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*** The Adventures manga similarly introduced an original Yellow Version character who even used that canon's Red's Pokedex and Pikachu for a time before getting their own Pikachu.

** Near the end of the first season of ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', Ash befriends a rival Trainer named Ritchie, who is pretty much identical to Ash (he looks like a mixture between Ash and 'Red', the trainer from the original game). Ritchie's Pokemon team are a Similar Squad to Ash's - he even uses a Pikachu (nicknamed "Sparky") as his main Mon. Jessie even calls them the "twerp twins".

** There's another pair of NobleMaleRoguishMale BuddyCops in the game - the muscled but dim Mack "The Torso" Torson and the slight but smart Chester [=McClane=]. They were [[DevelopmentGag intended to be the protagonists of the game]] in very early days, when it was going to be a much more pastichey buddy-cop game called ''Torson & [=McClane=]''.

** In the Communist Vision Quest in ''The Final Cut'', Stefan and Ulixes might suggest that Harry and Kim are this to them, as they both are examples of the infra-materialist concept of "décomptage" (a principle of heirarchical organisation based on twos - invented by the revolutionary Communists who went on to found Revachol's police force). Of course, Harry and Kim don't really have a lot in common with Stefan and Ulixes. Harry and Kim are a décomptage because they are [[BuddyCops two police officers acting as partners]], and Stefan and Ulixes are a décomptage because they chased away any members from their infra-materialist reading group who diverged from their (rather kooky) views until it was only the two of them left.

* CLAT is this to the Special Vehicles 2nd Division of ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}''. Based in New York instead of Tokyo, they are essentially the same characters, [[PhenotypeStereotype but all blonde]] (barring some exceptions like the resident GentleGiant being a native american) and headquartered in a fancy hi-tech underwater secret base instead of the original's dinghy place in the middle of nowhere. [[spoiler:It was AllJustADream, however]].

* In the "Girl Group" episode of ''Series/BigTimeRush'', the boys seek help from an old, washed up boy band called Boyz in the Attic. There are four members of this band, and each one clearly a deadbeat future parody of the BTR boys.
* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'': Moze befriends a girl named Jennifer [[IncrediblyLamePun Tu]] who she has everything in common with. Jennifer Tu's best friends are Ted and Mookie, and yes, it seems like they act just like Ned and Cookie.

** One of the ''Tracey Ullman'' shorts, "Zoo Story," has the family going to the zoo and watching a similar family of monkeys. Bart bonds with the Bart-like monkey and winds up [[spoiler:staying with the monkeys while the Bart-monkey rides home with the Simpsons in their car.]]

** In "Smoke on the Daughter," Homer and Bart attempt to trap two raccoons who are stealing homemade jerky from their basement. The two raccoons, an adult and a juvenile, humorously resemble Homer and Bart themselves. Homer has a change of heart and decides to befriend the raccoons when he hunts them to their burrow and realizes they're just feeding their family, a second pair of raccoons resembling Marge and Lisa.