History Main / ParodyAssistance

Related to AdamWesting.

** In "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)", the B-52s parody their own "Love Shack" as "Glove Slap", while later episodes featured Jackson Browne and the Baha Men parodying their own respective work.

* RobotChicken gets a surprising number of actors and actresses to reprise their famous roles for skits that parody their films. Among them are Billy Dee Williams, Mark Hamill, Ahmed Best, and even George Lucas himself for Star Wars sketches; the main cast from the Scooby Doo live-action films; and Frank Welker playing Megatron, Soundwave, and Doctor Claw, just to name a few.

* Happens with Music/WeirdAlYankovic a lot. For example, his music video for "Fat", a parody of Music/MichaelJackson's "Bad", uses the subway set for a parody from ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'' called "Badder", which Jackson granted Al permission to borrow. Also, "I Lost on {{Jeopardy}}" ("Jeopardy" by the Greg Kihn Band) has Art Fleming and Don Pardo (the host and announcer from the original 1960s version) reprise their respective roles in the video for it, and even Greg Kihn himself appears in the end.
** Music/{{Madonna}} asked a friend in conversation why "Weird Al" hadn't come out with a parody of "Like a Virgin" called "Like a Surgeon" yet. Said friend was a mutual friend of Al's manager, who passed the idea onto Al. Its the only artist parody Al has ever done where the parody idea came from the original artist.

* GeorgeHarrison appeared in TheRutles.

* A rather interesting reverse-assistance took place for ScaryMovie4. The SAW parody set were so well made, that the filmmakers from the SAW films asked to use it for SAW 3, after filming was complete!

* Walter Williams, creator of the Mr. Bill sketches on ''LiveActionTV/SaturdayNightLive'', also created the "Pizza Head" commercials for Pizza Hut in the 1990s.

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* GeorgeLucas has done this a few times, from allowing original music from ''StarWars'' to be used in parodies (such as ''{{Spaced}}'') to actually appearing in parodies, as in ''RobotChicken''.
* In ''The BradyBunch Movie'', several of the original Brady kids (and Alice) made cameos (There were also reportedly two deleted scenes, one featuring Mike Lookinland "Bobby", and Susan Olsen "Cindy").

* In ''[[BeverlyHillsCop Beverly Hills Cop 3]]'', the Wonder World theme park's song, which spoofs the Disney Land song "It's a Small World After All", was written by "It's a Small World"'s original composers Richard and Robert Sherman.

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* When ''TheDrewCareyShow'' was going to do an episode making fun of sci-fi conventions and the fans who go to them in costume, they wanted to have a couple of characters dress up as aliens from ''BabylonFive''. The creators of B5 agreed... and sent their own makeup people to do the alien makeup effects.

* ''SaturdayNightLive'': in addition to the "Conspiracy Theory Rock" example in the Western Animation folder, there have been sketches where the hosts (usually movie or TV stars) reprise their famous characters for a parody sketch. Examples: JonHamm as Don Draper for both a ''MadMen'' parody called "Two A-Holes At An Ad Agency in the 1960s" [[hottip:*:That sketch even had Elizabeth Moss and John Slattery from the actual series]] and a short film called "Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women," DanielRadcliffe as a washed-up Harry Potter who's still living in Hogwarts' years after graduating, David Duchovny as Agent Mulder in an ''X-Files'' parody cold open about a beast man attacking cast members, Zac Efron in a ''High School Musical'' parody where he comes back during graduation and tells the graduating class that the real world is ''not'' like ''High School Musical'', and John Malkovich as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont in a ''Dangerous Liasions'' stage show parody that takes place in a hot tub.

* Happens with Music/WeirdAlYankovic a lot. For example, his music video for "Fat", a parody of MichaelJackson's "Bad", uses the subway set for a parody from ''{{Moonwalker}}'' called "Badder", which Jackson granted Al permission to borrow. Also, "I Lost on {{Jeopardy}}" ("Jeopardy" by the Greg Kihn Band) has Art Fleming and Don Pardo (the host and announcer from the original 1960s version) reprise their respective roles in the video for it, and even Greg Kihn himself appears in the end.
** {{Madonna}} asked a friend in conversation why "Weird Al" hadn't come out with a parody of "Like a Virgin" called "Like a Surgeon" yet. Said friend was a mutual friend of Al's manager, who passed the idea onto Al. Its the only artist parody Al has ever done where the parody idea came from the original artist.

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* [[{{Garfield}} Jim Davis]] has contributed a few strips to ''GarfieldMinusGarfield''.

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* ''SaturdayNightLive'''s ''SchoolhouseRock'' parody [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JLKw0q4kY "Conspiracy Theory Rock"]] had Jack Sheldon reprise his role as the main singer.
* The ''{{Simpsons}}'' episode "The Day the Violence Died" contained a parody of "I'm Just a Bill" with Sheldon singing it, as well.

* Sheldon lent his voice to ''FamilyGuy'''s parodies of SHR, as well.
* The ''BobsBurgers'' episode [[TheGoonies "The Belchies"]] features a song in the end credits that's a send-up of "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" sung by CyndiLauper.
* The ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Deep South" is set in Atlanta, Georgia, which is now a submerged city filled with mer-people. Helping to explain this is Music/{{Donovan}}, parodying his own song "Atlantis" as "Atlanta."

** {{Madonna}} wrote the first verse of his "Like a Surgeon" and sent it to him so he would do it.
** Madonna didn't just help Al parody her own stuff; she also appears in his video making fun of LadyGaga's "Born this Way", which of course is clearly inspired by Madonna's "Express Yourself".

* Happens with WeirdAlYankovic a lot. For example, his music video for "Fat", a parody of MichaelJackson's "Bad", uses the subway set for a parody from ''{{Moonwalker}}'' called "Badder", which Jackson granted Al permission to borrow. Also, "I Lost on {{Jeopardy}}" ("Jeopardy" by the Greg Kihn Band) has Art Fleming and Don Pardo (the host and announcer from the original 1960s version) reprise their respective roles in the video for it, and even Greg Kihn himself appears in the end.

* In [[BeverlyHillsCop Beverly Hills Cop 3]]'', the Wonder World theme park's song, which spoofs the Disney Land song "It's a Small World After All", was written by "It's a Small World"'s original composers Richard and Robert Sherman.

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** He has similar success with his unfocused pastiches, in which the song evokes the artist's style without having the same tune. Examples include BenFolds playing piano on "Why Does This Always Happen To Me?", Dweezil Zappa playing guitar for the {{Frank Zappa}}-esque "Genius In France", TheDoors keyboardist Ray Manzarek contributing to "Craigslist", and Taylor {{Hanson}} playing piano on "If That Isn't Love".

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* Anneka Rice of ''ChallengeAnneka'' made a cameo appearance in the KYTV spoof ''Challenge Anna''.

* Country artist Cledus T Judd, who does mostly parodies, has had country stars appear in his videos, such as Toby Keith in the parody of "How Do You Like Me Now", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5oYVsQTD-c How Do You Milk A Cow]]".

* THe ''BobsBurgers'' episode [[TheGoonies "The Belchies"]] features a song in the end credits that's a send-up of "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" sung by CyndiLauper.

* ''SaturdayNightLive'''s ''SchoolhouseRock'' parody "Conspiracy Theory Rock" had Jack Sheldon reprise his role as the main singer.

A great honor for anyone working on a {{parody}} is when the creator or anyone else involved with the original goes beyond granting the parodist permission (and even \'\'enjoying\'\' said work) and instead actually helping them out with their parody. This can be as simple as lending sets or as drastic as directly working with the parodist, such as singing in a duet.

* Happens with WeirdAlYankovic a lot. For example, his music video for "Fat", a parody of MichaelJackson's "Bad", uses the subway set for a parody from ''{{Moonwalker}}'' called \"Badder\", which Jackson granted Al permission to borrow. Also, \"I Lost on {{Jeopardy}}\" (\"Jeopardy\" by the Greg Kihn Band) has Art Fleming and Don Pardo (the host and announcer from the original 1960s version) reprise their respective roles in the video for it, and even Greg Kihn himself appears in the end.

A great honor for anyone working on a parody is when the creator or anyone else involved with the original goes beyond granting the parodist permission (and even \'\'enjoying\'\' said work) and instead helping them out with their parody. This can be as simple as lending sets or as drastic as directly working with the parodist, such as singing in a duet.

* JimDavis has contributed a few strips to ''GarfieldMinusGarfield''.