History Main / BohemianParody

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Music/{{Queen}} is a really catchy song, isn't it? Pretty much everyone can recognize the distinctive and complex melody, most people know the lyrics (at least approximately), it's a melding of numerous musical genres from rock to opera (thus lending itself nicely to being played with using other genres as well), and it also has a rather famous and recognisable music video. Thanks to its distinctive nature and SmallReferencePools, it's become quite a common subject for {{Parody}}.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E18TheShowStoppers The Show Stoppers]]", which revolves around the Cutie Mark Crusaders entering a Main/TalentShow, features a brief recreation of the video's opening shot at the start of the episode's main song (which otherwise bears little resemblance to "Bohemian Rhapsody" itself) with the CMC taking the band's place.

* A rather hilarious video created by a young guy from Indonesia made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTDkzOTB7Xc a parody of the titular song]], which went viral in 2020. But the real hilarity comes from the lyrics themselves. It turns out he wasn't singing about his lover, instead, he was singing about ''[[FoodSongsAreFunny some kind of random food menu]]'' he wants to order such as iced tea and French fries. For some good reasons, ''everything that he sang is [[OdetoFood all about food]]''. Talk about [[WordSaladLyrics Word Salad Lyrics]] with [[JustForFun/XMeetsY a fusion]] of [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder Overcomplicated Menu Order]].

* At a show in Canberra, Australia, Creator/RossNoble was delighted to discover that an audience member in the front row worked for the Australian Bureau of Statistics: the government agency that,amongst other duties, conducts the 5 yearly national census. Ross then ad libbed a lengthy bit where he was a census taker asking an imaginary person a series of questions, and then repeating their answers back; the answers gradually building up into the lyrics of "Bohemian Rhapsody".

There are several common approaches. The first is to keep the melody more or less intact but change the lyrics to suit a new, comic purpose. The second is to keep the song more or less the same, but have it sung by unlikely or inappropriate stand-ins for Queen (such as [[Franchise/StarTrek the crew of the U.S.S Enterprise]]) or in much sillier or inappropriate voices, and a third is to keep the lyrics the same but change the melody from a dramatic fusion of rock and opera to something a bit less... bombastic. Then, once you're done, all you need to do is replace the 'Bohemian' part of the title with something more appropriate to your current purposes so that the title becomes "[X] Rhapsody", and bingo! [[HilarityEnsues Instant hilarity!]]

* An old issue of ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine had "Companions' Rhapsody", sung by the cast of the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Chronicles''.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Music/{{Queen}} is a really catchy song, isn't it? Pretty much everyone can recognize the distinctive and complex melody, most people know the lyrics (at least approximately), it's a melding of numerous musical genres from rock to opera (thus lending itself nicely to being played with using other genres as well), and it also has a rather famous and recognisable music video. As a result, thanks to its distinctive nature and SmallReferencePools, it's become quite a common subject for {{Parody}}.

* Neversoft [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u32Qupdd10 spared no time]] doing the Bohemian Rhapsody performance in ''[[VideoGame/GuitarHero Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock]]'', complete with over-the-top gestures. When the motion capture data from that song got backported to ''World Tour'' by the ''World Tour Definitive Edition'' team, it did not take long for people to come up with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N1bHjgltEE some]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGxLf4HIwHQ rather]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djI47a7pCD4 interesting]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8a007j-Ji8 band]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C26UphJTI-A lineups]].

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* Rain does this in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' in the form of his second [[FinishingMove Fatality]], with brief cameos of Reptile, Ermac and Smoke, all positioned like the album cover of [[Music/QueenII Queen II]].

* Rain does this in [[VideoGame/MortalKombat11 Mortal Kombat 11]] in the form of his second [[FinishingMove Fatality]], with brief cameos of Reptile, Ermac and Smoke, all positioned like the album cover of [[Music/QueenII Queen II]].

* A rather hilarious video created by a young guy from Indonesia made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTDkzOTB7Xc a parody of the titular song]], which went viral in 2020. But the real hilarity comes from the lyrics themselves. It turns out he wasn't singing about his lover, instead, he was singing about [[FoodSongsAreFunny ''some kind of random food menu'']] he wants to order such as iced tea and French fries. For some good reasons, ''everything that he sang is [[OdetoFood all about food'']]. Talk about [[WordSaladLyrics Word Salad Lyrics]] with [[JustForFun/XMeetsY a fusion]] of [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder Overcomplicated Menu Order]].

* A rather hilarious video created by a young guy from Indonesia made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTDkzOTB7Xc a parody of the titular song]], which went viral in 2020. But the real hilarity comes from the lyrics themselves. It turns out he wasn't singing about his lover, instead, he was singing about ''some kind of random food menu'' he wants to order such as iced tea and French fries. ''And everything that he sang is all about food''. Talk about [[WordSaladLyrics Word Salad Lyrics]] with [[JustForFun/XMeetsY a fusion]] of [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder Overcomplicated Menu Order]].

* A rather hilarious video created by a young guy from Indonesia made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTDkzOTB7Xc a parody of the titular song]], which went viral in 2020. But the real hilarity comes from the lyrics themselves. It turns out he wasn't singing about his lover, instead, he was singing about ''some kind of random food menu'' he wants to order such as iced tea and French fries. ''And everything that he sang is all about food''. Talk about [[WordSaladLyrics Word Salad Lyrics]] with a fusion of [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder Overcomplicated Menu Order]].

* A rather hilarious video created by a young guy from Indonesia made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTDkzOTB7Xc a parody of the titular song]], which went viral in 2020. But the real hilarity comes from the lyrics themselves. It turns out he wasn't singing about his lover, instead, he was singing about some kind of random food menu he wants to order such as iced tea and French fries. And everything that he sang is all about food. Talk about [[WordSaladLyrics Word Salad Lyrics]] with a fusion of [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder Overcomplicated Menu Order]].

* A rather hilarious viral video created by a young guy from Indonesia made a parody of "Bohemian Rhapsody", but the real hilarity comes from the lyrics themselves. Turns out he wasn't singing about his lover, instead, he was singing about some kind of food menu he wants to order such as iced tea and French fries. Talk about [[WordSaladLyrics Word Salad Lyrics]] with a fusion of [[OvercomplicatedMenuOrder Overcomplicated Menu Order]].

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* Recreating the soundtrack cover with different franchises isn't unheard of - examples include, but are not limited to, ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' [[https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=766011 (here)]], ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' [[https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1594909 (here)]] and [[https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1265311 (here)]], ''Anime/KemonoFriends'' [[https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=2636622 (here)]], and even ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' [[https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1848576 (here)]]. There's also one featuring a set of [[EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies pomeranians]] [[https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=2701491 here]].

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* A variant: ''Film/WaynesWorld'' has Wayne and Garth singing along as the song comes on the radio. Thus warranting [[VideoFullOfFilmClips another version of the video with scenes of the movie]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzoOLNmm9WY Bohemian Robsody]], a parody by Youtube user Sim Dane, with UsefulNotes/FormulaOne driver [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kubica Robert Kubica]] as the central character.

* Briefly in ''Disney/FrozenII''. At one point during "Lost in the Woods", there's a shot of Kristoff's head being flanked by three reindeer heads, lighted to resemble the opening shot of the video.

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* A variant: ''Film/WaynesWorld'' has Wayne and Garth singing along as the song comes on the radio. Thus warranting [[VideoFullOfFilmClips another version of the video with scenes of the movie]].