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Category: Humor

Films can be funny, but this is humor about films: parodies, satires, and more.

Transformers: Revenge of the Foul

Posted on Jun 18, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Why should Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen be any better than the first one? Even if it was written by the team that brought us Star Trek XI…

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Star Wars Meets MacGuyver, Airwolf, Dallas

Posted on Apr 24, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

If Star Wars were a TV show, here's what it's opening sequence would look like in the style of classic Eighties shows MacGuyver, Airwolf, and Dallas.

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Star Trek Dallas Team: The 1969 Generation

Posted on Apr 17, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

What would Star Trek look like as The A-Team, Dallas, Gilligan's Island, or Space 1969?

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Alien vs. Predator: Can't We All Just Get Along?

Posted on Mar 27, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

New Zealand's Sky TV recently ran some amusing ads for an Aliens vs. Predator marathon. Check them out in our image gallery.

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Saturday Morning Watchmen

Posted on Mar 7, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Alan Moore has dubbed his Watchmen graphic novel unfilmable. If he didn't like Zack Snyder's adaptation, what would he think of this cartoon?

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White and Trekkie

Posted on Jan 31, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

What could make Weird Al Yankovic's music video for White & Nerdy even nerdier? Setting it to Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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Le Wrath di Khan

Posted on Jan 27, 2009Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

Robot Chicken gives us The Wrath Of Khan: The Opera, a musical tribute to Ricardo Montalban and the soundtrack of Star Trek.

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Why So Serious?

Posted on Dec 10, 2008Feb 1, 2022 by Ken Gagne

The Dark Knight comes to DVD, while RiffTrax offers multiple audio mockeries of Batman's latest excursion.

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