If Carrey was in the "Liar Lair" I wouldn't believe a word he said...

@@kenlieck7756 I was confused by that typo too ;)

Honestly it's a good thing for both of them, i love Jim but i don't see him as Dr Evil and also Liar Liar is one of my all time favorite comedies

@@ironmaster6496 yeah and the fact that the same actor plays the villain and hero and they end up being brothers is too perfect.

@@ironmaster6496 Jim at that point in his career was mostly doing the high energy manic stuff. We likely would have wound up with Dr. Ventura Evil Veterinarian. Which now that I type that seems absolutely fantastic.

What happened to the first?

How could she be so blind on it being a parody???

@@ConnorNotyerbidness I think she just hated the idea of parodies so much that she refused to accept it.

It isn't a parody film though. It goes beyond that, transcending mere parody to a higher level

@@pyropulseIXXI a it works as a film on its own if you know nothing about James bond. There is a actual plot unlike the scary movies that's a bunch of family guy style sketches

Nah it made him just like bond. They are truly connected

@@alexanderguerrero347 No it didn’t. The same Bond could face two different Blofleds of inconsistent looks. I remember a Blofeld who looked like Dr. Evil and another who looked nothing like him.

@@knowledgeseeker4614 you smell bitch

@@knowledgeseeker4614 you’re also wrong

@@thesagaofdarrenshanfanchan793 No I’m not. I remember one Blofed looked almost sickly and another looked like he could physically take on anyone.

Sadly thats more often the case than not in his career. Hes a great actor but he needs a good director and script to make it work as a villain. He fully admitted he felt he never got a grasp on blofeld, unlike hans lambda for which he was given Tons to work with on characterization Mendes definately relied a lot on actors to do the heavy lifting on characterizing their characters. For mikkelsen and bardem that was fine, they are used to doing it. Not to mention mikkelsen could work off flemings works. I doubt waltz picked up a copy of the spectre trilogy by comparison

It was worse than boring, it was horrible!

@@gregorsamsa2271 Actor like him deserves a better role

@@ConnorNotyerbidness Mendes didn't direct Mikkelson, Martin Campbell did, the same guy who directed Sean Bean.

I found him very mesmerising.

Sadly apparently their takeaway was "We can never do that stuff again. Ever."

@@okankyoto eh they kinda brought it back for No Time To Die

Only someone so EVIL could destroy that opportunity so successfully.

I hope stuff like that is in the new Bond, I think rebooting it and bringing the series back to the retro era and filling it with the same gadgets and quirkiness would be great

Honestly that probably would have worked out better for them. If they had made "Blofeld" a character that Felix Leiter invented for the purpose of running the organisation. Bizarre, fickle, unpredictable but brilliant. It's how Fleming originally wrote all his villains, high competency in some fashion but also physically or mentally peculiar. You can't straighten out parody, you have to break out from it.

Execs make money through creative accounting. They want movies to fail so they they don’t have to pay their backers. Think the Producers but it’s the norm rather than exception

Hollywood accounting at its finest. IIRC Return of the Jedi has never made a profit. Key word there is profit. It made money just there is enough shell games that all its money went else where.

@@Historyandlegends789 The Producers in an exception because they failed in their scam.

You have to take advertising into account. Movies are only financially successful and worthwhile when they make several times what they cost to make.

mcu stans when the newest movie makes less than 1 billion dollars in box office

Absolute gold. "At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Wilma ritualistic shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum, it's breathtaking, I suggest you try it."

My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. A sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament.

@@herbertmorales333 When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I suggest you try it.

Always slightly amused me the way he says testicles at the end.

When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds.

Preparation H does feel good on the whole.

"Surely you did not think you could so easily grip victory from my snatch?" -- Not Dr. Evil

"Why don't you just call it 'Operation Ass cream', you ass?"

Why don’t you just call it preparation ass cream, you ass?

Why not just call it operation Ass cream you Ass

Along with holding your pinkie to your lip while saying something dramatic.

Stuck around?

I'm sorry dear anonymous commenter, but your American pride blinds you to the fact that this film is known worldwide. I, Brazilian, watched it dubbed and I must say that the character made an impact on viewers here.

When Dr. Evil premiered not many people knew what Lorne Michaels sounded like or realized it was an imitation. The press around the movie told us. In the 90's Lorne was mostly a behind the scenes producer. The imitation was an inside joke. But the speech patterns were performed in an iconic way. But the fact that he was a Lorne imitation had no effect on Dr. Evil's popularity. the reverse was true. It enhanced Lorne's fame and recognizability. (as opposed to behind the scenes fame like a Shonda Rhimes or Aaron Sorkin)

@@augustopaixao8911 no one said that chill out, your brazilian pride has made you sound slow, did anybody said it was only popular in america ? no.

How *much* gold , though?

I love gold

*Goldmember has entered the chat*

Blofeld is better

@@cupcakesandrose Ooo, datsh a keeper!

the interesting thing is Shrek while kind of a parody of Disney fairytale movies did not destroy them. Compare to the film Airplane! which basically ended the disaster movie until Independence Day in the 1990s.

@@filanfyretracker and then Sept. 11th 2001 killed it again

Sad.

@@filanfyretrackerto be fair, Airplane has completely eclipsed the Airport franchise and Zero Hour

I think a lot of what Dr. Evil says pretty much sums up most of the original plot and storyline of Blofeld. I mean Blofeld having a kill switch for everybody sitting at his table, then Dr. Evil actually shows that side of the character that demands such crazy things to be built and made, perfect parody not just cosmetic with a total different personality. Mike Myers is a legend actually.

Yeah I think he's a more pointed parody of the typical Bond villain than people realize. Bond movies often employ ridiculous plot points and characters in them, they're just played totally straight. Dr. Evil plays into a lot of those ridiculous elements, with the difference that he's more silly than intimidating, so people don't play along as much, usually causing him to get frustrated or (like in the case of Scott) repeatedly shut them down til they give up and let him do his little villain theatrics.

Yeah, ironically Dr Evil is probably more a full character on his own, Blofeld was almost more a plot device. Some of this seems due to limiting screen time to keep him mysterious, but also keep him semi protect him as a credible threat since Bond is generally going to win against anyone directly in front of him. Ending up mainly presenting motivation of the antagonists which get most screen time in any of films the original was in, and the reboot versions was not exactly set up well.

It's his quote ability that makes him stand out, I can't remember a single bond villan quote yet can and often uses dr evil quotes

​@@KiwiSpartan01 "No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die." "For England, James?" Admittedly I haven't seen very many 007 films but come on that first one at least is so iconic literally every spy parody does it.

It's like they watched Austin Powers, & Reboot Goldfinger to a Goldmember Ripoff, & Oddjob is a played by a Short Guy, & make a Goldeneye Joke.

They should have taken notes on Blofeld from On Her Majesty's Secret Service rather than You Only Live Twice

"ok, sir, I've watched all the Austin Power movies, I'm sure I can write the Blofeld backstory without making him seem like Dr. Evil" "Great, got any ideas to start with" *Script writer proceeds to name every concept that appeared in Austin Powers* "Put it in the script, this is going to work wonderfully"

​@@EddieB-ready Oh my god you are 100% right 🤦🤣

They should've used the books.

Who are you calling an a-whole?

Honestly, I think Blofeld was used far too often in the Bond films. This is especially the case given how much the world and the franchise changed over all those decades.

The thing is that making Blofeld the overarching mastermind behind Craig's entire tenure probably could've worked, if they'd planned it from the start. Eon didn't get the rights to use Blofeld and SPECTRE again until 2013, by which point we were three films into the Craig era, which already had a mysterious shadowy organisation acting as an overarching threat (Quantum). Rather than hold off and leave Blofeld until the next Bond's tenure, they just blew their load straight away and crammed him into a story in which he had no real place, meaning that Spectre had to jump through loads of hoops to connect him to the previous films, resulting in the overarching story for the Craig era becoming a contrived mess

Honestly, yes! They should have kept QUANTUM, instead bringing SPECTRE back. And Blofeld just didn't fit into the modern era. Up until Skyfall they had original ideas, and I wish they would have kept them. There were so many possibilities...

@@gregorsamsa2271 They could have even kept much of Spectre the same, but just keep Quantum as Quantum, and keep Oberhauser as Oberhauser. Imo it's the forced references that make the film feel so hacky and overly expository - because they have to explain and justify it so much in order to force a reference that means nothing to the characters, and that the audience all saw coming a mile off. They could have made his fake name "Zebediah Scrunch" and called the organisation behind Quantum "Phantom" and it has the exact same impact on the story and character. It's fanservice of the most boring kind because it means NOTHING. That being said, I think Blofeld in No Time To Die was far more compelling even with his limited screen time - because he actually had the proper setup and emotional importance to the characters that felt lacking in Spectre.

I think Lex Luthor can still work without going to an extreme... but it's because of how often the writers properly thematically tie him in with Superman, and haven't ever made him Clark's brother lmao. Though, they did sort of make him the co-father of Clark's clone... mixing his DNA with Superman's to make Superboy... So close enough? Lol

How did the other "bald" one fail? It was popular for decades until the producers decided to brush it under the rug because they didn't want to pay royalties since they didn't own the rights to the character.

So is Dr Doom. Any quitky villains with a lair riddle with death traps have a hard time transition into live action properties. You have to fully embrace the ridiculous notion of it otherwise it wouldn’t work.

Dr Evil has a very humanising back story. And that only makes him more monstrous. It's genius.

@@realtalk6195 failed to stand the test of time, but bond as a franchise failed to do that.

Imagine if he had been working under Michael O'Donoghue instead...

Strictly speaking, he based it on Dana Carvey's impression of Lorne Michaels, but close enough.

​​@@SmallSpoonBrigade You mean Dana Carvey's impression of Lorne Michaels' impression of Blofeld. 🤪

One of many claims made by this video that is completely wrong.

It's a supremely stupid, soap opera idea anyway. Even without Mike Myers it would still have been just as stupid. The only place it makes sense is in parody.

Austin powers predicted the future of James bond

All my God! LOL. Were you the only one laughing? I never watched the Bond films except Casino Royale. People had to have known that they were ripping off Austin Powers making them brothers.

This. If Austin Powers was made in 2012, there’d be a dozen videos on this website criticizing the newly-released Austin Powers 8

@@N0TYALC endless sequels are still better than one reboot 😏

I think Myers wanted to make another AP movie, but couldn't get the funding or some other logistical problem. I'd loved to have seen a forth movie, but it was probably for the best that it was never made.

I really doubt Dr. Evil was an inspiration, that villian cliché has been around too long for not been known by anyone.

100% agree he is the reason we got so many fun characters

Yes, he made sense in the campier 007 movies of the '60s and '70s, but not so much in the grittier versions of the last 20 years.

@@SmallSpoonBrigade eh i disagree. Its just a question of What do you adapt Book blofeld is a lot more serious than Film blofeld For example OHMSS adapted book blofeld flawlessly and he doesnt come off as weird or silly. He comes off as threatening and charismatic at the same time. "Such a keen conversationalist- til he left us" (about torturing a man for information) Mendes wanted to clearly adapt the Pleasance blofeld, which is the one everybody now parodies. That was the problem.

​​@@ConnorNotyerbidness Actually, you're not wrong. Savallas Was also the best Blofeld to me, because he actually felt like a real gangster. He was threatening, and charismatic at the same time. And accurate to the book version. His version could have definitely worked today. But I still wish they would have kept Blofeld in the Craig era out, and be more original.

@@gregorsamsa2271 fun fact: Savalas' portrayal of Blofeld is who the Superman TAS/Justice League version of Lex Luthor was based on

⁠@@SmallSpoonBrigadeHe does make sense. He’s mysterious threat looming in the background, pulling the strings and making it clear to those below him that he is not one to be taken lightly, with the scenes in which he disposes of them being particularly chilling. Even in the 60’s, he was presented as a formidable, larger than life opponent for 007 who will go out of his way to embarrass and destroy him. Not to mention, the Bond films of the 60’s may have had the occasional humor, but they were largely grounded spy thrillers that faithfully adapted Ian Fleming’s books. The series didn’t really go camp until 1971’s Diamonds are Forever, which was Blofeld’s final named appearance until Spectre, so you’re making a pretty flimsy distinction between the old Bond and the new Bond in regards to tone.

And when Mike Myers is doing that he's impersonating a Humphrey Bogart Character from The Island of Doctor Moreau

its fun to think about these movies from time to time, the best pick me up is remembering things that always made you laugh i think, its why i'm constantly quoting Roger from American Dad or Mugatu in Zoolander etc.

You're 32 and you never saw a Bond movie in your life?

Austin powers being a parody, never surprised me because it felt like one. I just never made the full connection to bond until about a few years ago. Seeing this video only confirms it even more.

@@jonathandixon1305 Mike might have been influenced by those who made the Airplane movies. Why? Well, Leslie Neilson was also a Canadian actor and I wouldn't be surprised if there was admiration for Leslie. Leslie played dramatic characters who just happened to be in a comedic movie. Mike borrowed from James Bond, but he didn't ignore other things, lie Marlon Brando's performance in the Isle of Dr. Moreau, that I cited above.

Highly memable

Highly memeable

@@thesagaofdarrenshanfanchan793 Highly

@@Cyril29a memable

@@giovannidonofrio7474 Memeable...

Yeah. They just want their nostalgic hooks without earning them.

Exactly . In ST into darkness Benedict says the name of Khan like Kirk has already seen the shows lol

@@olartio2185 I remember how sinister he sounded when he said that, and I was like "lol ok, is that supposed to mean anything to them?"

I would like to throw in Tim Curry as Mr. Jigsaw in Loaded Weapon 1. Probably not as iconic but definitely as funny.

Rainbow Randolph in Death to Smoochy.

I was just about to say this is the strangest case of _the Weird Al Effect_ I've ever seen. 😆

hell i just watched als 'dare to be stuipid'' song from the 80s and have 0 idea what is being parodied

@soviet union Dare to Be Stupid isn't a parody of 1 particular song, but instead a parody of an entire band's sound. In this case it is a style parody of Devo

@David Jensen Yup. Somehow it's more Devo than Devo ever was. 😆 His style parodies are wonderful.

​​@@sovietunion7643 To name some of the DEVO references in "Dare to be Stupid" (the song and the video): The song itself is (imo) largely in the style of their 1982 album Oh, No! It's DEVO, with aspects of "Time Out For Fun", "Big Mess", "Out of Sync", and "Deep Sleep". The part where he yells "yes!" with a bit of a speaker effect is reminiscent of "Explosions" (where they go "yes!"..."oh yeah!"). There's a little bit of "Whip It" from 1980 somewhere in there. The video references quite a lot of DEVO's output: the yellow jumpsuits are based on DEVO's classic Tyvek suits around 1978. Those shots are largely based on the "Satisfaction" video. There's a shot of Al and the others standing in a row and putting ice cream on their heads; that's similar to the salute they do in "Devo Corporate Anthem" (a short video they showed at the end of concerts). There's a Mr. Potato Head shot that, of all things, might be a reference to another film from their concerts where General Boy tells the audience how to behave. The guy doing flips and other random movements is a reference to Spazz Attack, a dancer who shows up in a couple of DEVO videos (see "Satisfaction" again). The cowboy playing guitar is sort of a nod to the "Whip It" video with its cowboy setting. Al's head emerging from a pile of something (toys?) is a lot like Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" where Stan Ridgway's head is in a dish of beans. Not DEVO technically, but DEVO-adjacent. The band floating through some flashy bluescreen effect is a reference to "The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprize" where DEVO used some kind of Atari video effect toy with a bluescreen. Some black-and-white stock footage cutaways reference how "Beautiful World" uses stock footage. The creepy baby masks when they're squeezing the Charmin is probably a reference to Booji Boy (pronounced "Boogie Boy"), a character DEVO uses in videos and promo materials which is Mark Mothersbaugh in a baby mask. DEVO's aesthetic often involved novelty rubber masks. The ancient Romans playing board games is a reference to the "Freedom of Choice" video. The shot of guys wearing traffic cones is probably a nod to the red hats DEVO wore ("energy domes") starting in 1980. I think there are other references, but this is all off of my memory so I have probably missed them. (EDIT:) A few more remembered upon rewatch.... "I can't hear you! (Dare to be stupid!)" - the call and response with cutaways to band members with hose on their heads is from "Jocko Homo" (song segment from the short film The Truth About De-evolution). "Are we not men?" (cut to guys with hose on their head) "...we are DEVO!" The woman doing sign language interpretation at the bottom of the screen mimicks a similar shot in the aforementioned General Boy concert video. Guy trying to decide between a banana and an accordion: similar shots happen in "Freedom of Choice".

I feel as if You've revealed some great forbidden truth, and yet all I can think is "no, no way, that can't be true!" Memory is a funny thing ain't it?

Wait, the energizer bunny is not the Duracell bunny? I thought they were the same thing. What is the energizer bunny, then?

From Wikipedia: When Energizer's 1988 parody became an advertising success and Energizer trademarked its bunny, Duracell decided to revive the Duracell Bunny campaign and filed for a new United States trademark of its own, referencing the original use of the character more than a decade earlier.[7] The resulting dispute resulted in a confidential January 10, 1992, out-of-court settlement,[8] where Energizer (and its bunny) took exclusive trademark rights in the United States and Canada, and Duracell (and its bunny) took exclusive rights in all other places in the world.[9]

I think they've been trying to make a fourth Austin Powers movie for years but for some reason it just hasn't happened yet.

​@@BmanTheChamp It is simply impossible in today's world. Austin Powers would be called ALL the "ists"...

​@@BertoxolusThePuzzled don't forget about the "phobics"

@@BertoxolusThePuzzled I mean…that would be the joke most likely

Hard to say whether that would have worked, part of what makes blofeld menacing is he has all these henchmen and subordinates that are physically much stronger but still don’t dare cross him

@@CHR1SZ7 Maybe, i guess i just want to see a version of him that was from the original Thunderball novel. He was a large man in that version very Kingpin in description

Which would have been much closer to Fleming's original vision of the character. Not a creepy little bald guy in a Mao suit, but a massively built international gangster.

That wouldn't have been Blofeld.

​@@Professor_Fate in some books. He is very slim in You Only Live Twice.

It's more Jason King than ' connery's Bond' Jeez....

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

That’s basically the same thing as 006 in GoldenEye. The jilted ex-partner is just as tired a trope as the long lost evil brother

@@PolarisBanks It is, but still less silly than childhood grudge.

@@PolarisBanks Easy way to fix that. Have them jilted with the work, their bosses, but not their partner. "I forgave you long ago for the choice you made. But I cannot forgive them for making that choice a necessity. We are both disposable to them. And that won't do." have the villain still respect and care for their partner and both sides lament that they are an at impasse. Also explains them maybe half-assing the death traps, the reluctance there in actually killing them.

That just reminds me of Spies are Forever

It took years for the Western to come back from Blazing Saddles- although the straight Western flop Heaven's Gate in 1980 didn't help.

@@anonUK yeah it's absurd how that movie demolished a genre that had dominated Hollywood for decades. Imagine if someone were to make a superhero parody movie now and all of a sudden MCU, DCEU and others just stop being produces for years and years

@@NIDELLANEUM I'm not saying they stopped making them altogether- just that Mel Brooks' Looney Toons-style parody of the Western, followed a few years later by the largest turkey of the 70s and 80s, which had been intended to relaunch the artistic Western but in an authentic American setting, meant that the days of Gary Cooper and John Wayne, and their successors, were well and truly over. Of course, Vietnam didn't help, as the outlook of the US itself obviously took quite a hit and the peak of the Western had been during the optimism of that time. The point where the Western did come back was really during the second Gulf War, the turn towards what became Trumpian populism; and the revival of the popularity of "Spaghetti Westerns".

Like with Foghorn Leghorn and Senator Claghorn

Same hahaha i felt like an idiot

Goldmember was the one who got me XD the makeup in these is really good!

I didn't realize it till this video lol.

Fat bastard as well

So who wants to tell this kid about Fat Bastard?

Blofeld wasn't bald in the books.

​@@maxwest6595He had grey hair

Actually the unseen villain stroking a cat is how we first see Blofeld in his first two films (mainly because he hasn't been casted).

Yeah. Dumbest thing they could've done tbh

Bingo

It was breathtaking.

Back in our day you stood for everything villainous and evil, but in this new era, your schemes and machinations no longer impress anyone, they have become commonplace and … good?

As someone for who this is a revelation, what were the TMNT a parody of?

@@Nehfarius Superhero comics in general, but mainly Daredevil. For instance, Daredevil has the ninja clan The Hand while TMNT has the ninja clan The Foot.

@@leetri Huh. Never knew.

@@Nehfarius All the popular comics of their time: Teen Titans, X-Men, Frank Miller-era Daredevil, mainly.

That series gave us the definitive version of Catwoman.

In roughly the same vein as Batman TAS' version of Mr. Freeze becoming THE definitive version of him.

Pretty sure they said "longest", but still...