Assignments: Comedy Spoofs Mini Genre Presentation

• A spoof is a mocking imitation

• Light/ good humored and pokes fun of other works

• rhetorical situation the genre arose from/addresses: It takes an original storyline or plot and puts the characters into ‘abnormal’ context(s) for humorous effect.

o Examples: Scary Movie Franchise, Monty Python, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights

• Show Video

• The archery tournament, a disguised Robin makes it to the final round, where he makes his shot but loses to his opponent. Robin calls this situation absurd, takes off his disguise and pulls out a copy of the movie's script to discover that he gets another shot. The Sheriff and Prince John then pull out their own copies and confirm this. Crowd des chop. Robin then takes the second shot, this time using a special "PATRIOT arrow" and it goes through the crowd causing them to do the wave and finally hits the target.

• Content: In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, many of the scenes show where the objects used in the scene don’t fit in the medieval time period, but you would see them in today society. The Chop, Wave, Arrow.

• You also see Robin Hood face the camera and pull out the movie script.

• the tone or style and the purpose(s) of the genre--The purpose of spoofs and parodies is to entertain

• potential complication, implications, problems, and pitfalls of the genre

• the intended or consequential audience of the genre—has been said to potentially be plagiarism different people find different things funny amusing become more offensive because now a day it can be difficult to tell if the oppressors or oppressed are being made fun of.