Parody Because audiences had seen these classic Westerns, they had expectations for any new Westerns, and when these expectations were inverted, the audience laughed. Perhaps the earliest parody film was the 1922 "Mud and Sand", a Stan Laurel film that made fun of Rudolph Valentino's film "Blood and Sand". Laurel specialized in parodies in the mid-1920s, writing and acting in a number of them. Some were send-ups of popular films, such as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"—parodied in the comic "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde" (1926). Others were spoofs of Broadway plays, such as "No, No, Nanette" (1925), parodied as "Yes,
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (video game) and Mr. Hyde", together with "", were the target of James Rolfe's first two mock reviews as the "Angry Video Game Nerd". The joke relied upon the distress caused to an obsessive gamer by titles that were more than twenty years old. Notes Footnotes Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (video game) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a side-scrolling action video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System loosely based on the novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". Gameplay alternates between the characters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde based on the player's ability to either avoid or