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Five Great Hunger Games/Catching Fire Parody Videos

Kelly Jensen

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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She's the editor/author of (DON'T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen.

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Itching for Catching Fire to just be in theaters already? How about some parody videos of Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games and Catching Fire to ward off the anticipation just a bit longer? Here’s a glimpse at five of my favorites.

Let’s start with something simple and straightforward: The Hunger Games as reenacted by cats and cardboard.

 

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sae5vDckU0A#t=99[/youtube]

 

May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor in this parody of The Hunger Games as played out by Beanie Babies.

 

[youtube]https://youtu.be/N2lRxqWbTec[/youtube]

 

Ah, Sesame Street. Thanks for bringing us The Hungry Games: Catching Fur. “Why you so finicky, Finnicky?”

 

[youtube]https://youtu.be/eT7nD02Im5E[/youtube]

 

Do you know the “Bad Lip Reading” series? If not, get acquainted with their bad reading of The Hunger Games. This one is a little crude but then again, the source material is too.

 

[youtube]https://youtu.be/QjGk_jU6t5A[/youtube]

 

This one gets me every single time: it’s a parody of Lana Del Rey’s song and video “Video Games” but it’s about The Hunger Games. “I don’t want Peeta to be dead / A pita is a pouch of bread / but that’s his name.”

 

[youtube]https://youtu.be/1OjnbRv3krA[/youtube]

 

 

If you know of other great parody or humorous takes on either The Hunger Games or Catching Fire, feel free to leave a link in the comments.

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