History Main / RedundantParody

** The prequel manga ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' has a famous scene where Sailor V makes a speech so elaborate and long that it runs for two pages, [[BreakingTheFourthWall to the point where the enemy cuts her off]] in annoyance.

* After the finale of ''WebVideo/{{Unraveled}}'', Website/TheHardTimes published a parody article titled "Creator/BrianDavidGilbert Begins Comprehensive Deep Dive Into How to Get Health Insurance Now" where Brian breaks down the healthcare system out of panic that he doesn't have job security anymore. The joke of Brian using ''Unraveled'' to deal with his own financial woes was already done in the ''Unraveled'' episode "When can Mario retire?" when Brian analyzes the complicated retirement system and eventually panics over his future retirement prospects. Years later, he would do an ''actual'' video breaking down some of the complexities of the United States hearlthcare system.

* After the finale of ''WebVideo/{{Unraveled}}'', Website/TheHardTimes published a parody article titled "Brian David Gilbert Begins Comprehensive Deep Dive Into How to Get Health Insurance Now" where Brian breaks down the healthcare system out of panic that he doesn't have job security anymore. The joke of Brian using ''Unraveled'' to deal with his own financial woes was already done in the ''Unraveled'' episode "When can Mario retire?" when Brian analyzes the complicated retirement system and eventually panics over his future retirement prospects.

* ''Webcomic/BobTheAngryFlower'' has a [[http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif parody sequel]] to ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' which been widely circulated, where people admit, sometimes quite proudly, that they found Creator/AynRand's book too long to read. If they had actually read it through, they might have discovered that industrialists such as Dwight Sanders ''do'' take up farming after leaving the world behind for Galt's Gulch. Notley later apologized for this and produced another cartoon that spoofed Objectivism directly and more accurately.

* Parodies of Music/AvrilLavigne's "[=Sk8r=] Boi" have the relationship not work out for the titular character and his crush, or make whomever are taking their place have similar traits ("[[QueerRomance He was a boy/He was a boy]]", "He was a punk/She was a punk"). The Girl doesn't see anything in the Boy until long after he's moved on and made it big, and he ends the song in a happy relationship with someone more on his wavelength.

** ''Film/VampiresSuck'' includes gags about [[WalkingShirtlessScene how often Jacob is shirtless]], something which the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' adaptations already poked fun at. ("Does he even own a shirt?")

* 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 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 dedicated to lampshading this.

** In the magazine proper, in an article about the comics section of the Vatican newspaper, they make a joke in a ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' parody about Jason pointing out that George Lucas could sue God for stealing the plot of ''Film/StarWars''. The actual strip had done the same joke in reverse(in that Jason suggested God sue George Lucas) years before.

* Since one of the notable things about the ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games is its ability to [[{{Bathos}} combine dark storylines]] with [[DenserAndWackier bonkers, absurd comedy]], a lot of bad parodies just repeat humorous elements in the original games, like the idea of a cool superspy hiding in a cardboard box, or the [[NakedPeopleAreFunny hilarious naked people]] and [[PageThreeStunna sexy posters]], or Otacon's [[IceCreamKoan garbled proverbs]], or what have you.

** Stupidly big swords. Cloud's sword in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' was deliberately designed to look ridiculous (if in a {{Camp}}ily cool way), to reflect that Cloud is a [[AttentionWhore cocky showoff]] and [[CompensatingForSomething overcompensating]]. The [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake remake]] further parodies its impractical size by having him hit it against a door frame when trying to pull it out when standing under one.

* There is a somewhat common joke among the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fandom concerning the fact that ''VideoGame/SonicDrift'' (and later on, ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic and Sega All-Stars Racing]]'') has Sonic, whose defining trait is his SuperSpeed, driving in a race car. While this seems justified, it ignores that the manual for ''Drift'' clarifies that Sonic does dislike cars, and it's clear in both games that he's only using a car to keep the competition balanced for all the other racers. ''Racing Transformed'' also has [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph Ralph]] [[LampshadeHanging note the irony of Sonic using a car.]]

* ''Film/Deadpool2'' features a case in a scene where Wade tries to calm down [[spoiler: the Juggernaut]] by telling him "Sun's getting real low", only for it to fail miserably. This is mocking how the Black Widow calmed the Hulk down in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse beat Deadpool to the punch by using the same joke six months prior in ''Film/ThorRagnarok''. (This is a rare case where it was completely accidental, as the films were in production at around the same time, and ''Age of Ultron'' itself played the whole thing dead straight.)

* ''[[http://www.kibo.com/kibofic/spot_xmas_3.html Spot's Third First Christmas]]'', according to author Creator/{{Kibo}}, was "a parody of those crappy "[[Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure Choose Your Adventure]]" books" with many bad endings and only one happy ending which is unreachable from any path. One actual book in the CYOA series, "Inside UFO 54-40," the best ending was deliberately unreachable (and not unreachable by oversight, as it was in plenty of others).

** It's a standard ''Doctor Who'' parody joke to make fun of the Fourth Doctor's ridiculously long scarf (''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' joked that it was self-knitting and a newspaper cartoon featured a giant tape dispenser with the striped pattern reading "Dr. Who Scarf (cut to length)"). The show made jokes about it already, usually from some incredulous character of the week.[[note]]WordOfGod says it actually ended up as it did as a result of a misunderstanding. The producer gave the seamstress several balls of yarn with the intention that she choose which ones she wanted. She thought she was supposed to use all of them.[[/note]]

* 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]]. In [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus the TV show]], it's also 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.

** "[[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/04/06 In The Before-Now]]" dealt with Gabe's past obsession with Music/KrisKross, an early '90s rap duo who wore their clothes backward. The punchline is that it's hard for a guy to go to the bathroom with his jeans on backward. Kris Kross' first album actually made that same joke in one of the spoken word tracks between songs.
** "[[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/09/24 Believe Me, We Tried]]" discusses this. It starts with Gabe noting that they were ''going'' to make jokes about the then-upcoming ''VideoGame/Doom3'', but decided not to because [[PoesLaw every development screenshot of the game looked like the kind of joke they would make]].

** In the strip "[[https://xkcd.com/964 Dorm Poster]]", a character sees their roommate having put up a poster of the album cover for Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', so they decided to "get back" at them by making a poster that inverts the light dispersion, bunching the rainbow together using a lens and directing it towards an inverted prism to turn it back into white light. The thing is, the concept [[https://i.imgur.com/0msJPJd.jpg has already been used]] for the album's back cover, albeit without the lens.
** "[[https://xkcd.com/890/ Etymology]]" has [[Film/ANewHope Luke Skywalker asking Han Solo]] to explain [[OrphanedEtymology what a falcon is]]. But as that trope page points out, the novelization had this joke (because Luke comes from the desert):

* 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 an over-the-top soulless businessman 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.

* 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 lengthy sex scenes. WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob addressed this redundancy in his review of ''The Bed Room''.

* One of the StockParodyJokes about Franchise/{{Batman}} is "what if Batman was inspired by something else when he decided to become a superhero?", which usually leads to some kind of jokey theme like "Shards of Glass Man" or "Curtain Man." There was a tongue-in-cheek WhatIf story that delved into the idea as early as 1974 (where various alternate Bruce Waynes take on the monikers of Scorpion, Owl, Shooting Star, Stingray, and Iron Knight), and it was rendered (sorta) canon in ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', where characters going by those identities who are clearly the local Batman equivalents show up.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'' has inspired many parodies that joke about it representing "the evils of capitalism", along with a game called "Anti-Monopoly" that depicts the monopolists as the bad guys. While this fits the vast majority of modern versions of the game, this was the original version's ''entire point.'' Anyone who has played by the rules as written (i.e. no HouseRules) knows that once any single player has a noticeable advantage, [[UnstableEquilibrium that player is virtually guaranteed to multiply that advantage and bankrupt everybody else in a relatively short time]]. That's deliberate.

** Many of the villains both one-off and arc-based [[SurpriseCreepy often looked terrifying]] as well as acting equally horrific, at times causing enough suffering that they'd not look out of place in a much DarkerAndEdgier deconstruction.

* One episode of ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' has Arin mocking ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' for the concept of the Indoraptor, pointing out the silliousness of how the creature works -- where you aim a gun at a target and hit the trigger and it "tags" the target with a laser that makes the Endoraptor attacks it -- by StatingTheSimpleSolution of "why not just have a gun that shoots ''bullets''" and laughing about how it's just an overcomplicated solution to a problem that was solved a hundred years ago. The movie actually ''does'' address this, with the Endoraptor being nothing more than an experimental proof of concept just to test the practicality of using a dinosaur as a controlled bioweapon, and wasn't meant to actually be sold or used for combat. Dr. Wu fiercely insists as such while his boss decides to just sell it anyways once the bidders start bidding on the Endoraptor in the ''millions''.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The episode parodying ''Literature/PetSematary'' has the Jud Crandall expy warn Stephen Stotch not to resurrect his (not actually) deceased son via a cursed burial ground in a way that [[NiceJobBreakingItHero simply puts the idea in Stotch’s head and gratuitously provides him with instructions on how to pull it off]], ostensively sending up how easily the events of parodied story could have been avoided if Jud had kept his mouth shut. However, the original book and its film adaptations make it clear that part of the burial ground’s power is in compelling those who know about it to reveal it to others, with Jud Crandall himself acknowledging that he should have realised he was being manipulated.

** Their video for ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' pokes fun at the fact that the Ocean could have just [[spoiler:returned the Heart of Te Fiti itself]] instead of going through the trouble of presenting this task to Moana. The movie itself actually has Maui [[LampshadeHanging comment on this]], with Moana reluctantly admitting that she has no idea why. Maui later deduces that the ocean believes it would mean more if a human-like Moana accomplished the task, as it would inspire ocean travel once again.

** The segment about Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart in "Margical History Tour" is a parody of ''Film/{{Amadeus}}''--a film that was already pretty comedic (albeit [[BlackComedy darkly so]]) to begin with. Since Mozart is portrayed by Bart, most of the jokes revolve around Mozart being an immature and irreverent jokester with a naughty and juvenile sense of humor, which is...the entire premise of ''Amadeus''.

* ''Website/TheOnion'' crossed this with SpoofingSpoofiness in 1999, with [[https://www.theonion.com/weird-al-yankovic-nears-completion-of-livin-la-vida-moc-1819565267 an article]] that treats a (fictional) Music/WeirdAlYankovic parody of "Livin' La Vida Loca" called "Livin' La Vida [[MustHaveCaffeine Mocha]]" as SeriousBusiness. Thing is, Music/RickyMartin's original has this infamous LyricalShoehorn in the chorus--"Her lips are devil-red and her skin's the color mocha." Whether [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure they weren't aware]] that "mocha" was in the original, or the joke was that Yankovic was guilty of this trope isn't clear.

* [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRDoqgL8lBrrnt5SqDZL7xkKcV7sCk__-GUVw&usqp=CAU 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, realizing the monster was real. This exact same gag (minus [[BloodierAndGorier the blood]]) was used in the 1998 movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'', complete with Fred pulling a Zombie's head off, and freaking out.

* In the ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip "[[https://xkcd.com/964 Dorm Poster]]", a character sees their roommate having put up a poster of the album cover for Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', so they decided to "get back" at them by making a poster that inverts the light dispersion, bunching the rainbow together using a lens and directing it towards an inverted prism to turn it back into white light. The thing is, the concept [[https://i.imgur.com/0msJPJd.jpg has already been used]] for the album's back cover, albeit without the lens.

* Many parodies of [[{{Disneyfication}} Disney animated classics]] mock the fairytale tropes like falling in love with someone you just met or TrueLovesKiss, calling them shallow and unrealistic, when most modern films avoid those tropes completely; in fact, Disney films like ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' lampshade and deconstruct those tropes themselves.

* Many parodies of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' go the BloodierAndGorier route, featuring intense violence. However, ''[=SpongeBob=]'' arose from the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren & Stimpy]]'' grossout era, and as a result, is no stranger to FamilyUnfriendlyViolence through the occasional BlackComedyBurst, [[https://img.memecdn.com/spongebob---happy-tree-friends-edition_o_6931201.webp many of which aren't too far off from those parodies]].

* 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, ''the second of which is gender-inverted''.

* 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, realizing the monster was real. This exact same gag (minus [[BloodierAndGorier the blood]]) was used in the 1998 movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'', complete with Fred pulling a Zombie's head off, and freaking out.