The ones I’ve read have been a lot of fun. The Snagglepuss during the McCarthy era series was outstanding, though I’ve seen it reported (not sure how reputably) that it got the entire line stopped because it made a Warner exec uncomfortable.
And the perverts who thought it was a good idea to make this are allowed to drive, vote, and own weapons. This country’s mental health care system is not broken, it’s insane.
Johnny Quest is out of the question due to Venture Brothers already parodying it mercilessly. Moving far deeper into that milieu than others would have done.
Kind of like its nearly impossible to watch the Michael Caine Harry Palmer spy movies (or Connery Bond films) with a straight face after Austin Powers
(I, too, have difficulty with straight-to-video “movies,” but that’s the new, post-Netflix, post-4k-big-screen-tv, reality. Increasingly, movies are bypassing theaters entirely. The difference between a “video” and a “movie” is length and maybe, if we’re being exclusionary, production quality.)
This is exactly the plot of this season (2) of Happy!, also on SyFy. But I doubt it will be a fraction as good.
Well, I take that back. 1/1000 is still a fraction.
And HR Puffenstuff (I did not get the implication in the name until years later) and Sigmund and the SeaMonsters and Lidsville. Yes i did. I blame that for my twisted outlook on life!
Austin Powers never really worked for me because the Connery/Moore Bond films were already self-parodies, plus there was a huge industry in the 60s of Bond parody films. (And the 70s, and 80s. One odd late one is Go for it with spaghetti western actor Terence Hill. It is a pretty mediocre standard B-movie until you discover the bad guy’s plot, which is one of the most surreal things I’ve ever seen in a movie. The big weapon is a bomb which will destroy the concept of number. I had the movie on in the background while soldering, and when that part rolled around I (a) burned myself, and (b) had to go back to make sure I had heard correctly. That is serious Doctor Faustroll stuff.
Austin Powers tried too hard in too many places. They don’t hold up with a rewatch for me.
You know what really nailed it were the recent French spy spoofs. OSS 117 Cairo Nest Of Spies and OSS 117 Lost In Rio. Jean Dujardin plays the clueless full of sexist imperialist crap superspy perfectly.