Hitler’s XBox: How Copyright Laws Threaten Our Mashup Culture
The company that owns Downfall is pulling all of the “Hitler Finds Out About…” videos off of YouTube. Constantin Films: you’re despoiling our culture’s future.
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Parody on Overthinking It
The Simpsons and Musical Parody
Stokes uses the Simpsons as a convenient pretext for talking about styles of musical parody.
I’m Just Kiddin’ Like Jason: Parodying the Ridiculous
What’s the difference between a parody and its source material – if the source material was already pretty ridiculous?
Steel Panther: The “Starship Troopers” of Heavy Metal?
Steel Panther: brilliant metal parody, or just exploitation artists? Either way, they sure do rock.
How to Read Evil Dead and Why
Evil Dead 1: Comedy or Horror? And where does that tree rape scene fit in?
New (Fake) Facebook Features
They’re skipping Web 3.0 and going directly to 4.0.
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“I’ll Be Back”: The Terminator Monster Ballad
Because they can’t terminate love. Or power chords.
Yes Grimace Can
My Friends, Obviously, the presidential election is our focus right now. But there are other races going on too. Races that deserve our attention. I am, of course, referring to the current battle for the heart and soul of McDonaldland.
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Hillary Clinton As Norma Desmond
I’m a little late to the party on this, and I’m reticent to go too political in this blog, but this piece of overthinking is too good and right up our alley to go unremarked. By the way, this isn’t … Continued
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