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11->''"This is one of those moments where I think, 'Oh, is my stock joke about one of the strips I cover really accurate?' and then realize 'Yes, it’s more horribly accurate than I could ever have wanted it to be.'"''
12-->-- '''Josh Fruhlinger''', ''Blog/TheComicsCurmudgeon''
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14Parodies are hard to write if you're unfamiliar with the original work. Sometimes, you'll [[OutsideJoke make points that the work itself refutes]]. Sometimes, you'll [[SpoofedTheIronicFilmSeriously treat tongue-in-cheek works like they're serious]]. But some spoofs make an even more serious error. They try to mock the original work with their own humorous spin but reproduce the original instead of parodying it.
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16The original included the exact same material, perhaps as a self-aware joke, which renders the parody superfluous. As a result, the parody doesn't actually twist or exaggerate the original work. People unfamiliar with the original may laugh at the joke, but others will be put off by the spoof writer's ignorance and the redundancy of the resultant parody.
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18Some comedy writers avoid this trap by [[KnowWhenToFoldEm limiting their targets]]. ''Podcast/RiffTrax'', for example, refuses to mock comedies, fearing their commentary will sound too much like the original. For parodies that do this ''deliberately'', to send the implied message "We can't make this any dumber than it already is", see SpoofedWithTheirOwnWords, which may be accompanied by a NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer.
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20Note that sometimes this can be accomplished less through [[ShotForShotRemake exact replication]] and more through the subtle changes that are made. The lack of a proper punchline is key to AntiHumor. Replicating a classic scene through swapping out certain archetypes can create comedy through absurdity, such as replacing a GiantMook with a CuteBruiser in a fight scene. And there may be a novelty in taking established characters and having them [[UniversalAdaptorCast act out a classic story]].
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22Compare and contrast with ShallowParody. Not to be confused with SpoofingSpoofiness, which is when a work being parodied is already a parody.
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29* In Spain, saying you're "turning black" means [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry you're getting angry]], much like a video game boss TurnsRed, but black. A ''Franchise/DragonBall'' parody comic had Mr. Popo (who has black-colored skin) say he was "turning black" as a joke... except he actually says that in the Spanish anime dub at one point.
30* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'':
31** Many parodies supposedly mocking the conventions of Sailor Moon's [[TheDitz ditzy and at times ineffectual behavior]], [[GenkiGirl ridiculously idealistic and energetic nature]], [[TransformationSequence flashy but impractical transformations]], [[InTheNameOfTheMoon melodramatic and long-winded speeches about love and justice]], and [[ClarkKenting blatantly terrible attempts at keeping her identity secret]] largely repeat what the original work lampshaded. Although most of these things are more or less played straight and accepted as genre conventions, truth be told the MagicalGirl formula was far from new when ''Sailor Moon'' debuted. Usagi very much started out as akin to an AffectionateParody of magical girl heroines at first: she was not nearly as competent as she was believed to be, which earned her no small amount of snark from her teammates. Her first attempts at heroism usually left her falling flat on her face. And her extremely girly personality was consistently PlayedForLaughs. Indeed, the cornerstone of her early CharacterDevelopment was learning to be a competent hero and properly take on her responsibilities as Princess of the Moon.
32** Many of the villains both one-off and arc-based [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment 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.
33** The predecessor 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.
34** An [[Anime/SailorMoon anime]] episode wherein Usagi has trouble transforming when in her house, to the point where the angelic wings are long enough to knock dishes over when she turned around, and in general [[AwesomeButImpractical would have been more effective had she not transformed to begin with.]]
35** The hilariously terrible attempts to keep her identity safe are played so straight as to be a StealthParody.
36** 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 becoming one of the most important fighters in that continuity. His reputation for being useless [[AudienceColoringAdaptation largely comes from the anime]], where [[AdaptationalWimp he's weaker]] and his role is more downplayed since two of the anime's directors (Junichi Sato and Creator/KunihikoIkuhara) famously [[CreatorsPest disliked him]].
37* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' parodies inevitably bring up the fact that the titular character eats people (and [[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 and an episode where he swallows King Dedede by sucking up one of his dolls.
38* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' parodies tend to mock Naruto's childishness and loudmouth attitude as unfitting for a ninja. It doesn't take a very close reading of the early series to recognize that these traits were intended to be negative, and something he'd grow out of, and most characters call him out on it.
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42* There are numerous [[https://www.salon.com/2012/04/09/kinkades_world_of_parody/ irreverent parodies]] of the works of Thomas Kinkade that insert various characters from pop culture ([[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty and Doc Brown]], [[Literature/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]], [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the Nazghul]], etc.) into his paintings. In fact, Thomas Kinkade Studios actually ''does'' sell paintings of characters and scenes from popular culture, including paintings of Creator/DCComics superheroes and various Creator/{{Disney}} characters. Amusingly: [[https://www.boredpanda.com/star-wars-kinkade-jeff-bennett-painting-mashup/ one of the most popular]] subgenres of parody features characters from ''Franchise/StarWars'' "invading" Kinkade's famously saccharine nature scenes. There's a whole selection of ''Star Wars'' paintings available for purchase on Kinkade's website, many of which aren't ''that'' different from the parodies.
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46* Parodies of ''[[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Uncle Scrooge]]'' will inevitably make a joke about how [[PooledFunds diving headfirst into a pool of gold coins]] like Scrooge [=McDuck=] is a terrible idea, and that it would probably lead to a concussion in RealLife. But the actual ''Uncle Scrooge'' comics have acknowledged this multiple times, going all the way back to the first ''Uncle Scrooge'' issue, "Only a Poor Old Man", which ends with the Beagle Boys knocking themselves unconscious after Scrooge convinces them to try it themselves. In the same story, Scrooge just coyly replies "It's a trick" when asked how he himself can do it. Indeed, most of Scrooge's stories portray him as a MemeticBadass who regularly pulls of improbable feats that leave his friends baffled; swimming in gold is pretty basic for him. In another issue, Scrooge notes that he needed ''lots'' of practice to be able to do it, after using it as a SpotTheImposter test.
47* DC's Redtool, from the ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' solo series, is a parody of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}. The problem is that Deadpool is already a parody himself (his original inspiration being DC's own ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}), and his personality and humor style are very similar to Redtool's, making the latter come off less as a parody and more as a pure CaptainErsatz. Making this more redundant is that Harley (especially around the New 52 and Rebirth eras) is already treated as an AlternateCompanyEquivalent to Deadpool anyway in some of her solo books thanks to her MetaGuy attitude.
48* Creator/JohnByrne once commented that it's virtually impossible to write a parody of the ComicBook/FantasticFour, because any and all attempts at writing parody Thing dialogue end up sounding like something the real Ben Grimm would say anyway.
49* Parodies or lists mocking "lame comic characters" have a habit of including characters that were always intended to be jokes. Arm Fall Off Boy of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes in particular often gets spoken of in "what were they thinking?" tones, when he made exactly two very brief appearances where the entire gag was that this idiot thought his ability to detach his arm made him Legion-worthy. (In fact, his presence was essentially an early AscendedMeme in the fandom.)
50* ''ComicBook/{{Ruins}}'', a parody (in the vaguest sense of the word, given everything in that comic is PlayedForDrama) of the series ''ComicBook/{{Marvels}}'', seems to be based primarily on subverting the premise of how wonderful it would be to watch the Marvel Universe unfold by making it out as a massive CrapsackWorld where everyone is either an asshole or dying. Except the ideas that the Marvel Universe is kind of a CrapsackWorld and it would be nervewracking and disillusioning to live in a world of superheroes were both major themes of ''Marvels''; even the opening issue ends with the narrator being caught in the middle of a brawl and losing his eye in the process.
51* One common joke 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.
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55* ''ComicStrip/MotherGooseAndGrimm'':
56** There was a comic once of a man watching TV with a woman behind him looking shocked, and the caption, "Scully discovers the XXX Files." But in Series/TheXFiles, it was well-established that Mulder really did [[PornStash stash porn]] all over the office, and that Scully was perfectly aware of it and didn't care.
57** Another strip featured ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'' playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with a little kid, and continually losing. This joke especially falls flat considering it was used in the movie as a running gag. [[http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=535 And he did it again.]]
58* Inverted and HilariousInHindsight in an ''ComicStrip/OffTheMark'' comic making fun of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Bart goes to a barber who is confused as to where his head ends and hairline begins. This joke was made on the show years later.
59* ''ComicStrip/{{Bizarro}}'' (along with ''Mother Goose and Grimm'' and ''Off the Mark'') did a strip 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.
60* ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'':
61** In its 1950s ComicBook incarnation, it sometimes ended up committing this trope. In their Disney parody, for example, much of the humor derived from WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck losing his clothes and getting captured by a duck farmer who could barely understand him. Pretty funny in itself, but Donald winding up naked and coming off as incomprehensible due to his quacking voice happened in quite a few ''actual'' Donald Duck cartoons (though not necessarily at the same time).
62** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and HilariousInHindsight with a ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1''-scenes-we'd-like-to-see comic written when the first movie was released. It shows Donkey with dragon/donkey hybrid babies, which became a reality in the sequels.
63** ''MAD'' also had a comic in which the Disney version of WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} stomps on Jiminy Cricket. Although such a thing [[{{Disneyfication}} never happens in the Disney version]], something similar ''did'' happen in [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio the original book the movie is based on]].
64** 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 ''Franchise/StarWars''. The actual strip had done the same joke in reverse(in that Jason suggested God sue George Lucas) years before.
65* ''The ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} Future'', a 1997 book featuring Scott Adams' cartoons and musings about the future, has a part about the holodeck from ''Franchise/StarTrek''. The central joke is that people in real life would use the holodeck for sex. This isn't very funny if you've watched much ''Star Trek'' (especially ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'') because that's actually what it's used for pretty often.
66** This joke is also used in the copypasta "10 Things I Hate About Star Trek."
67* A common joke made about ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' is that it doesn't make sense for Garfield to hate Mondays since he doesn't do anything. This has already [[http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1988/03/07 been]] [[http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1981/10/05 acknowledged]] in the comic strip. Earlier comics also had a RunningGag of improbably bad things happening to Garfield on Mondays, such as [[PianoDrop a piano falling on his head]] or getting a PieInTheFace out of nowhere, which he would go to extensive lengths to avoid.
68* The April 30 2020 ''ComicStrip/HiAndLois'' strip had Dot and Ditto watching "a new crime show for kids" called ''Series/{{CSI}}: Series/SesameStreet''. The joke is the contrast of adult crime drama with kiddie puppets. Except those kiddie puppets spoof adult crime dramas all the time, and had done a ''CSI'' bit way back in 2007.
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72* A video PSA retold the ''Cinderella'' story with the genders reversed. At the end, the narrator discusses how ridiculous the story sounds, suggesting the original fairy tale is sexist and demeaning towards girls. Quite a few countries actually already have traditional variants of the story where Cinderella is a boy. Marian Roalfe Cox even [[https://www.surlalunefairytales.com/oldsite/cinderella/marianroalfecox/herotales.html collected a few of them]] ''back in 1893.'' In fact, in some countries, Cinderella was ''traditionally a boy''...it was the popularity of Perrault's heroine that solidified her as a girl.
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77* At the height of [[Franchise/HarryPotter Pottermania]] were many out-of-touch parodies that focused around the idea of Harry and his friends growing up and becoming teenagers with all the foibles that entails such as sexual attraction and social awkwardness ("[[Series/MockTheWeek Harry Potter and the Onset of Puberty]]"). This is what much of the series [[ComingOfAgeStory actually concerns itself with]]. Apparently, they [[ShallowParody stopped reading after the first book]] and assumed later entries continued the "kid in a candy store" sense of wonder (perhaps combined with NotAllowedToGrowUp) instead of maturing along with the target audience.
78* ''WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries'', due to parodying a show that's a {{dramedy}} to begin with. 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.
79* ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'' has much the same problem, as ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' was already an incredibly silly show. Jan Valentine, in particular, is virtually identical to his original incarnation -- you could probably switch out his scenes with the ones in the actual dub and barely notice.
80* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' ran 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. Tellingly, while other characters were either hyper-exaggerated or entirely rewritten, Satan and the Ginyus are extremely similar to how they were in the originals, with only their context and some minor quirks changing (in Satan's case because [[AdaptationalDumbass everyone's even dumber]] so [[BlatantLies his lies can get even more ridiculous]]). 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.
81* ''Fanfic/EigaSentaiScanranger'' had [[http://www.oocities.org/tetsuokurata/epi33.html a chapter]] that attempted to parody spy movies, with each of the heroes becoming a pastiche of a well-known character in the genre. The thing is one of them becomes [[Film/AustinPowers Boston Powered, New England Man of Mystery]], and the villain is even outright compared to Dr. Evil. During the big fight at the end "Boston" uses his powers to turn into Fat Bastard, too. It also takes the "don't be a dick" scene from ''Film/XXx'' but doesn't sound any more ironic than the real one (it's hard for it to sound like a joke when the new version addresses childhood obesity), really just swapping out the word "dick" with "twit" to keep it family-friendly. [[OldShame The chapter was noticeably left out when the story was reposted elsewhere]], with even the chapter numbers and teasers deliberately moved around to exclude it.
82* 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. This was only played completely straight in their earliest films; most Disney animated films with romance plots either avoid these tropes or at least have someone in-universe acknowledge the absurdity, in addition to movies like ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' having their entire narratives dedicated to lampshading and deconstructing those tropes.
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86* Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg, masters of the ShallowParody, typically parody trailers rather than actual films; as such they have no idea if their "jokes" will actually be in the final films (which inevitably come out before their own movies do). Highlights include:
87** ''Film/EpicMovie2007'' decided to parody ''Film/XMen1'' by having Wolverine position his claws to look like he was FlippingTheBird, even though [[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af08 this same joke was used at one point in the original movie.]] And it was a pretty memorable moment, so it just goes to show that nobody involved had seen ''X-Men'' even once. And just to add insult to injury, as the page image shows, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STJiVO0zu7k the original did it]] ''much'' better.
88*** Not much better than that is a parody of ''Film/{{Borat}}'' -- and by "parody", the film means "direct lift of an exchange from ''Borat'', almost word for word, acted out by a man imitating Borat." And needless to say, ''Borat'' is [[SpoofedTheIronicFilmSeriously already a comedy]].
89*** Also, it's revealed that the "chocolate river" in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory was actually a sewage line full of human feces. This joke was already made in the original film where his guests were disgusted when they saw the river and said it must be a polluted pool of industrial waste, only for Wonka to correct them that it actually ''was'' chocolate. And like ''Borat'', ''Willy Wonka'' basically already was a comedy (albeit not purely so).
90** Before them both, ''Film/ScaryMovie'' was a parody primarily of ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}'', a movie which was already a satire ([[IndecisiveParody sort of]]) of the Slasher Genre.
91** ''Film/DisasterMovie'' prominently features a parody of Giselle from Disney's ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', a character and film that was ''already'' an [[AffectionateParody affectionate]] SelfParody of Disney's previous Princess movies. Her screentime and personality are entirely dedicated to her making jokes about Disney tropes and [[FishOutOfWater jokes about her not belonging in a modern setting]], which was already the premise of the actual film.
92** ''Film/VampiresSuck'' includes gags about [[WalkingShirtlessScene how often Jacob is shirtless]], something which the ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' adaptations already poked fun at. ("Does he even own a shirt?")
93* ''Film/TheComebacks'' is a spoof movie that parodies sports movies as a whole, and it features a particularly egregious example. The film has a scene that directly parodies the "dodge a wrench" scene from ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'', almost shot-for-shot. Except, ''[[Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory DodgeBall]]'' was a comedy film that made fun of various sports movie tropes & cliches, and its "dodge a wrench" scene was already played for laughs to begin with.
94* ''Film/LoadedWeapon1'' is a parody of the ''Film/LethalWeapon'' series, which, by 1993 (when ''Loaded Weapon 1'' was released), contains a toilet blowing up while being filmed on national television (though granted, the first two are more serious action films). The movie itself sideways acknowledges it with that very scene; they set up like there will be a parody of the scene and the whole joke is that nothing notable happens.
95-->'''Colt:''' [''after bursting into the bathroom, gun drawn''] What's wrong!?
96-->'''Luger:''' Nothing... just taking a shit.
97* ''Film/TheAvengers1998'' tries to be a self-aware parody of [[Series/TheAvengers1960s the original series]] when the series was ''already self-aware''.
98* ''Film/ASambaForSherlock'' features a scene where the straight-laced detective ''tries drugs''. Except he did this in the books too: it's quite well-established that Holmes uses cocaine and morphine to balance his emotional state.
99* ''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.)
100** The Deadpool short film ''Film/DeadpoolNoGoodDeed'' has Deadpool struggling to [[PhoneBoothChangingRoom put on his suit inside a phone booth]] while Music/JohnWilliams' ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' theme plays. But, even the 1978 movie poked fun at Superman using a phone booth to change, as he glanced briefly at one before deciding to change in a revolving door.
101* Many parodies of ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' have the Oompa-Loompas be slaves owned by Willy Wonka. Trouble is that the Oompa Loompas were [[ValuesDissonance African pygmies]] in the first version of [[Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory the original book]], before {{Bowdlerization}}.
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105* ''[[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).
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109* We've all heard the lame {{pun}} about playing [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde "Mr. Hyde and Mr. Seek" or "Mr. Hyde-and-Seek"]], right? That joke, in fact, was made in the original book.
110-->'''Gabriel Utterson:''' If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek.
111* In the book ''American Quest'' by Jack Barth, the author accounts various real life pranks he played. One of these was a fake parody zine called ''Please Stand By''. The zine was supposedly for collectors of TV announcements of technical difficulties and technical bloopers; the idea being that this was so esoteric as to be ridiculous. Perhaps this was true in the pre-internet days of 1990, when the book was published, but now any search for "technical difficulties" on Website/YouTube will bring up tons of these announcements, even some from quite a long time ago, indicating that somebody must have recorded these and collected them even before ''American Quest'' was published. Check out the FunForSome page on this very wiki for more evidence that this is a real thing.
112* ''Many'' parodies of ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' poke fun at how an animal man, raised in the jungle, is somehow clean-shaven. This is actually a rather large plot point in ''Literature/TarzanOfTheApes'', the very original book: he finds an abandoned cabin that contains a hunting knife and some children's books containing photos of clean-shaven Englishmen -- he cuts off his beard to look more like them.
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116* One of the very last Creator/BobHope specials on NBC lampooned the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' movie, and had Hope done up as Creator/JackNicholson's Joker. Both Batman and Superman were in the skit, and Hope refers to them by derisive names like "Bat-Brain" and "Super-Stupe", and getting laughs from his equally aging studio audience. Hope and his writers must have thought that villains do not talk like that to heroes, but especially since Denny O'Neil, this is almost exactly the way the Joker trash-talks his opponents in the comics. Even "Super-Stupe" is something that Superman was called at least once during the Silver Age, implying that Hope's writers were in fact doing their research when it came to that nickname.
117* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
118** 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]]
119** Jokes involving presenting the title as an actual question or similar gags on its odd name have been part of the actual show since the second episode of the original series. That's '''episode''', not ''serial''. It is also, in fact, the intended ''MEANING'' of the title.
120* 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 show--not that the comics of [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks that era]] were that serious to begin with.
121* The ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'' episode "Kimmy Goes to the Doctor!" parodies ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' by having Titus audition for the role of "Spider-Man #12" in its nonexistent sequel ''Spider-Man 2: Too Many Spider-Men!'', a plodding trainwreck that features multiple Spider-Men onstage at once. The actual ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' comics have actually done just that: it was called ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', and it's also widely remembered as a plodding trainwreck. Later continuities would also make jokes about the saga in the same fashion. Spider-clones have been a staple of the ''Spider-Man'' mythos for years, and there actually ''are'' several other characters in the comics [[LegacyCharacter who have also assumed the role of Spider-Man]]; and yes, they ''have'' [[ComicBook/SpiderVerse all teamed up before]]. And on top of that, the original musical being spoofed had up to sixteen actors, dancers, stuntmen, and acrobats playing Spider-Man at various points, and yes, there were a few moments when all of them were on stage.
122* ''Series/{{Baywatch}}'' actually managed to do this to ''itself''. The episode "Rescue Bay", where a TV producer is inspired by the lifeguards to create the titular ShowWithinAShow, is intended as a bit of SelfDeprecatingHumor, but as Creator/AllisonPregler of ''WebVideo/{{Baywatching}}'' points out, none of what we're shown of Rescue Bay is any more ridiculous or over the top than what the actual show does on a regular basis. Taken out of context, it could easily pass as part of any episode of Baywatch.
123* ''Bananas'', a [[TheMoralSubstitute Christian-oriented stand-up comedy showcase]], opened one episode with host Thor Ramsey complaining that ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'' depicted a world where humans and animals were on equal footing -- [[NoCartoonFish with the exception of fish, who were not depicted as sentient or having souls]]; he joked that the filmmakers should have been consistent and shown the fish screaming and fleeing for their lives from the bears. If he had stayed through the end credits and seen TheStinger, he would have seen that ''they did exactly that'' as a BlackComedyBurst.
124* Any parody of ''Series/TheWestWing'' is [[ObligatoryJoke contractually obligated]] to make fun of the series for [[WalkAndTalk having the characters constantly carry on conversations while walking through hallways for no reason]]. But the show regularly [[LampshadeHanging made fun of itself]] for doing that; as early as the fourth episode, Josh and Sam admitted that they had no idea where they were actually walking.
125-->'''Sam:''' Where are you going?\
126'''Josh:''' Where are ''you'' going?\
127'''Sam:''' I was following you.\
128'''Josh:''' I was following ''you''. ''({{beat}})'' All right, don't tell anyone this happened, okay?
129* An episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' guest-hosting Creator/JeremyRenner parodied ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' by having Hawkeye run out of arrows to shoot at the Chitauri and how it essentially takes him out of the fight. The problem is, this actually did happen in the original film.
130-->'''Black Widow:''' How many arrows did you bring?\
131'''Hawkeye:''' All of them, like... eleven.\
132'''Captain America:''' Eleven? There are a hundred thousand aliens out there!\
133'''Hawkeye:''' And I killed eleven of them. You're welcome.
134** A 2020 episode guest-hosted by Creator/DanielCraig had a digital short, a "deleted scene" from the upcoming ''Film/NoTimeToDie'',[[note]]which was initially postponed to November 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before being pushed to October 2021.[[/note]] with Chloe Fineman as Creator/AnaDeArmas who leads Bond into the casino... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome which is actually closer to what Las Vegas casinos are really like]], complete with drunk and rowdy gamblers. However, the Bond film ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'' is not only largely set in Vegas, but also makes a point about how Bond's style makes him stand out among Americans when we see him in a casino. Granted, it's {{downplayed}} from most other examples because the main joke is actually Bond getting [[SidetrackedByTheGoldenSaucer sidetracked by gambling]] and acting ''exactly'' like the drunk & rowdy gamblers instead of actually continuing his mission, much to Fineman's dismay.
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138* One 1955 issue of ''Magazine/MADMagazine'' features a parody of ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' where the title character is renamed "[[ToiletHumor Poopeye]]". The authors of said parody were apparently unaware that there's a character with that name in the actual ''Popeye'' comics: he's Popeye's nephew.
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143* There's a parody out there of "The Blue Tail Fly" in which the chorus is changed to "Jimmy drinks corn, and I don't care", meaning that Jimmy is drinking corn whiskey. Apparently, the would-be parodists were unaware that the most common interpretation of the lyric "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care" is that of "cracking corn", which is to say, ''making'' corn whiskey. They not only failed to parody it, they watered it down a notch...
144** The [[SecondVerseCurse full version of the song]] makes this explicit: "Jimcrack corn and I don't care, my master's gone away." The song is about a slave who is happily relaxing with a bottle of whiskey, no longer having to work since the slaveowner just died.
145* It's common to joke that the narrator of "Every Breath You Take" by ''Music/ThePolice'' sounds like a creepy stalker. Except this is ''exactly the point of the song''.
146* The Website/YouTube meme of taking isolated vocal tracks of classic songs and running them through Microsoft's Songsmith program, which would then generate a new musical backing, led to some hilariously bizarre rearrangements ([[Music/OzzyOsbourne "Crazy Train"]] as bluegrass, [[Music/{{Motorhead}} "Ace of Spades"]] as folk-pop, [[Music/{{Queen}} "We Will Rock You"]] as samba), but others were actually similar to other material that the artists in question have actually done. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kxqMpGAL3I lounge jazz version of "Runnin' with the Devil"]] by Music/VanHalen is amusing, but David Lee Roth did several loungey {{Cover Version}}s in his solo career ("Just a Gigolo", "That's Life"), and he even released an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strummin%27_with_the_Devil:_The_Southern_Side_of_Van_Halen album of Van Halen hits rearranged as bluegrass versions]] in 2006. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe0QjiXrspA "God Only Knows" as]] SynthPop absolutely sounds like something Music/TheBeachBoys might've tried in TheEighties, with a bit of a resemblance to their 1985 hit "Getcha Back"; as one commenter puts it, "This is what would have happened if Music/MikeLove was put in charge of the 80s remaster of ''Music/PetSounds''."
147** As part of Kronenbourg 1664's "Slow The Pace" ad campaign, Motorhead [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-77sVQ7Zgv0 actually did an acoustic folky version of "Ace Of Spades"]].
148* Music/TheLonelyIsland are probably the biggest victims of this in music history, with every one of their comedy songs (some of which are parodies themselves) having at least a dozen spoofs. Usually, ones that only change a few words and don't actually change the jokes. On top of that, they usually distort the actual joke of the song -- for instance, ignoring the SanitySlippageSong aspects of "Like a Boss" in favor of just blandly listing things, and ignoring that "I'm on a Boat" is already a parody of glitzy rap videos.
149* 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.
150* 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 [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100620145131/http://www.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 [[ParodyDisplacement seem to know the parodies much better]], likely because they grew up with them.
151* 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 introduced by the film ''Film/NeptunesDaughter'' where it's performed twice, ''the second of which is gender-inverted''.
152* 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.
153* Music/{{Eminem}} appeared as Elvis for the music video in "We Made You", and in behind-the-scenes footage, sings a parody of "Jailhouse Rock" to make it about gay men sucking dicks. While Elvis uses a lot more innuendo than this, the song is about this already. In fact, "Jailhouse Rock" had been made in response to a moral panic that Elvis, as a PrettyBoy making black music, was trying to turn the youth of America gay and criminal,[[note]]while forgotten now, 1950s racists conflated blackness and homosexuality due to stereotypes about black criminality and hypersexuality[[/note]] and the song spoofs this by being a HomoeroticSubtext-riddled QueerPeopleAreFunny jam about how much fun it is to be a gay criminal ("Number 47 said to Number 3, 'you're the cutest jailbird I ever did see'"). It's only the use of innuendo rather than blatant statements that separates it from much of Eminem's own work on his MoralGuardian-baiting ''The Marshall Mathers LP'', in which he bragged about being a diabolical [[CorruptionOfAMinor corruptor of children]] causing school shootings and mass delinquency.
154* Parodies of Music/AvrilLavigne's "[=Sk8er=] 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 ("She said 'See you later, boy'/He wasn't good enough for her"), and he ends the song in a happy relationship with someone more on his wavelength.
155* {{Emo}} song titles are often parodied and joked about for being long, rambling, [[RefrainFromAssuming not appearing in the lyrics]] and often having little to do with the lyrics to begin with, it seems like every couple months a joke about this goes viral on social media. While this is true of many bands' song titles, this trend started in emo as a sort of joke [[AffectionateParody both poking fun at and serving as a homage to]] similar song titles in various subgenres of [[HardcorePunk Hardcore]]. Jokes about them being silly and pretentious ignores the fact that this was always the intention.
156* The DefendPopPunk shirts put out by the band Man Overboard popular in the [[TheNewTens early 2010s]] were both taken seriously by some as a legitimate movement while mocked by others for being so adamant about something like pop punk to begin with. But the shirts were a parody of a [[ParodyDisplacement rather obscure and then mostly forgotten shirt]] put out by the early {{Metalcore}} band Indecision with a similar design and the slogan "Defend Hardcore". And even ''this'' shirt was a parody of a similarly designed shirt popular in the 80s labeled "Defend Brooklyn".
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160* Most parodies of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' go after subjects (CarnivoreConfusion, InterspeciesRomance, etc.) that were already extensively [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] and discussed in the show itself.
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164* ''Radio/TheBobAndTomShow'' likes to cast its hosts and/or characters in wacky variants on recent hit movies, and fell victim to this when they cast white trash caricature Donnie Baker in "Funeral Crashers" -- apparently unaware that the concept of picking up women at a funeral had already been explored in the third act of ''Film/WeddingCrashers''.
165* Lampshaded in ''Music/MitchBenn is the [[Music/DavidBowie Fat Pink Duke]]''; at the end of his "Laughing Gnome" parody, the gnome itself questions the point of parodying a humorous novelty song. It also complains the jokes are worse than the original.
166* A BBC radio sketch show in the 90s had a regular monologue by an impression of Creator/AlanBennett, which would always begin "I was sharing a pot of Earl Grey with Thora Hird..." and then move into a bizarre and sometimes dark direction, with the joke being the perceived "coziness" of Bennett and the chatty mundanity of the set-up, juxtaposed with where it ended up. Except a lot of Bennett's work (especially ''Series/AlanBennettsTalkingHeads'', which seemed to be the inspiration for the monologue format) traded on exactly that juxtaposition, and since it was often PlayedForDrama, could go a ''lot'' darker than the sketch ever did.
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170* Lampshaded/parodied by ''Theatre/ForbiddenBroadway'''s take on "The Song That Goes Like This" from ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}''. The song starts out using the exact same lyrics as the original, then points out that fact, and then accuses the show of stealing from ''Forbidden Broadway''.
171* When the cast of ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' appeared in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DPd8gbXN64 German talk show]], the host joked about Elphaba: "That's what happens if you eat too much spinach as a child." In the musical, Elphaba does in fact sarcastically remark to the other students: "No, I'm not seasick. Yes, I've always been green. No, ''I did not eat grass as a child''."
172* 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]] 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.
173* The creators of ''Theatre/HolyMusicalBatman'' decided not to include ComicBook/TheJoker for this reason, since there's very little jokes to be made about the character that haven't already been done, either by other parodies or by the source material. Instead, they used little-known DC villain Sweet Tooth, giving him a PracticallyJoker makeover that split the difference; they got the fun of the Joker-Batman rivalry, complete with a ComicBook/HarleyQuinn {{expy}}, but using a different character with a different schtick (candy instead of practical jokes) gave them the freedom to do their own thing with it.
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177* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' parodies usually have Isabelle as the jaded, overworked HypercompetentSidekick to the ''New Leaf'' player character's bumbling mayor. This was already joked about in-series with two completely different characters: Phyllis, the jaded, overworked, nightshift-running pelican at the town hall/post office, who picked up the slack from Tortimer, the bumbling mayor from the Nintendo 64 game to ''Wild World''/''City Folk''. The idea of a normally cheerful character turning out to be a StepfordSmiler has also been Zipper T. Bunny's gimmick since his debut.
178* The notorious ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' mod ''VideoGame/TheFrontier'' came under fire for a scene where the player character can [[spoiler:forcibly enslave a mentally ill woman]]. The developers, when called on it, claimed that they were trying to subvert the long-standing Fallout tradition of dialogue options requiring a Speech check being the best option, since blindly going for the Speech check [[spoiler:is how you enslave America]]. The problem is that not only is the dialogue option that ''starts'' this sequence ''not'' a Speech check, but the original game already has ''two'' sequences that do the same thing better - during the Boomers sidequest "Young Hearts", choosing the Speech check while talking to Janet will ''get her blown up'', instantly failing the quest, and in the ''Dead Money'' DLC, picking a speech check during your first interaction with Dean Domino results in him turning on you at the end, because he becomes convinced you're going to pull a fast one on him.
179* The stock jokes about ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' are:
180** 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 when Cloud tries to pull it out when standing under a door frame. He hits the frame and has to back out of it to get enough room to draw his sword.
181** [[SpikyHair Spiky hair.]] Cloud's outrageous hair was already occasionally mocked in the original ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' (for example one NPC refers to him as "pokey headed") as well as spin-off titles like ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' (Such as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI Shantotto]] calling his hair a "distraction"). Much like his sword, Cloud's hair was meant to emphasize a sense of compensatory flamboyance. Due to Cloud's recognisability, Spiky hair is often stereotyped and parodied as being a typical thing for the series as a whole, when actually it's not really that common outside of FFVII related media.
182** [[EmoTeen Emo teens]]. Much of the humour in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' derives from what happens when you put stupid and immature teenagers in charge of saving the world, like when Squall storms out of the room in a huff about some perceived slight and the other characters are clueless about his attitude.
183** {{Bishounen}}. From a man in a hostess club [[DudeLooksLikeALady 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 and straight men alike]] 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.
184** The main character having LaserGuidedAmnesia. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' makes an extended joke out of Tidus ''faking'' it (claiming he was exposed to Sin's toxins), since his actual backstory is just as unbelievable, and even ''he'' has trouble saying any of it with a straight face.
185* When talking about ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' and ''VideoGame/RockBand'', it's common to make fun of the implausibility of achieving worldwide fame and success by exclusively playing note-for-note covers of already-famous songs, a joke that loses its bite when one remembers that the win screen of the very first Guitar Hero made this joke itself as the player character is quoted "Never thought I'd get this far playing covers."
186* 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. Note too that the games ''themselves'' poke fun at these goofy elements as well: Meryl is outright ''flabbergasted'' to learn Snake hides in a box as she believed her uncle was pulling her leg when he told her about such a tactic, Snake and Raiden are called out for gawking at sexy posters, and Snake is clearly baffled by Otacon's awful proverbs and remarks that he misses Mei Ling. Even the series goofy over-the-top action setpieces, which are generally played seriously in the game and mocked by parodies, are dually mocked by the games themselves: Snake's flippant remark about "taking down the helicopter" is PlayedForLaughs with Otacon outright fanboying over it, they note that attempting to take out an M1 Tank ''with hand grenades'' would be mere suicide if it was actually attempted in real life, and they repeatedly {{lampshade|hanging}} how AwesomeButImpractical the series namesake walking nuclear tanks really are.
187* To capitalize on the release of ''Film/MortalKombat2021'', the [[{{Eroge}} erotic]] [[AllegedlyFreeGame gacha game]] ''Crystal Maidens'' featured an event introducing several new maidens who were [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] parodies of ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' characters, including Raiden, Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Their female version of Sub-Zero was called "Frost"... [[https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Frost who has been an actual character]] in ''Mortal Kombat'' ever since 2002's ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeadlyAlliance Deadly Alliance]].''
188* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
189** Most non-satirical attempts to make the franchise DarkerAndEdgier fall kind of flat, considering that even the main series installments (to say nothing of spin-offs and other official adaptations) have had everything from terrorist bombings, to child abuse, to multiple accounts of attempted genocide. In most cases, these ideas could be the plots of actual ''Pokémon'' games if you removed the added sexual content, violence, and [[ObligatorySwearing profanity of questionable necessity]].
190** Comparisons between Pokémon battles and cockfighting fall into this category: the plot of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' outright ''revolves around'' the questionable ethics of catching the eponymous creatures and having them battle each other. Most blatantly, PETA made this the focus of one of their parody games... while specifically parodying the exact game which already examined the topic... and [[MisaimedFandom praising and comparing themselves to]] the villainous AnimalWrongsGroup from said game.
191** Another theme in dark parodies is humans eating Pokémon or Pokémon eating each other. Pokémon edibility has been canon for years, with Pokédex entries remarking on how certain species eat one another (sometimes violently) or are eaten by humans, and in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' the poaching of Slowpoke to eat their tails is a plot point.
192** When ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' was leaked, Typhlosion's Hisuian form was the subject of jokes that it was TheStoner due to its facial expression. According to [[https://legends.pokemon.com/en-us/pokemon/typhlosion/ the official website]], it's supposed to have a stoner-like personality.
193* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'':
194** Many parodies of ''VideoGame/Persona3'' focus on how weird and disturbing the Evokers are, gun-shaped devices that allow the user to summon their Persona by shooting themselves in the head. The weirdness of Evokers is commented on a few times in ''Persona 3'' itself, and crossover spinoffs will ''[[OnceAnEpisode always]]'' have a member of another game's party point this out.
195** Parodies of the [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 Social Link system]] and the protagonist being TheCasanova. ''Anime/Persona4TheAnimation'' had [[Recap/Persona4Ep13AStormySummerVacation1 Episode 13]] and [[Recap/Persona4Ep14AStormySummerVacation2 14]] as a two-parter that mocks how weird a day of Social Linking (and other in-game activities like [[MundaneMadeAwesome fishing]]) looks to an outside observer, and both it and spinoffs frequently parody the protagonist's Casanova reputation.
196* Parodies about the car bonus stage from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' often feature jokes about how the poor shmuck who owned that car will be horrified once he comes back and sees you've junked it. Except... this is based on a similar minigame from ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' (which ''Street Fighter'' [[SharedUniverse shares a universe with]]), which makes exactly this joke at the end.
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202* ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'':
203** Their video for ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre2003'' remake has Erin beat Leatherface by just [[GroinAttack kicking him in the balls]]. She does kick him in the balls in the actual film (in the meat freezer scene) and [[BallsOfSteel it barely slows him down]].
204** 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.
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208* ''Webcomic/BobTheAngryFlower'' has a [[http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif parody sequel]] to ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' which has 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.
209* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150717085711/http://chuckleaduck.com/comic/no-i-get-it/ This]] comic becomes significantly less funny if one realizes that beating other proto-humans over the head with the bone is actually what the proto-human did immediately ''after'' the iconic monolith scene in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
210* ''Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}}'' makes an [[OverlyLongGag extended sequence]] where the protagonist tries to convince his friends to stop the latest victim ''before'' the victim declares "YOU'RE NOT ME!", which will make the Shadow version of them go berserk. This actually comes up during the [[spoiler:Shadow Naoto]] fight in the game - Kanji stops the others shouting for [[spoiler:Naoto]] not to say it, pointing out that they just aren't going to listen given the emotional turmoil they're experiencing (and although he doesn't point it out, ''none'' of the victims ever listen), and instead the Investigation Team should just let it happen and beat down the Shadow afterward.
211* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'':
212** [[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.
213** [[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]].
214--->''Upside-down demon heads? Skulls with jetpacks? It's like trying to make fun of a clown. What, are you going to make fun of his tiny car? His floppy shoes? It just doesn't '''work'''.''
215* [[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. A similar gag was also used in ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' years before, but that version was PlayedForLaughs.
216* ''Webcomic/VirginVsChad'': One variant of the Virgin is the Virgin Chad, a guy who is so insecure about his masculinity that he deliberately does (or says he does) the opposite of whatever the public deems uncool, unlike the Chad Virgin who doesn't care what anyone else thinks about him. In the original image macro that spawned the meme, the Chad avoided "Virgin" activities like being considerate of others, listening to music, and looking at the ground, while the Virgin was simply trying to live his life. The only difference between Chad and the Virgin Chad was which one was depicted uglier.
217* ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'':
218** 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.
219** [[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):
220-->'''Obi-Wan''': Still, even a duck has to be taught to swim.
221-->'''Luke''': What's a duck?
222-->'''Obi-Wan''': Never mind.
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226* ''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob'': Referenced at the end of his ''Bingo'' review, where he realizes that the film was most likely a parody, and proceeds to tell us how dumb he feels.
227* Before he became WebVideo/TheIrateGamer, Chris Bores made a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZR9AnypvI "parody"]] of ''Series/MythBusters''. Though it's not as much a parody as it is a bland imitation.
228* ''WebVideo/TheKeyOfAwesome''[='s=] "I Need a Doctor" parody pokes fun at the HoYay between [[HeterosexualLifePartners Dr. Dre and Eminem]] by having Eminem hit blatantly on Dre, Dre responding with a sarcastic and only mildly irritated rejection, and Eminem [[GayMoment desperately attempting to backpedal and pretend he didn't mean it to regain some shred of heterosexuality]]. Eminem used this ''exact same joke'' in the song and video "Just Lose It", where he hits on Dre at a bar, and when he gets shot down, claims he's blind. The song and video also had a HoYay-ridden hook that went "[[ArmoredClosetGay Yeah, boy, shake that thing - whoops, I mean girl. Girl girl girl]]" and a section where Eminem {{cosplay}}ed gay icon Madonna.
229* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic:
230** In his Top 11 Drug [=PSAs=], he makes a joke about R2-D2 from ''Franchise/StarWars'' smoking a cigarette when robots don't have lungs to damage... which C-3PO himself comments on in the PSA. He says he wants R2-D2 to stop so he can set a good example for humans.
231** Referenced in his ''A Simple Wish'' review when he yells at the character with a magic wand, "stop turning my jokes into things that already exist!"
232*** Played straight when one of the fairy godmothers says they have to turn in their wands when coming to the test for the same reasons that cowboys in the old west had to turn in their guns when coming into town, especially in Dodge City, "that's why nobody got plugged." Then, the NC says that's like asking NRA members to turn in their rifles before a meeting, and expecting everyone to comply safely. But people did get shot in town at times in [[http://www.kansashistory.us/fordco/lawmen.html Dodge City]] and the rest of the old west (though nowhere near the extent portrayed in fiction), some of the most famous old west shootings, including the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, took place specifically to enforce these laws, so if you know anything about the Old West, he just repeated her joke in an NRA context. Furthermore, NRA conferences ''are'' gun-free.
233** 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 his character 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.
234** He's also made a couple jokes about Literature/HarryPotter, imagining a version where Harry has some serious issues due to everyone acting like he's TheChosenOne. While the issue is skated over in the movies, it's a huge theme of the original books (Doug tends to only reference the films when they come up in his videos).
235** In his review of ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'' during the Bum Biddy song, he complains about Davey singing, "But he never quit on me", when Whitey did quit on him. Davey's line immediately after this was, "Till I told him he was useless and his sister was freaky."
236** His review of ''Film/YogiBear'' opened with a re-enactment/parody of a fan-animated "alternate ending" where Boo-Boo shoots Yogi. Though this video itself is a parody of the pivotal scene of ''Film/TheAssassinationOfJesseJamesByTheCowardRobertFord''.
237** In his ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' review, he brings up the possibility of it being satire (which it is), but still [[SpoofedTheIronicFilmSeriously makes jokes about the intentionally ridiculous elements and (intentionally) fascistic elements]].
238* An online video called ''The Hungry Games'', mocking the trailer for ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' by making it about an eating contest, calls the main character "Catnip" as a ParodyName. The creator evidently didn't realize that in-universe, that's Gale's personal nickname for Katniss.
239* This often happens in snarky blogs.
240** For example, the review Jesus Beezus (a blog of the ''Literature/RamonaQuimby'' books) does of Ramona and her Mother has this line:
241--->"Mr. and Mrs. Quimby get into a sniping contest about whose grandmother was better. Yeah, really, that's what they fight about. Lame."
242** However, the Quimbys acknowledge later how ridiculous their fight was and Mrs. Quimby even jokes to her daughters:
243--->"We want you to be perfect so you won't grow up to bicker about your grandmothers and their pancakes."
244** 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 than 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.
245* Podcast/RiffTrax rarely does comedies precisely to avoid this trope. They still ran into this problem with ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', thanks to Joss Whedon's typically witty script. At one point Bill makes a joke only to have Tony Stark repeat it, and Mike responds, "I keep telling you, you have to make better jokes than Robert Downey Jr. or this whole thing collapses on itself!" Notably, it was years before they tried to tackle another Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse title with ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' (and even then they note that the film's "riffing itself" when Tony Stark refers to the rundown Thor as [[Film/TheBigLebowski "Lebowski"]]).
246** The key exception to the "no comedies" rule comes with Mary Jo Pehl and Bridget Nelson's [=RiffTrax=] Presents installments, which have included the Monogram Pictures "Teen-agers" B-movies of the 1940s and several 1980s-'90s made-for-TV movies, as these films' attempts at humor are so corny as to be mockable in and of themselves.
247* {{Discussed}} in WebVideo/ObscurusLupa's reviews of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' -- near the end, she starts laughing at one scene (where a {{Mind Control}}led Piper casually vacuums up a murdered [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy]]), saying "It's like my horrible fanfic brought to life!"
248* 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 seemingly everyone on both sides missing the joke entirely.
249* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' did a parody of ''Anime/DeathNote''. The joke is that the guy with the Death Note gets DrunkWithPower, develops a god complex, and becomes a KnightTemplar murdering anyone he doesn't like... which is exactly what happens in the series itself.
250* 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.
251-->"Day...'''''OFF?!''''' '''I DON'T KNOW THE MEANING OF THEM HORRIBLE WORDS!'''"
252* [[WebVideo/BeatriceTheGoldenWitch Beatrice]] discussed this in a video focusing on "deconstructive" anime, which, in her view, often weren't actually deconstructive but simply darker or more dramatic takes, labeled such by people [[OutsideJoke unfamiliar with the genre]]. In particular, she pointed out that the idea of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji]] being a "deconstruction" because of his apprehension about piloting the Eva doesn't really work, because the idea of a mecha pilot or KidHero initially having RefusedTheCall or suffering trauma over the course of their adventures is an element in countless mecha shows, going all the way back to [[Anime/MazingerZ Kouji Kabuto]].
253* The comedic short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOTc7DHhMIs Wolverine By Woody Allen]]'' shows what it would be like if... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well,]] ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} were played by Creator/WoodyAllen. One of the big jokes is a riff on "if you think [[FantasticRacism being a mutant]] is hard enough, try being a ''Jewish'' mutant". Kitty Pryde, one of the most popular X-Men characters and more or less the book's protagonist for most of the 1980s, was established as being Jewish from day one and many stories touched on the nuances of the two different "minority" groups she belonged to. And that's not even touching the whole "Magneto is a Holocaust survivor" issue (then again, it does seem like the sort of thing Woody Allen would write anyway).
254* 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/TheRoom2003''. But ''The Room'' itself has enough lengthy sex scenes in its first half that it could easily be mistaken as being softcore porn itself. So a lot of people saw ''The Bed Room'' as pointless. WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob addressed this redundancy in his review of ''The Bed Room''.
255* A variation came up when Website/SFDebris, reviewing the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E11LatentImage Latent Image]]", comes up with the game "My Way or Janeway", where he imagines how a twisted parody of Captain Janeway would react to certain scenes, and then compares them to how the actual Janeway reacts. He ended up dropping the segment after four minutes because the real Janeway repeatedly proved to be ''more'' extreme than her parody.
256** When reviewing an episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', Chuck also made a [[WhosOnFirst Who's On First?]] joke regarding the System Lord Yu, despite the fact that the show itself had already done so many such jokes that Daniel even noted that they were getting old in an 8th season episode.
257* ''WebVideo/AdultWednesdayAddams'': Not the series itself but there is a porn parody called ''Very Adult Wednesday Addams'' that uses dialogue from the one-night stand episode almost verbatim. Ironically, that video did not run into any copyright problems and is still available to watch.
258* ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' criticizes the VideoGameAdaptation of ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' for its inane plot of having them time travel to set things right simply so their band won't break up, and for them killing {{Mook}}s in the game because of how killing ancestors could [[ButterflyOfDoom mess up the future]]. Both of these aspects are noted and made fun of in the film, with the ludicrous nature of them time-travelling to keep their band together PlayedForLaughs since their band will eventually unite humanity in a utopia of world peace.
259* In 2017, a Website/{{Twitter}} user named "xnulz" posted a still from a Music/TaylorSwift video with the caption "Name a bitch badder than Taylor Swift". This led to a long thread where people mentioned women throughout history with amazing, inspirational accomplishments. Presumably, a lot of the responses assumed the original poster was some young, naïve Swift fan who had a lot to learn about life. If they'd bothered to look at xnulz's other tweets, they would've seen that xnulz was very much a part of the Weird Twitter spectrum, posting NonSequitur jokes, often accompanied by pics, like "I'll never understand the hype about dogs......", as well as taking jabs at things like Kylie Jenner and [=McDonald's=]. In other words, the original tweet was mocking Taylor Swift, and, however noble their intent in celebrating women, the responses were ultimately just making the same joke as the original (that there are plenty of "badder bitches" than her).
260* ''Website/TheOnion'':
261** They 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.
262** A [[https://www.theonion.com/disney-announces-kingdom-hearts-iii-will-feature-erne-1832156301 2019 article]] pokes fun at the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series by announcing that ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' will incorporate characters and locations from Creator/TouchstonePictures films (Touchstone Pictures being an alternate label used for Creator/{{Disney}}-distributed films that aren't aimed at Disney's traditional demographic), including ''Film/TurnerAndHooch'', ''Film/SisterAct'', ''Film/AirForceOne'', and ''Film/PrettyWoman''. In fact, the series has already done this: ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' (one of the films highlighted in the very first ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' game) actually ''was'' released as a Touchstone Pictures film--since Disney execs in 1993 disapproved of its morbid content, and didn't want the company's name associated with it.
263* 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 healthcare system.
264* 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.
265* 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 Indoraptor 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 Indoraptor 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 Indoraptor in the ''millions''.
266* Website/TheEditingRoom had the abridged script for ''Film/Deadpool2016'' highlighting, if only for SelfDeprecation, how the author is trying to do a mockery of what could already be seen as a superhero spoof. [[Film/Deadpool2 The sequel]] went the same way:
267-->'''DEADPOOL''': You have a parody to write.\
268'''JOHN K:''' Your movies ARE parodies! I might as well write a “parody” to fucking ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' I can’t go down this road again, where are my pills?!
269* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BUrNe3Vhtk You Can Make a Netflix Style Doco About Literally Anything]]'' tells a story of [[SeriousBusiness a stolen toast]], while parodying {{Creator/Netflix}}'s {{Documentary}} style. This has already been done by Netflix itself in ''Series/AmericanVandal''.
270* The ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' entry for ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'' makes a joke about how Tails [[HeliCritter uses his ass to fly]]. Except the movie itself made that exact same joke when Sonic saw Tails flying for the first time.
271* ''[[WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged Dragon Ball Z KAI Abridged Parody: Episode 3.5]]'' has Goku lampshade the ArtifactTitle nature of the series in the Android arc, after the Dragon Balls are permanently gone, due to Kami and Piccolo fusing, he exclaims "But then what are we in!?" Creator/AkiraToriyama already made this joke in early ''Manga/DragonBall'' in the Emperor Pilaf arc, after Bulma revealed that the Dragon Balls become inert for a year after a wish is granted, Oolong asked [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall "What's going to happen to the title of the manga now?"]] Although, given how much [[ShownTheirWork research]] [[Creator/TeamFourStar they]] usually do, it could be a MythologyGag than a straight example of redundant parody.
272* While recut trailers on Website/YouTube try their best to avoid being as close to the original film they're riffing, many can fall victim to redundant parody if done incorrectly. For instance, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2O8JwFWIIw this re-cut trailer]] for Film/TheBurbs tries to make it appear as a horror movie. The problem is the fact that the film is already a black comedy with horror elements, and it has also been described as a straight up HorrorComedy.
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276* ''The TV Land Awards'' featured a skit that combines ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' with ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'', or at least were aimed in that direction. Problem is, 70% of the humor in ''The Golden Girls'' already derives from [[DirtyOldWoman these aging women unashamedly talking about their sex lives]].
277** The same punchline was attempted by ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', though they ramped it up with RefugeInAudacity (by which we mean on-screen, barely-censored sex) as a back-up punchline. As frank as ''The Golden Girls'' was about sex, it never had Sophia courting an entire high school basketball team (dressed as a cheerleader).
278* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
279** The 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.
280** 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''. Furthermore, if you know ''anything'' about history, the real life Mozart was reportedly ''more'' immature, irreverent, naughty, and juvenile than Bart's take on him.
281* A ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' skit showed Bluto gaining massive strength and beating WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} up after a waitress inadvertently switches their lunch orders and he gets the sailor's spinach. The problem is, this was done way back in the classic era at least once. Why it doesn't happen more often is usually explained simply by saying [[DoesNotLikeSpam Bluto hates spinach]], and when he does partake, it's because it's either forced on him, or he makes the supreme sacrifice to help Popeye [[EnemyMine fight against a common enemy]] (such as a group of Japanese soldiers in one of the WWII-era pictures).
282** Another episode included a parody of [=ShamWow=] called "[=SpongeWow=]", showing a Creator/VinceOffer parody using WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants to clean all manner of gross or harmful surfaces, causing [=SpongeBob=] much discomfort. However, a prior episode of ''[=SpongeBob=]'' itself, "Model Sponge", featured a scene with the same basic premise as the skit, involving [=SpongeBob=] being hired as an actor for a cleaning sponge commercial when he thinks he has lost his job at the Krusty Krab and is forced to have to clean a ridiculously filthy bathroom, much to his increasing displeasure.
283* ''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.
284* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' has been subjected to its fair share of parodies since its heyday in the 1980s--as befitting one of the most popular multimedia franchises of the 20th century. As any fan will tell you, the cartoon was pretty damn tongue-in-cheek to begin with, essentially being a buddy comedy with action and sci-fi thrown in. Even the original DarkerAndEdgier [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage comic book]] was just as much an AffectionateParody of superhero comics as it was a superhero comic in its own right. The central premise (temperamental young mutants fight crime in New York City) was something of a take-off on ''ComicBook/XMen'', while their origin story (a runaway truck full of radioactive waste gives birth to superheroes with martial arts training) was a clear parody of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''. Even the Turtles' wise mentor "Splinter" was a parody of Daredevil's mentor "Stick", while their enemies "The Foot Clan" were based on Daredevil's "The Hand".
285* A somewhat common criticism of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''[='=]s {{Cutaway Gag}}s post-cancellation and revival is that they come off as this sometimes. Compare, say, a gag from Season 2's "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E19TheStoryOnPageOne The Story on Page One]]" (Peter works as a Franchise/{{Ghostbuster|s}}, but ends up busting the completely benign [[Film/Ghost1990 Sam Wheat]]) to one from Season's 7 "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS7E4BabyNotOnBoard Baby Not On Board]]" (a direct recreation of part of the opening to ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'', just with Peter in place of Marty [=McFly=]).
286* 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, many of which aren't too far off from those parodies.
287* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
288** The episode "War is the H-Word" parodies the general premise of ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', depicting Earth's military invading a deserted alien world and getting its ass kicked until the climax. In the episode, the human forces (led by Zapp Brannigan) are portrayed as a bunch of [[GeneralRipper violent, jingoistic morons]] who are [[GeneralFailure outclassed in every way]]--and despite propaganda about the evils of their opponents, ''they'' turn out to be the aggressors in the conflict. But nearly all of this is the case in ''Starship Troopers'' as well: director Creator/PaulVerhoeven very openly intended it as a satire of militarism, with the story depicting 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'' parody just made the original satire more obvious.
289** 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 kill her. It's even implied that the Wizard gave him the gun, just like in the parody.[[note]]''The Wizard of Oz'' was made in 1939, when [[ValuesDissonance it wasn't considered taboo to depict firearms in family films]].[[/note]]
290* The ''Series/GameOfThrones'' spoofs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'' got some accusations of this, ignoring the fact that ''Game of Thrones'' and ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' are already such a brutal GenreDeconstruction of {{high fantasy}} that they often border on satire. For example, one character in ''Disenchantment'' gets impaled on the stand-in for the Iron Throne--but in ''A Song of Ice and Fire'', it's said to be a common occurrence for kings to be injured or killed on the Iron Throne (it's meant to be a symbol of [[TheChainsOfCommanding the burdens of leadership]], so it was designed to be dangerous and precarious to sit on). Luckily, this mostly stopped after the first season.
291* According to the writers of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', this proved an issue with trying to parody ''Franchise/GIJoe'' in one episode. The episode has a sequence where a group of agents charge into battle, with the joke being that they all have [[AtrociousAlias incredibly stupid codenames]]. As it turned out, they'd regularly come up with joke codenames and then discover that there were actual Joes with those names, forcing them to scrap those names and make new ones. (To their credit, they managed to avert this in the final episode, with all the agents to feature having original names.)
292-->"The hardest part about inventing ''GI Joe'' guys is that [[ItsBeenDone they all exist already]]. No matter how dumb of a name you come up with--a compound word or a pun of any kind that involves any kind of military thing or sport or weapon--you'll find that there's already a ''GI Joe'' guy with that name."
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