How to Kill a Mockingbird
How to Kill a Mockingbird is a popular parody of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, that quickly became an internet phenomenon when it was first released in November of 2004. It is one of the most popular pieces of content on the humor website AwesomeFunny. The cartoon is especially long for a Macromedia Flash cartoon, timing in at over 12 minutes, but the epic nature of the animation are one of the reasons that it was so popular.
Summary
The cartoon begins as a book report from an elementary or middle school student about To Kill a Mockingbird, but after the first minute or so it becomes obvious that the narrator only read the first chapter or so of the book. The report quickly diverges into a bizarre adventure story that revolves around ninjas trying to destroy an evil mockingbird after it steals their treasure. It is soon learned that the pirates must find a book called "How to Kill a Mockingbird" (which looks suspiciously like the real novel) to discover how a mockingbird can be killed. The only catch is that the pirates must travel back to ancient China to steal the book from the ninjas that hold the book in their fortress. The pirates battle the ninjas until a fleet of mockingbirds come to destroy them all. The pirates and ninjas decide to join forces and try to destroy the mockingbird the only way that works: by hitting it with the moon.