In a nutshell: summarizes everything.
Perhaps the most painful realization I've had about Newgrounds parodies is that, for the life of me, I cannot tell when it's going to stop. Does anyone remember glam/hair metal? I equate the rise and fall of Glam/Hair Metal in the 80s and 90s with the Parodies seen on Newgrounds.
Look it up, on YouTube if you have to. I'll wait. Okay, fifteen minutes, you back? Let's start:
A bunch of snarky artistic/geek cultural hustlers came together and devised a means of controlling means and fame on this brand new site that awards quality cartoons and games made through a nifty Internet content generation program called Macromedia Flash. They assumed that most people are stupid and will get a laugh, rise, and hard-on from almost anything that pokes derisive fun at their preferred intellectual properties, and by doing so they can get a load of people clicking five on their creations. This causes instant gratification upon release, for no matter how awful the thing looks, it will get accolades because of comfortable familiarities invoked by the piece.
But, like anything with mass appeal, somewhere there is a breaking point. In the case of Glam Metal, it was the saturation of it. When Music Television found certain acts like Twisted Sister appealing, they signed whoever could top those guys. So, you had idiots dressing as women and singing about love and going acoustic (which pissed off the Thrash underworld to death), and somewhere, the message was lost in a bid to market something. Just like when X-Men hit at the box office, everyone sought and bought up every marketable comic book property possible, and in due time, saturated the scene with all manner of comic-based superhero films. Now ask yourself if you remember any X-Men movie past the second one with any fondness.
So the Greasy Moose have established a formula from all the Newgrounds/Internet Parodies: draw a popular character, put them into any oddball situation, watch people point and laugh, rinse repeat. Of course, one of the chief issues with making so many parodies (and you could probably view this through a few of our guys here) is that the audience expects that shit--or anything like that shit--and you find yourself typecast in a way, not to mention begged to continue placating their demand (or addiction) without establishing yourself as anything beyond that range, and thus a credible author with original material as well. The other issue is that using such characters beyond a parody might not be constituted as fair use, because at some point, you receive some form of benefit from it, even if it is not an immediate monetary benefit; people will buy your originals by associating it with your parody portfolio.
You can't help but feel a little bitter that your artistic integrity is now thrown into question. It's even worse when you are already bitter enough that you take your aggressions out on established characters in shameless, irresponsible, derivative ways.
Sexual Lobster has managed to pop the whole fackin' balloon in one deft stroke, from the monotonous musical number, awful singing, ridiculous animation that mirrors every overused foible in the written scripture, to the sheer fact that most of these imbeciles are emotionally hollow with zero empathy and deserve to fucking die in a black hole of their bitterness. What more can you possibly ask for in a cartoon?
For its size and scope, "Parody Parody Parody" is a fairly slick, well-animated send-up and a horrifying wake-up call to the folks around here and beyond that there will be a growing movement of Grunge (something that ain't quite parody) that will sweep away any appeal that the old hair-bands had and expose them for what they truly are: bitter, cynical sell-outs aiming for the mass appeal and failing to regard anything else that's already conceived as a mere source of derision. And I doubt it'll be a movement where we just sit around and pick on the fact that nothing is sacred anymore. Who knows. It might even be actually funny.