History Main / RedundantParody

* Though not as bad as the above, ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has run into this a couple of times - Mr. Satan and the Ginyu Force are probably the biggest examples, as they were already comic relief, and had to have a lot of new jokes written for them. Averting this trope was also the reason for [[AdaptedOut almost completely cutting out]] Master Roshi from the abridging of ''Broly'', as all his scenes were already comedic.

* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' parodies inevitably bring up the fact that the titular character eats people (and pretty much [[ExtremeOmnivore everything else]]). This has, to an extent, been brought up in official media - the [[Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa anime series]] has some jokes about the idea of him eating other characters, including a scene where he randomly tries to eat Knuckle Joe's hand.

** The episode "War is the H-Word" parodies a lot of the general setup of ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', with the Earth invading a deserted alien world and basically getting its ass kicked until the climax. In the episode, the human military (led by Zapp Brannigan) is portrayed as a bunch of [[GeneralRipper violent, jingoistic morons]] who are [[GeneralFailure pretty much outclassed in every way]], and despite propaganda about the evils of their opponents, ''they'' turn out to be the aggressors in the conflict. The thing is, this is pretty much the message of the film, as well, with Paul Verhoeven having been quite open about its status as a satire of militarism that depicts a fascist government underestimating a more powerful opponent. Even the idea that the humans are the aggressors (with the apparent inciting incident being a FalseFlagOperation) is one of the most common readings of the film. In a lot of respects, the ''Futurama'' version just made the original satire more obvious.
** The [[OffToSeeTheWizard parody]] of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' in "Anthology of Interest II" ends with the Wizard (portrayed by the Professor) giving Dorothy and her companions a handgun for self-defense (''"Who needs courage when you have...a gun!"''), as if the idea of a character in ''The Wizard of Oz'' carrying a gun is inherently absurd. Except the actual film features exactly that: the Scarecrow carries a revolver while traveling to the Witch's castle to rescue Dorothy.[[note]] Keep in mind: ''The Wizard of Oz'' was made in 1939, when [[ValuesDissonance it wasn't considered taboo to depict firearms in family films]].[[/note]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "War is the H-Word" parodies a lot of the general setup of ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', with the Earth invading a deserted alien world and basically getting its ass kicked until the climax. In the episode, the human military (led by Zapp Brannigan) is portrayed as a bunch of [[GeneralRipper violent, jingoistic morons]] who are [[GeneralFailure pretty much outclassed in every way]], and despite propaganda about the evils of their opponents, ''they'' turn out to be the aggressors in the conflict. The thing is, this is pretty much the message of the film, as well, with Paul Verhoeven having been quite open about its status as a satire of militarism that depicts a fascist government underestimating a more powerful opponent. Even the idea that the humans are the aggressors (with the apparent inciting incident being a FalseFlagOperation) is one of the most common readings of the film. In a lot of respects, the ''Futurama'' version just made the original satire more obvious.
* The ''Series/GameOfThrones'' spoofs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'' got some accusations of this, ignoring that the show itself and the original novels are already a brutal GenreDeconstruction of high fantasy. Luckily, this mostly stopped after the first season.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" feature segments taken from ''Film/PulpFiction'' that are played almost straight, with little original humour. It's less of a parody and more a near shot-for-shot remake.

* Pornography studio Wood Rocket is known for producing cheap & quick porn parodies. One day they released ''The Bed Room'', a parody of Tommy Wiseau's ''Film/TheRoom'', with many seeing it as pointless as ''The Room'' already had multiple softcore pornographic scenes. WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob addressed this redundancy in his review of ''The Bed Room''.

* Most parodies of Music/AlanisMorissette's song "Ironic" mock the song for containing nothing ironic, even though Alanis has claimed the song is about the protagonist misunderstanding the meaning of said word.

* Most parodies of Music/AlanisMorissette's song "Ironic" mock the song for containing nothing ironic, even though the song is about the protagonist misunderstanding the meaning of said word.

* ''Music/BruceSpringsteen'' is occasionally pigeon-holed as an artist who only writes about "cars and girls", which became the subject of a ''Music/PrefabSprout'' song. Not only are these not his only themes, cars and highways are often examined from multiple angles. From admiring them as opportunities for escape, to seeing cars as dead ends.

* ''WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries'' suffers from this some of the time, due to parodying a show that already has a high joke quotient. For example, its parody of the episode "The Storm" has a scene where Katara says: "Aang would never run away! [Aang gets on his glider and flies off] Aang, stop running away!" The original was exactly the same, only with different wording.

* The main joke in WebVideo/ShaneDawson's parody of ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'' is that the movie would be over in an instant if the main characters [[JustEatGilligan just ended their Skype call]]. In the actual movie, they have a very good reason not to do so: [[BerserkButton Laura will kill them immediately]] if they try..

** Parodies that like to play on Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask being Usagi's UselessBoyfriend often forget that this was a major character arc for his manga counterpart, and he already acknowledged that he's weaker than Sailor Moon would ever be, with even some villains mocking him for it. That doesn't stop him from developing his own signature move and arguably becoming one of the most important fighters in that continuity. His reputation for being useless largely comes from the anime, where his role is more downplayed since two of the anime's directors (Junichi Sato and Creator/KunihikoIkuhara) famously [[CreatorsPest disliked him]].

* Though ''Creator/MontyPython'' is a household name in comedy, their "Lumberjack Song" is regularly singled out for song parodies that take the refrain ''"I'm a(n) _________, and I'm okay!"'' and run with it, turning it into a straightforward IAmSong about one's chosen vocation or esoteric subculture. Though the catchy beat of the song is quite well-known, many people seem to forget its later verses, where the supposedly wholesome lumberjack proudly confesses to [[spoiler: being a crossdresser]], which surprises his backup singers so much that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere they stop singing the song in disgust]]. Not to mention its original set-up in [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus the TV show]], where it's sung by a deranged barber who inexplicably bursts into song and sings about how he's actually always wanted to be a lumberjack.[[note]] Many of the Pythons' albums and live shows feature some variation on that set-up when they do the song--introducing it into the middle of a seemingly unrelated sketch, with some unhappy worker proclaiming that being a lumberjack is actually his dream job.[[/note]] It's not just a catchy tune about chopping down trees; it's very much an example of the Pythons' trademark SurrealHumor.

* The PurpleProse in Shakespeare has been the subject of many, ''many'' parodies over the years, but some of the most parodied examples were already intended to be [[StylisticSuck overwrought and narmy-y]] in-universe. Examples include Hamlet's "Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move...", which he writes as a letter as part of an ObfuscatingStupidity ploy, most of the things said by Polonius, who is intended to be a pretentious OldWindbag and UpperClassTwit, and [[HormoneAddledTeenager pretty much everything Romeo says.]] Most parodies forget that even Shakespeare's tragedies tended to have a high joke count. Parodies of the crossdressing also fall into this, given that ''Theatre/TwelfthNight'' is an entire play lampshading this.

** {{Bishounen}}. From a man in a hostess club mistaking Cecil for a waitress in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' to Faris making Galuf doubt his sexual orientation in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' to Cloud's [[EvenTheGuysWantHim appeal to gay men and straight men]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' to Noel being called 'even prettier' compared to his female sidekick in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII-2'', this is mocked nearly every time the subject comes up.

* A webcomic depicted Franchise/ScoobyDoo and the gang capturing a monster and Fred trying to unmask it. He struggles with what appears to be a mask and then rips its head off, realising the monster was real. This exact same gag (minus the blood) was used in the 1998 movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'', complete with Fred pulling a Zombie's head off, and freaking out.

** In his review of ''Film/LastActionHero'', while he devotes one rant to how Danny points out all the clichés and plot holes that he could be commenting on, he also cracks a joke about F. Murray Abraham's character's betrayal being unsurprising because [[NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize he's never played a good guy in a movie yet]]. A trait that's brought up repeatedly in the film, usually focusing on how he killed Mozart in ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''. In fact, there's nothing in the entire review that suggests he's remotely aware it's a comedy; half his comments amount to pointing out one of the absurd background jokes and announcing that they make no sense.

* The reason why the creepypasta ''I HATE YOU'' ended up being so divisive is a combination of this and PoesLaw. The author, popular and acclaimed creepypasta writer Creator/{{Slimebeast}} intended it to be a parody of video game creepypasta, which are infamous for almost always using the same set of cliches, but did so in a way that essentially just used those cliches in a somewhat more ridiculous manner. Because it didn't really stand out as a parody, almost everybody that didn't see the original posting, where its author outright called it a joke, took it at face value. Its detractors took it as a serious, bad story, while Slimebeast's fans defended it as being good, with all of them on both sides missing the joke entirely.

* Boom Chicago once did a parody of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxymwN7nYQQ SpongeBob SquarePants in China]]", which relocates Bikini Bottom to the People's Republic of China. Among other things, the Krusty Krab is reimagined as a hellish factory that mass-produces consumer goods for the West, [=SpongeBob=] is a [[TheWorkaholic workaholic]] who doesn't know what a "day off" is, and [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick get hauled off by the police for questioning the Krusty Krab's exploitation of them. Ethnic stereotypes aside, most of that stuff wouldn't be so out of place in an actual ''[=SpongeBob=]'' episode: [=SpongeBob=] being a workaholic (sometimes to an unhealthy degree) is indeed one of his defining traits, and Mr. Krabs actually has ([[DependingOnTheWriter on occasion]]) been portrayed as a soulless capitalist who isn't above [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS2E19JellyfishHunterTheFryCookGames constructing sweatshops]] and [[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS2E20SquidOnStrikeSandySpongeBobAndTheWorm charging his employees fees]] for ''breathing''. One episode of ''[=SpongeBob=]'' even used almost exactly the same "day off" gag: "Imitation Krabs" had Mr. Krabs [[BerserkButton losing his temper]] after learning that [[ItMakesSenseInContext his robotic impostor]] gave Squidward the day off from work.

** The above two strips, plus ''ComicStrip/{Bizarro}}'', ''all'' did strips with the theme of "wouldn't it be funny if [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]] got an x-ray, and we saw the puppeteer's hand?" The Muppets love that joke almost as much as comic strips do.

* The main joke in WebVideo/ShaneDawson's parody of ''Film/{{Unfriended}}'' is that the movie would be over in an instant if the main characters [[JustEatGilligan just ended their Skype call]]. In the actual movie, they have a very good reason not to do so: [[BerserkButton Laura will kill them immediately]] if they try.

** Similarly, snarky blogs will tend to sarcastically point out perceived flaws and confounding variables when they see articles on scientific papers with conclusions they don't like, but more often then not, if you read the original journal article (rather the news summary the blog linked to), you will notice the issues have already been accounted for in the study design itself, or otherwise acknowledged as something that must be addressed in any future studies.

* ''A Samba For Sherlock'' features a scene where the straight-laced detective ''tries drugs''. It's unfortunate because it shows the writers were only familiar with [[FirstInstallmentWins the early books]]. Holmes' use of cocaine is frequently mentioned in later stories.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/XMen1 Nice try, bub.]]]]

* Most parodies of the Creator/AdamWest ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}'' series end up like this. Viewing even one episode will tell you it was not meant to be a serious adaptation. Neither were the comic issues of [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks the era]], for that matter[[note]]More accurately, the comics at the time the show was originally being ''created'' were mostly that goofy. Once the show came out, the comics started trending a lot darker (for the time, anyway), going from a sunny "The Caped Crusader!" approach to a greyer "The Dark Knight" approach.[[/note]].

* Many different [[BlackComedy bloody and grotesque]] [[SongParody parodies]] of the popular children's song "On Top of Spaghetti" have circulated among children at least since the 1970s, most them beginning with some variation of the line, ''"On top of Old Smoky all covered with blood, I shot my poor teacher with a .44 slug..."'' (parodying ''"On top of spaghetti all covered with cheese, I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed..."''). As noted by [[http://playgroundjungle.com/2009/12/on-top-of-old-smokey-parodies.html Playground Jungle]], many of those children don't seem to be aware that "On Top of Spaghetti" is itself a parody of the American folk song "On Top of Old Smoky", which begins with the line ''"On top of Old Smoky all covered with snow, I lost my true lover for courting too slow..."''. This seems to be largely dependent on age: "On Top of Old Smoky" was once a legitimately popular song that played frequently on American radio stations, but many younger children now [[WeirdAlEffect seem to know the parodies much better]] (likely because they grew up with them).

* Parodies and modern versions of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" often invert the genders (having the man wishing to leave and the woman trying to convince him to stay) believing this subverts the original. This is clearly ignorant of the fact that the song was popularized by the film ''Film/NeptunesDaughter'' where it is performed twice, and a gender inverted version is ''exactly what the second performance of it is.''

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* Similar to the games, ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has frequent parodies where Ash, and Pokémon trainers in general, are little more than glorified cockfighters. Trouble is, that's the ''exact'' same reveal Takeshi Shudo was planning on building up to in his initial vision, before the higher-ups vetoed it on the grounds of being a complete 180 of the premise.