was a joke someone made. Like they're they're like mugging to the camera a bit more. And it's still funny in a different way, but like airplane hits so well because no one's truly acknowledging a lot of the wackiness. Um even I the very first joke that you kind of hear is the airplane announcements, and they're just constantly arguing over like unloading the red zone or the white zone until it calmulates with someone just going, We know what this is about. You want me to have an abortion. There's no danger in at all, actually. It's just so good. Oh man. The amount of times someone has quoted at me, Do you like gladiator movies? Like, my friends have said that to me a thousand times.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

What is it? What what's it have you ever seen a grown man naked? Is that the one that's there?

SPEAKER_01 19:47

It's yeah, it's it's the very second thing he asks the kid. Because it's like, Have you ever been to a cockpit before? No, I haven't. First time in a plane. Have you ever seen a grown man naked? Like, it's immediate. They they do not try to like be subtle with it. And I I in the I think it's from Zero Hour. That scene is in there, and like when you're watching it, and the little kids go, not the naked part, but the yeah, your eyes widen, like, wait, seriously. No, but like the like, I've never been in a cockpit before, and like watching it, all you could think is like, oh my god, this this does have weird like sexual energy. Like this this pilot's gonna fuck this kid. Um uh fun fact, if you go to IMDb, did you know that the airbag, the autopilot, has its own credit in IMDB?

SPEAKER_03 20:36

That doesn't really shock me. I'm sure, like, um It's hysterical.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

It's like auto and then plays the role auto.

SPEAKER_03 20:45

Oh, that is good.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Yeah. Uh did you ever watch any of the Naked Gun films, too?

SPEAKER_03 20:51

Yeah. Um so I think b before the new one came out last year, um, I rewatched the first. I I know I've like seen them them all, but I don't remember the uh second one.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

Um I kind of blur them all together because I I know they were always on TV. And so there's a lot of bits I remember, but I can't fully recall if it's from you know, first, second, or third.

SPEAKER_03 21:24

Yeah, I I I remember seeing them a lot when I was a kid, and of course, like most things were probably like over my head, but but like I remember enjoying them.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

I have a memory of seeing that movie A Little Too Young, where it was maybe on TV or something, maybe TBS back in the day, and it's when the the damsel in distress, she's like on a ladder and Leslie Nielsen's looking up her skirt and goes like, Nice beaver, and she goes, Thanks, I just had it stuffed, and then pulls down a stuffed beaver. I remember my parents cracking up and being like, What Beaverly, what the fuck? Yeah, I mean I mean it I mean it is a nice beaver, I guess, but I don't see how that's funny. Good good little bits like that where you can sneak in. Why do you think because as I was looking up parody films, it seems like the heyday of them were really like 70s, 80s, and kind of the 90s, you start seeing a a little bit of a drop, and then after that, not a whole lot besides basically scary movie and like those scary movie spinoffs so like the Meet the Spartans, disaster movie, epic movie, which were all absolute shit films. Why do you think that that's kind of calmed down? Do you think it's less people will see comedies or that we've already kind of tackled everything genre-wise?

SPEAKER_03 22:46

Honestly, I I have no idea. That is a very interesting question, though, because like I re remember I can't remember what the first one was. Um did did not another teen movie have anything to do with like Scary Movie?

SPEAKER_01 23:06

No, that was its own crew, and I I remember really liking that movie, and I haven't seen it in a while, but I kind of remember it did a good job parodying a lot of those 80s teen films, those 90s teen films.

SPEAKER_03 23:18

Um like I I enjoy that one. Um and it's like it does a good job of like poking fun at those. Um and like um I remember them like doing the Ally Larder scene from uh Varsity Blues where like her her privates are covered with the whipped cream, but it's like Chris Evans. It's Chris Evans covered. Exactly. That is funny. And like I love the uh the the foreign exchange student, she's like just fully naked the whole entire time, which is like so so great, because like it's like you know, playing off the the whole what we do the gratuity, yeah, you know, in like uh the past episodes about the raunchy teen comedies and everything.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

Um like not another teen movie has my one of my favorite bits, and that's when the girl is like throwing paint on things, she's having like a complete meltdown, having like an artistic like splashing paint, throwing paint, slapping it with her hands, and then when it cuts away, it's just like a stick figure that she drew. It's such a good fucking bit.

SPEAKER_03 24:30

I I I remember that. Um when it came to like the was Date movie the first one that came?

SPEAKER_01 24:42

I can't remember the order. It was definitely I I remember superhero movie being pretty early, date movie I think was pretty early. Meet the Spartans was a little later, had to at least be post-2006.

SPEAKER_03 24:53

And then there was Disaster and Epic.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

Disaster and Epic, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:57

I think Date might have been the the first, because like one of them I r remember like seeing in theaters, and like it was pretty bad, even like by my younger, you know, standards. Um, and then it's like they kept coming out with them, and it was like, come on, dude. So like I don't know, they might have just like ruined parodies forever.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

Like well, it's it's funny because my big hang up with those movies is that they aren't actual parodies, they're what I would call more reference movies where they're they're not playing with the format, they're not playing with tropes. It's a I I don't remember which one it was because they all kind of blend together, and it's like it was just like here's a here's Miley Cyrus or Hannah Montana, she's gonna get hit with a car, and you're just like, Well, what's that? What's the joke? Like, you could replace that with any pop culture in history. Where's the joke? If it's Hannah Montana or Sabrina Carpenter or Ed Sheeran, is it's like you know what I mean? I think that's not really a clever joke.

SPEAKER_03 26:04

Yeah, I think that is another thing too, is they just weren't very funny either. Like, I think so. Part of it, I think, is like um you had like the first two scary movies, which were like, you know, getting like raunchy, but also like playing off, you know, the parodies and stuff, and then scary movie three came and like that was just that uh that movie like killed me when I was younger. That was just so so damn funny. Um and I watched it recently, and yeah, it still holds up. But it's like you know, they were like taking that. It's like Scary Movie 4 was like the last one, I think, that was like I I enjoyed it. I mean, I still thought that it was funny, had some good jokes in it, but after that it was like just it was all downhill, it seems, from there.

SPEAKER_01 27:03

Yeah, I I think the way that a parody movie best works is even if you don't know the exact reference or thing that they're parodying, it's still funny. Like Airplane, I didn't like I said, I didn't know it was actually parodying specific films. I just assumed it was a general genre, and I you know I'm somewhat familiar with that genre, so I got the vibe of it and still found it funny. I know. Austin Powers, I haven't oh go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

I never thought about that, but that is like the perfect way to uh put it. It's like it holds up being funny without the uh parody.

SPEAKER_01 27:39

Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_03 27:41

The the jokes are just so strong that you don't have to understand the parody to enjoy it.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

I and I would put like young Frankenstein, uh a little bit of Spaceballs in that category too, where even if you didn't know Spaceballs, maybe a little less. I feel like that's a bit more reliant on a lot of Star Wars y jokes, but they also have a lot of jokes in there that are fantastic that you know could have been used in any movie and still been funny. Blazing saddles.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

Blazing saddles, yeah, perfect Western genre parodies. Yeah, Blazing Saddles, just like, you know, um parodies westerns in general. Yeah. Um, yeah, and Young Frankenstein might be my number two.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

That's that's up there. I watched that maybe a year or two ago again, and it still absolutely kills me. But I think Gene Wilder might be the greatest comedic actor who's ever lived, just flat out. He's he's so good. He's he's just so charming. For sure, yeah. Definitely. Can I tell you about an actual recent parody film that I think is really great?

SPEAKER_03 28:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Uh I believe it came out, oh, maybe 2010, if I had to guess, I need to double check. But uh no, 2009. Uh, it was Black Dynamite.

SPEAKER_03 29:02

So I still haven't seen it, but I know it's like really good. I one of my coworkers actually, like, I think he watched it recently um and said, like, it's really good.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

For those who don't know, Black Dynamite is a parody genre, more so specifically of like the Black Exploitation genre. Uh the best uh comparison would be like Shaft. So it's a really good-looking, uh ripped, you know, guy who basically is a badass and saves the day, but also he's kind of a misogynist and like hits ladies a lot. Like that was a big thing, like, which for some reason was just part of the mystique, and that's what they parody in this movie a lot. And it's not even the first like black exploitation parody I can think of. I I think before that was I'm gonna get you, sucker, um, which was a Wayne's senior movie from '88, which I have not seen yet. But it give yours do yourself a favor and just watch up some clips from Black Dynamite. Because one, you have a m a billion amazing actors in it, but my boy Cedric Yarborough is in it, who you all might remember from Reno 911. And has one of the boondocks, oh yeah. He has uh maybe one of my favorite lines in that movie, which Black Dynamite busts down the door and he's like, I'm declaring uh a war on anyone selling drugs in the community. And Cedric Yarborough goes, but Black Dynamite, I sell drugs in the community. It's actually a good line. It's so good. He says it so earnestly. There's a lot of great like fourth wall-y lines where like you can tell they're supposed to be playing like actors in a bad movie. So there's a part where like they're doing like a silly choreographed fight scene where they're like kind of barely hitting each other or missing completely, but you know, faking the hits or whatever to make it look as low budget as possible. And at one point someone does hit someone else, and there's just a quick, what the fuck? And then like it cuts and they replace the actor with another actor. It's so dude. It's so fast, dude. It it cracks me up. Um yeah, it it's it's so good. It and it does an amazing thing, which is it escalates in the weirdest, most absurd way possible, where like the there's like a whole like presidential conspiracy to keep these people down by like I I can't even I don't even want to spoil it, but it just it escalates in such an insane fucking way that I love it. And rewatching it, I was still cracking up and having such a such a such a good time.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

Yeah, uh I know it's been on Netflix a lot. I gotta find a way to uh watch that one finally.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

Uh what would would you consider things like uh McGruber a parody? Because it's kind of parodying about that.

SPEAKER_03 32:01

Probably. I mean it's like it's um it's based off uh you know the askit, but I mean the askit is a parody of you know well MacGyver. So you know, yeah, yeah, I'd I'd consider that one.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

I was looking up some other more modern ones because I was curious, because as we were saying earlier, there doesn't seem to be a lot of more modern ones. And there are some weird options on here going back to what we were saying, like Shrek is considered a parody movie, and I don't like I guess it's kind of like I don't again, I don't think of that as a parody, but it is kind of taking established fairy tales and making them jokes. But by that logic, would wicked be a parody? Because it's taking an established you know what I mean? Like it's taking established things and then just changing them. Like that feels like such a a weird, super loose way to call something a parody.

SPEAKER_03 33:04

I think Shrek, like Shrek kind of, but it's like I don't think of it as one either. Um but I mean there are like some obvious like uh like how you were saying like referential, like I feel like it's more reference. But it does parody like the the fairy tales.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

So sure. Hard to say, right?

SPEAKER_03 33:37

Yeah. I found one, um Galaxy Quest, which I didn't really think of.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Yeah, I saw some people I would I would count that, because it is parodying a lot of like sci-fi movies. I guess. Maybe not directly, would you not even like a genre, or would you just say it's a sci-fi comedy?

SPEAKER_03 33:59

I mean, I I've always just thought of it as a sci-fi comedy. I mean, it's you know, like you you can point out, oh, it's very much like referencing like star Star Trek. Um but like yeah, it isn't like space balls to me. Like, where it's a lot more.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

It's a very obvious yeah. There's Darth Laser or Darth Helmet instead of Darth Vader. I think Darth Laser is from Fairly Odd Parents, maybe. That does sound like something. Uh one thing that I did notice when I was looking up more modern parodies is that they were trying to find other big genres. So I saw two Hunger Games parodies. Uh-huh. Which I thought that's that's kind of a good choice to parody. It's a very big, it's popular. I think even if you don't know it, you probably have an idea. One was called The Starving Games, who also made uh a movie called Super Fast, which was apparently a fast and furious parody. So they are existing. These definitely sound like straight to DVDs.

SPEAKER_03 35:03

They they are. Um that is a good point. Like, like, um, yeah, a lot like they are still made today, but it's like they are like they aren't getting like theatrical runs or anything.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

They they were made on a budget of like under a million dollars, and they're just trying to get some cheap Netflix streaming money or whatever. The other one I I started to watch it because I was curious, because it was called the Hungover Games, and it's also trying to be a parody of The Hangover, which how do you parody a comedy film? And they really didn't. They just had four actors who admittedly did decent impressions, but why when I watched it, it was just like, no, this is just the opening of the hangover, but in kind of a Hunger Games universe, that's kind of that's it. Like there's and there weren't really jokes about it, and then like when they get to the Hunger Games stuff, they start like mashing up a thousand different um it starts doing like the epic movie thing where it's just like uh this is a reference, just throw it in there. Oh, it's a reference, throw it in there. I think it was written by Jamie Kennedy, who I think it's his second mention on this podcast. Congrats, Jamie.

SPEAKER_03 36:17

Poor guy.

SPEAKER_01 36:18

You have more mentions than Meryl Streep.

SPEAKER_03 36:21

Huh. Poor guy.

SPEAKER_01 36:23

Yeah. Well, I guess that would leads me to my next question then. Since they did something like the Hunger Games, do you think there's another genre or a specific movie that you would like to see or at least think is ripe for the picking? Or does it just feel like everything's already been done to death?

SPEAKER_03 36:44

I mean, I I I'll never say like, you know, it's been done done to death. Like you can't do it. One thing that I was thinking about is like um the classic like musicals, they aren't really made anymore, and like we are gonna have like a musical episode at some point, but it's like um like I don't know if you you can really like make a musical like they did in like the 50s and forties and sixties anymore. Um they're more like modernized. So like I don't know, just like musicals in general, maybe. I can't think of like a big parody movie.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

I mean that that's a good call. There was that Apple TV show called Shmigadoon, which parodied and also was on Broadway recently.

SPEAKER_03 37:38

Yeah, yeah. So they're gonna do for some Tonies this year. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

Yeah, I mean, I was also thinking TV shows too, because one of my favorites growing up was Strangers with Candy, which was a Amy Sederis and a very, very young Steve Um Colbert, Stephen Colbert show, where they were definitely parodying the teen dramas like the Beverly Hills 90210, Dawson's Creek.

SPEAKER_03 38:03

Didn't Amy Sederis play like a teen girl or something?

SPEAKER_01 38:07

She was like a 40-year-old high school student. Oh, so she was playing like a 40-year-old, or like yeah, if I remember correctly, when she was in high school, she like did something that got her sent to prison for a long time, and now she's back out and she's she's just trying to go back to like high school. And thing is, no one really addresses that she's like, no one's like, you're too old to be in high school. Everyone just accepts that she's there. And again, that goes back to what we were saying, is my favorite types of comedies is if they just let it linger and they don't point it out.

SPEAKER_03 38:38

Right.

SPEAKER_01 38:39

They they kind of say, We hope our audience is smart enough to understand the joke here. There's a great joke in Strangers with Candy where they do an all-white production of a raisin in the sun.

SPEAKER_04 38:51

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

Yeah, Amy Sidaris gets the role of mama. Which, if you guys don't know what a raisin in the sun is, look it up and you'll understand why that is so fucked up to have an all-white cast. And what I love about it is when they announce the cast, they have black students there and they're just applauding and smiling, like, hey, congrats! Like they're they're not, they don't even do like a look of like, this is fucked up. They just they're happy for them. And that made me laugh even harder because it's just such a silliness that I'm just watching you crack up.

SPEAKER_03 39:26

What why isn't there a white version of Hamilton? It's like, oh, that that is so good.

SPEAKER_01 39:37

Yeah, it's it's it is very, very funny. It's funny, uh, looking back at some of the earlier parodies, though, I didn't even think about this as a parody, but I guess it theoretically would be. But there's a bunch of classic Abbott and Costello movies where they meet Frankenstein, they meet Dracula, they meet all of the universal monsters that we just talked about.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Yeah. Yeah, I would like. Yeah, they would because it's like they're like parodying like the the reactions to it. It's like, you know, instead of like being scared, it's like more like the comedy aspect. Yeah, it's it's more of just like it's a lot more that.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

Like, what's going on, Knucklehead?

SPEAKER_03 40:28

Yeah. Yeah, those are good calls too.

SPEAKER_01 40:32

I I did re-watch Walk Hard recently.

SPEAKER_03 40:36

Yeah, I I haven't seen it in so long. I remember enjoying it though, and like whenever I watch The Office, I still like think about it. It's fan Fisher was in that.

SPEAKER_01 40:47

Yeah. That that movie is stacked, by the way. Like I kind of forgot.

SPEAKER_03 40:54

Like Schwartzman, um Paul Rudd, Jack Black. And is Justin Long like Yeah, Justin Long's the last Beatles.

SPEAKER_01 41:03

Yeah, they're all the Beatles. They just keep saying that they're Beatles over and over again.

SPEAKER_03 41:08

They're like, We're the Beatles.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

Yeah, it's and what's so good is for about 15 seconds, they're all doing pretty passable impressions, and then they all just start blurring their accents together, which I was like, this feels so intentional. We're like, at first, it's like, hey, I'm Paul, yeah. And then he's like, Alright, now I'm Paul. Hey, Paul. And like, it's just like it's just mishmatching them all together. It's just them constantly going, like, well, of course we'll do drugs with you. We're the Beatles, just over and over again. It's that movie, I think, single-handedly ruined biopics for me because it really does nail how many biopics are by the numbers. One of the opening gags is like them trying to get Dewey Cox to go do a show, and then someone goes like, Hold on, you can't interrupt him. He has to think about his entire life before he performs. And then it flashes back into the whole room. Yeah, yeah, it was Tim Meadows. Tim Meadows is constantly doing drugs and like, you don't want none of this.

SPEAKER_03 42:16

Maybe one that was like I feel like is kind of similar to Walkard is Popstar.

SPEAKER_01 42:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 42:26

Um that's I loved that that movie so much.

SPEAKER_01 42:31

Popstar is so funny. Would you consider Popstar a parody of anything in particular? I mean, it's definitely parodying kind of boy bandy, uh kind of super stardom, so it does or would you call it more of a satire of that?

SPEAKER_03 42:48

That is the thing, right? It's like satire.

SPEAKER_01 42:50

That one rides the line versus parody of because I did see that movie on like the best parody lists, and I go like, well, it's not really parodying a movie or a specific genre, but it is parodying real life, but that to me feels more satire than a parody.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:10

They go hand in hand.

SPEAKER_03 43:13

I don't know, like like what what separates them. It's like, yeah, you know. I mean, is this a horror movie? Is this a Christmas movie? Like, it's like, you know, it's that that argument, like, like sometimes it's like it could go either way.

SPEAKER_01 43:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:34

Like. So yeah, I mean, it is more like just like stardom in general. Um, I can't really specifically think of any like movies that it really parodies. So, yeah. I guess it'd be could be more satire. You you sound bummed out about it. Well, I mean it's like I'll have to like watch it again to like see for for sure. Cause like it does a parody. I I guess most of the ones that we're talking about do like, you know, parody films, like mainly.

SPEAKER_01 44:16

Um I'm curious if parody no longer exists at least as commonly as maybe just the scary movies at this point, because of the internet in a way. I I kind of think of Weird Al who has said like he's not really going to do albums anymore. Like he might just drop a song here and there, but he's not going to do a lot of parody albums because by the time that he thinks of his idea, gets to produce and record it, so many people have already made their parodies of whatever popular song and thrown them online instantly. And not that he feels like he's gonna be outdone, but more of just the the novelty has gonna wear off almost quicker. Of like, oh, I don't really want to hear a parody of that, you know, Olivia Rodrigo song, because I've heard six of them already. You know, it's I'm curious if that's almost the same thing with comedy, because there's always so many people that can easily do their, you know, point of view, you're in a rom-com parody, and then just like film that pretty quickly.

SPEAKER_03 45:24

I I understand that, um, but I feel like you can never like if the material's good enough, you can never like, you know, that isn't a good reason to like stop your yourself. Um it's like, well, it's been done. Well, everything's been done, right? Right. You know, it's like, um, but like, even and I think about this with horror a lot, it's like, cause like every year, you know, it seems I'm still like surprised by something like I just watched Obsession today, and um that is like such a good like yeah, you know, uh original idea. Um, but it's like it's it's not really a original, but like, you know, it's execution of it was it is an it is an idea that they like put their spin on. So so it's like you like take an idea that has been done, you know, parodies have been done a lot, but it's like if you put your own spin on it, like you know, I don't think just because it's been done, it isn't gonna be good.

SPEAKER_01 46:41

I'm trying to remember what comedians said it, but in comedy it was sort of a a cliche thing to be like airline food is bad. Like that was like the big, big hoke, you know, hacky bit.

SPEAKER_03 46:53

Was that a Jerry Seinfeld thing? Cause like I feel like it's always kind of like associated with Seinfeld.

SPEAKER_01 47:00

It it probably was. I'm sure he did it. Yeah and then probably a thousand other people tried to copy him. But I can't remember who said it, but they basically said, like, no, make your jokes about airline food if you think you have a good joke about it. Like a good joke will always be a good joke, even if everyone's heard their take on airline food. Do it anyway if you think you have a good take. Who cares?

SPEAKER_03 47:22

Exactly. Um and honestly, like, I mean, it's been a while since we've had, you know, like like I mean, the it's been a while for the scary movies, and like, yeah, I don't think this one's getting like great reviews or anything. But it's like, um, you know, I think it's I'm always like willing to like see a good one. It's like I I I think that is why a lot of them failed, is that they were like just following the same like stale formula over and over again and weren't trying anything.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

Like I definitely have memories of all of those epic movies, disaster movies, when they were being advertised, it was always from one of the writers of Scary Movie. So they were just banking on scary movie, and you know, it it I I think some of them did okay financially, but I don't think any of them are liked by anyone. I I don't know anybody who's even said like, oh man, date movie, that was I love that movie as a kid. I've never heard anyone. Even the scary movies, like, if people don't you know, I don't think any of them got great reviews, but I know plenty of people who say, Oh, one's my favorite, two's my favorite, three's my favorite, four's so good. I've never heard anyone say they like five.

SPEAKER_04 48:51

But no.

SPEAKER_01 48:53

I think five was when all the weigh-ins were completely out and did not have any access.

SPEAKER_03 49:00

Yeah, I don't know if the Zuckers had anything to do with five.

SPEAKER_01 49:05

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 49:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:07

It's interesting. Uh I did see another genre, or a very, I guess, genre of type of movie getting parodied that I would like to see, but I also don't know how well I'd understand it, and it's called Not Another Church movie. I it's from what I could tell, has no affiliation with Not Another Teen movie, but it's making fun of Tyler Perry film.

SPEAKER_03 49:30

Tyler Perry, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:31

Yeah. And I've never seen a Tyler Perry film, so I don't know how well that Yeah. So I have no idea how well that parody would be, but I think that's a great choice to parody because he's very well known. I think that's a a pretty damn good choice as a parody genre.

SPEAKER_03 49:47

Oh yeah. And like I don't know if like yeah, I mean, I can't really speak to it because I haven't seen them, but I feel like they might kind of be parodies, like, of them in them themselves. I mean well, I mean, I I don't know how seriously they're like meant to be taken, especially like the madea ones. Like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 50:08

I have no idea. Yeah. You know what? That we should 100% do a Tyler Perry episode. We'll we'll watch all the movies together. Next February. Oh god, no. Oh no. I did watch the new Naked Gun because I love the old ones, and I never got round to the new ones.

SPEAKER_03 50:33

Oh, you hadn't seen it?

SPEAKER_01 50:35

It's my first time watching it. I wanted to see it in theaters, but I think I was out and about and I just couldn't find a time to lock it down. But I did watch it recently, and oh my god. It there's so much goofiness in that movie that I really loved it that reminded me of the old ones. Like there's a part where he eats a gun, like he grabs a gun and like, you know, takes the bullet out, then he grabs another gun, like snaps it in half, grabs like another one, crumples it up like paper, and then just takes a bites another gun. Oh, it's just good dumbness. I knew I was gonna like it at the very beginning where they the bad guys get the device they need, and it's just called a plot device. And I just went, wow, alright, I'm in for a good ride.

SPEAKER_03 51:18

Um gosh, I I can't re-remember what he says now. But it's um when he's interrogating Busta rhymes. That is like my my favorite part. Do you re-remember what he says? I there there's is it the man's slaughter line?

SPEAKER_01 51:37

Yep. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:38

Man's laughter. Yeah. Must have been a funny joke.

SPEAKER_01 51:44

There's there's so many gags like that. Like those lines always crack me up where it's, you know, like, uh, would you like to take a seat? No, thanks. I have one at home. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 51:56

And then she leaves and she drags the chair out. After a while, you know, at that scene.

SPEAKER_01 52:03

There's that. There's um I think in airplane they have a line of just like, nervous? Yeah, I'm nervous. First time? No, I've been nervous plenty of times. I love shtick like that.

SPEAKER_03 52:16

There's like the uh great dumbass part where like they um they like take the vacation and then it's like this evil snowman.

SPEAKER_01 52:29

That scene lasted a lot longer than I thought. Like they really just for like, we like this bit and we're gonna film it for a while. Pamela Anderson doing her scat singing was one of the hardest laughs I've had in a movie in a while, because it just hurts going. Like it's just it starts off like kinda nice, but immediately devolves into just chaos.

SPEAKER_03 52:55

Danny Houston playing the uh the the straight man, pretty much, the villain. So good.

SPEAKER_01 53:02

I think that's it's these type of parodies that I think there are some jokes in there that do rely on the audience's knowledge of tropes and their knowledge of the genres themselves. So in the new Naked Gun, there's a great bit where they parody that specific like people carrying a metal, you know, carrying glass across the street, because that was done in so many old cop films and things where they would, you know, run into the metal exploding glass, go everywhere or whatever. And in the Naked Gun, the you know, Liam Neeson shoots out the glass of his car door, and then when he sees the people carrying glass, they throw it up in the air and it fits perfectly back to replace his windshield. It's like what an amazing subversion on that gag. There's so many moments like that that I just love.

SPEAKER_03 53:54

I love the uh coffee in it, like how it's just always like showing up. Yeah. He like pours out one and then gets another.

SPEAKER_01 54:03

Like he's he's on the highway driving, having an inner monologue, and then a hand just comes in through the car window. He's like, thank you, and just takes it. There's so many dumb bits like that. Like it's funny, watching some of these movies made me look back at some things that I've written in the past, and I went, Oh, that's where I got that bit from, or that's probably where I got like that style of comedy from.

SPEAKER_03 54:32

That has been to me when we were doing the raunchy comedy episode, I was like, oh my gosh, I had no idea. Like, this is where I was pulling this from. Yeah. And it was like things that I hadn't even like meant to, and I was like, Oh my gosh, my script has something just like this.

SPEAKER_01 54:51

Yeah. But again, it's fine. I mean, take it from Mel Brooks, the arguably one of the funniest writers, producers, directors ever. He has a quote where he says, good artists create, great artists steal. And and I kind of love that because he really does say, like, you know, not everything can be unique, so take take a gag you like, change it a bit, and guess what? New gag. Good job. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 55:20

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 55:22

I think one of my favorite bits in the naked gun, again, it it's parodying the classic intimidation where he's like slamming someone's head on the bar to get information out of them, but every time he slams the guy's head, his face changes.

SPEAKER_02 55:34

Cody Rhodes.

SPEAKER_01 55:36

It like turns him into a bit more of an ugly guy, then he slams him again, comes out with the you know, Marco or like the Groucho glasses, and then slams him again, and then it's Liam Neeson's face. And Liam Neeson even goes, Come on, how do you not love that? If you don't love that, you're just wrong. Oh, so good. Let's write a parody of something.

SPEAKER_03 56:01

Yeah, when I was uh watching Obsession, like like some sometimes when I like watch things, I'm like, man, could I like write something this good? It's like how do they come up with like these? And it's like even with parodies, it's like you're copying something, but it's like to be able to like do it in like such a hilarious manner, like Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 56:26

So good. It's it's a talent, that's for sure. It really is. I think that's why I always try to give comedies a bit more benefit of the doubt. Because I think comedy is the hardest thing to write. It just flat out is. And parodies at least give you a bit more of I don't want to say a buffer, but you do have that recognition. Someone who maybe doesn't like the jokes probably can still go, hey, that's Star Wars parody. I know Star Wars, therefore I'm just already kind of on board. So I think there is some maybe I do say buffer there. But yeah, I think comedies, it's tough.

SPEAKER_03 57:08

It's still like, you know, it still pisses me off, like like how much comedies don't get respect and stuff, and it's like um yeah, like the ability to be funny, I feel like can be just as difficult to play like a really dramatic like scene and like being able to write it too. Like um Yeah, it's just I I don't know. Like we're we we were like talking how like horror seems to be getting more respect. I mean, and I don't know, it's like I feel like we've been t asking the question is comedy kind of like dying out like people like aren't going to see like comedies as much.

SPEAKER_01 57:59

I think it's tough because I mean one, when it comes to awards, let's look at that recognition first. You have movies like The Martian that wins comedy, you have That makes air that is the biggest laugh of that, you know, as a movie.

SPEAKER_03 58:18

The fact that it's considered a comedy.

SPEAKER_01 58:20

Right. Well I was looking up uh highest grossing comedies ever. Do you know what was on there? Green Book. Green Book was listed as a comedy.

SPEAKER_03 58:31

Our favorite film.

SPEAKER_01 58:32

Yeah, we bring it up. I I believe we established, I can't remember if it was the last episode or the one before that, but if we bring up Green Book or the Holocaust, take a shot. So if you're listening, Green Book. But yeah, it's I know I I think it's also because comedies are very easy to feel more elitist than. I knew thousands of people who, if you go, I thought I saw this movie and I laughed. I know so many people who go, Yeah, I saw the movie, it wasn't funny. Wasn't funny at all. And I don't really see that as much with horror anymore. If even if someone wasn't scared, they still go, I love the atmosphere, I really like the idea. They try to find more that they like, but with comedies for some reason it's still cool to be, you know, dismissive of laughter. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 59:22

Yeah. Um Yeah, and like I I always sing about Adam Sandler, um, and how like you know, like people like sh love to shit on him. Um and it's like, dude, he has his audience, like he's he's doing what he wants, like it's like he knows what he's doing. Like it's like you can shit on him, but like, you know, there's still people and that is why I like like I don't really there are very few like genres or films that I'll judge people for for like um liking, because it's like, you know, there's some not there for everybody.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:06

Like Yeah. You know, if you only want to watch movies with talking animals, guess what? There's a thousand of those. Yeah right. Good, you know, enjoy.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:18

Yeah, and that is also why, like, you know, I would like I find it hard to like critique like a lot of films, because it's like, you know, like and also it's like I'm not going into a movie like finding things that I hate. It's like I watch bad movies, but it's like even like it's like you have to like nitpick like this wasn't good, and like, you know, all that, and it's like I mean, yeah, it's not great, maybe, but come on, like, there's still stuff to enjoy. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:52

Just I think we've we've talked about it before that we try not to be negative, we typically are trying to look for positives in things as opposed to going into a a popular movie and saying, I'm gonna hate this because I'm so cool. Right. Don't get me wrong. I low-key did that watching Michael. I tried to have an open mind, but very quickly I went, no, this is gonna suck, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 1:01:18

Well, and I mean we like talked about that, just you know, our our what what we were our pre predictions about it, so can I throw out some other questionable uh parodies or get your thoughts on it?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:33

Would you consider Tucker and Dale versus Evil a parody? Ooh, I didn't even think about that. It it hit me uh a couple days ago because it is in a way parodying horror films, but or is it just a satire because it's from the perspective of the villains and it's it's very funny, but it is making fun of these the the teens that think they're gonna get murdered and end up getting murdered by accident for the most part.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:00

I think it has some parody elements, but it's not like full full blown. But man, that is I think I rewatched that last year. I hadn't seen it in a while. That is a great movie.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:13

Yeah. What about something like Kung Pao Enter the Fist?

SPEAKER_04 1:02:18

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:19

You would say that's full parody. I would consider that a parody. Because it is just a live dub, and of course, Steve Odenkirk has kind of edited himself into the film.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:29

Yeah. Um, that one I would consider a parody. I saw Kung Fu Hustle on there.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:35

Oh, yeah. Good one. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great choice.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:40

One I I don't think I really agree with. You may disagree here. What we do in the shadows, I saw listed. I don't really I don't consider that a parody.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:51

I did see that one as well. But because it is I mean, it's it's hard because it is, in a sense, parodying vampires and werewolves and all of those mythical things. But it's so broad. Yeah. It feels like it needs to narrow down a little more.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:10

Yeah, and I I can't really think of like big like references to films that it makes.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:16

Yeah, I I think that's where my line is too, is either has to I mean, sure, there's probably a Nosferatu reference with the oldest vampire, but is it making fun of is it a comedy movie m making fun of vampires, or is it a comedy movie that just happens to involve vampires? And I feel like it's more that where it's not really playing with a lot of the tropes or the angles or the lighting of vampire movies. It's just a comedy movie where the vampires are the characters.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:47

Yeah. Yeah, and that is a good way to put it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:52

And it's still a hilarious movie. The there's a line in that movie I quote all the time, which is leave me alone to do my dog bidding on the internet. What are you bidding on? I'm bidding on a table. Like what I I'm sure I butchered it, but it's the joke up there. Were there any others? Uh let's see. I think I had some. Oh, Mars Attacks.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:16

I saw that I saw that one. I I was actually watching some of that one not too long ago. I mean I feel like that's like more original. Like it's like a comedy about alien invasion.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:37

But would you consider it a parody of those B movies?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:42

Those B ho True. Cause like I I guess, yeah, cause like Tim Burton, like he did Edwood, you know, clearly an Edwood fan, and I mean like Ed one Edward did like, you know, the Plan 9 from Outer Space, and you know, it's like kinda like so yeah, I mean it's I guess it's kinda like parodying the the low budget, like, you know, not as well received like sci-fi alien films, I guess. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:28

See, I need to go through some of these movies now because I'm looking through a list here and I am seeing kinda actually some good good options for parodies, but I never heard of them, and I don't know if these are straight to DVD things. Uh, I see one called The Walking Deceased being a parody of The Walking Dead. There is a movie called Tooken. Parody of Taken. Uh, let's see, what else? Fifty Shades of Black. It looks like it is a Wayans. Yep, Marlon Wayans. Directed by a guy named There's No Way. Name is Michael Titties. T-I-D-D-E-S. Tide's maybe?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:05

Oh, Tide's, yeah. Is it Tities?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:07

Titties. I was gonna say, no way. Oh lord, what is this? Airplane mode, and it looks like it's trying to copy the airplane poster. Oh, it's the Paul brothers, Logan and Jake Paul. Not gonna watch that.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:23

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:24

Nope.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:25

I am out.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:28

Yeah, it's it's interesting. So maybe we're wrong. Maybe they are still getting made, but it seems like they are very low budget, straight to DVD, straight to streaming, because I've not heard and a lot of these movies, from what I'm seeing, I'm not recognizing a lot of names. Let's see. This one's just called Inappropriate Comedy, and it has Rob Schneider and Adrian Brody. What?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:54

Oh, that was the one I think um that he did.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:59

Uh yeah, that was um Ari Shafir, Lindsay Lohan.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:04

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What what year was it?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:07

2013.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:09

Yeah. That was like cause like Adrian Brody managed to win a second Oscar after that. Like, like cause he was like he went like down where like he was doing films like that.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:22

Do you think that he reprised his uh Sean Paul character from SNL?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:29

Oh, I don't know that one.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:31

Oh my no, it was uh maybe it wasn't Sean Paul. Uh who was oh god, I have to look it up real fast. So Adrian Brody did I I I will not imitate it because it's not great, but he did like a really bad Jamaican bit um that he did without anyone knowing. It was Sean Paul. So Sean Paul was the musical guest, and so when Adrian Brody tried to be able to get a bigger ball, he was the musical guest. Yeah, Sean Paul was the musical guest, and Adrian Brody like put on like a Rasta thing and like had like fake dreads and was doing like a reggae accent and kept saying like protect your neck and just kept making those noises, like you know, cliche. Yeah, no, it's it's bad. It's bad. Please watch it. Uh you know, it's maybe in the editing I'll put it in at the very end, or I'll sneak it in right here.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:24

You know, your mom, your mom, your mom, your mama, your mom, your makeup, stuff on my respect, I'm respect, you know, me respect, mexpect, me respect, me and respect, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:46

That was even worse than uh you made it seem.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:51

Yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep. Audience, I'm sorry you had to listen to that.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:56

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:59

The one of the top comments on the video is this was longer than the brutalist. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:07

No, they uh should have been like that was longer than his acceptance speech at the Oscars.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:14

Oh wow. Oh man. Hopefully he brought that back for inappropriate comedy. I'll I'll watch it and I'll let you know. Dear Lord. Now that I've knocked out Ricky and probably half our audience, just because they are when I well I I did not see that live, but I did see that clip later, and it is it is shocking. It is like, oh boy. Whoa. Yeah, it's uh not great. You can hear the audience too, pulling back, going like it's it's a lot of nervous laughter. I love it, I love it so much. He's not allowed back on SNL, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:54

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:55

He did that completely unprompted, and uh Lorne, I don't think, was happy.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:00

Man.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:02

So but with that, Ricky, I know you're in shell shock right now. Any final thoughts on parodies or comedies, or Adrian Brody, perhaps.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:13

Um look at the Adrian Brody clip on what not to do in parody films, I would say.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:22

Yeah, that that's that's fair.

SPEAKER_03 1:10:24

Yeah, that that's my final thought on the matter.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:28

Well, thank you everyone for listening to another episode of a Mostly Film Podcast. I've been Brandon. With me as always is Ricky. Hopefully he'll be back next week and recovered. But in the meantime, please go watch the movies. Bye.