Our Top Ten Parodies + 8
We started featuring our top ten parodies on our home page, but added eight more when we found that most screens these days are able to display six icons per row. I hope that is the case with your computer!
The parody on the annual Charlie Brown football temptation by Lucy was inspired by the cover on my favorite magazine, The Week. You can read more about it on my two blog entries at Iran Talks Parody and Iran Talks Scenario 1 Parody.
I came across the youtube video, Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up? Since today is April fool’s day, I came up with my tongue-in-cheek answer. You can see my conspiracy theory on my post, The Real Mitt Romney Stands Up.
Time heals… say hello again to Tiger Woods who is back after a two-year hiatus by winning big at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He is featured here as The Return of the Prodigal Son in Rembrandt’s famous drawing.
Jennefer Lawrence is our latest Mona Lisa. She is a sensation as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games. Our previous parody was also a Mona Lisa. Suu Kyi who is running for a seat in parliament in Myanmar (AKA Burma) in the upcoming election on April 1, 2012. We have anticipated that she will win that seat in Parliament and have photoshopped her flashing the victory sign.
Mitt Romney keeps collecting delegates for the Republican nomination, but fails to deliver a “knock out” blow to Rick Santorum. Will we witness a David and Goliath scenario at the convention?
After the showing the the controversal “Game Change”, Sarah Palin is back! This time as Tea Part II’s the Sarah Palin Chronicles. Rush Limbaugh and Sandra Fluke controversy continues to fuel the media frenzy. When it will stop is anybody’s guess. The Republican Super Tuesday has finally come and gone. Although Romney continue to make ground, he has yet to pull ahead as had been expected. So far it has been a dizzy see-saw battle between Romeny and the non-Romenys, with each of the on-Romney taking their turns at the top of the tea party conservatives polls. For the occasion, I have done a parody on four of Marvel Comics Super Heroes. In this Super Tuesday parody, Mitt Romney is Thor, Rick Santorum is Captain Amerca, Newt Gingrich is the Incredible Hulk and Ron Paul is the Iron Man.
Our previous parody showed the Romey and Santorum battling it out in Michigan and Arizona for the “hearts and mind” of the tea party conservatives. That contest was won by Romney, but not by much. Rick Santorum joined our political gallery after his triple wins in Minnisota, Missori and Colorada. I show him as a possible Sir Lancelot for the tea party or a Don Quixote in a campaign doomed to failure. Poor Newt Gingrich… after Romney’s big win in Florida and Nevada, it looks like now it is Newt that is badly brused. There are still a lot bad blood remaining after all those negative ads. I decided to fix that with a little bit of Photoshopping. You can now see Romney saying to Gingrich, “I feel your pain!” OR is he trying to muzzle his rival? I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
Adele with her six grammys has shown up in Toulous-Lautrec’s painting “La Goulue arrivant au Moulin Rouge”.
Miami Heats contained Jemery Lin to beat the New York Knicks. Is this an omen on what is to come now that the opposition has had a chance to evaluate Lin? Time will tell. In the meantime, Lin remains the media’s darling and the New York’a favorite web-slinger!
My parody on Gingrich standing before the Washington monument shows him in George Washington’s military uniform. The original Gingrich oil portrait is by Thomas Nash. Question: Does he have too much baggage to make it all the way? Of the four Republican candidates for president in my “Wishers of Noz” only Mitt Romney remains. Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry have all dropped out of the race.
The previous parody was about Barack Obama’s Asia-Pacific tripbased on Gauguin’s “Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?”. The parody includes Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Aung San Suu Kyi (the opposition leader in Myanmar), the prime ministers Julia Gillard of Australia, Wen Jiabao of China, Manohan Singh of India, and president Benigno S. Aquino III of the Philippines.
Sadly, we say goodby to our parodies on Michele Bachmann as Liberty and on Hilardy Clinton as superwoman in order to keep our front page to the top ten plus eight. However, you can still see their parodies in the Political Parodies gallery.
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Site looks great! I really like the Herman Cain parody – the droopy pizzas in lieu of the watches in the Dali painting is a great touch. Keep up the good work!
Jonathan,
Thank you for your complements. I find Herman Cain’s run for the Republican’s presidential nomination especially interesting. His quick rise in the polls was surprising. The question remains whether he can keep up his rating over the long run. While people are intrigued by the simplicity of his 9-9-9 plan, it is obvious that it will need to be tweaked in order to be practical. Already, he has modified the plan to be 9-0-9 for the poor. Further tweaking will be necessary to woo the middle class once they realize that the plan will increase their taxes!
I had originally thought of creating three Gumby-like nines similar to the recent Google Doogle on Gumby, but settled on the 9 movie poster with the “To Save Us” message in the background.
I plan to do more parodies on Herman Cain in the future. Do keep in touch!
Albert