No other film has been parodied more than Der Untergang  ("Downfall"), the 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel  film about Hitler's final days in his Berlin bunker. The onscreen dialog from the capitulation scene (combined with most people's ignorance of the German language and the emergence of user-friendly video editing programs) make "Downfall" a very easy film to lampoon. You've all seen the original one, featuring frustrated Dallas Cowboys fan Hitler lamenting yet another wasted season - a remarkably clever interpretation that went viral almost immediately. While imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery, some of the imitations out there are pretty lame and blatant ripoffs.

Sports fans have used the scene to bewail the Detroit Lions 0-16 season and the new Formula One series. Computer geeks have produced several, including ones skewering Bill Gates, and Twitter. Gamers have featured Hitler bitching about the XBox, World of Warcraft, and the Dragonball Z movie, while politicos have ones starring Hillary Clinton and Gordon Brown. Epicurists show Hitler jonzing for pizza and Mexican food, and aviators have used it to lampoon airline management and delays in the Boeing 787 program. Probably the most troubling is one posted by an Israeli guy, which features Hitler bemoaning the parking woes in Tel Aviv.

For those of you curious about how the actual scene from the movie played out, here it is. Make sure you hit "skip this ad" at the beginning so you don't have to watch a commercial:

Nazi leader Hitler really did have only one ball

Hitler really did have only one ball, according to claims by a German army medic who saved the Führer's life during the First World War.

By Alastair Jamieson Last Updated: 1:03PM GMT 19 Nov 2008

Although it was known Hitler suffered a groin injury in the Somme, evidence that he was 'monorchic' - the medical word for the condition - has evaded historians Photo: PA

The Nazi leader lost a testicle during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the doctor claimed.

The medical condition, for which there has never been conclusive proof, was mocked in the Second World War ditty which begins: "Hitler has only got one ball, the other is in the Albert Hall."

The disclosure is made in a document noting a conversation in the 1960s between German war doctor Johan Jambor and his priest, Franciszek Pawlar, according to The Sun. The priest's document has come to light 23 years after Jambor's death.

Although it was known Hitler suffered a groin injury in the Somme, evidence that he was 'monorchic' - the medical word for the condition - has evaded historians.

Blassius Hanczuch, a friend of Jambor, said the doctor later blamed himself for saving Hitler's life. He said: "In 1916 they had their hardest fight in the Battle of the Somme. For several hours, Johan and his friends picked up injured soldiers. He remembers Hitler. They called him the 'Screamer'. He was very noisy. Hitler was screaming 'help, help'.

"His abdomen and legs were all in blood. Hitler was injured in the abdomen and lost one testicle. His first question to the doctor was: 'Will I be able to have children?'."

The popular song emerged in 1939 and is thought to have been written by a publicist for the British Council, which was tasked with helping build propaganda that would damage the Nazis.

The commonly-recalled version is an adaption of the original, which ran: "Göring has only got one ball, Hitler's [are] so very small, Himmler's so very similar, And Goebbels has no balls at all."

... in wax

BERLIN -  Adolf Hitler is back in Berlin - this time as a wax figure hunkered down in his bunker in the final days of World War II.

The likeness of the Nazi leader, hunched over a desk in a dimly lit bunker just before he committed suicide at the end of World War II, was one of dozens unveiled Thursday at the opening of British wax museum Madame Tussauds' latest branch.

He looks a bit more angry in the London museum:

UPDATE: 5 July 

BERLIN (Reuters) - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said.

Just minutes after the museum opened, the 41-year-old German man pushed aside two security men guarding the exhibit.

"Then he went over to the figure and ripped off the head," a police spokesman said.

The man tore off the head in protest at the exhibit, the spokesman added. The police were alerted and arrested the man, who did not resist. He was being investigated for assault and damaging property.