Line #145 Main/DarkParody


1	Lots of works, especially if they're very popular or unpopular, have parodies. Parodies are meant to be a joke, but some people [[BlackComedy have a dark sense of humour]], and that's when the Dark Parody comes in.
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3	Quite often, the work being parodied is [[SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel very upbeat]] and they make it dark for absurdist humour. There are a lot of typical ways writers could make a parody dark:
4	* If the characters do something that would be dangerous in real life, such as climbing on buildings, the parody might [[DeconstructiveParody have a character get hurt or die as a result of doing it]].
5	* If two characters are in a romantic relationship, often an {{official couple}}, the parody might have them break up or turn one into an abusive partner or adulterer, or both.
6	* If a character is very cute and/or virtuous, the creator might [[KillTheCutie kill that character off]] or [[AdaptationalVillainy rewrite him/her]] [[CuteIsEvil as evil]]. Stock ways of rewriting characters as evil include turning them into mass murderers, having a pet turn out to be sapient and evil, and making them prejudiced (antisemitism is a common one due to the association with Adolf Hitler). Also, characters who are antagonists but not all bad (such as the HeroAntagonist, AntiVillain, or HarmlessVillain) will be made more evil.
7	* Any character who [[GRatedStoner acts high without actually doing drugs]] will be turned into a real druggie.
8	* If a character is [[CloudCuckooLander eccentric]], s/he'll be rewritten as actually insane, sometimes AxCrazy. Similarly, if someone [[TheEeyore is a pessimist]] or [[ProneToTears cries easily]], the parody might show him with full-blown depression, and if a character scares easily, it might show him/her with an actual anxiety disorder.
9	* If there's an [[ButtMonkey unlucky character]], the parody might have that character either "snap" and [[FaceHeelTurn turn evil]] due to frustration or be even unluckier than in canon.
10	* Other things that happen a lot in dark parodies include [[InnocentInaccurate a character mistakenly thinking nothing bad is happening]] and goofy characters continuing to act goofy even when serious things happen.
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12	See also DarkFic, which can overlap with this trope if it's a ParodyFic. For dark things that happen in the work itself, see CerebusSyndrome, DarkerAndEdgier, and UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode. Also see SubvertedKidsShow, which is a dark parody of a whole genre, and CorruptedCharacterCopy for cases where a character darkly parodies another. Compare FracturedFairyTale, although do note that the original versions of some fairy tales were pretty dark and not all Fractured Fairy Tales are dark.
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20	* ''Anime/MagicalWitchPunieChan'': While the show seems to be a run-of-the-mill MagicalGirl show, it turns out to be a BlackComedy take on the genre. The eponymous "heroine" is a VillainProtagonist who revels in beating up anyone who stands in her way (not just through magic but by literally [[WrestlerInAllOfUs wrestling them into submission]]), the MagicalLand the she hails from is a CrapsaccharineWorld run by her EvilQueen of a mother, the DarkMagicalGirl turns out to be the daughter of the previous ruling family whom the protagonist's family usurped via a smear campaign, and the cutesy MentorMascot is in fact a gang leader and former black ops operative with quite the VocalDissonance. Oh, and the side characters are a gang of female JapaneseDelinquents [[LadyLooksLikeADude who look like]] they came straight out of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''.
21	* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': The show is very vulgar and a lot of the jokes are made to cross as many lines as possible while referencing a lot of Western media which include high school movies, ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'', Creator/{{MTV}} songs, ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'', ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' with the artsyle looking like ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls''.
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25	* ''ComicBook/BratPack'' is a vicious TakeThat towards ''ComicBook/YoungAllies'' and the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' in which the ComicBook/{{Robin}} analogue is molested by the BatmanParody, the ComicBook/WonderGirl analogue is a promiscuous airhead, the [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Speedy]] analogue is a drug addict, and the ComicBook/BuckyBarnes analogue is a racist steroid-abuser. And their mentors are all horrible degenerates who regularly abuse them and [[spoiler:intend to kill them just so they won't have to [[CorporateSponsoredSuperhero share royalties]] once they turn 18.]]
26	* ''ComicBook/CinemaPurgatorio'' has a retelling of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'' in which George Bailey is nearly killed by a series of accidents - only to find himself unharmed, the fatal experiences being endured by people who [[ObviousStuntDouble look only somewhat like him]]. Eventually, he's approached by a stuntman in place of Clarence; he explains that they're in a movie and that for every fatal incident he experiences, a stunt double has to endure it for the sake of the scene. Unfortunately, far from teaching him to respect the rights of the poor stunt doubles who suffer in his stead, this lecture teaches Bailey that he is effectively immortal, and he uses this new power to turn the tables on Mr Potter, kill him and take over the town - at the cost of yet another stuntman being shot down by Potter's bodyguards. At the end, George is keeping Mr Potter's severed head impaled on a paper spike as a memento.
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30	* ''Fanfic/AngerManagement'': Lucy says, "Cross my heart and hope to die, as crimson tears flow from my eyes" (downplayed though, since the original poem still involves injuries and hoping to die).
31	%%* A popular online comic based on ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' involves Calvin taking pills which cause him to stop imagining Hobbes.
32	* ''[[http://www.darksimpsons.com/ Dark Simpsons]]'' does this to ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', but in what ways varies between comics/videos. Either there is a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome to a particular throwaway gag, or a happy, friendly character is recharacterized as a murderer or a rapist (or even just suicidally depressed).
33	* ''FanFic/DayOfTheBarneyTrilogy'', a genocide-themed parody of a lighthearted [[Series/BarneyAndFriends series]].
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36	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
37	* In ''WesternAnimation/BeeMovie'', when the bees are locking up the bears because bears kill bees, one of them is Literature/WinnieThePooh.
38	* With a heavy emphasis on dark, the first segment of ''WesternAnimation/WhereTheDeadGoToDie'', "Tainted Milk", was intended to be a BlackComedy parody of ''Series/{{Lassie}}'', with the Lassie parody being...outright demonic in nature. However, when it turned out to actually terrify viewers, the rest of the film was made as a straight horror flick.
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41	[[folder:Literature]]
42	* Downplayed for ''Literature/GoldilocksAndTheThreeDinosaurs''. It's still a lighthearted story, but the dinosaurs want to eat Goldilocks, as opposed to the bears from ''Literature/TheThreeBears'', who are presumably innocent.
43	* Downplayed for the ''Goldilocks'' parody ''Mouldilocks and the Three Scares'': Yes, she's a zombie now and [[AdaptationSpeciesChange the bears are now a family of freakish creatures]], but [[DarkIsNotEvil they're still harmless]].
44	* ''Literature/MrWolfsPancakes'' takes characters from ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'', Wee Willy Winkie, ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'', and the already-kinda-dark ''Literature/ChickenLittle'' and ''Literature/TheGingerbreadMan'' and puts them into a darker version of the plot of ''Literature/TheLittleRedHen'': Mr. Wolf wants to make some pancakes, but his neighbours (the other mentioned characters) refuse and are rude, so ''he eats them''.
45	* ''Literature/RevoltingRhymes'' is a collection of fairy tale parodies. As the title suggests, most of them are dark:
46	** In the one for ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'', the prince decapitates the stepsisters, so Cinderella marries a jam maker instead.
47	** In the one about ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'', Jack's mother is abusive and the giant eats her.
48	** In the parody of ''Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs'', the pigs get killed by Red Riding Hood, who turns out to be [[EnfantTerrible even more evil than the wolf]].
49	* ''Zombie [=McCrombie=] from an Overturned Kombi'' is a parody of ''Literature/HairyMcClairy'' where all the dogs are zombies.
50	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': One of the Literature/CiaphasCain novels mentions a children's song called "The Tracks on the Land Raider". Fans figure it is based on "The Wheels on the Bus", and some have supplied [[https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/6vxrii/mvf_the_tracks_on_the_land_raider_song/ lyrics.]]
51	* The ''Addicted Animals'' book series is an adult-themed parody of the ''[[Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie If You Give...]]'' series of children's books meant to teach readers the dangers of addictive substances like alcohol, cannabis, and meth in the same style and with a similar formula as those books.
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55	* In ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', there's an in-universe example: Wednesday Addams writes a version of ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' where Red Riding Hood dies.
56	* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
57	** The "You're A Champion, [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]]" sketch from the Season 24 episode hosted by Creator/BrendanFraser gives a realistic and depressing spin on the old "Lucy pulls the football away from Charlie Brown" gag, in that Charlie Brown's typical fall on his back causes a fatal head injury and all that Lucy, Linus, and Franklin can do is despair and yell at Lucy that this is her fault.
58	** The "Clark Kent" sketch from Season 25 hosted by Creator/DwayneJohnson presented ComicBook/{{Superman}} as someone so incompetent in general, but more specifically at doing his signature ClarkKenting that everybody else in the Daily Planet was utterly sick of having him around and ended up convincing him to kill a person (by accident in Superman's case, but still) by pretending that said person was a super-villain, so Superman would end up in jail and they wouldn't have to deal with him ever again.
59	** A classic Chris Farley sketch parodies the "switcheroo" advertisement used in brands like Folger's. Normally, the people who get told that they had their order switched would either be delighted or would be angry and would ask to not be used in the ad. [[HairTriggerTemper Farley's]] [[UnstoppableRage character]] instead [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfR1TwosYQg has a meltdown and beats up the waiter who informed him about the switched order before he starts escalating his rage to attacking everyone else at the restaurant, prompting other people there to restrain him before anyone gets killed by his wrath]].
60	* An in-universe example in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. The doctor sings a version of "Rock-a-Bye Baby" and changes it from the baby's cradle falling out of a tree (already kind of dark) to a shuttle the baby was on exploding.
61	-->'''Seven of Nine''': "Are you trying to soothe the baby to sleep or traumatise her?"
62	* ''Series/TheBoys2019'' plays up the BlackComedy side of [[ComicBook/TheBoys the original comic book]] (a DeconstructorFleet for superheroes and the comic book industry) to prevent it from turning ''too'' grim, and becomes this in the process.
63	* ''Series/StrangersWithCandy'' parodies 1970s Series/{{Afterschool Special}}s and anti-drug [=PSAs=]. [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Its protagonist, Jerri Blank, was inspired by Florrie Fisher]], a former socialite turned motivational speaker that visited high schools in the 1960s and early 1970s to talk about her fall from socialite to heroin-addled prostitute in the 1940s. Many lines from the show are taken directly from a talk Fisher gave at a New York high school, including "I was a boozer, a user and a loser.".
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67	* One [[https://annex.fandom.com/wiki/Joy_to_the_World,_Our_Teacher%27s_Dead popular parody]] of "Joy to the World" involves schoolchildren celebrating their teacher's death, lighting her head on fire, and flushing the rest of her down the toilet until it clogs. Other variations have them celebrating the school burning down, or swapping out the teacher with the principal or Series/{{Barney\|AndFriends}}.
68	* ''Music/OkillyDokilly'' is a heavy metal band where the members dress as Ned Flanders from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and act out gory scenes. ''The Simpsons'' is no stranger to dark humour, but Ned Flanders is a very polite, friendly guy.
69	* "[[http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/cyndigrecco3.shtml Laverne and Shirley Lose Everything in a Catastrophic Fire]]" is a parody of the ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'' theme song with lyrics such as "Every dream we had cannot come true" and "There is nowhere for us to go now."
70	* One parody of "Jingle Bells" involves Santa dying.
71	* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yon2ObRg0O8&list=PLMLshkzyQnTk-cp8NZ7SE6qjDERMq5gv2&index=20 this]] so-called LiteralMusicVideo for "Something There" from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', everybody is trying to murder one another.
72	* Music/{{Koit}} did a dark parody of "Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes" by revealing at the end that the body parts were severed and kept in jars by a deranged SerialKiller collecting them.
73	* Music/{{Songdrops}}:
74	** "The Wheels on the Bus are Falling Off" is a parody of "The Wheels on the Bus", where the bus's wheels are falling off, there are zombies and [[SnakesAreSinister "kind-of-mad" snakes]] on the bus, the engine is on fire, the children are all screaming, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking nobody knows where the first aid kit is]].
75	** Several parodies in "The (Not Exactly) Nursery Rhyme Song":
76	*** In "Hickory Dickory Dock", the mouse puts the cat into a headlock.
77	*** In "Jack and Jill", Jill's father says, "Step away from my daughter!" to Jack.
78	*** In "Old Mother Hubbard", Mother Hubbard breaks three of her bones after slipping on a crack.
79	** "The [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]] Nights of Halloween" is a parody of "The 12 Days of Christmas" that involves witches sending the protagonist spooky things such as creepy dolls and ghosts.
80	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykieEE1j9eA Super Bad Transmittable Contagious Awful Virus!]]" by Daniel Matarazzo is a parody of "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (of ''Film/MaryPoppins'') describing [[{{UsefulNotes/Coronavirus}} how awful the COVID-19 coronavirus is and to please keep social distancing]].
81	* HorrorHost John Creator/{{Zacherley}} did a morbid parody of "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)" by Dee Dee Sharp called "Gravy (With Some Cyanide)", where he sang about his scheme of using poisoned gravy to kill his in-laws.
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84	[[folder:Video Games]]
85	* ''VideoGame/EggsForBart'' is a fanmade horror game based around ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' that was inspired by and used lines said on ''WebVideo/GameGrumps''.
86	* ''VideoGame/HomerTheFlandersKiller'' is a fan-made game for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' about Homer killing the Flanders family with a gun [[WouldHurtAChild including Rod and Todd]].
87	* PETA has made a few parodies of popular video game franchises, taking an innocuous, family-friendly work and turning it into a gory story about animal abuse. Examples include ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndBlue'', where the [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]] are abused and trying to escape from their cruel owners, ''VideoGame/CookingMamaMamaKillsAnimals'', where you play as [[VideoGame/CookingMama Mama]] slaughtering a dead turkey, or ''VideoGame/SuperTanookiSkin2D'', where you play as the skinned [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Tanooki]] trying to get their pelt back from the evil Mario.
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90	[[folder:Web Animation]]
91	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5S183KYn7s This]] fan animation [[WeirdCrossover crossover]] between ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' involves Swiper killing Leni.
92	* There were two UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash series made in UsefulNotes/{{Chile}} made at the beginning of the TurnOfTheMillennium:
93	** ''Roberto Manfinfla'' is a Chilean CultClassic Flash animation, but that lasted six episodes. ''The New Adventures of Roberto Manfinfla'' made in TheNewTens introduced new characters, one of them is none less than WesternAnimation/{{Clarence}} as an adult, being a embittered fat guy with the face full of pimples who works in a fast-food restaurant as a cook.
94	** The ''ComicStrip/MigraineBoy'' animations made by Creator/{{MTV}} were parodied by a Chilean UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash, that used the MTV version as base and made it BloodierAndGorier and with a lot of VulgarHumor and local ClusterFBomb, becoming a success in Chile at the point of overpassing the original animation and becoming a CultClassic years later.
95	* A majority of parodies made by ''WebAnimation/{{Dorkly\|Originals}}'' tend to rely heavily on BlackComedy. Among a few notable examples include one with [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]] shooting the guy who makes his guns to rant about the guns being big and slow, the [[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies Wall-Nut]] [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie turning into a zombie]] after being bitten, and Princess Peach getting kidnapped by realistic kidnappers. That's not even getting started on their parodies that are [[WebAnimation/PokemonRusty series]] [[WebAnimation/PokemonRalphie in and of]] [[WebAnimation/BodybuildersGo themselves]].
96	* ''WebAnimation/PlanetDolan'''s nursery rhyme parodies are often dark:
97	** Their parody for "Hickory Dickory Dock" involves spooky things such as green goo and ten thousand Krakens.
98	** Their parody for "I'm a Little Teapot" involves the teapot turning its water corrosive unintentionally and accidentally injuring a dog and [[AccidentalMurder killing]] another teapot.
99	* The Transformingmorpher video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb6dJHAMFVA Amelia Bedelia Is Actually Pretty Terrifying]]" consists of a gruesome parody of ''Literature/AmeliaBedelia'' where the maid's tendency to [[LiteralMinded interpret Mr. Rogers' statements in the literal sense]] escalates to disturbing levels, to the point that she makes an armchair from actual severed arms and Mr. Rogers quickly regrets using the word "brainstorm" after seeing Amelia Bedelia make bloody brains rain from the sky.
100	* Almost everything created by ''WebAnimation/MeatCanyon''. Really. Whether it's Pinocchio eating his creator to become a real boy, or [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Thomas the Tank Engine]] being a lovecraftian horror, or WebVideo/{{Dream}} being a bug-human hybrid kept secret by his father, ''[=MeatCanyon=]'' has a talent for making horror out of the least expected things.
101	* ''WebAnimation/FlashGitzAnimation'' can be summed up as making everything they touch BloodierAndGorier --[[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964 Rudolph]]'s nose being an exploding tumor and [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] being a racist murderer are just some examples.
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105	* ''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield'' is a webcomic where Garfield strips are edited to remove the eponymous character, leaving Jon Arbuckle imagining he has the cat and making the same dialogs and reactions but alone. A dark and depressed version of the original one but PlayedForLaughs and even [[ApprovalOfGod approved by Jim Davis, Garfield's creator nonetheless]]. And this gets exaggerated with ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield''.
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109	* The Website/{{Reddit}} page /r/[=2meirl4meirl=] takes common memes and makes them ''extremely'' bitter and self-deprecating.
110	* "Music/HatsuneMiku created X", a meme where a controvertial figure who created a popular property is {{Unperson}}ed and replaced by the much more beloved character, has two common dark parodies: either Miku is credited for heinous acts as well (ex: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper was controversial, so it was really Miku who killed all those prostitutes) or Miku develops a CultOfPersonality that credits her with ''everything''.
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113	[[folder:Web Videos]]
114	* A number of [[TheAbridgedSeries abridged series]] videos exaggerate or warp the character's personalities, often beyond recognition, for laughs.
115	** ''WebVideo/FiftyPercentOff'' is a parody of ''Anime/{{Free}}''. While the original anime does occasionally tackle dark topics, it remains a relatively optimistic anime about four friends forming a swimming club. Notable changes in the parody include giving the main character SplitPersonalities, turning the optimistic and cheerful {{Cloudcuckoolander}} onto a trash-talking {{Gayngster}}, and characterizing the ComicallySerious new recruit as a SerialKiller.
116	** ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'' is a parody of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' where, among other changes, Twilight is a narcissistic sociopath who has a crush on her [[FlirtyStepSiblings step-brother]], Spike is a universally-hated ButtMonkey, Fluttershy not-so-secretly leads an apocalyptic cult that worships "the Smooze", Pinkie Pie is a StepfordSmiler who was raised by "gypsies" after her parents died in a fire and who dabbles in the dark arts and sings [[LyricalDissonance upbeat songs with dark lyrics]], and Sweetie Belle is a robot [[TomatoInTheMirror who doesn't know she's a robot]] and [[AIIsACrapshoot runs the risk of going crazy if she ever finds out]].
117	* ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'' is a ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' parody with a lot of SurrealHorror and dark mockery of the source material, which is acted out with a creepy-looking Garfield costume, and then mocked further in a weird skit. "Sex Survey Results" took it even farther, with the ending consisting of nightmarish imagery and the suffering of an older Jon Arbuckle/Jim Davis.
118	* ''WebVideo/{{Paint}}'':
119	** The "After Ever After" series, which pokes dark fun at Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, as the characters sing about what happened "after" their films ended. The jokes often mirror modern-day issues, such as Simba's pride going extinct, and they're all sung to the tune of an actual Disney song: like, in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'''s case, "I Just Can't Wait to Be King". Some of them instead discuss what happened during the time period the film is set.
120	** In a collab with Peter Hollens, they created a "Boy Band" parody, poking fun at Music/{{Nsync}}, Music/OneDirection, Music/TheJonasBrothers and Music/BackstreetBoys, changing the lyrics of their songs to make fun of what the bands went or were going through in real-life...ending on the light note of The Backstreet Boys' continuation as a band.
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124	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' frequently makes dark parodies of movies, TV shows, etc., particularly during their {{cutaway gag}}s. For example, "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E18MeetTheQuagmires Meet the Quagmires]]" has a parody of the intro to ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'' where George and Jane end up arguing because she took too much money.
125	* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' usually plays with this trope, showing classic Creator/HannaBarbera characters in a dark and twisted tone but Played for Laughs. One example is an episode where WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones (and especially Fred) are shown as ''Series/TheSopranos''.
126	* Many of the parodies on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' are dark:
127	** In their parody of ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets'', the Wonder Pets accidentally take a calf to the slaughterhouse due to [[SignsOfDisrepair thinking it was a comedy club because the "S" was missing, so it read "laughterhouse".]]
128	** In their parody of ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', George is killed, presumably by [[RobotMaid Rosie]], and in another ''Jetsons'' parody, Elroy is killed by aliens.
129	** In their parody of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin is dangerously delusional, as he [[SelfMadeOrphan kills his parents]] and blames it on Hobbes, eventually ending up in an insane asylum.
130	** In the parody of ''Series/HappyDays'', Ralph dies and Fonzie tries to [[BackFromTheDead resurrect him]] but [[CameBackWrong turns him into a zombie instead]]. Ralph then turns Potsie and Richie into zombies and Richie tells Fonzie to kill him so he doesn't turn into one.
131	** Their attempt at a ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory4'' trailer (released long before the real one was starting production at Disney) followed the same idea of Andy being grown up... the difference being that he became a junkie and used Buzz as a makeshift bong, causing so much damage to him that Woody is forced to give him a MercyKill.
132	** They showcase a "[[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome realistic]]" epilogue to ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds'' that has the whole cast of nerds arrested, sentenced for multiple crimes including sexual harassment and rape, and slaughtered in jail.
133	** Two separate sketches showcase ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' as so utterly useless (AwesomeButImpractical ''at best'') that they are [[CurbStompBattle utterly massacred]] by a single sniper and Taliban insurgents, respectively. The latter sketch also sees Cobra Commander and his inner circle completely slaughtered by SEAL Team Six, because the [=SEALs=] are, comparatively, a NoNonsenseNemesis.
134	** Another sketch poked fun at both their HollywoodTactics and the franchise's gimmick of "all of the Joes have a code-name" by having the Joes giving a rookie an EmbarrassingNickname ("Fumbles"), and this rookie finding it so annoying that he quits the Joes and ''[[WhosLaughingNow slaughtering them all]] [[SpreeKiller in a sniper rampage]]'', which the Joes cannot do anything about because they don't do the typical things the military would do if there's a sniper around, like ''ducking for cover''.
135	** Their skit parodying ''Series/ICarly'' starts with Carly getting her nudes leaked online and ends with her father having a HeroicBSOD and nuking Iran.
136	** The obligatory ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' short involves the Krusty Krab using fish meat as the secret ingredient, essentially turning everyone in Bikini Bottom into cannibals.
137	** Their ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' parody had the government raid Free Country, USA due to mistaking Strong Badia as a separatist enclave. Several characters die in the ensuing chaos.
138	** A sketch parodying ''Series/GullahGullahIsland'' has Binyah Binyah turn out to be a fugitive criminal who was wearing a tadpole costume and living with the Gullah family to hide from the cops, who end up forcing him to blow his cover when they find and threaten to shoot him.
139	** A spoof of ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' has George turn out to be a carrier for a lethal virus (with the first person infected by him being The Man in the Yellow Hat) and the city he's in being nuked to prevent the infection from spreading anywhere else.
140	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
141	** One [[ShowWithinAShow TV show the children watch]] is called ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', which is a parody of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' and ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'' that turns the [[ToonPhysics cartoonish]] [[{{Slapstick}} violence]] into [[BloodyHilarious actual]] [[DeathAsComedy violence]], with [[TheChewToy Scratchy the cat]] [[TheyKilledKennyAgain dying gruesomely in every episode]].
142	** The episode "Fear of Flying" has a scene in which Homer, looking for a new bar to drink, enters ''{{Series/Cheers}}''. The whole cast is [[TookALevelInJerkass just a little bit more jerkish]], with Norm getting the worst of it, being a hostile and barely-coherent drunk. For bonus points, several actual ''Cheers'' cast members [[RoleReprise provided]] [[ParodyAssistance the voices]] for their dark analogues!
143	** Combined with ExpyCoexistence, in the episode "Brother's Little Helper" a FacialCompositeFailure of Bart's description instead creates a drawing of ''ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUS''. Chief Quimby then mentions that the Dennis Mitchell drawing reminds him of "the kid who roughed up the Wilson widow".
144	** One opening sequence of the annual ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episode has the Simpsons standing in for ''Series/TheMunsters''... who subsequently are all [[TorchesAndPitchforks lynched by the people of Springfield]] because [[VanHelsingHateCrimes they are monsters]]. The only one who survives is Lisa, who is standing in for the TokenHuman member of the family, Marilyn.
145	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' is a DenserAndWackier spin-off of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' with a heavy reliance on BlackComedy and the main cast frequently depicted as [[AdaptationalJerkass far meaner and crueler]] than they were in the original show.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''
147	** Their take on Hanna-Barbera classics like ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' and ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' is absolutely merciless, the former by way of constantly deconstructing how living a life like Jonny's is highly traumatizing (even showing a grown-up Jonny at one point, who had turned into a nerve-wrecked drug addict) and the latter by having an Expy group show up who were quite visibly supposed to be the Scooby gang but also were composites with well-known scumbags of the Seventies like Patty Hearst (a kidnapped "Daphne" suffering from Stockholm syndrome), Valerie Solanas (a violent misandrist radical feminist lesbian "Velma"), David "the Son of Sam" Berkowitz (a "Shaggy" who is the only one who can "hear" what "Scooby" said) and Ted Bundy ("Freddy").
148	** Rusty's father, Dr. Jonas Venture, is one to Literature/DocSavage, an uber-macho world-traveling crimefighter and super-scientist, but Jonas was also an AbusiveParent and ManipulativeBastard.
149	** The titular brothers are this to Literature/TheHardyBoys in that they're repeatedly shown as being TooDumbToLive and very much in over their heads, and in fact have repeatedly died and subsequently cloned by their father.
150	** The Impossibles are this to the ComicBook/FantasticFour. Professor Richard Impossible (ComicBook/MisterFantastic) is an abusive sexist who ultimately becomes a villain, Sally's (ComicBook/InvisibleWoman) skin becomes invisible whenever she's not actively concentrating to keep it visible, Cody (ComicBook/HumanTorch) flames on in contact from oxygen but can't turn them off and can feel the burns despite being impervious to them, and Ned (ComicBook/TheThing) is more like a giant callous than a giant rock.
151	** "The Terminus Mandate" features Blind Rage, an egotistical jerkass ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} knockoff.
152	* ''WesternAnimation/BambiMeetsGodzilla''. At least if you take it as a parody of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', rather than of ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''.
153	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfTheWonderTwins'' consists of a send-up of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' where the Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna, thanks to being completely incompetent as well as the series sharply averting TalkingIsAFreeAction, horribly screw up their attempts at rescuing people and the teens they try to save end up dying as a result.
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