I-Mockery

I-Mockery
Private company
Industry Humor
Founded 1999
Headquarters California, USA
Key people
Roger Barr: Founder & CEO
Dr. Boogie, Jason Grunert & Max Burbank: Writers
Louis Fernet-Leclair: Artist
Slogan "Mocking pop culture and whatever else we can get our grubby hands on."
Website www.i-mockery.com

I-Mockery is a pop culture humor site owned and operated by Roger Barr (aka: -RoG-) that has existed online in various forms since 1996. Before then, it was a printed periodical called Visionary Darkness. Free copies of Visionary Darkness were distributed in local high schools and record shops. It later became a web site on Geocities which housed a variety of humorous articles and rants. Barr also registered other sites on GeoCities under several aliases and made them all a part of the Visionary Darkness web site. After a few years of building up the popularity of these sites, Barr registered the I-Mockery.com domain name in August 1999 to house all of his humor sites under the same roof (and to avoid GeoCities' increasingly slow performance). The I-Mockery name was created as a spoof of all the corporate web sites that started with "I" or "E" at the time. The name loosely translates to Internet-Mockery.[1][2][3][4]

Over the years the site has expanded greatly, but still continues to live up to its original slogan: "Dedicated to making a mockery out of all things adored by the general public. Dedicated to exposing people who take themselves far too seriously. Dedicated to giving due credit to works of genius that have never enjoyed the spotlight."

Sections

Noteworthy material

Halloween

Halloween has become one of the things I-Mockery is best known for, primarily due to their feverish celebration of the holiday each year. The entire site is redecorated for Halloween and every new article that appears on the site during this time is related to the holiday. Each year, their Halloween celebration has gotten longer. In 2005, I-Mockery's Halloween season began on September 1, giving them a full two months to create nothing but Halloween-oriented pieces.

Halloween Collection contains reviews of horror movies, product features, the adventures of "Count Pop"[44] and other spooky things, but it also has the staff's annual collaborative "Select Your Destiny"[45] stories. These stories haven grown in size over the years (some well over 100 pages) and feature bizarre plots, loosely based on Halloween themes and the "Choose Your Own Adventure" children's books. Only one of the choices on each page will allow the protagonist to progress, the other choices lead to certain doom of some kind. The stories also often feature small flash games which must be completed in order to continue in the story. In addition to all of the aforementioned, I-Mockery's Halloween Collection also contains two other sub-sections: "The Halloween Grab Bag" and "The Greatest Moments in Horror Movie History".[46]

As further proof of his Halloween fanaticism, Barr also founded ZombieWalk.com as a place where zombie walks and flash mobs could be organized. He also organized Richmond, Virginia's first annual Zombie Walk in 2005. He also plans on eventually filming an independent zombie movie.[49]

Petitions

I-Mockery held large petitions on the web to get Comedy Central to release Upright Citizens Brigade and Strangers with Candy on DVD. While both shows were canceled after only 3 seasons, they developed a large cult following, and I-Mockery was able to get thousands of signatures which were all forwarded to Comedy Central. Upright Citizens Brigade personally thanked I-Mockery for its help in getting the DVD set released. In a similar manner, I-Mockery got many of its fans to vote in Amazon's DVD Decision 2006, to get the movie Gymkata released on DVD.

Doc Mock's Movie Mausoleum

On May 1, 2009, Barr started a new live web show called Doc Mock's Movie Mausoleum in which he plays the mad scientist, Doc Mock, who shows obscure public domain b-movies and z-movies while interacting with a live audience online. Each week, a different guest (often comedians from Upright Citizens Brigade) joins Doc Mock to commentate on the movie. Other cast members include Miss Diagnosis (Marie Barr), a nurse who handles all the chat room comments, and Licky (Ethan Newberry), a one-eyed mutant who works the control booth. Recent guests on the show have included Matt Walsh, Paul Scheer, Toby Huss, Matt Besser and Nathan Barnatt. The show currently airs Thursday nights at 8 pm PST on theStream.tv. Recently, Bloody Disgusting published an interview with Barr about the creation of Doc Mock's Movie Mausoleum.[50]

Staff

All the members of I-Mockery's staff contribute their time to write for the site on a volunteer basis. The following is a list of those who have worked on the site more frequently over the years:

References

  1. West & Wylder 95.5 WTVY FM. (Radio interview: http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69701102)
  2. Richmond.com interview with I-Mockery <http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69697123&page=2>
  3. Coin-OP TV Interview with I-Mockery founder Roger Barr <http://www.i-mockery.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69698969>
  4. I-Mockery at the Spike TV Scream Awards <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oep2qypgLv4>
  5. "Minimocks at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  6. ""I Don't Trust The Gorton's Fisherman" at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  7. "Burbank, Max; "My Wild Life – Chapter I" at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  8. "Barr, Roger; "The Shaving Industry Lies"; I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  9. "Mexican Monografias". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  10. "Barr, Roger; "Crazy Mexican Monografias: Alcoholismo"; I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  11. "Barr, Roger; "Stupid Toys"; I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  12. "''Trick-or-Treat Adventure Quest!'' at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  13. 13.0 13.1 "''Domo-Kun's Angry Smash Fest'' at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  14. "''Castlevania: Priest Battle'' at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  15. "''Kill the Old Man from Zelda!''; I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  16. "''I Will Beat Pacman!" at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  17. "Sexual Moments In Video Game History". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  18. "Barr, Roger; The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; June 1, 2007". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  19. "Barr, Roger; "Cooking with Popinski"; I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  20. "Rom Hacks at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  21. ""Guys Who Can't Draw Comics"; I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  22. "Pixie Pals at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  23. "Pickleman at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  24. "GeneralZod.net". GeneralZod.net. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  25. "ElSerpento.com". ElSerpento.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  26. Alexander, Scott. "The Weird and the Wacky on the Internet." Yahoo! Internet Life. March 2001: 150. (Scan from issue: http://www.i-mockery.net/media/yahoo-internet-life-2001.jpg)
  27. "I-Mockery.net". I-Mockery.net. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  28. I-Mockery message boards
  29. "M.U.S.C.L.E. Revisited! M.U.S.C.L.E. Kinnikuman Toys!". I-Mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  30. "Rom hack reviews at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  31. "Knifeboy at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  32. ""The Quest For Peeps" at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  33. "''Marshmallow Peeps in Outer Space'' at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  34. ""Marshmallow Peeps Marshmallow Maker" at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  35. "Power of the Peep". Power of the Peep. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  36. ""Sexual Moments in Video Game History" at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  37. ""Extreme Beverage Testers" at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  38. "''Ivan Drago: Justice Enforcer'' at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  39. "''Trick-or-Treat Adventure Quest'' at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  40. "Rainbowpuke.com". Rainbowpuke.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  41. Itzkoff, Dave (May 25, 2010). "New York Times: 'The Human Centipede' Gets the Video-Game Tribute It Deserves". Artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  42. "The Most Provocative Movie of 2010 is now a Flash Game". Kotaku. May 24, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  43. "Count Pop at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  44. "Select Your Destiny at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  45. "I-Mockery's Halloween Collection". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  46. "The Halloween Grab Bag at I-Mockery". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  47. "The Greatest Moments in Horror Movie History". I-mockery.com. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  48. "ZombieWalk.com". ZombieWalk.com. September 14, 2009. Retrieved November 30, 2011.
  49. Bloody Disgusting interview with Doc Mock's Movie Mausoleum host and I-Mockery founder, Roger Barr <http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/16186/>

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