Line #36 Main/BlaxploitationParody


1	->'''Lance:''' Always trying to keep the white man down.\
2	'''Conspiracy Brother:''' THAT'S RIGHT, THAT'S RIGHT... no, that ain't right.
3	-->-- ''Film/UndercoverBrother''
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5	Back in the '70s, {{Blaxploitation}} films took hard-nosed Black heroes and pitted them against The Man in action-packed stories full of JiveTurkey, all set to a funky beat. Most were just bad, not to mention insulting. On the other hand, some, despite the poor production values, were vastly popular, well-crafted within their limitations, and immensely entertaining nuggets of pure gold.
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7	These days, any film producer (with the possible exception of Creator/QuentinTarantino) would be committing career suicide if they tried to make a Blaxploitation film... even if they did it because they loved the genre. The solution is the Blaxploitation Parody, which allows the producer to showcase the best elements of the genre while avoiding the worst, all while making fun of the whole thing.
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9	A subtrope of AffectionateParody.
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11	!!Examples:
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16	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-pe_QWsE5U This]] ice-cream ad from Chile, featuring a SoulBrotha AfroAsskicker and his ActionGirl MsFanservice partner.
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20	* "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession17MushroomSamba Mushroom Samba]]" from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', which is a mashup parody of two iconic '70s film genres -- Blaxploitation and the StonerFlick.
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24	* A notable example from the heyday of the genre is "Kingpin", a sketch from the 1974 album ''A Great Gift Idea'' by the comedy troupe The Credibility Gap ([[Series/LaverneAndShirley David L. Lander]], Creator/MichaelMcKean and Creator/HarryShearer). It's a trailer for a fictional Blaxploitation {{Biopic}} of UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr, complete with a ''Film/{{Superfly}}''-ish theme song.
25	-->He's a king, he's a pin, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs he's a Kingpin]]!
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28	[[folder:Fan Works]]
29	* ''Fanfic/TheRodSquad'' is a rare case of a FanFic that {{invoke\|dTrope}}s this -- especially since it's a ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' fanfic featuring mostly animals as characters. But then again, it's an AlternateUniverseFic that's set in TheSeventies and in which Dale and [[EnsembleDarkhorse Foxglove]] (or rather [[Film/FoxyBrown Foxy Glove]]) wear {{Funny Afro}}s.
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33	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}'' is Creator/RalphBakshi's [[DeconstructiveParody deconstructive racial satire]] of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%27er_Rabbit the African American myths of Br'er Rabbit]] and {{blaxploitation}} as a genre. The movie [[OvershadowedByControversy was and still remains controversial]] since it's utterly loaded with {{blackface}} imagery and outdated dialogue, though the more favorable audience members (from the NAACP to the Music/WuTangClan) says [[DeliberateValuesDissonance that exploring transgression is the whole point]].
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37	* The probable UrExample is the "Cleopatra Schwartz" segment of ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie''. Notable in that it came out in ''1977'', when actual Blaxploitation was still in its prime.
38	* ''Film/AustinPowers in Goldmember'': "My name is [[XtremeKoolLetterz Foxxy Cleopatra]] and I'm a whole lotta woman!", "You have the right to remain sexy, sugar...". And yes, her name is just "Film/FoxyBrown" and "Film/CleopatraJones" put together.
39	* ''Black Devil Doll'' is a very low-budget spoof of blaxploitation cinema, featuring a foul-mouthed DemonicDummy.
40	* ''Film/BlackDynamite'', an almost perfect recreation of period films.
41	* Low-budget indie horror movie ''Film/{{Boo}}'' features a cop who used to play in Blaxploitation films as "Dynamite Jones". At one point early in the film, he's having a drink in a restaurant and a [[{{Redubbing}} poorly done Spanish dub]] of one of his movies is playing on a TV in the background. It shows Jones fighting a vampire, in a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Blacula}}''.
42	* ''Film/{{Dolemite}}'': A hard-working pimp fights back against crooked cops who want to frame him for crimes he didn't commit (instead of the rather obvious crimes he does commit). One of the first blaxploitation parodies, [[MisaimedFandom but some people think it's a straight example]].
43	* ''Film/TheHebrewHammer'' [[AffectionateParody lovingly spoofs]] Blaxploitation films by combining them with [[ANiceJewishIndex literally every Jewish stereotype ever]], as well as a SavingChristmas (and Hanukkah ''from'' Christmas) plot, to create the world's first "Jewsploitation" film.
44	* ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'': A 1986 film starring Keenan Ivory Wayans and several other stars of blaxploitation films such as Jim Brown, Antonio Fargas (that's "Huggy Bear" to you ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'' fans) and Isaac Hayes.
45	* ''Film/{{Machete}}'' started out as a fictitious Mexploitation film whose [[RealTrailerFakeMovie trailer]] was part of ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', but then Creator/RobertRodriguez [[{{Defictionalization}} actually made it]].
46	* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'': An early 2000s Eddie Griffin film about a SoulBrotha who joins a secret organization in its fight against "The Man" and his quest to "whitewash" influential black figures.
47	* ''Film/PootieTang'' is a completely silly spoof of the blaxploitation genre.
48	* In ''Hollywood Shuffle'', Robert Townsend plays an actor who gets cast in a {{Blaxploitation}} film. He's not sure if he should take the job -- on the one hand at least he'd be working, but on the other hand he'd be working in one of these. [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]] aplenty.
49	* The mockumentary ''Fear of a Black Hat'' has been described as the ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'' of HipHop.
50	* In ''Film/UrbanLegend'', the security guard Reese Wilson idolizes Creator/PamGrier and imagines herself a blaxploitation heroine. [[spoiler:She gets her wish when she pulls off the BigDamnHeroes moment at the end]].
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54	* Creator/KimNewman's ''Nefertiti Bronze'' stories in ''The Lovecraft Squad'' SharedUniverse are what happens when blaxploitation meets the Literature/CthulhuMythos, with a Harlem-based voodoo practitioner heroine named as a clear riff on Film/CleopatraJones.
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58	* ''Series/JustShootMe'' once showed a clip from Nina's own star turn as ''Foxy Trouble''. Even though she's white, it's still done in this style -- likely because it's a flashback to TheSeventies and you can't get more '70s than blaxploitation.
59	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' had a blaxploitation film parody on the season 36 episode hosted by Jessie Eisenberg (''The Social Network'') with musical guest Nicki Minaj called "The Bride of Blackenstein," in which Dr. Blackenstein (Jay Pharoah) and his assistant Igor (Jessie Eisenberg) create a bride (Nicki Minaj) for Blackenstein's monster (Kenan Thompson). Unfortunately, despite the fact that the bride has a nice ass (made from two basketballs filled with Jell-O), she is very much the embodiment of the SassyBlackWoman trope (only she's not fat).
60	* Similarly (and far before the SNL version), ''Series/MadTV'' had "The Son of Dolemite" as well as "Funkenstein", with BadBadActing, nonsensical camera-cuts, and the occasional boom-mic hanging on-screen. [[AffectionateParody All intentional, of course]].
61	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' had a host segment where they perform Crow's attempt at a Blaxpolitation screenplay, ''Chocolate Jones and The Temple of Funk''.
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65	* The Human Tornado and the {{tag team}} "Supply And Demand" in Ultimate Pro Wrestling. by virtue of being {{Captain Ersatz}}s to Film/{{Dolemite}}.
66	* Jimi Mayhem, a captain Ersatz to Shonuff from ''Film/TheLastDragon'', looking to get his revenge on Bruce Leroy in Wrestling/{{N\|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Vendetta Pro Wrestling.
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70	* ''SOLID! The TabletopGame/{{d20\|Modern}} Blaxploitation Experience'' features abilities like "booty slide" and being able to conceal objects inside your massive 'fro.
71	* In ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orksploitation]] media is a relatively popular genre of entertainment in-universe. It blends elements of both blaxploitation and gangster rap. [[CaptainObvious And orks]].
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75	* Isaac Washington, the secondary protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDeadOverkill'' is basically a straight sendup of the average blaxploitation hero, [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation who uses "motherfucker" like most of us would use a comma]]. Make him mad and he'll rip your balls off.
76	* Not an entire work, but one of the main characters of ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' is an African-American police officer. We get to see his apartment early in the game, and the place is a blaxploitation ''nightmare.''
77	* The hats released for Demoman from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' are a parody of this: The small black "'fro" and a pimp's hat.
78	* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'' has the ShowWithinAShow "Dick Justice", a parody of the first ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1'' with a black protagonist.
79	* The Black Baron (stop starin'!), from ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' and ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'' IS this trope. He wears [[BlingOfWar blinged-out]] PimpDuds, is a ClusterFBomb-[[SirSwearsALot dropping]] PluckyComicRelief (who, in ''[=MadWorld=]'', [[TheyKilledKennyAgain is constantly made the victim of his own]] [[BloodSport lethal minigames]] by [[EnigmaticMinion Matilda, his silent]], {{Dominatrix}}-esque [[DarkMistress girlfriend]]), [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass and can still bitch-slap your ass back to 1969]] with his RapidFireFisticuffs (which are '''[[KillItWithFire literally on fire]]''' [[SequelEscalation in the later game]]!). He gets away with this by [[CrossesTheLineTwice Crossing the Line Twice]], and RefugeInAudacity alone [[spoiler: [[AnnouncerChatter even after the announcers in Madworld]] [[TheReveal reveal]] [[BlackFace HE'S NOT EVEN BLACK]]]]!
80	** The somewhat-sequel has the Blacker Baron, who's just as strong as his predecessor and twice as black.
81	* In ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'', one of the GagDub voice-packs available for DLC is one for [[ScaryBlackMan Big Band]], [[SarcasmMode creatively called]] "[[{{Pun}} Saxploitation]]".
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85	* ''Webcomic/SatanNinja198X'' features a character named Valery "Viper" Viperelli, a freelance badass, who fights Satan Ninjas and sports a bleached blond mohawk.
86	* ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' has Tigerlily Jones, a black female MadScientist who can be strapped into a straightjacket in institutional grey and come out looking like Creator/PamGrier.
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90	* It's only a brief clip, but ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' did a memorable gag where Homer is watching a tv-movie titled ''Blackula Meets Black Dracula''. It's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pretty much what you'd expect based on the title]].
91	** Also in ''The Simpsons'', Homer watches "Blaxploitation Theater" which is said to feature ''Film/{{Blacula}}'', ''Film/{{Blackenstein}}'', and ''The Blunch Black of Bloture Blame''. Homer's response? "Ooh, funkay!"
92	* Similarly, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' once had a fictional trailer for ''Black to the Future'', a Blaxploitative version of ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''. Said trailer also mentioned ''[[Film/{{Backdraft}} Blackdraft]]'', ''[[Film/{{Caddyshack}} Caddyblack]]'' and ''[[Film/KramerVsKramer Black Kramer vs. Kramer]]''.
93	* A parody of Film/{{Blacula}} features in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', an elder black version of Dracula who talks like [[Series/SanfordAndSon Fred Sanford]].
94	* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' has Foxxy Love, a sass-talking black girl and mystery solver who is often fighting against oppressive, and white, institutions (i.e., The Board of Education).
95	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
96	** The episode "Brains, Brains, and Automobiles" has a Blaxploitation-style fight between Stan and the Hostess Chocodile mascot (a crocodile in PimpDuds), complete with funky soundtrack.
97	--->'''Stan''': ''[after the latter rudely shoves him]'' Hey Chocodile, watch where your going!\
98	'''Chauncey Chocodile''': Oh, ''hell'' no!
99	** The episode "For Black Eyes Only", the follow-up to the non-canon Film/JamesBond parody episode "Tearjerker", has Francine as Sexpuneequa and Principal Lewis as Black Villain, a funky criminal who wants to melt the ice caps to turn his Detroit street into beach front property.
100	* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' has Jefferson Twilight, a CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/{{Blade}} who is a Film/{{Blacula}} [[VampireHunter hunter]].
101	* Robot Police Officer URL from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' is a parody of {{Blaxploitation}} heroes. This overlaps with OddCouple and AndroidsAndDetectives, given his partner is human Police Officer Smitty.
102	* The ShowWithinAShow ''Action Hank'' in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory''.
103	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', it was revealed that Donna starred in a film she regretted being in, ''Hot Cocoa Bang Bang''.
104	* In the episode "Diamond Boogie" from ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'', Dodgers and Cadet team up with police officer Paprika Solo (a kind of Film/CleopatraJones from space) against villain Victor Von Boogieman on the planet Groovica.
105	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'', all the forest animals are sitting around a campfire telling a segment of a story. Barry the Bear (an obvious Music/BarryWhite parody) tells his story segment in this fashion.
106	* There's an {{animesque}} ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite'' cartoon series on Creator/AdultSwim, based on the aforementioned movie of the same name.
107	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' has him mention that he's a fan of Blaxploitation movies, with his favorite being about "the greatest detective of them all -- Jim Slate: [[BlackIsBiggerInBed Big Black Dick]]". The episode "Ebony, Baby" is an extended Blaxploitation Parody, with him working together with a Film/{{Coffy}} parody to solve a crime.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' has [[Film/FoxyBrown Boxy Brown]], a cardboard box with an afro and mustache.
109	-->'''Boxy Brown''': I'm just a '''what''', bitch?
110	* The ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS1E5BoogieFrightsAbracadaver Boogie Frights]]" depicts the Boogieman as a Blaxploitation villain, PimpDuds and all.
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