"The Poor Man's ______"

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December 15, 2008
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You've all heard the term referring to someone or something as the poor man's version of something better or more famous. This phrase has been allocated to describe cheap imitations, knock offs, and lesser quality, and more derivative versions of other subjects. Post your "Poor Man" versions here.

Ja Rule: The poor man's 2pac

Tupac dies and, the next thing you know, this cheap knock off shows up in a Jay-Z video mocking his flow and asking if he could get a “what, what”.

This bandana looks more like a don’t rag to me. If I was Pac, I would have came back from my faked death and smacked it off his head.

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Power Rangers: The poor man's Voltron

Maybe you’re from a younger generation and you grew up loving the Power Rangers. Please do me a favor and take a look at this corny ass photo of the live action program above. Now look at the photo to the right. I’m only going to ask you to do this once and, if you still think the Power Rangers are better, you are in denial.

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Christina Aguilera: The Poor Man's Madonna

We all know Christina is setting herself up to the next Madonna (the Marilyn Monroe phase, the dark hair phase, the dirty/raunchy phase…) Now all Christina has to do is join some vaguely cultish religious group and tone up her arms.

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: by cliff 11/14/2010 Reply

Ummm about the voltron one didnt ever occured to you that voltron never came up with the giant robot thing, and that pr was way before voltron from in the japanesse sentai, when it gets adapted to here it’s power rangers and also they were alot of giant super robots before voltron and some that are after, now i too also grew up with voltron, i like it for what it is, i never compared it with power rangers i also found pr quite enjoyable for that and also they are many forms of other characters that are vastly superior to voltron and i belive that it is you that are in denial because of suchit

: by elguapo 12/15/2008 Reply

You pretty much nailed it with Voltron. What about MacGruber, the Poor man’s MacGyver?

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I run a site called "Monster Fresh dot com" I am a fan of Taqueria's, jazz, 80's films in the vein of "D.A.R.Y.L.." and "Cloak & Dagger", and boomboxes with removal speakers.