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Parody of Evolution
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Being something of a hot topic, evolution has been a popular target for satire and parody. The easiest way to do this is to take Rudolph Zallinger's illustration: March of Progress and draw something else over it. Instant Parody! The other way to do it is a montage of creatures morphing into each other. This type is more common in animation. Considering what we now know of Ardipithecus ramidus, this trope is an example of Science Marches On; chimpanzees and gorillas probably developed knuckle-walking after their split from human beings. |
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The Far Side: One strip's sequence goes from monkey to hunched ape-man to neanderthal to seven-foot-tall muscular giant-jawed shaved Rahan-type man to short wimpy Bob from Accounting-looking guy waiting at the bus stop. One strip shows the evolution of the stickman as a progression from stick-snake through several stages of upright stick-lizard-things to stick-caveman to modern stick-about-town. |
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A caricature parodying evolution in the different parts of the world depicts Evolution in Korea using the original sequence, but including a Hydralisk at the end. The same is done for Japan, but the Hydralisk is replaced with a Gundam. | |
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes: One of the posters, "Evolution Becomes Revolution"◊, has Homo sapiens held on a leash by a brutish gun-toting ape. | |
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The Simpsons: The season 18 episode "Homerazzi" shows Homer as a single-celled organism, becoming a jellyfish and then a fish, dodging the tentacles of a Mr. Burns-faced octopus before crawling onto land to become a lizard and then a sail-backed reptile, evolving into a ratlike mammal and hiding from the extinction of the dinosaurs, emerging back onto the surface to progress through monkey, ape, and caveman stages, and — after encountering Moe, who is walking the other way and progresses back through apeman, ape, and primitive mammal — passes through several historic periods until he enters the present and comes home to Marge, who asks him "What took you so long?" note On at least one version, the line was replaced with, "Did you bring home any milk?") in what is now considered the longest Couch Gag to date. | |
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MythBusters: The two "Myth Evolution" episodes use a cartoon of this on the initial blueprint shot. | |
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Half-Life 2: A common piece of graffiti shows the usual three-part progression, but a fourth part shows a human-turned-combine that looks much like the second part. | |
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Allegro non Troppo: In a section set to Bolero, it starts with a coke bottle falling from the sky. The coke bubbles and froths, before emerging as a blob creature that crawls across the landscape before splitting into a cluster of strange animals. These chase and eat each other across the landscape, gradually transforming into more complicated creatures. These gradually become dinosaur- and mammoth-like beasts, which march on across changing landscapes while bedeviled by ice ages, disasters, and cruel apes. Eventually they progress past a pyramid, the Cross, a ruined tank and a tangle of highways, before high-rise buildings start erupting under their feet. In the end, a huge human statue surveys the scene, before crumbling to reveal an ape. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: This strip parodies this by making it circular — at the last step, the human nukes himself back to the four-legged shrew-creature stage. The troe's pervasiveness is also lampshaded in the Alt Text: Another strip shows the upright human at the penultimate step reading a book about cloning extinct animals, before ending in him partying with his resurrected ancestors. |
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Caprica: The "Evolution of a Cylon" poster starts with a kitchen toaster and ends with Caprica Six. | |
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Cracked: #14 Science Lesson As Taught by Famous Video Games has an allusion to "March of Progress" done with game sprites from successive console generations, starting with the linear paddle of Tennis, then Pac-Man's stylized mouth shape and the early creature shape of Frogger, before progressing through Mario, Duke Nukem, a soldier from Call of Duty and finally Master Chief. | |
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Discworld: The vampire-themed edition of the Discworld Diaries contains an illustration of the evolution of Igors. It starts with a normal-looking human butler and gets progressively more hunched and grotesque with each subsequent image. The Science of Discworld: Mentioned when the picture is compared to someone getting out of bed in the morning. The wizards who are looking at the picture state that the ape/human's main achievement is getting from one side of the page to the other without showing any genitalia. |
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The Croods: A New Age: The movie poster shows the cast of the original movie in order from least to most erect coming face to face with the fully upright Bettermans. | |
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Tsukiuta: In Kurenai Enishi, one of the Harpo Does Something Funny moments happens when the members of Procella have been captured by ninja, and as they're lined up in the back of the stage, about to be taken into the dungeon... well, it's these dorks, so they can't pass up the opportunity to do silly poses. In one performance, they did these poses. | |
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MAD: The cover of #238. The most short and simian version of Alfred E. Neuman has a thought bubble saying, "What... me furry?" | |
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Darwin Awards: Most covers for the books have spoofs on this concept, usually with the "evolved" man suffering a comically fatal injury like being crushed under a safe or falling off a cliff. | |
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Oggy and the Cockroaches: The Movie: Used very, very strangely. In the intro, Oggy evolves from a microbe into a cat. The problem? He evolved straight from a fish into a cat. However, the earlier segments are somewhat more accurate, which he evolved into a Pikaia (?) and then an early fish. | |
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Oggy and the Cockroaches: The first comic book based on the series has a segment wherein Oggy goes from shaggy sabre-toothed quadruped to his modern-day appearance. For added laughs, partway through, he smells food and searches for it, ultimately leading him to a fridge. | |
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Pokémon Red and Blue: One of the encounterable glitched creatures will result in a series of impossible evolutions. | |
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Howard the Duck: Phil Blumburtt presents a series of still images of the evolution of sapient ducks as a theory of Howard's origin; the first image is an egg. | |
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Super Smash Bros. Melee: One of the images shown when you complete the single-player mode with Donkey Kong is four progressively larger DKs and one Samus arranged like this. | |
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The Now Show Book of Records: The inside front cover shows Jon Holmes as hunched ape-man, Steve Punt as neanderthal and Hugh Dennis as modern man. The inside back cover shows them in reverse (obviously, Dennis has to hunch a lot more than Holmes does). | |
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Mock the Week: On one episode, while the players were standing around waiting for "Scenes We'd Like To See" to start, Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis and Greg Davies reenacted the picture. Frankie (the shortest) was completely hunched over at the back, while the incredibly tall Greg was at the front. | |
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WarioWare: Twisted!: One of Kat & Ana's microgames, "Survival of the Quickest", begins with the ape on the far left and has you button-mash A to create more transitional images until you reach the human at the end. The medium-difficulty version features a dog turning into an anthropomorphic dog, and the hard-difficulty version begins with the monkey as usual, but it becomes a robot monkey instead of a human. | |
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The Titan: Played for drama when the wife of a volunteer test subject (for a project to genetically modify humans so they can live on Titan) breaks into the scientist's office and finds this picture, with a note at the end saying: Homo Titanien. | |
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Futurama: The "Ascent of Bot◊" from "A Clockwork Origin", a museum exhibit on a planet of Mechanical Lifeforms, shows a sprig with googly eyes, then a robot trilobite, R2-D2, a robot monkey, a robot Frazetta Man, and finally a robot urbanite smoking a pipe. | |
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Splatoon: The first game depicts this in Sunken Scroll #10, with a squid gradually evolving into an Inkling, after humanity was washed away 12,000 years prior to the game. | |
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Game Theory: In The SCIENCE! episode "No Cowboy is Safe! Red Dead's Biggest THREAT!" (a review on Red Dead Redemption 2), Austin Hourigan uses Zallinger's "March of Progress" to describe the evolution of tuberculosis, placing a TB cell on top of a head of each creature in human evolution, ending with the current Homo sapiens itself. | |
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Ice Age: While the herd is crossing the ice caves, they comes across numerous primordial beings frozen in the ice. In one area, Sid the Sloth finds a frozen progression of a ciliate microorganism, a primitive fishlike creature, a fat-bodied amphibian, an apelike knuckle-walking sloth, and himself as the apex. | |
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Dilbert: The television intro shows a full version, from microscopic life, to proto-dinosaur walking out of the water, ending in Dilbert himself. All of which are wearing his trademark glasses. | |
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Encino Man: The poster shows a progression of apes ending in a slovenly skater. | |
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Impractical Jokers: One game puts Q in the "March of Progress" at one step below modern man. | |
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons: The fossil section of the museum manages a less-used variant based on the presence of many humanoid animals in the setting. Guidelines on the floor trace the prehistory of evolution from the Paleozoic (first room) to the Mesozoic (second room) and finally the Cenozoic (final room). In that final room, the various evolutionary lines lead upward to a series of silhouettes based off many of the various animal villager types it's possible to get, with an empty spot for humans on the right (allowing for a photo op for your villager or any visitors to the island). | |
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The Science of Discworld: Mentioned when the picture is compared to someone getting out of bed in the morning. The wizards who are looking at the picture state that the ape/human's main achievement is getting from one side of the page to the other without showing any genitalia. | |
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Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto has the titular character do this as a run in physical education. His aim is to run in the ideal way each of the evolutions would run in, then devolve back into the oldest and loop until he's done. Despite this nonsense, he still runs faster than most kids. | |
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