At least you won't have to worry about him flying the plane into the spaceship.

Paul Morton didn't submit a ton of parodies, but the ones he did were memorable, like this Martha Stewart-themed BOG.

Not gut busting funny, but perhaps a perfect topic to go with the sweet music of the OS. I agree with Grim on the Weird Al "filler" song comparison. Short, sweet and to the point, nice work!

Gotta mirror the above comment. An excellent commentary on Frozen (I've actually never seen the movie, but I do love "Let It Go"). I also laughed out loud at the Travolta flub reference. Great work as always spoofing one of my favorite OK Go songs.

I love OK Go, I love the OS, I love the original video...and this was a fitting tribute. It particularly amazing that you managed to get each line of the song to not only rhyme with the original, but doing so while describing what happens in the original video. Excellent job!

(Artistry) I have no opinions on whether more perviness would've ruined this parody or not, but I will echo that you really needed to push the idea a bit further. 555 for what it is, but I could've enthusiastically pressed the vote button! Because that's important..

(Artistry) Most of the humour here came from the contrast between the gentle nature of the OS and the mundanity of the topic at hand...nothing wrong with that, of course. But yeah, like Matthias said, not your best but you did the best with what you had.

(Artistry) Great satire on the amazing rise of "Let It Go" as a pop culture phenomenon. Loved the ref to Adele Dazeem. Oh, Matthias...if only there was someone out there who could vote 555...

(Artistry) Like B-Man said, this one really needs the video to make sense (or at the very least an understanding that OK Go videos are nucking futs), but it's still really well done. And of course with the video it's hilarious. OK Go must've spent 555 hours setting that video up.

"Love is an Open Door" is a good song too just for the Arrested Development reference :P

I thought it was appropriate b/c Hamas and the PA are both bananas when asking for an internationally brokered political 2-state solution with an end to the blockade and border seals while at the same time calling for the "Death of Israel" and for the Palis to "kill the Jews" as the rockets continue to be fired and the tunnels still operate to facilitate terror against Israeli border towns. Iran is also really happy to get back involved by shipping arms through a maze of countries and tunnels from the Egyptian side not destroyed!

(Artistry) I'm definitely glad you didn't get too pervy here, it would've made it really hard to laugh at for me. However, I also think you could've pushed the situations a little further. You touched on a lot of different scenarios but didn't play any of the out. I would've liked to see some of them played out further.

(Artistry) I'm not the biggest fan of "Literal Version" parodies, but since OK Go videos are so interesting, it really help a lot. Still it's hard to really appreciate a literary version parody without a video. I liked it, it just doesn't translate to written form as it does in the video medium.

(Artistry) I actually really like the concept, and you made it work. Very solid. I think the "Frozen" song fad has shifted to "Love is and Open Door", but I'm not tired of either (yet), so we'll just have to see LOL! Good work.

(Artistry) I really liked this! I love boxing, so those references were choice for me. They were great because they were references, but they also serviced good jokes, like, "Like Foreman, George Foreman in your grill" great line! The story did end abruptly, just like a TKO ;)

"House, er... Bucharest" is a 10 Milliken dollar line.

Nevah seed this befaw. Funners.

would this be called topical humor or tropical humor? 5's

Then afterward you tried to work on a cure but went insane while a woman starts randomly screaming out of nowhere...the screaming part made that movie hilarious for the wrong reason.

At least you don't have to worry about the lack of paper when writing this, but still, pop quiz sucks.

You know kids and all.

Original song title should be Chiquita, not Chaquita, Bananas! A typo, but hey!

Today's Guestfest Classic is from Stu McArthur. Delightful.

No, the American Embassy was evacuated and could not use the Tripoli Airport b/c it has been hit and cratered. Had to take a convoy under protection of the air and ship assets listed in the parody. Will we return? Probably when fighting dies down but it is a lost cause.

So the US is leaving Libya? Totally? I have not seen anything about this in Swedish media yet.

OK then! :-)

There's no rule against it that I know of and obviously it's one way of stating that another parody kinda served as inspiration for yours so please feel free to continue. I've on occasion done that another way, but maybe that's just me:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/garynuman5.shtml

One man's "judges arbitrarily throwing their weight around" is another man's "judges doing what they're supposed to do which is to interpret the constitutionality of laws." I guess it may depend on whether you agree with their decisions.

Heh heh... serves that ol' lying liar right!

As I recall, the original also contained a question-and-answer bridge in which the delighted housewife asks if Mr. Clean can clean various things of hers and the singer tells her he can, e.g. "Can he clean a kitchen sink?" "Quicker than a wink." That might be worth working in if you do any more parodies of this. (As seen on Youtube, code: watch?v=kLBwuDTCEFs.)

It's a spoof off of Pharrell's "Happy!"

I feel bad b/c all the celebrations concerning overthrowing the dictators or killing terrorists during the Obama Administration are now over. All that does is create a power vacuum and instability. In the end, all the enemies of America and the West dominate in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, N Korea, Ukraine, and other hot spots. It might have been better to deal with tyrants periodically than to see regions of the world engulfed in anarchy and terror. The few gains we made are now all reversals. Seems no one knows how to fight war anymore. Libya is a lost cause and so is the ME. And the US has no money to fight and occupy these nations that resent us even when we help them!!!

Thnks guys! Putin as bad as he is still does not want to revive the USSR; instead, he seeks a more modern Greater Russia to challenge NATO and restore Russia's military back to Superpower status. To this end he is willing to play diplomatic games with the West and compromise a little, but still cheats on nuclear weapon reductions and also is rebuilding Russia's armed forces as funds become available through energy supply lines to Europe. Russia has state-of-the-art aircraft, missile systems, heavy firepower, lots of upgraded armor, excellent firearms, and better training than in the old days of 5 yr plans. However, the crisis in E Ukraine is really not his fault b/c it is internal. If the ethnic Russians there want to be annexed or form new pro-Russian republics in the East, then Kiev will have to deal with that. Western nations supply Ukriane with weapons and play games with Putin over NATO membership while encroaching militarily to within Russia's borders which is intolerable for any Russian leader. So Putin supplies the rebels with whatever it takes to push Ukrainian forces back on land and in the air. It is unfortunate that the airliner was hit by the BuK but no way to identify the high-flying target. Separatists got training and had shot down many aircraft and rotorcraft before and after the MH17 disaster. Putin did not order a civvy airliner shot down and if there were any real controversy could had ordered the separatists to send the black boxes to Moscow. Russia could at anytime cross the border in force to push back Ukrainian forces or even secure the crash site... but it won't do that for the West that Putin views from the Russian POV as imperialist aggressors. That's not really our problem. Obama would be foolish to declare war on Russia when losing against Islamic insurgents/Taliban/Iranian fighters/ISIS in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya and failing to hit Syria over Sarin use, even after Assad crossed that Red Line defiantly. Sad, but true. With downsizing and sequestration the US Armed Forces are being castrated from within.

I used yours Peter b/c I copied and pasted your version which might have been different than the OS in pacing and/or syllabic count. This is my 102nd Parody-of-a-Parody or (PoP) whether original artist parody (Weird Al, Bart Baker) or AiR parodist. With JAB I have 67 alone. Others here I have parodied have been AFW, OMR, SV, WC, and a few more!

Thnx Jon... should have mentioned that the (I) is for the Israeli export version of the F-15 which is the best (besides a proposed techno demonstrator version). Kept the Milspeak to minimum but people should understand that this is an IAF plane due to bombing Gaza!

Jonathan, I sure did. I don't like Selena Gomez (that dirty little b****), but I am a huge fan of events at Pocono Raceway (at least I didn't do a Bieber spoof).

Thank you Rob Arndt and Jonathan for the compliments and the tips! I am glad you enjoyed my parody! :)

Fools Russian The Proof Is In The Putin 455

personally I am a believer... not belieber believer as in I do actually believe in God not Justin Bieber LOL! anyhoo this was actually paced pretty well 5's although I'd like to give you a tip that I was given back in my early days on this site you should try to work on the layout of your parodies an example would be:
Don't you want to hear about God's saving grace?
Don't you know that God can love you anyplace?
that's how the opening lyrics should read to make it easier to tell the pacing

good CLEAN fun! "rimshot" 5's

what is Weird Al's song a parody of? oh well it's probably better than the original anyway 455

Joe... did you just 5-rate yourself?

good job 5's

Thanks for the mention Rob but I think I'd prefer that you gave credit to the original original, albeit a one hit wonder of the smaller kind I'd say that "If you buy this record your life will be better" is totally underused here on Amiright (maybe not enough people know it?). For one it's relatively easy to rewrite and its title alone lends itself to numerous ideas by just looking at it, also having a "if you xxx, yyy, i/my/your/etc will/would be zzz" standard to fall back on when one occationally already have a general theme idea but haven't yet found the right song for is always a good thing for us writers, and obviously the original original is good for that too.

In fact, one of my first three parodies posted here on Amiright many years ago was "if you eat that chocolate your bum will get bigger" to that that very song. For reasons I don't really remember (probably that they're better known) I then came to fall back on BJ Thomas' "Raindrops keep falling on my head" and the Traditional "My Bonnie is over the ocean" for "xxx keep yyy on my zzz" and "my xxx is yyy the/and/with/etc zzz" ideas. It wasn't until last week I returned to this one, having first contemplated "My Facebook is flooding with selfies" to "My Bonnie is over the Ocean".

This is excellent!

I liked it.

Good job. I liked it.

I've seen two "Hunger Games" movies. Really sicko stuff. Wonder how they are going to work Hoffman's critical part into the third film. I have this vision of the girl shoving the Donald Southerland character off his balcony for a fifty-foot fall onto a solid marble floor. It would make for a happy ending.

Hey, where do Indy guys go after losing a race? To a strip club so that they can get a LAP dance :))

Thanks for the parody AND the info!!! 555!!!

We live in interesting times. Putin is a no-good SOB, but his popularity ratings in the US are still higher than Obama's.

Ha! I thought this was about something else based on your title, but 555 anyway! Gives me an idea to parody ;-)

Good job

Good parody about an act of good ol' sense. Remember the Iran hostage crisis of 1979 - 1981? Also in 1989 when Manuel Noreiga of Panama said that his country and the USA were in a state of war, the USA had the Canal Zone and memories of the Iran crisis were still fresh so the USA invaded Panama. However, in this case Libya doesn't have a strong government and since Khadaffi got ousted there's been a lot of cuckoo groups that emerged from underneath the rock of his rule. It's a situation that America couldn't win so they left. But your parody wins, hands down!

I don't like Selena Gomez & the Scene (I got sucked into listening to it against my will), but this is too funny! 5's all around!

According to my search there are 67 Be Our Guest parodies on this site. 66 if you count the fact that someone stole this classic from Steven Cavanagh and posted it as their own. One of the first BOGs I recall here; it's our AmiRight Guestfest Classic of the day, and it's great.

(ABC) This was kind of intense. It didn't quite do it for me either. It doesn't help that I'm really not a Pink Floyd fan (I know you are, so don't be mad at me). I don't know what it was, I just didn't laugh a lot. Sorry.

(ABC) I liked what you did with this. Not overly hilarious, but still funny. An overall decent parody, that I can absolutely relate to.

(ABC) I am a huge fan of this show! I've watched the whole series through many times. I loved that you gave each character their moment in the song and I could really here their voices saying the lyrics. The overall pacing was a little choppy, and phrasing was sometimes odd, but this was still a hilariously fun tribute to one of my favorite shows of all time!

Thanks for your affirmation. I wish I could live up to your comparison of my work and that of T. Turtle; I might fluke something close to his style on occasion, but will never achieve his output.

And OBTW, I am the only other person I know of to do a Moby Dick-themed parody. It was a take off on "Call me, Maybe" entitled "Call me, Moby." Look for it in my Callmelennie top 140 author index -- January 25, 2013

The subject matter was funny, but you had a few minor pacing issues and one greivous pacing error. "At the wreckage there, was found new inspiration" was three syllables off. Rephrase to "At the wreck was found new inspiration" and you're on the pace. With a long lyrical line, it helps to count out the number of syllables in both the original line and your parody line so that they match .... Other than that, good stuff

(ABC) Holy crap, that was brilliant! I'm especially impressed that you kept the internal rhyming in the bridge. 555 fuzzy photos!

(ABC) Wow, this didn't click with me at all. Maybe it's the fact that I lack the context of the rest of the apparent project, I dunno, but the just the basic of idea of "we're gonna blow up Christmas" isn't that funny on it's own, and the shortness of the OS didn't allow you to flesh it out much. So yeah, not one of my faves of yours, sorry.

(ABC) Always a sucker for parodies that turn the OS title on it's head. Probably not as exaggerated as it could've been, but still funny all the same. 555 hours waiting!

(ABC) Dundadadundun shiny scalpel! Dundadadundun gonna slice him up! Seriously though, I only got most of this because I haven't seen an entire episode of this show, but I was still familiar enough to find this friggin' hilarious. Pity about the last chorus being a repeat, but still 555!

I AM LOVING GUESTFEST, JUST SO EVERYBODY KNOWS. And I don't even care if nobody else cares. Stuff this awesome should not be buried forever, dammit. Today's Classic is by the outstanding Leo Jay.

I came to have a look at this because I saw it in latest comments. Annie, you do realize that you are 8 and a half years too late with your message of support?

I really like this :) Awww Chris don't go! Write anyway and screw what haters say and think!

Hahahaha! I'm a cat lover but this had me laughing pretty hard LOL. Nice job! All 5s for you and your chunky cat

Similar, but different, as a parody is.

Many thanks, Peregrin. It always helps when you've got a cool topic. And thanks for schooling me with your recently posted 'explosive' parody!

Thanks Claude :) And Sexy Pistol? Thanks for your feedback/diatribe/manifesto/social comment...

Additional: Depending on whether your chosen definition of them must include a reversed camera or not I guess a case could be made for the first selfies to be self portraits by painters like Leonardo da Vinci, maybe even some crude cave paintings by our troglodyte forefathers. :-)

Classic Guestfest continues with one of the great commenters in AmiRight history proving he is also one of the greatest parodists. Wonderful stuff here John.

@ AAN: Well, at least my parody will be "new" alone the whole weekend.

@ Retrovision: According to my sister's 15 year old son, and others, Justin Bieber is at best an it. So the wording here is exactly as I want it to be, just count yourself lucky you're not part of the target audience for that particular joke slash line. :-)

God save the Kings and Queens The fascist regimes They made you a moron Potential H-bomb God save the Kings and Queens We mean it man All crimes are paid God Saves

A bit curious about this topic which has made it into the dictionaries of late generally regarding use of a cell phone and originating in the 1990s? Took notice that CNN has a series on The Sixties in which an astronaut claims that he took the first space selfie using a special space camera decades before the term became popular. Btw, Pete, the Bieber line doesn't make sense unless the word was supposed to be quiver, not plural "quit her?" Bieber fans are female and Bieber is a he, not a she!

I missed Christmas in July but somebody else got into the spirit. Good one.

It takes all kinds to make a federation. Bones is illogical and Spock is a nerd.

A few years late, but what Dee Range said is right

it's official "mandatory fun" is Al's first number one album!