History Main / ShallowParody

* ''Pop Culture Club Comics'' uses ShallowParody as mortar and brick. Every strip is just some random thing happening, only for a random character to be involved and thus... ''and thus''... it is considered a "joke". A highway worker finds a dead cat on the road... ha ha! It's Garfield! A woman making a bed is revealed to sport a tramp-stamp... ha ha! It's Snow White! A person spontaneously combusts and burns to death... ha ha! It's Thing #1 from the Cat in the Hat! Aren't you just ''killing'' yourself laughing right now?

* Because it [[DethroningMomentOfSuck fails at everything else]] the FamilyGuy episode Not All Dogs Go To Heaven, which can best be described as a Brian episode with Star Trek jokes that anyone whose ever seen a YouTube Poop can make. Oh, hey, a "Shut up, Wesley!" reference...and a joke about Trek fans never going outside and...ummm...then the cast of TNG go get hamburgers (What?)...and go bowling (The hell?) and..............that's it. Seriously, there are two Trek jokes in an episode that features the entire cast of TNG. DannySmith, you fail at everything.

* BobHope parodied ''[[AsianSaga Shogun]]'' on one of his specials. The sketch writers assumed Anjin-san (Richard Chamberlain) was the title character.

* Bob Hope parodied ''Shogun'' on one of his specials. The sketch writers assumed Anjin-san (Richard Chamberlain) was the title character.

** The ''{{Batman}}'' porn also contains some ''terrifyingly precise'' references to the [[Series/Batman 60s live action show]].

* Marvel's parody comic ''Not Brand Ecch'' portrayed the DoomPatrol as shameless rip-offs of the more popular {{X-Men}} when in reality the Patrol came first.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVr0tcBZqGg This commercial]] seems to be a parody and TakeThat of the MarioKart series, only, it looks more like a Kirby parody, needless to say, a lot of people didn't like the marketing right there, as it implies that they knew nothing about what they were throwing a potshot at... But [[MisaimedFandom some]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse absolutely loved the characters in the commercial]] [[http://thweatted.deviantart.com/art/Brock-Lee-and-Co-165840615 and even drew art of them.]]
** It also implies that people aren't passionate about who wins in Mario Kart. Um, [[SeriousBusiness no]].

** ... So it's equally about nostalgia for both a time never actually existed, but also for ''shows'' that never existed? FridgeBrilliance!
*** No, it's just feature-length ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch.

** Similarly on ''TheChaser'' (dare I speak ill of them) with a sketch about rumours of a movie version of ''TheHobbit'' and imagining it directed by various people (Nick Giannopoulos, WoodyAllen and Michael Moore). For some reason the first one had two Hobbits with a dynamic suspiciously similar to Frodo and Sam, and not a dwarf in sight.

** Similarly averted with a one-off parody of ''ThereWillBeBlood'' from the season 33 episode hosted by Tina Fey. Bill Hader's Daniel Day Lewis is pitch-perfect, and the sketch references moments in the film that didn't quite become [[MemeticMutation Memetic Mutations]], such as '''[[LargeHam I'VE ABANDONED MY CHIIIIIIIIIIILD]]''' and Plainview's opening speech.

** Similarly averted with a one-off parody of ''ThereWillBeBlood'' from the season 33 episode hosted by Tina Fey. Bill Hader's Daniel Day Lewis is pitch-perfect, and the sketch references moments in the film that didn't quite become MemeticMutations, such as '''[[LargeHam I'VE ABANDONED MY CHIIIIIIIIIIILD]]''' and Plainview's opening speech.

** ''Mad'' parodies used to be written after the film was released and thus published a few months later, in part to keep on top of what movies were well-known enough to warrant them. One late-1970s article had them "selling" prematurely written parodies of movies and TV shows that ''weren't'' popular (''Gable and Lombard'', for instance) at a discount. This lag still applies to TV shows -- their parody of ''8 Simple Rules'' was in the October 2003 issue... [[TooSoon just in time for John Ritter's sudden death]].

->''The objections to breadth in parody are that it is not sporting to hunt with a machine gun, that jocularity is not wit, and that the critical edge is blunted. Most of what passes for parody is actually so broad as to be mere burlesque.''
--> -- ''[[SeriousBusiness Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm - and After. Compiled with an Introduction & Notes by Dwight Macdonald]]''

->''See it's a parody of 300, they do everything that happened in 300 only it's funny because it's not 300, it's MeetTheSpartans!''

* Every parody of ''APrairieHomeCompanion'''s Garrison Keillor is based around: "The News From Lake Wobegon" (which is just one segment of a two hour show), his alleged need to [[TheSimpsons "be more funny"]] (his style of humor is intended to be subtle and whimsical, not broadly comedic, and he also has a strong satirical streak), his excessive folksiness (which is meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek), and his voice (which is so distinctive that most imitators can't seem to do it properly. A lot of Keillor imitations end up sounding more like Stuart [=McLean=] of ''TheVinylCafe'']].)

* Every parody of [[APrairieHomeCompanion Garrison Keillor]] is based around: "The News From Lake Wobegon" (which is just one segment of a two hour show), his alleged need to [[TheSimpsons "be more funny"]] (his style of humor is intended to be subtle and whimsical, not broadly comedic, and he also has a strong satirical streak), his excessive folksiness (which is meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek), and his voice (which is so distinctive that most imitators can't seem to do it properly. A lot of Keillor imitations end up sounding more like [[TheVinylCafe Stuart [=McLean=]]].)

* I will pay $20 and a free dinner with Evangeline Lilly if you can find a ''{{Lost}}'' parody that doesn't entirely revolve around smoke monster-polar bear-French woman-"fat guy" jokes. It's almost as if, within the alternate universe of parody, ''Lost'' was cancelled after the first season. Free dinner with Evangeline Lilly not guaranteed.
** The funny thing is, polar bears have shown up a whopping three times and there is a perfectly logical reason for their presence (experiments on arctic animals in jungle climates), and the French woman is no more notable than any other character.
** Also, there still exist jokes about how the survivors haven't escaped or built a raft. Both have occurred...''twice''.
** Averted by ''SeLoQueHicisteis'' (Strange, since they seem to love playing this straight), where they even mentioned [[spoiler: time-travel]]. I'll take the $20, thanks.
** Played straight by WLPComics. http://www.wlpcomics.com/adult/chichi/225.html Warning. While page 226 is SFW, no other pages are guaranteed to be so.

**** Or a feature length deconstruction of the old shows and the chilling reality they would exist in.

*** In the 2nd game's prehistoric levels, Gex would say lines from Planet of the Apes. "Dr Zaius, would an ape make a human doll that talks?" "You cut out his brain you nutty babboon." He didn't even repeat them as Charlton Heston said them, he asks the first one quite casually rather than the accusatory way it was said originally, though the second line was hissed.