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Anyone familiar with pop culture understands that celebrity fights are a very common occurrence among tinsel-towners. While most are silly skirmishes or impolite exchanges of opinion, some celebrities take it a step further. A recent example would be producer Danger Mouse’s parody of Paris Hilton’s excuse of a compact disc. It seems that celebrities are willing to spend their hard-earned money just to make parody of other celebrities, and there’s no doubt that the public, as well as other celebrities, are buying into it.

Take the sublime sibling writing and directing duo Ethan and Joel Cohen, for example. Their frivolous feuds with rival brothers, The Wayans, as reached an all new climax. Earlier this year, Marlon and Shawn Wayans created a cartoon featuring predominantly urban-themed children, of course, all of which were fair, balanced, and realistic representations of an inner-city, lower-class society. The cartoon was aptly named Thugaboo. The Cohen brothers retaliated with an animated attack of their own: The Li’l Lebowskis. The Li’l Lebowskis is about 10 year-old Jeffy Lebowski’s childhood during the early 1990s.