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    Major Spoilers Question of the Day: The Parody You Didn’t Get Edition

    Matthew PetersonBy 1 Comment1 Min Read

    One day, not so long ago, I was driving home from work listening to the radio when I realized that ‘Mr. Popeil’, a song from Weird Al’s 1984 opus “Weird Al in 3-D” was in fact a style parody of the B-52s.  The parallels are obvious, from his Fred Schneider intonations to the use of a guitar riff sounding like ‘Rock Lobster’, but somehow it never came together for me.  That strange disconnect made me wonder if normal people (y’know, folks who don’t remember the exact plot of ‘Crisis On Infinite Earths’, issue by issue) feel like this all the time, leading to today’s parodical query…

    The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) really enjoyed the recent ‘Riverdale’ parody on ‘Family Guy’, even though I feel like I’ve never been able to sit through an entire episode without zoning out, asking: Which parody you didn’t get ended up being hilarious somewhere down the road?

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    1. Malone_hasco on

      One Punch Man didn’t sound that great on paper, but once I got around actually watching it, turned out to be amazing super hero parody.