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6->'''Kyle:''' We have to see this movie, dude!\
7'''Cartman:''' Aw, screw it. It probably isn't all that good anyway.\
8'''Kyle:''' Cartman, what are you talking about? You love Terrance and Phillip!\
9'''Cartman:''' Yeah, but the animation's all crappy.
10-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut''
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12When a work parodies ''itself.''
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14There are several ways to do this. Some involve BreakingTheFourthWall.
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16If a self-parody is to be done without direct self-reference, an easy method is having a ShowWithinAShow be a [[CrystalBallScheduling parody of the original show]]. The parallels should be obvious to the alert viewer, but the characters may write them off.
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18Since writers usually like their own works, self-parodies typically fall towards the [[AffectionateParody affectionate]] end of the parody spectrum, though this may not hold true if a particularly [[HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight jaded]] creator is put in charge. In either case, all deliberate self-parodies tend toward SelfDeprecatingHumor, and even the most affectionate of self-parodies can be very harsh on themselves. The sort of work most likely to have one is a series that is a LongRunner or is in an established [[TheVerse "verse"]] - else there isn't enough material.
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20This is hard to do well. And woe to the work that does it by accident.
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22This is naturally a sub-trope of SelfDeprecation. See also ParodyAssistance, wherein people involved in the production of a show help in the production of an otherwise unaffiliated parody of the show; and AdamWesting, a specific type of self-parody centered more around individual actors and characters rather than the work as a whole.
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28* A law firm released several ads showing people hugely distraught over minor things, such as a paper cut or power going out during an intense video game session, and the "victims" demand justice for the parties responsible. The ads usually end with the number to call to firm and a disclaimer saying "But keep in mind that you really need to be injured."
29* Old Spice has made a borderline art out of this, the protagonists being increasingly manly men doing manly things with manly results.
30* The [[SuperBowlSpecial 2017 Super Bowl ad]] by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7XMvq3NLTU Busch beer]] parodies their older commercials from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PEYCIqA1wo nearly 30 years ago]].
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34* ''Manga/AttackOnTitanJuniorHigh'' is a spin-off that parodies the characters and arcs from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. The same general plot threads happen, except this time it happens in a middle school and everything is taken infinitely less seriously.
35* A {{Filler}} episode of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has Ichigo being suddenly in an "''Literature/ArabianNights''" setting and his adventure is a parody of the Soul Society arc. It turns out that [[spoiler:it was AllJustADream of Isane]].
36* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' invokes this trope during the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai when there's a screening of a movie about "How [[FakeUltimateHero Mr. Satan]] defeated Cell".
37-->'''Goku:''' Well, it was ridiculous and [[BlatantLies untrue]], but it kept me entertained!
38** ''Neko Majin Z'', another series by Akira Toriyama, is a SelfParody of ''Manga/DragonBall'' itself.
39* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' invokes this with Gintaman, an overly generic action manga with bad art, drawn-out dialogue, and characters who lack any distinctive traits. The author turns out to be an ordinary gorilla, who relies heavily on the editors to turn his scribblings into something remotely coherent. It temporarily gains popularity after Gintoki offers some suggestions that turn it into a ''Manga/DragonBallZ'' ripoff, but it fades the moment a new editor is assigned to it, and it's later shown that everyone who worked as its editor eventually ended up going insane as a result of how terrible it is.
40* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'': The OVA (episode 26 of season 1), which chronologically occurs somewhere in the middle and comes with a convenient ResetButton that makes it not affect the rest of the series.
41* ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift'' features the characters watching a film parody of ''Manga/KenganAshura'' (a series by the same author, which is actually set in the same universe as ''Dumbbells''), where an Ohma-{{Expy}} must fight participate in a "Kingan battle" against a villainous Sekibayashi-{{Expy}}. Not!Ohma's second is a blonde Yamashita-expy who is larger and more muscular than the actual fighters. The movie ends up with Not!Yamashita rambling about the importance of warm-ups, and by the end of the show, no one knows what a "Kingan battle" actually is.
42* ''Manga/JunjiItosCatDiaryYonAndMu'' is by Creator/JunjiIto, who's famous for his horror works...but this particular series is an autobiographical SliceOfLife story about his cats. What makes it a self-parody is that he [[ArtStyleDissonance still uses his typical scary art style]] for such a mundane series, which is PlayedForLaughs.
43* In ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' the 110th manga chapter themed itself with the then-upcoming anime adaptation by having Ishigami and Shirogane talk about a manga series they like, ''Momo-chan Wa Kangaenai'', getting an animated adaptation in-universe; said series shares several parallels to Kaguya-sama itself, as it is pointed out that is a romantic comedy that does not rely on {{Fanservice}} and further strong sexual themes despite running in a {{Seinen}} magazine thus meant for adult males, so it is seen as a waste by some detractors in-universe but the fans were charmed by the setting and characters nonetheless so it ended up getting an Anime due to its increasing popularity.
44* ''Anime/NurseWitchKomugi'': a spin-off/self parody of the ''Anime/TheSoulTaker''.
45* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' had a [[Funny/NeonGenesisEvangelion very funny]] radio play called "''AudioPlay/EvangelionAfterTheEnd''". It basically involves [[AnimatedActors the cast]] discussing how they should go about {{retool}}ing the series -- which had a very miserable end, it should be noted -- in various absurd ways, including a Franchise/SuperSentai show, making it a sex comedy, and even turning Asuka into a bully who talks like a {{Yakuza}}, which leads to Rei becoming a motormouth. On top of all this, it also features Creator/HideakiAnno himself being a LargeHam.
46* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJFMmNop0e4 This]] trailer of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' has idiocies like HenshinHero Setsuna F. Exia, Lockon's ghost freaking out Tieria and Allelujah, Haro playing BodySnatcher with Tieria, Sergei and Marie/Soma eating bamboo as pandas and Patrick getting shot in the ass by a UFO.
47** [[Anime/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer The Movie]] does it again with a ShowWithinAShow.
48* ''Anime/SaintOctober'' really likes this trope: For an example: One of the villains can distribute Tarot cards to his henchmen in order to create mooks. A recurring underling of his has only two of them but needs a whole army of mooks, so in order to create more, she just copies them. It works.
49* ''Manga/WitchCraftWorks'' anime official soundtrack has a "Watch Activity" song, which is not used in the anime itself. The anime has an ending theme by the name of "Witch☆Activity" though, of which "Watch Activity" is a recognizable spoof (the music itself, guys instead of girls as vocals, both witches and The Watch being part of the story, GratuitousEnglish lyrics).
50* ''Minna Atsumare!: Falcom Gakuen'' pokes fun of the Creator/{{Falcom}} games and franchises like ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'' or ''VideoGame/DragonSlayer''.
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54* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has the joke sets ''Unglued'', ''Unhinged'', ''Unstable'', and ''Unfinity''. While a lot of the Un-cards are just silly in general, many cards take potshots at both Magic's fans and its developers. For example, one card called [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Look%20at%20me%2C%20I%27m%20the%20DCI "Look at Me, I'm the DCI"]] depicts a blindfolded Wizards employee making banning decisions with a dartboard. Said card has served as the page image for ObviousRulePatch. However, the later Un-sets have moved away from dedicated self-parody and have actual backstory like the more normal sets... it's just in a setting that's completely ridiculous. ''Unstable'' is a world of {{Mad Scientist}}s PlayedForLaughs, and ''Unfinity'' is set in a RaygunGothic traveling circus.
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58* Some interpretations of ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'' suggest that it is a SelfParody of Creator/FrankMiller's earlier work.
59** Years before, ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'' was also released, of questionable self-parody status. Miller claims this was intentional, but whether that was always true or is ParodyRetcon is unknown.
60* Marvel Comics had at least two self-parodying comic series: ''ComicBook/NotBrandEchh'', which riffed not only their competitors but their own heroes, and ''What The-?!'' (a riff on their series ''ComicBook/WhatIf''). There was also a pair of one-shot anthologies of tongue-in-cheek Marvel stories: ''Wha...Huh?'', published in October 2005, and ''Marvel: Now What?!'', published in October 2013.
61** They have also released two event-specific parody one-shots: ''Marvel Riot'' (parodying ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse) and ''Secret Wars Too'' (parodying ComicBook/SecretWars2015)
62* The [[UndefeatableLittleVillage large number of]] [[EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion alien invasions fended off]] in Marvel comics got parodied as early as 1977 in ''ComicBook/XMen'': Shi'ar come to Earth and discuss whether the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] applies. When they realize that the locals have not only met the Skrulls, the Kree and the likes before but actually beat ComicBook/{{Galactus}} back four times, they panic, fearing that this one world may be as powerful as their own whole empire.
63* The ''ComicBook/MiniMarvels'' have parodied the storylines ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'' and ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'', as well as generally parodying the Marvel Universe itself.
64* At its core, ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' is a parody of Creator/WarrenEllis' own comics like ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', making it a self-parody on the creator instead of the publisher. It also helps make the whole thing feel a little less mean-spirited than it otherwise could have been.
65* The "Night At the Comic Shop" issue of ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' had comic book characters come to life. One of the characters was "Wilbur", who dresses pretty much identical to Archie's old design (except with a "W" on his cardigan). He's described as a "wacky teenager who's always chasing girls" and true to art Veronica shows attraction to him.
66** This is actually a clever double self-parody; on one level Wilbur is a parody of Archie. On another, Archie Comics are using a pre-existing character for the GeniusBonus of "Yeah, back in the day Archie had spawned a FountainOfExpies, we ripped off our own character for some reason."
67* Creator/RobLiefeld is somewhat infamous for his character designs, some of the most cited being colossal men, characters wearing too many pouches, and giant guns that were completely impractical-looking. Enter [[http://comicbook.com/2018/03/30/rob-liefeld-the-pouch-cable-deadpool-marvel-90s/ The Pouch.]]
68* IPC's anarchic humour AnthologyComic ''Comicbook/{{Oink}}'' parodied ''everything'', so naturally this included their stablemate ''Comicbook/TwoThousandAD''. Issue #58 featured a porcine Comicbook/JudgeDredd pastiche called Judge Pigg. The cover even parodied ''2000 AD'' calling issues "Progs" with the tagline "The Prog for Hogs!"
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72* ''Fanfic/KnowledgeIsPower'': The "Humour" promised by the header is mostly of this kind, and doesn't always seem to be intentional.
73* ''Fanfic/TheOmniverseEvent'': The ShowWithinAShow "Enchantment Girl" featured in "Yu-Gi-Oh Delta X" is one to the Yu-Gi-Oh anime, creating "magical girls in fighter jets" as an analogue to "card games on motorcycles" and "Dark Enchantment Girls" as an analogue to the Dark Synchros, and also featuring some AuthorAppeal in describing the fourth series (analogous to ZEXAL) as the best.
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77* The later ''Film/ChildsPlay'' films, most notably ''Film/BrideOfChucky'' and ''Film/SeedOfChucky'', are rife with meta-jokes about how ridiculous it is that what started as a fairly basic premise somehow managed to spin itself in a multi-film franchise, as well as Creator/JenniferTilly and Creator/BradDourif's penchants for playing over-the-top characters.
78* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' was Disney making fun of itself. It also included longtime Disney composer Music/AlanMenken parodying ''him''self, as he composed for this film too.
79* The ''Film/JamesBond'' series made nods to the (unrelated) parodic ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' many times.
80** At the time, real Bond/Q scenes were played straight. The ''Casino Royale'' exaggeration has Q walking Bond through a room full of mayhem, injury and cartoonish background gags. Eventually, the true Bond films adopted this style exactly. Speaking of...
81** Peter Sellers' Bond finds a deadly pen in Q's lab, and jokes about it being used to write "poison pen letters". In ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', Roger Moore and Q have this same exchange.
82*** In Daniel Craig's ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'', Bond is told not to expect the Cavalry to ride in and save him this time. Of course, that's EXACTLY what happened at the end of the spoof ''Casino Royale''.
83* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' basically made fun of the first film and audience reactions to it.
84* ''Film/ACockAndBullStory'' thrives on this. From Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing caricatures of themselves to everyone always talking about how difficult it will be to make a Tristam Shandy adaptation, the film's willingness to play with itself is rivaled only by its willingness to play with the FourthWall.
85* ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'' seems to be well-aware that airline disaster movies are nearly impossible to take seriously anymore, by not even trying.
86* ''Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold'', there is a MushroomSamba scene that literally satirizes almost any of the cartoon's cliches.
87* The unfilmed sequel to ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', "The Revenge of the Old Queen", had a throwaway joke in which a character referred to Brad as "asshole" and Janet as "slut." (Taking it one step further, Janet IS truly a slut this time - she is an aged hooker.)
88* ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'' and ''Film/JasonX'' are two of the most humorous entries in the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' series, the former having multiple characters remark on various SlasherMovie cliches and the latter being fully aware of its campy RecycledInSpace premise, complete with a scene where the protagonists distract Jason by setting up the ship's holodeck to have two promiscuous, pot-smoking teenage girls who are TooDumbToLive.
89* Creator/BBVProductions released a series of direct-to-video science fiction films aiming at being {{Spiritual Successor}}s to ''Series/DoctorWho'', and frequently pushing the boundaries of copyright and licensing restrictions. One of their last releases, ''Do You Have a Licence to Save This Planet?'', is a comedy in which actual ''Doctor Who'' star Creator/SylvesterMcCoy starred as the Foot Doctor, a mysterious traveller attempting to save a planet while avoiding the notice of the Licensed Reality Corporation™.
90* ''Film/LastActionHero'' was originally written by Zak Penn and Adam Leff as an AffectionateParody of '80s action movies, especially Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger films and the crime thrillers of Creator/ShaneBlack (such as ''Film/LethalWeapon'' and ''Film/TheLastBoyScout''). So imagine their amusement when the studio hired Black himself to rewrite the script, Schwarzenegger to play the in-universe HollywoodActionHero, and Creator/JohnMcTiernan, director of the '80s action classics ''Film/{{Predator}}'' and ''Film/DieHard'', to direct.
91* ''Film/{{Deathstalker}}'' is a pretty by-the-numbers '80s HeroicFantasy BMovie, exactly what you expect when you think of a "''Film/{{Conan|TheBarbarian1982}}'' ripoff". However, its sequel, ''Film/DeathstalkerIIDuelOfTheTitans'', took on [[DenserAndWackier a vastly different direction]] that veered into this, being way more of a spoof of the genre and its own predecessor -- the titular Deathstalker is not a stoic BarbarianHero, but a snarky LovableRogue who the actor explicitly based on WesternAnimation/BugsBunny of all characters. Reportedly, the shooting script was so terrible (even for BMovie standards!) that once production got to filming, they decided to completely overhaul it into [[AffectionateParody a self-aware fantasy cheesefest]], with just as many laughs as [[{{Fanservice}} tits]] and {{gor|n}}e. This is distinctly [[OddballInTheSeries the only entry in the series that took this route]], as [[Film/DeathstalkerAndTheWarriorsFromHell the following sequel]] completely stuck on taking itself seriously.
92* The first four ''Film/{{Scream}}'' films were this for the horror filmmaker Creator/WesCraven, complete with some {{Take That}}s to films he didn't like (particularly {{sequel|itis}}s to [[OnlyTheCreatorDoesItRight some of his own movies]]). While the films were actual horror movies, they were also [[MetaFiction extremely self-aware horror movies]] where the characters extensively discussed and lampooned horror movie tropes while the killers used them as the basis for their rampage. Craven had previously dipped his toes in similar waters with ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare'', but that was too straightforwardly a horror film to qualify as a parody.
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96* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's ''How to Write a Blackwood Article'' has its protagonist ask a parody of himself for writing advice. She in turn goes on to "write" Poe's ''A Predicament'', in which she [[{{Malaproper}} mangles a fair number of literary references]] and [[LosingYourHead gets beheaded by a clock]] due to a combination of [[TooDumbToLive stupidity]] and ExactWords being used against her...[[UndeadAuthor and survives to lament having lost her head, her manservant and her dog all at once.]]
97* The "Roonil Wazlib" gag in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' was obviously a product of JK Rowling poking fun at the fact that loads of [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Guns]] were always used in the plot of every installment of the series.
98* In ''[[Literature/{{Lensman}} Children of the Lens]]'', the protagonist at one point poses as a writer of space operas, and we're treated to a paragraph or so of his prose -- which is a parody of the author's [[PurpleProse normal style]].
99-->... Fools! Did they think that the airlessness of absolute space, the heatlessness of absolute zero, the yieldlessness of absolute neutronium, could stop QADGOP THE MERCOTAN? And the stowaway, that [[DamselInDistress human wench Cynthia]], cowering in helpless terror just beyond this thin and fragile wall...
100:: The writer he's posing as has a long-established background, including several other novels. A throwaway remark notes that he actually ''finishes'' the novel this excerpt is from, and it's widely acclaimed as one of his best.
101* Creator/MichaelMoorcock's "The Stone Thing: A Tale of Strange Parts". The story of an [[TheExile exiled]] and [[FlyingDutchman doomed wanderer]], who has lost most of his extremities and all of his loved ones due to the vast array of [[EvilWeapon cursed weaponry]] he's forced to carry around with him. It exaggerates every aspect of ''Literature/TheElricSaga'' and ends with a totally outrageous punchline.
102* "Literature/TheFoundationOfSFSuccess": Creator/IsaacAsimov's poem is mocking his ''Literature/FoundationSeries'' (it's even in the name). It points out his [[SincerestFormOfFlattery borrowing from Roman history]], as well as his {{Technobabble}}, such as [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace drives]] and [[FictionalFieldOfScience psychohistory]]. The advice isn't actively bad since he obviously gained considerable success with the series, but it does emphasize some of the negative traits that not everyone enjoys, such as his [[ChasteHero avoidance of any romantic subplots]] and [[AlwaysMale male-dominated cast of characters]].
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106* ''Series/BlackBooks'' invokes this when bookshop owner Bernard Black reads out a cinema advertisement:
107-->'''Bernard:''' What this, ''Blue Tunes''? Grouchy Leonard Blue runs a second-hand record shop with his half-wit, mustachioed assistant Danny...\
108''[Manny laughs]''\
109'''Bernard:''' When this zany pair team up with bitchy, neurotic neighbour Pam, things are sure to be a riot of laughs. Where do they get this crap? Even a child could--\
110'''Manny:''' They must think we're idiots.\
111'''Fran:''' ''[looks at picture]'' Look at them. Wankers.
112%%* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' parodied itself when they investigated a murder in a movie set based on them.
113%%* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': The ShowWithinAShow "Kid Gets Acquainted With the Universe".
114* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E13TheZeppo The Zeppo]]" made fun of Buffy and Angel's overdramatic relationship, by having Buffy beg Angel not to plan a HeroicSacrifice in a dramatic, tearjerking scene which didn't match the tone of any other scene in the episode.
115* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
116** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice "Amy's Choice"]]: The dream adventure with the EvilOldFolks and general ClicheStorm nature is quite possibly a parody of the stereotypical "displaced aliens hide out on Earth and decide to take it out on the locals for no real reason" plot. Likewise, the "cold star" can be seen as a parody of the [[ArtisticLicensePhysics abuses of science]] often committed on the show.
117** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E7Kerblam "Kerblam!"]] mocks a certain moment of SpecialEffectFailure from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace "The Ark in Space"]] by ''literally'' having killer bubble wrap.
118* ''Series/EerieIndiana'' season 1 closer "Reality Takes a Holiday" has self-parody aspects, like Omri Katz as a jaded kid star (although it's hard to say with all the MindScrew going on...).
119* In ''Series/FatherTed'', the priests are big fans of a series called ''Father Ben'' about stupid priests who live on an island.
120* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' was known for its gratuitous sex and nudity, which actually got toned down in later seasons. However, the show seemed to poke fun at its reputation in the final season when Bronn has a threesome with two hookers whose goods are on full display...and they spend the entire time talking about the war with Danaerys' forces and badly-maimed soldiers that were regular clients, much to Bronn's frustration.
121* From ''Series/{{House}}'', some of House's favorite soaps (though they're really more parodies of ''General Hospital'', or at least parodies of what people who don't like soaps think ''General Hospital'' is like).
122* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'''s "The Stinson Missile Crisis" parodied itself with Robin in court-mandated therapy, telling her therapist the story of How She Wound Up Assaulting A Woman And Getting Stuck In This Court-Mandated Therapy. She then proceeds to use an unnecessary level of detail and a ridiculous number of tangents that she insists are essential in order to understand the full story, while her therapist waits impatiently and is repeatedly fooled into thinking that ''this'' moment is the one where she ''finally'' Assaults The Woman. Basically, she's doing to her therapist exactly what the show has been doing to its viewers for seven years. The episode also takes advantage of the parody format to exaggerate its specific style of using {{Flash Forward}}s, {{Flash Back}}s, Flash-Sidewayses, {{Imagine Spot}}s, cutaway gags, {{Internal Monologue}}s, ThreeLinesSomeWaiting, and LemonyNarrator-esque commentary.
123* In the ''Series/{{Monk}}'' episode "Mr. Monk and the Actor", the previous episode "Mr. Monk and the Astronaut" gets made into a movie. Among the changes made is [[GenderFlip Disher is cast as a woman who has an affair with Leland]]. When the real Stottlemeyer and Disher view the filming of that scene:
124-->'''Captain Leland Stottlemeyer:''' That didn't happen.\
125'''Lt. Randy Disher:''' Not even once.
126* ''Series/MajorCrimes'': Lt. Tao is the technical advisor and later writer on a ShowWithinAShow called ''Badge of Justice'' which, like ''Major Crimes'' is a basic cable cop show. The characters frequently snark on the show as being unrealistic. In one episode, Creator/LukePerry guest stars as the vain star of ''Badge of Justice'' who becomes involved in a real case when his stalker is murdered. This gives Perry a chance to parody his own history as a former teen heartthrob and working tv actor.
127* In ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', the sketch "What the Stars Foretell" has a character starting to rattle off synonyms, then a poster drops down so the studio audience can continue reading from the LongList. Terry Jones and Michael Palin wrote this as a parody of Chapman and Cleese's thesaurus-inspired sketches; they were surprised when it was accepted for the show.
128** Also written as a joke was the sketch "The Extremely Dull Life of a City Stockbroker", a parody of Jones and Palin's sketches by Chapman and Idle. This goes to show how easily a GagSeries can accommodate SelfParody.
129* ''Series/OneTreeHill''
130** There's an episode where the Tree Hill gang rescues Mouth when Rachel leaves him in a small Texas town. None of them made it to their prom so they crash the local high school and find out that the teens in this ''actual small American town'' [[HollywoodBeautyStandards aren't as attractive as they are]] and [[RuleOfDrama they don't live exciting lives as they do]].
131** Another episode is about the Tree Hill kids putting on a stage show chronicling the love story of Nathan and Hailey.
132* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' season 2 episode 12 "Prisoner's Dilemma", by having a character other than the main hero in the role, the standard save the victim plot feels odd. Doesn't change the fact that it's also a WhamEpisode.
133%%* "Jerry" on ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.
134%%* Believe it or not, but ''Series/SesameStreet'' had a "Cookie World" episode. Starring who else?
135* In Season 3 of ''Series/{{Shtisel}}'', Lippe provides catering for the set of a TV show about Haredi Jews, and even gets a one-time job as an extra (and later provides other extras).
136* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
137** "Wormhole X-Treme!", the show's 100th episode, is all about the titular ShowWithinAShow, which is used as a way for them to mercilessly make fun of themselves.
138** "200", another hundred episodes later, does the same thing, this time with the characters discussing concepts for the ''Wormhole X-Treme!'' movie.
139* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' does this at least once a season, in episodes such as "Hollywood Babylon" and "The Real Ghostbusters". Both of which pale into insignificance next to "The French Mistake". Exaggerated in the 200th musical episode.
140* ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'' is both a full ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series and a parody of the Sentai formula. ''Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger'' is its SpiritualSuccessor.
141** And on the other side of the Pacific, ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' and (to a lesser extent) ''Series/PowerRangersRPM''. ''RPM'' was something of an interesting clash, as it was the same time a DarkerAndEdgier take on the source material (the Rangers are the main force protecting the only human city left after a robot apocalypse) and ''constantly'' [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] its own tropes at the same time ("Sometimes when I morph, I can't help but notice this gigantic explosion right behind me for no apparent reason. (...) Now, could that happen to me in the kitchen or something?").
142* ''Series/UltramanTaro'' for the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'', embodying [[SelfDeprecation every negative stereotype associated with]] ''Ultraman'' and Tokusatsu. It's got ridiculous plots (episodes have included such plot points as the characters playing volleyball against a giant monster), some of the goofiest-looking {{kaiju}} ever (like the buck-toothed Okariyan and the Pinnochio-like alien Piccolo), slapstick-like battles (in more than one fight, the monster attacks Taro by ''farting in his face''), defense team ZAT being outright lazy and incompetent (in several episodes, they ''refuse'' to deal with the MonsterOfTheWeek and complain that Ultraman Taro should just solve the problem for them), and a propensity for extreme MoodWhiplash (episodes could have characters acting like idiots in one scene, only for the next scene to depict brutal monster-on-Ultra violence or humans being massacred in kaiju rampages). This show was made as Creator/TsuburayaProductions' [[MilestoneCelebration 10th anniversary series.]]
143%%* The ''Series/WillAndGrace'' episode "No Series/SexAndTheCity" parodies the show's sitcom clichés.
144%%* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' had "A Day in the Life" in season 2 and "The Play's the Thing" in season 4.
145* Every ''Series/TheXFiles'' that bordered on {{Deconstruction}} entered this at times. Examples include "Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''" (where as a writer hears Scully recall interviews with various witnesses regarding an alien abduction case, [[RashomonStyle those reports are conflicting]] and shown in increasingly bizarre ways), "X-Cops" (''Series/{{COPS}}'' follows one of Mulder and Scully's cases), and "Hollywood AD" (a movie adaptation of the X-Files is made, leading the duo to raise extra complaints regarding their depiction).
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149* Music/{{KMFDM}} has quite a few songs dedicated to lampooning itself. There's ''Sucks'' (KMFDM SUCKS! remains a popular chant to this day) and ''Megalomaniac'' and ''Light'' and ''Intro''. Oh, and ''Virus'', to a lesser extent.
150* "Insert Generic Title" by Daniel Kandi. Though just the title. The song itself is actually pretty good.
151* In the world of drum and bugle corps, Cadets of Bergen County's championship-winning 1990 show (especially the closer) was a self-parody of sorts. The drill moves (the Z-pull, reversed(!) and the company front coming from 1984), the musical phrases (one can detect West Side Story, Candide, and Appalachian Spring in the mishmash of statements that form the closer) and some of the entire show concept are all reprising their earlier ventures in some way or another
152* Music/WeirdAl is known for food-themed parodies of popular songs, though this was more a staple of his early career. His album, Mandatory Fun, seemed to have another such song in "Foil" when describing how well it worked for containing foods. [[WhamLine At first.]]
153* "Creator/CharlieBrooker Is Right About Everything" by The Attery Squash, is a pastiche of their own "Music/{{Devo}} Was Right About Everything".
154* The music video for Music/FreddieMercury's cover of The Platters' DooWop song, "The Great Pretender" parodies the classic music videos of Mercury's band Music/{{Queen}}.
155* Music/{{Weezer}}'s video for "Africa" is a re-enactment of the video for "Undone--The Sweater Song", but with other people replacing the band members, and none other than Music/WeirdAlYankovic replacing Rivers Cuomo and lip syncing the lead vocal.
156* In the midst of the Usefulnotes/COVID19Pandemic, Oliver Adams, composer of the famed ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' theme "Techno Syndrome", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGTpgUxyyYo did an all-new remix with the hook changed to "MORTAL VIRUS!"]]
157* The video for Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LczGSoibRe8 "Noise"]] features a blonde model stripping and taking selfies, and later undergoing cosmetic surgery to keep her looks as she ages. The actress is an actual Instagram model, playing a parody of herself.
158* In 2021, Music/{{Nickelback}} did [[https://metro.co.uk/video/nickelback-parody-google-photos-ad-2319260/ an ad]] for Google Photos that consisted of them singing a self-deprecating parody of their SignatureSong "Photograph".
159* The {{Filk}} community often writes parody songs, and in 1989 [[https://archive.org/details/filk_tapeworm_1 three]] [[https://archive.org/details/filk_tapeworm_2 tapes]] [[https://archive.org/details/filk_tapeworm_3 were released]] comprised solely of parody songs, mostly parodies of existing filk songs by the same artists.
160* Creator/SeananMcGuire wrote a [[https://seananmcguire.com/songbook.php?id=172 parody]] of her own song "[[https://seananmcguire.com/songbook.php?id=63 Pretty Little Dead Girl]]", changing the words to be about [[Series/{{Firefly}} Malcolm Reynolds]].
161* Early in the Usefulnotes/COVID19Pandemic, memes on social media started cropping up using Music/NeilDiamond 's "Sweet Caroline" lyrics "Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you" as an example of what NOT to do. Neil released a [[https://youtu.be/qxnETrhOIAE new version]] that says "Hands, washing hands, reaching out, don't touch me, I won't touch you" instead.
162* Music/PaulMcCartney's 1993 live album ''Paul is Live'' pokes fun at [[AbbeyRoadCrossing the album cover]] for Music/TheBeatles' ''Music/AbbeyRoad'', but it only features Paul walking his dog, Arrow across the famed crosswalk. The cover was also deliberately constructed as a response to the "Paul is Dead" urban legend; several of the "clues" proving Paul's death from the original cover have either been deliberately changed or removed, e.g. the Volkswagen Beetle's license plate is altered from "28 IF" (i.e. "he would have been 28 if he were alive today"[[note]]even though [=McCartney=] was actually ''27'' at the time they recorded ''Abbey Road''.[[/note]]) to "51 IS" ("he is 51 years old today").
163* As another parody related to the COVID-19 Pandemic, Music/WangChung (with guest vocalist Valerie Day) recorded a pandemic-themed version of "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" titled "Everybody Stay Safe Tonight".
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166[[folder:Print Media]]
167%%* [=GamePro=] Magazine had one called [=LamePro=].
168* As you might have guessed, Magazine/{{MAD}} Magazine has done this. It's perhaps most notable when they have a movie spoof of their own film ''Film/UpTheAcademy''. It was much shorter than a regular parody, ending with them disowning the film, which they actually DID do in RealLife.
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172* Creator/OrsonWelles was the guest host of ''Radio/TheJackBennyProgram'' for four episodes in 1943 while Jack was ill. The main humor of the episodes comes from Welles parodying his own image as a director with a huge ego and a flair for over-the-top filmmaking:
173-->'''Don:''' Oh, by the way, Orson, what's the title of this picture you're making?\
174'''Welles:''' Well, I've called my story very simply "The March of Destiny", and it deals with everything that ever happened.
175* The last episode of season 7 of ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' gives the show itself the "Accidentally Listening To A Bit of ''Radio/TheArchers''" treatment:
176-->'''Carrie:''' It's ''John Finnemore's Cosy Warm Bath of Gentle Whimsy''!\
177''Boos from audience''\
178'''John:''' Ding, ding!\
179'''Lawry:''' Good morning, sir!\
180'''John:''' Good morning, I'm looking for a shop sketch.\
181'''Lawry:''' You're in luck, sir! We're one of the last shows in the world that still stocks them!
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184[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
185* The Black Dog Game Factory in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', a branch of [[{{Megacorp}} Pentex]], and the home of the ''Talespinner'' system (''Storyteller'') and ''World of Shadows'' setting (''[[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness The World of Darkness]]''). Not only are all their games parodies of Creator/WhiteWolf products (''[[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Revenant: The Ravishing]]''; ''[[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse Lycanthrope: The Rapture]]''; ''[[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Warlock: The Pretention]]''; ''[[TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}} Deviant]]'' etc. etc.), but the names and some characteristics of the staff were strangely familiar, albeit all evil and/or insane.
186* In the ''Tooniversal Tour Guide'' for the ''TabletopGame/{{Toon}}'' RPG by Steve Jackson Games, the ''[=CarToon=] Wars'' setting is a parody of ''TabletopGame/CarWars'' by Steve Jackson Games. Meanwhile, SJG's ''Pyramid'' magazine include pastiches of [[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness The Old World of Darkness]] by Jeff Koke (who adapted the oWoD for ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'') and "Trans-Toony Space" by David Morgan-Mar (who co-wrote ''GURPS Bio-Tech'' and ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace: Under Pressure'').
187* ''Castle Greyhawk'' was a mega-dungeon adventure set in the ''TabletopGames/{{Greyhawk}}'' setting (of course) written by Creator/GaryGygax himself, and was presumably something he had written up to playtest ''Dungeons & Dragons'' as a concept. The plot [[ExcusePlot (to use the term loosely)]] involved players going through the eponymous castle through comedic encounters that made no sense at all when viewed as a whole. Villains in the adventure were {{Shout Out}}s to a rather wide array of television, comic book, and advertising icons (players would encounter Driderman, The Inedible Bulk, and Da Ting in one room, and face Poppinfarsh the Dough Golem in the next) with weird places like The Temple of Really Bad Dead Things and the Honeycomb Hive). The FinalBoss was a nutty illusionist who spent all his time at the bottom level of the tower watching a giant tapestry which is basically a TV. (This was a caricature of Gygax himself.) While some fans saw the adventure as SoBadItsGood, many accused TSR of doing it to purposely ruin Gygax's reputation (it was released after he left the company) while others just claim they thought ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime. (Ironically, it was also known for being [[NintendoHard brutally hard.]])
188* Many people complain about ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'' taking forever. Hasbro decided to lean into this and release ''Monopoly: Longest Game Ever'', which is deliberately designed to take an eternity with its massive game board, single die, and bizarre rules like "you don't lose by going bankrupt" and "if you need more money, you can ''tear up'' your bills to get more". It also explicitly [[AscendedHouseRules features two common house rules]] ("no auctions" and "Free Parking jackpot") that mostly serve to drag out the game. The game only ends once someone owns ''every single'' property, which is made even harder by the added rule of "if you land on someone's property, you can force them to sell it to you if you pay them enough".
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192* The final clown segment in ''Theatre/{{Dralion}}'' goofily reenacts all of the show's serious acts, complete with threadbare mockeries of key costumes and props.
193* An accidental example of this is "Right Brain", a song from the 1994 New York Theatre Workshop version of Jonathan Larson's ''Theatre/{{Rent}}''. Later becoming "One Song Glory", many fans who hear this old version of the inspirational song can hardly listen without feeling the need to vomit or burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
194* The tribute concert to Cameron Mackintosh, "Hey Mr Producer", features a pre-taped segment in which Music/StephenSondheim and Creator/AndrewLloydWebber parody their songs "Send in the Clowns" and "Music of the Night", while ribbing Cameron Mackintosh at the same time. It can be called the highlight of the show.
195* Creator/ShirleyMacLaine's appearance on the 1977 ''Royal Variety Performance'' features a [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating]] parody of "[[Film/SweetCharity If My Friends Could See Me Now]]".
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198[[folder:Toys]]
199* Moose Toys managed to get on the map with ''Toys/TheTrashPack'', a gross-out collectible toy that grew very popular. Their next big venture was ''Toys/{{Shopkins}}'', which became even ''more'' popular, even surpassing ''Trash Pack''. When ''Shopkins'' was still hot and ''Trash Pack'' was gone, they created ''Toys/TheGrosseryGang''...basically a sickening ''Trash Pack''-style mockery of their own ''Shopkins'' line. They would later flat-out parody ''Shopkins'' as "Slopkins" in one of their ''Grossery Gang'' [[WebAnimation/TheGrosseryGang webseries videos]].
200* ''Toys/WackyPackages'' has no issue with parodying Topps products. From the candy brands to ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'', to even ''Wacky Packages themselves'', nothing is off the menu to be parodied. This actually ''saved'' Wacky Packages as a product, proving that they parodied so many things, themselves included, that it saved them from a lawsuit against Tetly Tea.
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203[[folder:Trading Cards]]
204* Topps has featured spoofs of ''Franchise/GarbagePailKids'' in at least two of their other products.
205** ''Toys/WackyPackages'' has included Garbage Pail Geezers (the mascot being an elderly version of Adam Bomb connected to an IV full of vomit while his [[FalseTeethTomfoolery dentures]] fall out and pressing the button on his detonator only causes a very tiny mushroom cloud to burst out of his head), Garbage Pail Kidders (where the mushroom cloud coming out of Adam Bomb's head is substituted with a jack-in-the-box jester) and Gentle Plain Kids (presented as trading cards based on class photos of normal children with the mascot being named A+ Adam and a label stating that the product is 100% Parent-Approved).
206** In 1991, Topps tried to cash in on the Franchise/TrollDolls craze by creating a trading card series called ''Trash Can Trolls'', which were pretty much Garbage Pail Kids with the characters modeled on Troll Dolls rather than Toys/CabbagePatchKids. In fact, the very first card Joel Troll[=/=]Fall-Out Paul depicts Adam Bomb being kicked away by a much larger Troll version of Adam Bomb, as if signifying that Garbage Pail Kids were yesterday's trend and that Trash Can Trolls were the new smash hit (incidentally, Trash Can Trolls only lasted one series, while Garbage Pail Kids would eventually be revived in the mid-2000s and remain in production to this day).
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209[[folder:Video Games]]
210* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
211** ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'' has the secret radio show ''Idea Spy 2.5'', a parody of the Spy Genre as well as ''Metal Gear'' itself, with all the ridiculous events that happen.
212** The "External Gazer" Snake Tales scenario in ''{{VideoGame/Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}: Substance'' is more of a CrackFic overall, but the segment of the story featuring Jack and Rose is very much a spoof of the main storyline, when the villain's plot is to replace Snake with Raiden and have him endure nonsensical events until his spirit breaks.
213** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' has the secret theater, which plays the ridiculousness of the ''Metal Gear'' series for comedy. The extremely comical "CHAIR RACE" ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' trailer was included as part of this and certainly qualifies.
214** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes'' has the "Deja Vu" mission, which derails into a surreal game show with a StudioAudience hosted by Liquid Snake and Ocelot (all played by Creator/RobinAtkinDownes ActingForTwo).
215* ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'', to ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}''. As the Laconic entry for ''Parodius'' states, it's "''Gradius'' on acid", featuring an aesthetic that would not be out of place in a kid-oriented QuirkyWork. Many moments spoof specific elements of the ''Gradius'' series, such as bellydancers mimicking ''Gradius'' crab walker bosses and a bald eagle in American patriotic garb replicating the Stage 1 boss of ''Gradius II''.
216* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' makes fun of one line of quests in the original ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'' where a gun is hidden in pieces on one of the maps and must be found and reassembled. These Scavenger quests tended towards being lengthy and obtuse, and the payout was no better than any other randomly generated item in the game...so ''Borderlands 2'' included the Hungry Like The Skag optional mission, where the Vault Hunters find a recorder from a bandit. In it, he talks about how it's a great day to walk around blithely talking into an ECHO recorder without skags preparing to ambush him and tear his favorite gun to four separate pieces, then eating it and him--whereupon that exact scenario happens. The Vault Hunters must once again go rooting through Skag guts to find the parts and put the gun back together, just like old times.
217* ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' can be seen as a self parody of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1'' While Mario is a heroic character who collects coins while he is saving the day, ''Wario Land'' turns it on its head and is about a greedy AntiHero exploring for pure profit and [[AccidentalHero inadvertently saves the day by accident.]] Further showcased by the power-ups, which among other things, includes being squished, turned into a zombie, and ''[[ManOnFire set on fire.]]''
218* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' light-heartedly pokes fun at a lot of the series' standards; for example, early in the game Zelda refuses to accompany you into a dungeon on the grounds that leaving the dangerous work to the heroes is "family tradition." And yet, later on, she takes on a much more active role than in every other game of the series to date.
219* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'' does this with the ShowWithinAShow, ''Dick Justice'', a {{Blaxploitation}} tv-show that refers the plot of the first game.
220-->The rain was comin' down like all the angels in heaven decided to take a piss at the same time. When you're in a situation like mine, [[PrivateEyeMonologue you can only think in metaphors.]]
221* The Platform/PlayStationPortable release of ''VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia'' included ''VideoGame/CapsuleServant'', a minigame spoofing the whole concept of the Franchise/FateSeries' Holy Grail Wars by making one a straightforward MonsSeries.
222* ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' has the "Reformed Cultist" quest in which a formerly evil cultist regrets his past spent desecrating tombs and robbing corpses - things [[SarcasmMode you would]] ''[[SarcasmMode never]]'' do! (Players, in fact, do these things all the time.)
223* Airdorf Games, the creators of ''VideoGame/{{Faith}}'', did a short licensed game based off of the horror comedy film ''Extra Ordinary'', which uses many aspects of ''FAITH'''s style, such as its {{Retraux}} aesthetic and use of ClassicalMusic, with the latter resulting in humorous surreal juxtaposition of what's on-screen (such as being attacked by furniture).
224* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' has the mini-game Mesuking, a recreation of Creator/{{Sega}}'s very own ''Mushiking'' arcade game series, but with the fighting bugs replaced with [[HotterAndSexier sexy human ladies]] [[LittleBitBeastly dressed as bugs]].
225* ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStarUltra'' has Revenge of the King, a parody of Revenge of Meta Knight from the original SNES release. It’s a remake of ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand''’s [[NewGamePlus Extra Mode]] with elements from Revenge of Meta Knight, including Dedede and Bandana Dee talking to each other about Kirby, and the Masked Dedede battle starting with you picking up a hammer, similar to the Meta Knight battle from Revenge of Meta Knight.
226* The beginning of ''VideoGame/Splatoon3''’s hero mode is one giant [[TakeThat mockery]] of the prior two games hero modes, consisting of 4 incredibly short and laughably easy levels, following the exact same format as the previous two games’ hero modes, with even the background music to the levels being a goofier version of the typical hero mode music. The story is even nearly identical to that of ''VideoGame/Splatoon1''. This ends with a simplified fight against the antagonist of the previous two games, DJ Octavio. After this, [[BaitAndSwitch the real hero mode begins.]]
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230* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' has a segment in the third case where Apollo, Athena and Klavier enact a mock trial (well, "mock-mock trial", a re-enactment of an earlier mock trial. ItMakesSenseInContext) that pokes fun at many of the series' CourtroomAntics.
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233[[folder:Web Animation]]
234* ''WebAnimation/BarbieLifeInTheDreamhouse'' pokes fun at different aspects of the Franchise/{{Barbie}} universe, such as Barbie [[NewJobAsThePlotDemands having a vast career history]], and Ken [[SatelliteLoveInterest existing only to become]] Barbie's LoveInterest.
235* ''WebAnimation/RWBYChibi'' is a PlayedForLaughs spin-off of [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} the core series]].
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238[[folder:Web Comics]]
239* In ''WebComic/KoanOfTheDay'', the guru discusses the [[http://www.koanoftheday.com/232/ problem with koans]].
240* The last panel in this comic: ''"We rejoin ''Webcomic/DieselSweeties'' [[http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2513 #2513]] already in progress..."''
241-->'''Red Robot:'''"Punchline five people will get!"\
242'''Clango:''' "Additional nonsensical rejoinder!"
243* ''Webcomic/DrowTales'' has a couple of chibi pages at the end of every chapter, parodying or spoofing the events in that chapter and the setting of the comic.
244* ''Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO'' is a self-parody of ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', where an aspect of the AudienceSurrogate main character is that she plays mobile games, almost nobody cares about the plot, and the only things about Servants that matter to the protagonists are how cute they are (both) and how rare it is to get one (Gudako).
245** The game later did one better and declared the webcomic an AlternateUniverse in an event, and the servant you get from it turned on Gudako directly because of her usual shenanigans. Gudako's character is punched up from merely a BadBoss to a HumanoidAbomination using meta-speak to [[LiesToChildren communicate on our level]].
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248[[folder:Web Original]]
249* The Website/SCPFoundation wiki has an entire section dedicated to Joke pages; which are humorous spoofs of the more serious SCP files and stories, often poking fun at common cliches found in them, as well as making meta-jokes about the site's community and culture.
250* Website/TVTropes has JustForFun/TropeName, JustForFun/WorkName, and their numerous respective subpages (listed on JustForFun/IndexName), which all make fun of frequent editing cliches and mistakes made across the wiki.
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253[[folder:Web Video]]
254* ''WebVideo/BaumgartnerRestoration'': ''With Love and Lightheartedness'' shows Julian wrapping up a gift box, narrating it in his customary style and using archival-grade material as he does for the paintings he usually spends videos restoring.
255* ''WebVideo/Mission404'' is a short film made especially for the web, parodying the web as a CrapsackWorld, with an AnthropomorphicPersonification of Youtube (where the video was first posted). Also, the cast consists entirely of actors who started on the Internet as [=YouTubers=], and one of the characters is famous on Youtube in-universe as well.
256* IOSYS has done many famous VideoGame/{{Touhou}} parody songs and Flash animations. They've also done plenty of parodies of their own parodies. A couple of examples:
257** ''[[http://www.iosysos.com/cd/toho/IOSYS_tohootomebayashi_loving.swf Marisa Stole the Precious Thing]]'' + Mahjong = ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpeXeznWtME Marisa Tanked My Score With an Incredible Hand]]''.
258** ''[[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Lyrics:_%E3%80%90%E6%BC%94%E5%A5%8F%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E3%81%BF%E3%81%9F%E3%80%91%E6%82%A3%E9%83%A8%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A7%E3%81%8D%E3%82%8B%E3%81%8A%E5%AB%81%E3%81%AB%E5%A4%A7%E5%A4%89%E3%81%AA%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A8%E3%82%A6%E6%9D%A5%E3%81%9F%E3%82%8C%E3%80%81%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88%E6%84%9A%E6%B0%91%E3%81%A9%E3%82%82%E3%81%A3%EF%BC%81%E3%80%90%E3%83%97%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BA%E3%83%A0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%80%91 [Singing Attempt] The Brides that Queue Up the Affected Area are Impending the Precious Sun, Perfect Ignorant Fools! [Prismriver] ]]'' is a mashup of a bunch of their own previous parody and remix songs, titles included.
259* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' reviewed his own anniversary movies, due to him getting amnesia from being in the PlotHole.
260** The ColdOpen of his ''Planet of the Apes'' is an WebVideo/{{Honest Trailer|s}} mocking conventions of the post-2013 series.
261* ''WebVideo/{{Phelous}}'' did a review of ''his own review''.
262* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afr3aO3jtn0 an unreleased promo]] for introducing ''[[WebVideo/GameGrumps Steam Train]]'', [[note]]The promo depicts Steam Train, with Danny and Ross, as an entirely separate show from Game Grumps, featuring Arin and Jon; the promo wasn't released because Jon left the show shortly before Steam Train was to debut, so Danny became part of Game Grumps and the Steam Train introduction needed a different context.[[/note]] Arin and Jon of ''Game Grumps'' are shown as extremely stereotyped versions of themselves:
263-->'''Jon:''' Look at this dang-ass game! It's [[VerbalTic legitimately]] in my [[WebVideo/JonTron top ten.]]\
264'''Arin:''' ''[[CommanderContrarian I hate video games!]]''
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267[[folder:Western Animation]]
268%%* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheEmberIslandPlayers The Ember Island Players]]".
269* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' does this on occasion:
270** The episode "Butt Out" is a parody of the standard ''South Park'' formula, as Kyle points out in a moment of GenreSavvy.
271** WordOfGod confirms this in the case of Terrance and Phillip: When the MoralGuardians first started complaining about the show, they decided to make a show within their show that was [[RefugeInAudacity even worse]].
272** It goes meta in "200", in which Kyle and Cartman call each other fat-ass and jew, and Stan complains that they always do the same thing. The exact same dialogue took place in an earlier episode.
273** The episodes "Cartoon Wars Part I" and "Cartoon Wars Part II" spend a good amount of time criticizing ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' for its formula. ''South Park'' says ''Family Guy'' is just random joke after random joke with no consistent relationship to the story. However, in "Cartoon Wars Part II", a trucker is talking about how he likes ''Family Guy'' and says: "I mean, I know it's just joke after joke, but I like that. At least it doesn't get all preachy and up its own ass with messages, you know?"
274* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' has "The True Stories of Mainframe", which consists of binome actors performing StylisticSuck takes on the events of earlier episodes.
275* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'' could be said to be this for [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel]].
276* ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' had a monster filming Juniper's adventures and broadcasting them in a show named "The Battles and Brawls of Juniper Lee".
277* At the end of the ''[[OffToSeeTheWizard Wizard of Odd]]'' episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb,'' Candace parodied her song "Busted" from a previous episode by singing about how the Tin Man was "[[PunBasedTitle Rusted]]."
278* "Fairly Odd Primates" from the ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' special "Abracatastrophe", in which the theme song was spoofed. "Bananas, bananas, bananas, bananas!"
279* In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', The Dawg and Bone Show in is a parody of the show itself starring Flanderized versions of Johnny and Dukey named "Dawg" and "Bone" respectively. Their only personality traits are talking with slang accents and being obsessed with zombie hunting.
280** Additionally, the episode also parodies its own animation by stating that Dawg and Bone are Squash and Stretch and therefore cannot be stopped from physical harm, but Johnny and Dukey now have to go out of their way to avoid being injured.
281** Twice during the episode, Dukey lampshades how familiar The Dawg and Bone Show seems, but Johnny is too stupid to see it.
282* A lot of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episodes have played out as self-parodies of how weird and wacky the show has become. Some examples:
283** "Saddlesore Galactica" (the one where the Simpsons keep a horse as a pet and Bart and Homer run afoul of jockey elves): Those who don't see it as a sign that the show was becoming a cheap clone of ''South Park'' and ''Family Guy'' (despite that those shows copied ''The Simpsons'' style and made it more over the top than ''The Simpsons'' ever could be) do see it as a self-parody and an exercise in modern surrealism.
284** "Homer Loves Flanders": Lisa points out that Homer and Flanders being friends won't last because of how formulaic the show is...until Homer and Flanders remain friends in the end (at least until the next episode when Homer tells Flanders to go to Hell after Flanders comes over to say, "Hi") and Lisa realizes that the wacky adventures might be coming to an end.
285** The end of the Gump Roast ClipShow episode gives us a sneak peek of future episodes to the song "[[WeDidntStartTheBillyJoelParodies They'll Never Stop The Simpsons]]" to reassure viewers they aren't out of ideas: Grampa Simpson marries both of Marge's sisters in one, Marge becomes a robot in another, etc.
286--->'''Narrator:''' We're sorry for the clip shoooowww....
287* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Matt Groening's head presents a pilot for his (presumably) animated series to an audience at Comic-Con, called ''Futurella''. Set in the year 4000, the opening title looks exactly like ''Futurama'''s and abruptly follows with a message that the show's been cancelled.
288-->'''Matt Groening's head:''' Wow. Fox has really streamlined the process.
289* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': The episode where Yakko sings all the words in the English language to the tune of the Mexican Hat Dance (the same tune he sang "Yakko's World" to).
290* The 1991 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "WesternAnimation/BlooperBunny" is a parody of the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny MilestoneCelebration the previous year.
291-->'''Daffy:''' Oh brother! Fifty-first and a half anniversary!
292* For the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' franchise, this started with the DenserAndWackier 1980s series ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''. Other later installments would also poke fun at the franchise's many, many tropes; almost every single ''Scooby'' production from ''Pup'' onward has joked about the ThoseMeddlingKids line at least once, for example.
293* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' "The Contest" is an episode featuring many AffectionateParody skits of cartoons. It starts with Arthur and friends watching ''Andy and Company'', a show where all the characters appear to be parodies of them. Brain questions the FunnyAnimal world and asks if their school serves bugs and garbage for lunch, and Arthur realizes he doesn't know [[ViewerSpeciesConfusion what species Andy is supposed to be]].
294* The ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' "Turtles In Space Part 1: The Fugitoid" has the heroes in a half-shell stranded on an alien planet. They retreat to the sewers, where Michelangelo witnesses four alien rats in masks, much like the kind he and his brothers are wearing, led by a terrapin-sensei in a robe and cane like Splinter's.
295-->'''Ninja Rat:''' ''(Indecipherable noise, subtitled as "Cowabunga!")''\
296'''Michelangelo:''' Whoa... Bizarroworld!
297* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has "Dee Dee and The Man", where Dexter fires Dee Dee as his sister.
298* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' is this to both the [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans original show]] and Creator/DCComics in general.
299* ''WesternAnimation/PibAndPog'' is a self-parody by Creator/AardmanAnimations, in which a pre-school kids' show featuring two cute claymation creatures rapidly descends into grotesque tit-for-tat acts of ultraviolence.
300* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' celebrates and mocks everything about the Sonic franchise in equal amounts, along with the periodic potshot at Sonic's UnpleasableFanbase (including one aimed ''specifically'' at the infamous creator of ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}''). Shadow the Hedgehog embodies this, with his Boom version being as much of an edgelord as fans and nonfans alike have accused him of being.
301* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' had "The Ember Island Players", where a group in the show is putting on a play about the Avatar and his crew that ''gleefully'' mocks the characters, their adventures, and even [[TakeThat takes a fantastic potshot]] at the much-disliked "Great Divide". Pretty much everyone is thoroughly insulted save for Toph, who [[ActuallyPrettyFunny thinks being portrayed as a muscle-bound moron is hilarious]]. Since it's the Fire Nation putting it on, it's wholly justified that it wouldn't be a particularly flattering portrayal of the Avatar's crew, and unsurprisingly, ends with all of them being brutally killed by the Fire Lord while everyone in the audience cheers.[[note]]this episode also acts as a ClipShow, in that it reminds viewers of major events before the conclusion of the show[[/note]]
302-->'''Zuko:''' That ... wasn't a good play.\
303'''Aang:''' I'll say.\
304'''Katara:''' No kidding.\
305'''Suki:''' Horrible.\
306'''Toph:''' You said it.\
307'''Sokka:''' But the effects were decent!
308* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' had them watching "The Extreme Adventures of Brandon and Mallory", a TotallyRadical {{animesque}} version of their show.
309* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has the ShowWithinAShow ''Duck-tective'', which apparently shares many tropes with the show, including a PeripheryDemographic, ParentalBonus jokes, and [[spoiler:a plot twist involving Duck-tective's twin brother]].
310* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has a human recreation of a "Plankton tries to rob the Krusty Krab" type of episode in ''[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E13SpongeBobsBigBirthdayBlowout SpongeBob's Big Birthday Blowout]]'' when on a tour of the surface world, [=SpongeBob=]'s tour bus visits a diner called "The Trusty Slab", where the human substitutes of the main cast are played by their voice actors.
311* ''WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvaniaTheSeries'' occasionally shows Mavis and her friends watching an [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe television show]] called ''Hotel Pennsylvania'', with the main cast being human (and in Mavis and Pedro's cases, gender-swapped) versions of Mavis, Hank, Wendy and Pedro.
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