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* The Latin American dub of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' adapted Principal Takakura's speech this way. It's even lampshaded as Shin-chan calls him "El Padrino" (lit. "The Godfather").
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Compare TheAhnold, BruceLeeClone, CharlieChaplinShoutOut, ElvisImpersonator, FreddieMercopy, MrAltDisney, ShirleyTemplate and {{Trumplica}} for other parodic depictions of real-world celebrities.
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* Creator/MarlonBrando really did talk like this, especially in his early films like ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' and especially ''On the Waterfront''. In ''The Godfather'' he went the extra mile by stuffing cotton balls into his mouth. Of course, he was perfectly capable of precise diction when he needed to be, like when he played Mark Antony in the 1953 version of ''Film/{{Julius Caesar|1953}}''.
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* Mr. Big from ''{{Disney/Zootopia}}'', has this; his whole character is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheGodfather''.
* Any scene with Space Dad in WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}, which spoofs Brando's role of Jor-El in {{Superman}} as well as the mumble.

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* Mr. Big from ''{{Disney/Zootopia}}'', ''{{WesternAnimation/Zootopia}}'', has this; his whole character is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheGodfather''.
* Any scene with Space Dad in WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}, ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', which spoofs Brando's role of Jor-El in {{Superman}} ''{{Superman}}'' as well as the mumble.
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* ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'' - Woody Allen is undergoing a deprogramming - something goes wrong and he assumes the persona of Blanche du Bois from ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. To give them time to sedate him, Diane Keaton plays Stanley Kowalski, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IF8-QQSDbk seen here]].

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* ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'' - Woody Allen is undergoing a deprogramming - something goes wrong and he assumes the persona of Blanche du Bois from ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. To give them time to sedate him, Diane Keaton plays Stanley Kowalski, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IF8-QQSDbk seen here]].here.]]
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* The short-lived sketch comedy show ''Hollow Men'' parodied this with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxL0fMTk-U Advanced Brando Syndrome skit]]. Young men would do mumbling impersonations of [[Film/TheGodfather Don Vito Corleone]] and then they would get stuck in the routine of impersonating him, even going so far as to dress up like the Don with no means of stopping. It's treated as a life-threatening epidemic spreading across the country.
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* Creator/AdrienBrody's Luca Changretta in ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' also speaks in a muffled, lispy, ''Godfather''-ish voice.

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* Creator/AdrienBrody's Luca Changretta in ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' also speaks in a muffled, lispy, ''Godfather''-ish voice.
voice. He obviously doesn't much resemble Marlon Brando, however.
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* Creator/AdrienBrody's Luca Changretta in ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' also speaks in a muffled, lispy, ''Godfather''-ish voice.
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* ''Series/FullFrontal''. In a ''Film/TheGodfather'' parody, Don Corleone decides to pass on the torch to Sonny... by willing him the cottonballs he stuffs in his cheeks.
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* ''Westernanimation/SylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' had one episode with a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Brando who owned an island in the South Pacific, with the mumbles subtitled (except the final one, where he speaks right but the subtitles are mumbled)
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They [[Film/OnTheWaterfront coulda been a contender]]. They coulda been somebody more original, instead of being imitations of MarlonBrando, which is who they are not.

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They [[Film/OnTheWaterfront coulda been a contender]]. They coulda been somebody more original, instead of being imitations of MarlonBrando, Creator/MarlonBrando, which is who they are not.
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* ''Series/SpittingImage'': Done in a sketch where RodSteiger and MarlonBrando mimick their famous scene from ''Film/OnTheWaterfront''. Steiger complains how he never became a big star like Brando. Brando starts talking to Steiger, but takes a very long time to end his sentence. Finally it turns out that he scolds Steiger because "you... never... never, never... knew ... how... to make one sentence last... for minutes."

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* ''Series/SpittingImage'': Done in a sketch where RodSteiger Creator/RodSteiger and MarlonBrando Creator/MarlonBrando mimick their famous scene from ''Film/OnTheWaterfront''. Steiger complains how he never became a big star like Brando. Brando starts talking to Steiger, but takes a very long time to end his sentence. Finally it turns out that he scolds Steiger because "you... never... never, never... knew ... how... to make one sentence last... for minutes."
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* {{Series/South Park}}: Geneticist Dr. Mefisto, along with his colleagues in the Marlon Brando Lookalikes Association.

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* {{Series/South Park}}: ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Geneticist Dr. Mefisto, along with his colleagues in the North American Marlon Brando Lookalikes Association.
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* Any scene with Space Dad in WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}, which spoofs Brando's role of Jor-El in {{Superman}} as well as the mumble.

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* Mr. Big from ''{{Disney/Zootopia}}'', has this; his whole character is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheGodfather''.

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* Mr. Big from ''{{Disney/Zootopia}}'', has this; his whole character is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheGodfather''.



* Any scene with Space Dad in WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}, which spoofs Brando's role of Jor-El in {{Superman}} as well as the mumble.


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* {{Series/SouthPark}}: Geneticist Dr. Mefisto, along with his colleagues in the Marlon Brando Lookalikes Association.

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* Mr. Big from ''{{Disney/Zootopia}}}'', has this; his whole character is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheGodfather''.

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* Mr. Big from ''{{Disney/Zootopia}}}'', ''{{Disney/Zootopia}}'', has this; his whole character is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheGodfather''.
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* Mr. Big from ''Zootopia/Disney'', has this; his whole character is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheGodfather''.

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*Mr. Big from ''Zootopia/Disney'', has this; his whole character is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheGodfather''.
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* When ''RenAndStimpy'' are stranded on a tropical island, Stimpy is befriended by a Brandoesque native (who at one point mumbles [[Film/ApocalypseNow "ack, I swallowed a bug."]])

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* When ''RenAndStimpy'' ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]]'' are stranded on a tropical island, Stimpy is befriended by a Brandoesque native (who at one point mumbles [[Film/ApocalypseNow "ack, I swallowed a bug."]])
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* A stammering Brando was one of the impressions ''Music/SammyDavisJr'' did during his rendition of "Because of You", along with Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/JamesStewart.

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They [[OnTheWaterfront coulda been a contender]]. They coulda been somebody more original, instead of being imitations of MarlonBrando, which is who they are not.

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They [[OnTheWaterfront [[Film/OnTheWaterfront coulda been a contender]]. They coulda been somebody more original, instead of being imitations of MarlonBrando, which is who they are not.



* SpittingImage: Done in a sketch where RodSteiger and MarlonBrando mimick their famous scene from OnTheWaterfront. Steiger complains how he never became a big star like Brando. Brando starts talking to Steiger, but takes a very long time to end his sentence. Finally it turns out that he scolds Steiger because "you... never... never, never... knew ... how... to make one sentence last... for minutes."
* A first-season skit on ''SaturdayNightLive'' featured PeterBoyle and Creator/JohnBelushi as "Dueling Brandos", trading Brando quotes interspersed with DuelingBanjos musical phrases.

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* SpittingImage: ''Series/SpittingImage'': Done in a sketch where RodSteiger and MarlonBrando mimick their famous scene from OnTheWaterfront.''Film/OnTheWaterfront''. Steiger complains how he never became a big star like Brando. Brando starts talking to Steiger, but takes a very long time to end his sentence. Finally it turns out that he scolds Steiger because "you... never... never, never... knew ... how... to make one sentence last... for minutes."
* A first-season skit on ''SaturdayNightLive'' ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' featured PeterBoyle Creator/PeterBoyle and Creator/JohnBelushi as "Dueling Brandos", trading Brando quotes interspersed with DuelingBanjos musical phrases.




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* A stammering Brando was one of the impressions ''Music/SammyDavisJr'' did during his rendition of "Because of You", along with Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/JamesStewart.



* [[Film/TheGodfather The Godpigeon]] from the [[{{Goodfellas}} Goodfeathers]] segments on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''; he actually requires a translator (Or, in the shorts when a translator isn't around when he's talking, subtitles).

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* [[Film/TheGodfather The Godpigeon]] from the [[{{Goodfellas}} [[Film/{{Goodfellas}} Goodfeathers]] segments on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''; he actually requires a translator (Or, in the shorts when a translator isn't around when he's talking, subtitles).
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* Done with that very intention in ''MuppetTreasureIsland''. During the song "Professional Pirate", many of the pirates list jobs they coulda had. One guy says "he coulda been a contender" in a very familiar sounding voice.

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* Done with that very intention in ''MuppetTreasureIsland''.''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland''. During the song "Professional Pirate", many of the pirates list jobs they coulda had. One guy says "he coulda been a contender" in a very familiar sounding voice.



* {{Sleeper}} - Woody Allen is undergoing a deprogramming - something goes wrong and he assumes the persona of Blanche du Bois from ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. To give them time to sedate him, Diane Keaton plays Stanley Kowalski, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IF8-QQSDbk seen here]].
* JohnnyDepp did this in OnceUponATimeInMexico.

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* {{Sleeper}} ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'' - Woody Allen is undergoing a deprogramming - something goes wrong and he assumes the persona of Blanche du Bois from ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. To give them time to sedate him, Diane Keaton plays Stanley Kowalski, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IF8-QQSDbk seen here]].
* JohnnyDepp %%* Creator/JohnnyDepp did this in OnceUponATimeInMexico.
''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico''.
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* A first-season skit on ''SaturdayNightLive'' featured PeterBoyle and JohnBelushi as "Dueling Brandos", trading Brando quotes interspersed with DuelingBanjos musical phrases.

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* Done for a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Brando in the ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' episode "Party Planning", where the girls obsess over a 1950's heartthrob actor named Nick Vance. [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys His attractive "mysteriousness"]] comes entirely from the fact that he mumbles all of his lines, and nobody can understand a single word he says.
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* TheSimpsons: Done in an episode where the Truckasaurus speaks in a Brando voice, only to be followed by a disclaimer: "voice of celebrity imitated".

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* TheSimpsons: ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Done in an episode where the Truckasaurus speaks in a Brando voice, only to be followed by a disclaimer: "voice of celebrity imitated".



* WesternAnimation/TheCritic includes regular cameos by Brando, although he is not specifically named. His voice is impersonated by Maurice LeMarsh in this style.

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* WesternAnimation/TheCritic ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' includes regular cameos by Brando, although he is not specifically named. His voice is impersonated by Maurice LeMarsh Creator/MauriceLaMarche in this style.
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* {{Sleeper}} - Woody Allen is undergoing a deprogramming - something goes wrong and he assumes the persona of Blanche du Bois from AStreetcarNamedDesire. To give them time to sedate him, Diane Keaton plays Stanley Kowalski, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IF8-QQSDbk seen here]].

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* {{Sleeper}} - Woody Allen is undergoing a deprogramming - something goes wrong and he assumes the persona of Blanche du Bois from AStreetcarNamedDesire.''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. To give them time to sedate him, Diane Keaton plays Stanley Kowalski, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IF8-QQSDbk seen here]].



* ''TheTwilightZone'': In the episode "The Bard", actor "Rocky Rhodes" is a Brando-esque guy played by BurtReynolds(!).

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* ''TheTwilightZone'': ''Series/TheTwilightZone'': In the episode "The Bard", actor "Rocky Rhodes" is a Brando-esque guy played by BurtReynolds(!).Creator/BurtReynolds(!).

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