[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ff08f09b_8aa4_46e7_8061_263f46b6dad2.jpeg]]

''Farce of the Penguins'' is a 2007 {{comedy}} parodying ''Film/MarchOfThePenguins''. The film was released direct-to-video, and centers around two penguins, Carl and his best friend Jimmy (voiced by Creator/BobSaget and Creator/LewisBlack) as they make the journey to find mates for the breeding season. The film is narrated by Creator/SamuelLJackson and features the voices of several other celebrities including Creator/ChristinaApplegate, Creator/MoNique, Creator/TracyMorgan, Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/JasonBiggs, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, Creator/NormMacdonald, Creator/DavidKoechner, Creator/BrieLarson, Creator/AbeVigoda and Creator/GilbertGottfried.
----
!!This film provides examples of:
* AccidentalAdultery: [[spoiler: Jimmy accidentally has sex with Melissa not knowing it’s her and she believes it was Carl until he tells her he was asleep.]]
* AdvertisedExtra: Despite the movie touting an Main/AllStarCast, a majority of the featured actors only appear for one scene.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: One of Carl's exes, Esther, speaks in a Jewish accent and dumps him for not keeping kosher.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The male penguins have noticeable bulges between their legs, and Marcus likes to boast about his large penis. Actual male penguins don't have penises; all penguins regardless of sex have a single cloaca, used for urination, defecation, and reproduction.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Juan Sanchez is a rockhopper penguin, a breed of penguin which resides along the islands of South America, and the global warming penguins are yellowed-eyed penguins, which are native to New Zealand.
* AtomicFBomb: The "nutless" penguin (voiced by Creator/GilbertGottfried) drops one as he walks away at the end of his scene:
--> '''Nutless penguin''': FUUUUUUCK YOOOOOUUU!!
* BedmateReveal: Played with. Jimmy realizes that in a late-night horny stupor, he'd accidentally done it with [[spoiler: Melissa, who thought it was Carl.]]
* BigOMG: Melissa’s reaction after realizing [[spoiler: Jimmy did it with her.]]
* BigEater: The Starving Penguin who loves sand dabs.
-->'''Starving Penguin''': God, I love sand dabs. They're so good. All succulent, pan-fried with a little butter.
* BirdPoopGag: In the beginning of the movie, after the narrator calls Antarctica one of the most beautiful places on Earth, a seagull drops a shit [[BreakingTheFourthWall on the camera]].
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The penguins sometimes can hear and talk to the narrator and it’s hinted that they are aware they are characters in a film.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Marcus: "I'm just fuckin' with you!"
* ClosetGay: The other characters suspect that Sydney is gay, which he denies [[spoiler: until the ending.]]
* ConMan: When Carl and Jimmy make it to the breeding grounds, they are initially greeted by an Arctic fox who asks them if they want to buy tickets, watches, and other stuff off him.
* EyePop: Vicky has this reaction when Marcus shows off his…attributes to her.
* TheGenericGuy: One of the penguins claims to have no personality.
-->'''No Personality Penguin''': Where you lead me I will go, Jimmy. [[LampshadeHanging I have no discernible personality]].
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Jimmy invokes this trope as Carl starts to get worried when they temporarily strayed from the path and ended up right back where they started from.
* GlobalWarming: One of the aside scene features some penguins walking on terrain where the snow has melted, and one angrily rants about global warming. Ironically, his yelling causes multiple avalanches.
* InformedDeformity: Vicky says one of her past ex-mates, Ralph, was ugly. In the flashback, Ralph is shown to have been a king penguin who hadn't finished shedding his brown feathers.
* {{Jerkass}}: Helen, one of the female penguins.
** The gang of seals that forced the male penguins to take a detour from their path.
* JiveTurkey: Marcus.
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Marcus acknowledges the whistling marching music that was playing earlier in the movie as "philharmonic bullshit" and tells the "home penguin" to change it. The music changes to a song with a soft rock sound and while Marcus seems to like the song, he can't walk to it. The music then changes to a rap song and Marcus jams to it immediately.
* LemonyNarrator: Creator/SamuelLJackson fills this role in the movie.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Carl has this reaction when he first meets Melissa.
* MediumAwareness: It's implied that all of the cast knows they're in this documentary. The "nutless" penguin even argues with the narrator.
* MelancholyMusicalNumber: The movie has two of these; one pertaining to Carl and Melissa longing to find "the one" before they meet each other, and the other pertaining to Carl contemplating forgiving Jimmy for [[spoiler: unknowingly having sex with Melissa while she and Carl were asleep]].
* MenagerieOfMisery: Carl mentions having a nightmare about being trapped in some kind of enclosure and being ridiculed by humans.
* OhTheHumanity: One of the walruses scratching their asses utters this phrase.
* TheOwlKnowingOne: Steve the Snowy Owl.
* ScaryBlackMan: Marcus, although he's mostly just messing with Carl and Jimmy.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Marcus decides to move ahead of the path after Jimmy slaps an anxious Carl.
* SelfDefeatingProphecy: Juan Sanchez makes it to the top of the mountain, [[spoiler: only to be snatched away by a seagull]].
* SexMontage: When Jimmy says everybody in the world is having sex except for Carl and him, a montage of other animals getting it on briefly plays out.
-->'''Sydney''': I have GOT to find out who their event planner is.
* ShoutOut:
** Jimmy says [[Film/TheSixthSense “I see dead people,”]] when Carl suggests moving to Palm Springs.
** Juan Sanchez says the Antarctic skunk weed he found will help him find [[Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre the Treasure of Sierra Madre]].
** When Jimmy argues with the narrator, the latter says, “[[Film/AFewGoodMen you can't handle the truth]], Ruth!”
** The second time we see the global warming penguin, he name drops Film/AnInconvenientTruth.
** Marcus name drops Film/BrokebackMountain.
** A walrus asks Carl and Jimmy is they know Literature/TheDaVinciCode.
** Carl name drops Film/EyesWideShut.
** When Juan Sanchez makes it to the top of the mountain, he says, [[Film/{{Titanic1997}} “I'm the king of the world!”]]
** The third and final time we see the global warming penguin, he's near a [[Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968 demolished Statue of Liberty]].
* TheShrink: Steve the Snowy Owl, known for charging insane amounts for short sessions.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Juan Sanchez thinks he will be famous if he climbs to the top of a mountain.
* SoundOff: This occurs twice in the film, first with the male penguins and second with the female penguins.
* StockFootage: The movie consists of stock footage from nature documentaries with various celebrities providing voices for the penguins.
* TheStoner: Juan Sanchez states that he smokes skunk weed.
* TravelMontage: After a group of seals threaten the male penguins into taking a detour from their usual path, a montage of the penguins slipping and falling as they tread through ice and rocks plays out with surf music playing in the background. The montage ends with the male penguins getting washed away by a wave.
* ToiletHumour: The film frequently makes these type of jokes.
* YellowSnow: One of the gags of the film.
* YourCheatingHeart: One of Carl’s exes, Amanda, cheated on Carl.
-->'''Amanda''': I have something to tell you, Carl. I cheated on you.
-->'''Carl''': How? We've been standing right next to each other for two months.
-->'''Amanda''': While you were sleeping, Vittorio came over and…we made love.
-->'''Carl''': But I was standing right here.
-->'''Amanda''': That's why it's over, Carl. You didn't even wake up.
----