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| 8 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' features a sleazy Hollywood director [[spoiler: (actually Professor Calamitous in disguise)]] who happens to look ''exactly'' like Creator/QuentinTarantino. Well, the director's given name is Quentin Smithee. It's kinda obvious. |
| 9 | ** And recurring [[AliensAreBastards alien antagonists]], Zix, Tee, and Travlotron are parodies of Jon Lovitz, Mr. T, and John Travolta respectively. |
| 10 | * The ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' episode "For a Few Sovereigns More" had Duke Igthorn hire bounty hunter Flint Shrubwood to hunt down the eponymous bears. He also looks and behaves just like [[Creator/ClintEastwood Clint's]] Man With No Name. |
| 11 | * The Mayor of Elmore in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' is a caricature of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump who wants to "deport" the Wattersons. The frayed blond hair also gives him some resemblance to UsefulNotes/BorisJohnson, a British politician who was Mayor of London (where ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' was produced) for most of the show's history. |
| 12 | * Roger from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' is another Creator/PaulLynde impression. |
| 13 | * The ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' version of Santa Claus kind of sounds like Creator/RodneyDangerfield. |
| 14 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animalympics}}'' had this for the various news commentators and a few athletes. Henry Hummel borrows mannerisms from Henry Kissinger, Barbara Warbler is rather obviously Creator/BarbaraWalters, and Lodge Turkell is Howard Cosell. On the side of the athletes, Bolt Jenkins is reminiscent of Creator/JohnTravolta's character from ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'', and Joey Gongalong is obviously UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli as a BoxingKangaroo. |
| 15 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' did this repeatedly, but with a great deal more skill: |
| 16 | ** Yakko Warner steals gags, quips, and sometimes entire plotlines from [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]], with Wakko occasionally filling in as Harpo. Wakko himself is basically Music/RingoStarr most of the time. |
| 17 | ** Mr. Director, a recurring foe, is clearly Creator/JerryLewis. |
| 18 | ** The Brain, megalomaniac mouse extraordinaire, is based on voice actor Creator/MauriceLaMarche's excellent Creator/OrsonWelles impersonation. (To the point that, as a treat for Moe, the short "Yes, Always" was an adaptation of an obscure but infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Peas recording session]] in which Orson's ego went ballistic on a pair of inept producers while taping a commercial for frozen peas.) |
| 19 | ** The Goodfeathers were parodies of Creator/RayLiotta's (Squit), Creator/RobertDeNiro's (Bobby), and Creator/JoePesci's (Pesto) characters from ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''; their boss, the Godpidgeon, is an extreme parody of Creator/MarlonBrando as Film/TheGodfather. |
| 20 | *** Given Liotta's eerie vocal resemblance to Creator/JackNicholson, many younger or naive viewers probably thought that Squit was supposed to be a Nicholson character. |
| 21 | *** Bobby also had elements of his character from ''Film/TaxiDriver'' ("Are you talkin' to me?") |
| 22 | *** The series also contained many other references to the works of Brando, [=DeNiro=], and Pesci, as well as numerous other gangster movies. |
| 23 | ** Runt was an imitation of Creator/DustinHoffman's character from ''Film/RainMan''; Rita was Bernadette Peters doing herself. |
| 24 | ** In one episode of the series, the Warners push the buttons of a scowling television journalist named "Dan Anchorman," who bears a striking resemblance to ABC's Sam Donaldson. The Donaldson connection was made even more explicit by the character's name in the original script: Slam Fondlesome. Because of ExecutiveMeddling over that supposedly risque name, they had to go back, change the name, and redub some of the dialogue. Dan is eventually pushed into a television set and forced to fight [[Wrestling/HulkHogan a blond professional wrestler named "Bulk Logan."]] |
| 25 | ** Ralph the studio guard is apparently based on Creator/RalphBakshi. |
| 26 | ** Howie Tern, insult-hurling radio show host. No explanation required. (Given how brutal the Warners usually are to obnoxious jerks, he actually got off relatively easy.) |
| 27 | ** World-famous movie critics [[Series/SiskelAndEbert Lean Hiskel and Codger Eggbert.]] |
| 28 | ** In one "Rita and Runt" segment sending up both ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' and ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'', the Thenardier/Todd character is clearly based on Creator/JohnCleese as [[Series/FawltyTowers Basil Fawlty]] doing a bad French accent and another Rita and Runt with Stradivarius features a character who looks and sounds like F. Murray Abraham in a plot that mirrors ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}''. |
| 29 | * On ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', Chef Lance Casteau is an obvious rip-off of Anthony Bourdain (with a bit of Gordon Ramsay thrown in) and, to top it all off, is actually voiced by Anthony Bourdain. |
| 30 | ** Also, Rachel Harris's movie star character is reminiscent of Gwyneth Paltrow |
| 31 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has The Boulder, a parody of both [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] and Wrestling/HulkHogan, down to being a ThirdPersonPerson. He's even voiced by actual wrestler Wrestling/MickFoley. In fact, the Rock himself was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen considered to voice him]] before scheduling conflicts prevented him to accept it, so his good friend Foley voiced him instead. |
| 32 | ** ''Westernanimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has a business magnate named Hiroshi Sato, who started as a shoe-shine boy and, thanks to a loan from a generous benefactor, was able to develop the Satomobile, now manufactured on assembly lines. Yes, he is Fantasy Henry Ford. [[spoiler: Like Ford, he has sympathies with a not-so-morally upstanding group; Ford was a notorious anti-Semite, Hiroshi hates all benders and actively backs the Equalists, a violent anti-bending movement]]. |
| 33 | * ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'': Betty was based on Helen Kane. |
| 34 | * ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' has quite a few. The original series had Evil Eye Weevil who is a skeleton-like thing (he's a parody of Music/ElvisPresley and Evil Knievel) and The X-Terminator who is a parody of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Lawrence Limburger has a sister who is named after Latoya Jackson (one of Music/MichaelJackson's siblings) and the "Loogie Brothers" who are based off two characters played by Dana Carvey and Keaven Nealon on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. The 2006 revival has a villain named Ronaldo Rump who is [[{{Trumplica}} a parody of multimillionaire Donald Trump]] (including the toupee and the multimillion dollar building franchise), he has a British cousin named Sir Richard Brand Something (a parody of Virgin Group company owner Sir Richard Branson). There's also a character that bears a resemblance to Rodney Dangerfield. Doctor Catorkian sounds suspiciously like Creator/BorisKarloff. |
| 35 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}'' did this in nearly every episode with the names (e.g. "Steven Spielbird"), and sometimes went even further by actually showing their in-universe avian expy (one episode has a "Whippoorwill Smith" who's basically a bird version of, well, Creator/WillSmith). |
| 36 | * Shows written and produced by Loren Bouchard tend to avert this trope, not being much concerned with people who are famous within or outside of the show's universe. One exception is Boyz 4 Now, a BoyBand from ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers''. Their name bears obvious similarities to Music/BoyzIIMen, while Boo Boo (Louise's crush) publicly departs from the band in a way parallel to Zayn Malik splitting with Music/OneDirection. |
| 37 | * From ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': |
| 38 | ** Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy are rather obviously UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and Donald Rumsfeld as scheming, shiftless frat boys. Ed III's grandfather, Ed Sr, is based heavily on Prescott Bush (though there's also a bit of a paradox there because Ed Sr.'s grandfather was named Prescott himself.) |
| 39 | --->'''Ed Wuncler I:''' "In 30 years, that boy will be the president of the United States. [[TakeThat And he'll still be a fucking idiot]]." |
| 40 | ** Rapper Thugnificent is based heavily on real-life rappers Music/{{Ludacris}}, Music/IceT, and Music/KanyeWest. Thugnificent's buddy Macktastic looks like Taboo of Music/TheBlackEyedPeas. |
| 41 | * ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' goes so far as to ''name'' its perky, clean-shaven recurring male host character "A Creator/RyanSeacrest Type" (first name A Ryan). |
| 42 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Bratz}}'' has the pop icon "London Milton" whose name is a clear play on Paris Hilton. |
| 43 | ** Another episode involves a singer named "[[Music/{{Beyonce}} Aloncé]]". |
| 44 | ** There's also a recurring character named "Byron Powell", a judge from [[Series/AmericanIdol "America]] [[BlandNameProduct Rocks"]].[[note]]An unintentional Creator/{{Fox}} network reference. Both this show and American Idol were airing on Fox at the time.[[/note]] |
| 45 | * ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' brutally and ''beautifully'' averts this trope, both literally and figuratively. Not only is it a show about ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a lot of its humor is rooted in viciously mocking its combatants' foibles, scandals, and TabloidMelodrama. |
| 46 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': In "[[Recap/CentaurworldS2E3MyTummyYourHurts My Tummy, Your Hurts]]" Glendale's stage persona adopted when she gives a motivational speech - in particular the clothes, messy bun and deep voice - very much resembles Elizabeth Holmes. |
| 47 | * Bruno Bullnerd from ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' was not voiced by Creator/BradGarrett, but his voice sounds like a raspy version of Brad Garrett. Creator/JeffBennett also uses the same voice in ''WesternAnimation/TheBuzzOnMaggie'' (as Malvin's Dad) and ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' (as Ticket Guy). |
| 48 | * ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' features several examples of this trope. |
| 49 | ** Fat Cat, one of the show's {{Big Bad}}s, is sort of a feline Creator/VincentPrice, or Sydney Greenstreet. |
| 50 | ** Stan Blather, a recurring background character, is a monotone news anchor who is a barely-disguised stand-in for Dan Rather. |
| 51 | ** In "Kiwi's Big Adventure", a kiwi chieftain speaks with the mannerisms and {{catch phrase}}s of Ed Sullivan. |
| 52 | ** In "Pie in the Sky", the villain's guard dogs are both based on Creator/JackNicholson. To the point of actually being named "Jack" and "Nichols". |
| 53 | ** Canina [=LeFur=], a guest star in "A Chorus Crime" and "They Shoot Dogs, Don't They?", is based on -- and actually voiced by--Carol Channing. |
| 54 | ** In "The Luck Stops Here", [[CatsAreMean Kismet]] is basically a feline Creator/BetteDavis. |
| 55 | * [[TheScrappy Gil]] from ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs: The Series'' talks in a voice that bare great resemblance to [[Series/TheMuppetShow Fozzie Bear]]. |
| 56 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' has a thinly veiled Creator/JamesCameron expy, the SmallNameBigEgo and alien movie to boot. |
| 57 | * ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has had a few villains that parody famous characters, such as "Toiletnator" (Terminator), "Tony Clownarelli also known as Godclown" (Creator/MarlonBrando as Film/TheGodfather), "Count Spankulot" ({{Dracula}}). [[BigBad Father's]] voice was patterned after Creator/KirkDouglas. |
| 58 | ** Chester was an imitation of [[Series/MatchGame Charles Nelson Reilly]]. |
| 59 | ** Captain Dirt from "Operation: D.U.C.K.Y." is a parody of Creator/WilliamShatner. |
| 60 | ** Little Juan of Robin Food's Hungry Men has a voice that's a blatant imitation of Creator/SammyDavisJr. |
| 61 | ** Mr. Fizz is a Creator/RicardoMontalban knock-off. Amusingly, he was actually a character that was [[ThrowItIn improvised on the spot]] when the show's creator Mr. Warburton overheard Creator/JeffBennett do a Montalban-esque voice. |
| 62 | * ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': |
| 63 | ** In "Car Broke, Phone Yes", featured an alien with speech patterns similar to Creator/AndyKaufman. |
| 64 | ** The Snowman speaks in an imitation of Creator/SeanConnery's voice, and his episodes even have a few shout-outs to ''Film/JamesBond''. Voice actor Paul Schoeffler's Connery impression was so spot-on that it fooled many viewers into thinking it really was Connery playing the character. |
| 65 | *** Paul Schoeffler also voiced Jeeves Weevil and the Goose God in pitch-perfect impressions of Creator/TonyJay and Creator/TimCurry, respectively (and, like Snowman, fans thought Jay and Curry actually did voice those characters.) Schoeffler also voiced the Clutching Foot in an Creator/EdwardGRobinson impression. |
| 66 | ** In the episode "House Calls", the Bagges' new neighbor, Dr. Von Orbison, is almost a dead ringer for Roy Orbison. |
| 67 | ** The Computer's voice greatly resembles that of Creator/DavidWarner. |
| 68 | ** The Duck Brothers sound exactly like Music/RingoStarr (and once again, the voice actor Will Ryan's impression was so uncanny that fans assumed for years that Ringo really was their VA.) |
| 69 | ** Robot Randy talks like Creator/ChristopherWalken. |
| 70 | ** The Flan King sounds like Creator/PeterLorre with a slightly altered accent (sounding more Spanish than Eastern European) and even looked like Lorre [[DisSimile if he were fatter and had red hair]]. |
| 71 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' is the {{Trope Namer|s}}, as the end of episode disclaimer has Jay Sherman saying "Celebrity voices are impersonated. No celebrities were harmed in the filming of this episode." For specific examples, Jay's boss and network honcho Duke Phillips is a parody of Ted Turner. Jay himself is a pastiche of Creator/GeneSiskel and Creator/RogerEbert (who [[InkSuitActor played themselves]] in one episode). Also, his buddy Jeremy Hawke is said to be a combination of Paul Hogan and Creator/MelGibson. |
| 72 | * ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'': Barry Ditmer from "Technology" is a parody of Steve Jobs, running a large tech corporation, stealing credit from his partner, and taking on many of the late idiosyncracies. |
| 73 | * ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': |
| 74 | ** The Liquidator, a supervillain [[HumanoidAbomination made entirely of water]], sounded like Ed Wynn's "Perfect Fool" trying to talk underwater. Actually, the voice actor intended to make Liquidator sound like a really annoying TV ad pitchman (hence the character's PunnyName). |
| 75 | ** The gangster Steelbeak had a voice that combined Edward G. Robinson's sneer and [[SmugSnake Jon Lovitz's smarminess]]. |
| 76 | ** The electricity-themed villain Megavolt had more than a whiff of Peter Lorre about him. |
| 77 | ** The character of Darkwing himself included a vocal tribute to WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, [[SmallNameBigEgo whose basic personality traits Darkwing shared]][[note]]Although Darkwing himself would deny it...[[/note]]. |
| 78 | * An unusual nonhuman example in ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep2015'': "Lonesome Jim", the last Floreana Island tortoise in the episode of the same name, is based on "Lonesome George", the last Abingdon Island tortoise. |
| 79 | * A recurring character in ''WesternAnimation/DennisAndGnasherUnleashed'' is Dennis's hero, the wilderness survival expert Grizzly Griller, based on [[Series/ManVsWild Bear Grylls]]. |
| 80 | * Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises': |
| 81 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheAntAndTheAardvark'' cartoons featured John Byner voicing both of the title characters, using voices based on Dean Martin and Jackie Mason, respectively. |
| 82 | ** There's also ''Pelvis Parsley'' on ''Pink-A-Rella'', one of ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' shorts. |
| 83 | * ''WesternAnimation/DoozyBots'', a much-maligned attempt at trying to appeal ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' to Westerners with ''Franchise/SDGundam'' designs that got shelved before it ever got the chance to be official, had Creator/WoodyAllen and [[Series/DifferentStrokes Gary Coleman]] of all people as part of the cast. That is to say, it had two children comic-relief characters based on them, respectively named Brandon and Tag-Along. |
| 84 | * Mr. Bone from ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' had a voice that was very close to that of Barney Fife from ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'', as well as Fife's blind obsession with following rules, [[ObstructiveBureaucrat no matter how trivial]]. |
| 85 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': |
| 86 | ** Jorgen Von Strangle from is likewise another animated Schwarzenegger clone, down to his physique and Teutonic accent. (His name is taken from the similar actor Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme.) Curiously, there's also an actor called Arnold Schwarzengerman (appearing in a superviolent remake of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''). |
| 87 | ** The character of Big Daddy is a parody of James Gandolfini as [[Series/TheSopranos Tony Soprano]]. |
| 88 | ** April Fool's nasally voice and "what's up with that?" comedic style are a lot like those of Creator/JerrySeinfeld. |
| 89 | ** Sylvester Calzone |
| 90 | ** Britney Britney |
| 91 | ** Countless characters in the movie ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers''. |
| 92 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 93 | ** Stewie's voice is based on Creator/RexHarrison. |
| 94 | ** The makers of the show said that Peter basically is Creator/MichaelMoore (hence the inspiration for their farting contest skit).[[note]]Of course, Peter knows ''absolutely nothing'' about anything, not even having a clue what [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror 9/11]] was until three years after the fact, and he has organized Quahog's Tea Party, while Moore is an avid supporter of Occupy, the Tea Party movement's ideological polar opposite.[[/note]] |
| 95 | ** Peter and Lois' vocal inflections resembling Archie and Edith Bunker from ''Series/AllInTheFamily'', which is also spotlighted in the intro which is an over-the-top version of the intro of ''Family''. |
| 96 | ** The [[GeniusCripple Disabled Professor]], whose name is apparently Steve, is an ersatz Creator/StephenHawking, with a similar MachineMonotone voice. |
| 97 | ** The Season 8 episode "Hanna Banana" –- itself a sendup of teenage pop stars –- portrays Music/MileyCyrus straight ... until it is revealed that she is a robot. |
| 98 | * Elvis Criddlington from ''WesternAnimation/FiremanSam'' is clearly based on Music/ElvisPresley, right down to the fact that he sings and loves rock 'n' roll. |
| 99 | * In the "Hatrocks and the Gruesomes" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', the Hatrocks are a parody of ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'', the Gruesomes are a parody of ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and The Four Insects and their "bug music" is a parody of Music/TheBeatles. |
| 100 | ** The show did this regularly. Examples include [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock "Alvin Brickrock"]], "Ann-Margrock" (voiced by Ann-Margret herself), "Hum Along with Herman" (Based on "Sing Along with Mitch"), and "The Beau Brummelstones" (voiced by the actual band The Beau Brummels who performed their song "Laugh Laugh" on [[BlandNameProduct "Shinrock"]], a reference to "Shindig" which, like this show, aired on Creator/{{ABC}}). |
| 101 | * Two of the supporting superheroes in ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' -- The Huntsman, who is modelled upon Creator/CharltonHeston, and Lord Bravery, an obvious pastiche of Creator/JohnCleese. |
| 102 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 103 | ** Elzar, the recurring Neptunian chef is a thinly veiled impersonation of TV chef Emeril Lagasse. Zapp Brannigan was originally cast with comedian Creator/PhilHartman in the role; when Hartman died before the show began, Creator/BillyWest did Zapp's voice in the style of Hartman as a tribute. Incidentally, the protagonist Phillip J. Fry, also voiced by Billy West, was named after Phil Hartman. |
| 104 | ** Zapp's whole character is a parody of Creator/WilliamShatner. Not to mention his hair. |
| 105 | ** "Decision 3012" features Chris Travers, a thinly veiled but heavily romanticized parody of UsefulNotes/BarackObama. |
| 106 | ** Robot Devil's voice is based on Hans Conried as Captain Hook in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''. |
| 107 | * Colonel Kit Coyote of ''WesternAnimation/GoGoGophers'' is inspired in look, voice and mannerisms by UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt. |
| 108 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'': |
| 109 | ** J.P. Ghastly III's voice is heavily based on that of horror icon Creator/PeterLorre. |
| 110 | ** Sid the Invisible Kid has a tendency to do impressions of famous people, most frequently doing an impersonation of Howard Cosell whenever he acts as an announcer and even spending the entirety of the episode "Night of the Living Dad" [[ElvisImpersonator impersonating Elvis Presley]]. |
| 111 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': |
| 112 | ** Old Man [=McGucket=]'s younger self is based off of technological entrepreneur Steve Wozniack. |
| 113 | ** Bill Cipher's voice was based on that of Creator/DavidLynch. |
| 114 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' has several. Their version of Dracula is based on Redd Foxx, Grim’s favorite HorrorHost Atrocia is just a red-haired Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark, Hoss Delgado is a combination of [[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Snake Plissken]] and [[Franchise/EvilDead Ash Williams]], Grim's lawyer Harvey sounds just like Creator/ChristopherWalken and, in one episode, the kids get a helper monkey who sounds and acts like Creator/KevinSpacey. [[ParentalBonus Specifically in]] ''Film/{{Se7en}}''. No, Really. |
| 115 | * Creator/HannaBarbera were fond of these in their television shows. For instance, WesternAnimation/YogiBear is Creator/ArtCarney, and Super Snooper is Ed Gardner from radio's ''Duffy's Tavern''. |
| 116 | ** Doggie Daddy from WesternAnimation/AugieDoggieAndDoggieDaddy was patterned after Jimmy Durante. |
| 117 | ** Fred Flintstone of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' started off, at least, as a copy of Creator/JackieGleason's [[Series/TheHoneymooners Ralph Kramden]]. |
| 118 | ** Arnold Stang's ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'' is clearly based, not just on Creator/PhilSilvers, but specifically on [[Series/ThePhilSilversShow Sergeant Bilko]]. (Benny the Ball doesn't count; he sounds like Private Doberman because he's voiced by Maurice Gosfeld.) |
| 119 | ** Jack Burns' character on ''WesternAnimation/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome'' was based on his stage persona. And his appearance was based on a UsefulNotes/RichardNixon caricature. |
| 120 | ** The four teenage humans on ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' were originally based on characters from ''Series/TheManyLovesOfDobieGillis''. |
| 121 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'', Creator/PattyMaloney used her [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals Darla Hood]] voice for Tanis the mummy girl. |
| 122 | ** In the Don Adams episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'', the villain turned out to be washed-up horror actor Lorne Chumley, obviously based on Creator/LonChaneyJr. |
| 123 | ** An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMysteries'' features a parody of ''Series/TheATeam'' called "The Z Team" which features "Mr. BLT". |
| 124 | ** WesternAnimation/{{Jabberjaw}} is quite obviously one for [[Film/TheThreeStooges Jerome "Curly" Howard]] with a dose of Rodney Dangerfield's CatchPhrase "No respect!" |
| 125 | ** Alfie Alligator from ''[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Yakky Doodle]]'' was patterned after Creator/AlfredHitchcock. |
| 126 | ** Referenced: An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheHillbillyBears'' (from ''WesternAnimation/TheAtomAntShow'') had Paw Rugg taking a beating when he's chosen to star in a movie company's film shoot. In translating Paw's mumbling, Maw says "He said 'Are you sure Marlo Brandin started this way?" |
| 127 | * Several of Creator/{{Hasbro}}[=/=]Creator/{{Sunbow|Entertainment}}'s MerchandiseDriven cartoons from the 1980s (''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'') feature a tabloid reporter named Hector Ramirez, an obvious Geraldo Rivera parody. |
| 128 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Inhumanoids}}'' also featured a less than AffectionateParody of Creator/MrT; one of the writers had worked on [[WesternAnimation/MisterT his animated series]]. |
| 129 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' featured a scientist character who looked and sounded exactly like Creator/JimmyStewart. |
| 130 | * The EdutainmentShow ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'', from the same studio as ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and sharing many of the voice actors, would transform historical figures without well-known voices and mannerisms into parodies of recognizable celebrities: |
| 131 | ** Julius Caesar was Music/FrankSinatra. |
| 132 | *** The Roman senators who ganged up on Caesar were other Rat Pack members, like Creator/SammyDavisJr and Creator/DeanMartin. |
| 133 | ** Creator/{{Socrates}} was Music/BingCrosby. |
| 134 | ** Merriwether Lewis was Creator/JerryLewis. |
| 135 | ** William Clark sounded like Dean Martin (playing off Lewis), but looked like Franchise/{{DCA|nimatedUniverse}}U [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]]. |
| 136 | ** Creator/EdgarAllanPoe was Creator/PeterLorre (buckle up, you're gonna be hearing quite a bit of him). |
| 137 | ** Sigmund Freud was Creator/WoodyAllen. |
| 138 | *** ...and so was UsefulNotes/WoodrowWilson. |
| 139 | ** UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln became Creator/JohnnyCarson. |
| 140 | ** Not to mention Creator/BobHope as UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington, Jack Benny as UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson, Creator/AbbottAndCostello as the Wright brothers, ''Groucho'' Marx as Karl Marx... |
| 141 | ** One sketch presented Gutzon Borglum played by WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd. |
| 142 | ** Pee Wee Herman as General William Sherman! |
| 143 | ** Francis Bellamy, who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance, as Creator/WilliamShatner. |
| 144 | ** UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan was Creator/JohnWayne, also making fun of the time [[CaucasianAsian Wayne played him]]. |
| 145 | ** Kublai Khan was Creator/SylvesterStallone. |
| 146 | ** Marco Polo was Creator/JoePesci. |
| 147 | ** Creator/BenjaminFranklin was Creator/JayLeno |
| 148 | ** UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla was Creator/ChristopherWalken. |
| 149 | * Zoey and Chloe Stilton from ''WesternAnimation/{{Horseland}}'' look, act, and sound almost similar to Lindsey Lohan and Creator/ParisHilton, respectively. Also note their surname "Stilton" sounds like "Hilton". |
| 150 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheJackRabbitStoryEasterFever'' featured anthropomorphic animal comedians named Don Rattles (Creator/DonRickles as a snake) and Steed Martin (Creator/SteveMartin as a gnu). |
| 151 | * The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "And He Does His Own Stunts" has a Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio substitute. The same episode indicates that Jackie Chan [[CelebrityParadox is not a film actor]] in the show's universe. Conversely, Uncle and Tohru are Creator/JohnWayne fans. |
| 152 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' was affected by this trope as well. All guest musicians in the "The Jem Jam" were based on real 1980s personalities. Dominic was based on a young Music/MichaelJackson, Roland Owens was Music/StevieWonder, Ron Cox was Music/MickJagger, Lena Lerner was Music/TinaTurner, Luna Dark was Music/CyndiLauper, and Johnny Deacon was Music/BruceSpringsteen. |
| 153 | ** The two-part Hollywood Jem episode involves Jem getting nominated for an Oscar-like award for the movie she made at the beginning of the first (technically second[[note]]Long story.[[/note]]) season. The other nominees include [[Creator/SigourneyWeaver Sigourney "Reaver"]], [[Creator/MerylStreep "Meryl Saint"]], and "Geraldine Pathos"[[note]]Based on Geraldine Page, who had passed away around the time the episode was made.[[/note]] |
| 154 | * On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Samy's CompanionCube puppet Humphrey von Sidekick has a voice patterned after Bing Crosby. |
| 155 | ** Several famous actors cameo briefly, non-speaking, in the episode "But is it Taz?" |
| 156 | * ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': |
| 157 | ** Johnny's voice and speech patterns are a parody of Music/ElvisPresley, most notable in the way he says "Oh Momma". In the pilot episode, he went as far as to deep fry a peanut butter and banana sandwich. |
| 158 | ** Later seasons featured Johnny's idol Squint Ringo, a laughably transparent parody of Creator/StevenSeagal. |
| 159 | ** The mayor of Aron City was also based on UsefulNotes/BillClinton |
| 160 | * Prevalent in the [[WesternAnimation/GoldenBookVideo Golden Step-Ahead Video]], ''WesternAnimation/JourneyThroughTheJungleOfWords''. Besides one of the lead characters being a dog named [[Creator/GrouchoMarx Groucho Barx]], there's also a zebra that talks like Ed Wynn, a ghost that speaks like Creator/BorisKarloff, and an elephant that sounds like Creator/WCFields. |
| 161 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': |
| 162 | ** Britina, MC Honey, Heather, the Holson twins, the CausticCritic host of "American Starmaker" and Camille Leon, among others. |
| 163 | ** One TrappedInTVLand episode had a pink haired spy fighting Kim over a device. Who could that be? |
| 164 | * From ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': |
| 165 | ** Anti-establishment, gun-obsessed paranoiac Dale Gribble is essentially equal parts Creator/HunterSThompson and Creator/WilliamSBurroughs, with a little Creator/RobertPatrick thrown in for good measure. |
| 166 | ** Hank's sleazy boss Buck Strickland is a very unflattering caricature of President UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson. |
| 167 | ** Bill Dauterive’s cousin Gilbert -- a posh, effeminate, AmbiguouslyGay SouthernGentleman who speaks in PurpleProse and has a passion for the arts and a fondness for white suits -- is heavily based on Creator/TennesseeWilliams. |
| 168 | * Creator/WarnerBros, with its ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' series, was among the earliest in the entertainment genre to produce and release animated shorts that featured celebrity clones, caricatures and cameos, starting in the early 1930s. Examples abound: |
| 169 | ** Many famous crooners of the era, several times each. These have included everyone from Music/BingCrosby and Music/FrankSinatra to Music/ElvisPresley. |
| 170 | *** Crosby -– whose likeness was depicted in the mid-1930s "Bingo Crosbyana" and "Let It Be Me" –- took none too kindly to either short, since he was portrayed as a coward, and threatened to sue. No legal action ever went anywhere, however. |
| 171 | *** The Elvis parody comes in the 1959 WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short "Hare-Abian Nights," where an intimidated Elvis look-alike (Elvis Pretzel) sings "Hound Camel," a parody of "Hound Dog"; the unimpressed Sultan -- whom we later see is WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam -- quickly drops Pretzel into a crocodile tank via TrapDoor. |
| 172 | *** Another late '50s entry, "Dog Tales", featured various gags set at a dog show. In addition to another Elvis parody, one of the highlights was "Victor Barky" a piano-playing Great Dane ("The Great Dane" being a popular nickname for Danish musician and comic Creator/VictorBorge). |
| 173 | ---->"I will now play "Clare De Lune". English translation, "Clear the Saloon".[[note]]An actual joke Victor Borge did in his many concerts.[[/note]] |
| 174 | ** ''Series/TheHoneymooners'' was the basis of many Ralph Kramden/Jackie Gleason parodies. One of the first cartoons to pay homage to the character was "Red Riding Hoodwinked," a [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Tweety and Sylvester]] cartoon with the usually cheerful Granny filling the role. The Bugs Bunny cartoon "Half-Fare Hare" has a pair of hoboes resembling Ralph and Ed encountering Bugs on a freight train they're riding and pursuing him for a meal. Then there was an entire series of cartoons, called "The Honeymousers", that featured mouse versions of Ralph, Ed, Alice and Trixie (almost always trying to avoid the housecat). |
| 175 | ** Cat versions of Creator/AbbottAndCostello were named "Babbitt" and "Catsello," Tweety's first antagonists.[[note]]Another short features mouse versions, with the same names.[[/note]] |
| 176 | ** [[Radio/TheJackBennyProgram Jack Benny]], and the cast of his radio show, [[InkSuitActor played themselves as mice]] in a Looney Tunes one-shot, "The Mouse That Jack Built". |
| 177 | *** "WesternAnimation/ILoveToSinga" has the talent contest hosted by "Jack Bunny". Also, the main character introduces himself as "Owl Jolson". |
| 178 | *** Casper Caveman, in "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur", is another clear Jack Benny expy. |
| 179 | ** Creator/HumphreyBogart, as one of Warner Bros.' biggest live-action stars, was a popular source of inspiration: |
| 180 | *** In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon "Eight-Ball Bunny," Bogart -– recalling his character and signature line from ''Film/TheTreasureOfTheSierraMadre'' -– makes several unexplained appearances in the movie as Bugs is trying to rescue Playboy Penguin, who had become accidentally separated from his troupe (the Ice Frolics). The line "Pardon me, but could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?" is almost directly from the film. (''Almost''. The line is, "Hey, mister, can you stake a fellow American to a meal?") |
| 181 | *** Bogey and "Baby" (Creator/LaurenBacall) can also be seen in 1947's "WesternAnimation/SlickHare". |
| 182 | ** Several shorts featured caricatures of other WB stars such as Creator/EdwardGRobinson and Creator/PeterLorre. |
| 183 | *** ''Carrotblanca'', a 1990s send up of ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'', features Tweety doing a Lorre impersonation as Ugarte. |
| 184 | ** The 1937 cartoon "The Woods are Full of Cuckoos" revolved around a radio program performed by animal versions of then-famous radio and film personalities, including Jack Benny and Fred Allen. |
| 185 | *** See also "The Coo-Coo Nut Grove", "Malibu Beach Party", and "WesternAnimation/HollywoodStepsOut". |
| 186 | ** "Wideo Wabbit," a sendup of mid-1950s TV shows, features parodies of [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] ("You Beat Your Wife," a play on the show ''Series/YouBetYourLife''), Liberace (as "Liver-ace") and Ed Norton (another ''[[Series/TheHoneymooners Honeymooners]]'' parody). |
| 187 | ** "Daffy's Inn Trouble": At one point in this 1961 cartoon (which co-stars WesternAnimation/PorkyPig), the duck tries wooing customers to his hotel by doing a Creator/MaeWest [[TheVamp vamp]] act. A group of irritated customers are hardly amused, and show their disgust when the record he was playing skips by throwing rotten tomatoes at him. |
| 188 | ** "The Last Hungry Cat": An ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' parody features a Hitchcock-type bear introducing the cartoon and interacting with Sylvester. |
| 189 | ** In "WesternAnimation/HareConditioned" (1945), Bugs Bunny is chased by a department store manager who looks and sounds like "Radio/TheGreatGildersleeve". Bugs eventually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]], commenting that he sounds "just like that guy on the radio: the Great Gildersneeze". The manager is very surprised and flattered to hear this. |
| 190 | ** One short features news reports on the radio done by "Walter Windshield". |
| 191 | ** The two crows in Friz Freleng's "A Hop, a Skip and a Chump" (1942) are avatars of Laurel and Hardy. |
| 192 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': |
| 193 | ** In the episode "For Bros About to Rock", Lincoln, Luna and Clyde go to a concert to see SMOOCH, a blatant parody of Music/{{KISS}}. |
| 194 | ** Luna's musical idol, Mick Swagger, is obviously based on Music/MickJagger. |
| 195 | * The ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' villain Sly Rax has a Creator/JackNicholson-like voice. As does Shipwreck from ''Franchise/GIJoe''. |
| 196 | * Creator/WalterLantz had a series of "Maw and Paw" shorts in the 1950s, which were based on the live-action "Ma and Pa Kettle" comedies. |
| 197 | * An episode of MTV's ''The Maxx'' had a cop from out of town who looked (a little) like Creator/HumphreyBogart and sounded (a lot) like Creator/WilliamShatner. The cop was ComicBook/TheSavageDragon in the original Maxx comic, but could not be used on the show since Erik Larson held the copyright for the character. |
| 198 | * The only character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' that is admittedly [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_mXn6vkxs9D8/SfnfFd7v_5I/AAAAAAAAA04/RUjHMOtR1fM/s400/aa.jpg based after a celebrity]] is Nathan Explosion, based after George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher. One troper still believes he bears a closer resemblance to [[https://i.chzbgr.com/full/2649655040/h51AC2AC1/nathan-explosion-totally-looks-like-peter-steele Peter Steele]]. Also, though it's denied, Murderface looks a lot like [[https://i.chzbgr.com/full/7152923392/h3C320268/william-murderface-totally-looks-like-geezer-butler Geezer Butler]]. |
| 199 | * ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'': |
| 200 | ** "Goons From the Moon" features a radio broadcaster patterned after Walter Winchell. |
| 201 | ** A Filmation episode has Oil Can Harry as rock star Mick Jaguar. |
| 202 | ** The Bakshi episode "Mighty's Tone Poem" featured a quick scene with a cartoon version of Merv Griffin. The antagonist of "The Bride of Mighty Mouse" was patterned after Cary Grant. The episode "Don't Touch That Dial" had two examples: the Mister E figure was a hybrid of Ed Sullivan and Mr. T, while the Rocky of the "Rocky and Hoodwinkle" bit was a caricature of Rocky Balboa. |
| 203 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyGoldfishIsEvil'': Bubbles sounds a lot like Creator/TimCurry, doesn't he? |
| 204 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyGymPartnersAMonkey'': |
| 205 | ** The main antagonist Bull Sharkowski, whose vocal and speech mannerisms could ''only'' bring Mike Tyson to mind. |
| 206 | ** In one episode, there's an entertainer named Burt Rivendale who is clearly based on David Letterman, even resembling him right down to the gap tooth. |
| 207 | * Knight Shade, a singer pony from the original ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' cartoon, appears to have been based on Music/MichaelJackson. |
| 208 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', being [[DenserAndWackier a more comedic version]] of the franchise[[note]][[DependingOnTheWriter Except when it's not]].[[/note]] has several examples: |
| 209 | ** The Wonderbolts (Pegasus military aerobatics team) wear jump suits based on the Blue Angels colours and their name links to the Thunderbirds (USAF equivalent). |
| 210 | ** The super manly tennis player pony seen during "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E12CallOfTheCutie Call of the Cutie]]" and "Luna Eclipsed" seems to be based on former Tennis player Andre Kirk Agassi during his prime. |
| 211 | ** Fashion designer Hoity Toity in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E14SuitedForSuccess Suited For Success]]" is based on Karl Lagerfeld. |
| 212 | ** The Best Young Flyer Competition's backstage manager in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E16SonicRainboom Sonic Rainboom]]" resembles Lucille Ball. The contest's announcer in the same episode is a pegasus version of John Madden. |
| 213 | ** Photo Finish from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E20GreenIsntYourColor Green Isn't Your Color]]" [[WordOfGod is a pony version of Vogue magazine editor Anna Wintour.]] |
| 214 | ** The unicorn mare in "Sweet and Elite" that hangs around Fancy Pants resembles Brigitte Bardot '''and''' has a triple fleur-de-lis cutie mark! |
| 215 | ** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E6TheCutiePox The Cutie Pox]]" shows four stallions at the bowling alley that bear a striking resemblance to Creator/SteveBuscemi, Creator/JeffBridges, Creator/JohnGoodman, and Creator/JohnTurturro from the film ''Film/TheBigLebowski''. |
| 216 | ** "Daring Don't" features a novelist -- specifically, the creator of the in-universe ''Daring Do'' series -- by the name of [[Creator/JKRowling A.K. Yearling]]. |
| 217 | ** [[http://andypriceart.deviantart.com/art/My-Little-Pony-issue-1-Cover-A-and-B-322494026 Cover]] [[http://i.newsarama.com/images/MyLittlePony-01-CvrB.jpg B]] (and by extension, the [[http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/dp.asp?PRID=1231790 Midtown Comics]] [[http://web.archive.org/web/20121028031330/http://amymebberson.tumblr.com/post/32541492661/mlp-1-variant-cover-for-midtown-comics-derpy-can variant cover]]) of Issue #1 of [[ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW IDW's MLP comic books]] includes a cameo by The Hoof Beats, who appear to be the pony equivalent of Music/TheBeatles. |
| 218 | ** Also from the IDW comics, we have...um...[[http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/1304/23/mylittleponymicro38.htm Charles Manson]]. |
| 219 | ** The ponies from the WebGames ''The Fabulous [=PonyMaker=]'' and/or ''Rarity's Bridal Boutique'' can [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=330044987044590 look like]] Music/LadyGaga if the player designs them that way. |
| 220 | ** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation Inspiration Manifestation]]'', the puppeteer's voice is based on Creator/WCFields. The pony is credited as "Claude" which is what the "C" stands for in Fields' name. |
| 221 | ** Zesty Gourmand from "Spice Up Your Life" is a gender-flipped Creator/GordonRamsay. A more direct version of Ramsey has appeared in the comics. |
| 222 | * The main character of ''WesternAnimation/MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt'' was a thinly disguised version of author Creator/JamesThurber, which makes sense since the series was based on Thurber's writings published under that title. |
| 223 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': "Nerd of a Feather" has a TV executive named Jeff [=McGarland=], who is a parody of Creator/SethMacFarlane and is even voiced by him, as Dan Povenmire had previously worked on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. |
| 224 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'' featured an ''Series/AmericanIdol''-type talent show where hopefuls audition to be the next star. Subverted with "The Real Randy Jackson" as he is voiced by Randy, the actual brother of Michael Jackson but also acts as if he's doing a Michael impression and Percival (voiced by Creator/TimCurry) is similar to Simon Cowell. |
| 225 | ** There's also recurring character Wizard Kelly, who appears to be based off of Wizard Kelly. |
| 226 | * ''WesternAnimation/RazzberryJazzberryJam'': |
| 227 | ** The Shock’s sunglasses and double top hats are obviously modeled on Music/{{Slash}}, although his mannerisms make it clear that the writers weren’t familiar with how the actual Slash acts. |
| 228 | ** One episode also features one [[Music/GrandmasterFlashAndTheFuriousFive "Mixmaster Flash"]] |
| 229 | * From ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': |
| 230 | ** The character Garrett Bobby Ferguson bears an uncanny resemblance to former ''Donkey Kong'' record holder Billy Mitchell -- so much so that he actually filed a lawsuit (it got thrown out, though). |
| 231 | ** [[TheGrimReaper Death]] is based heavily on [[Music/{{Motorhead}} Lemmy Kilmister.]] |
| 232 | ** Gary looks almost exactly like Music/DavidBowie. |
| 233 | ** Sleazy billionaire Rich Buckner is a thinly-veiled parody of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump. His debut episode also features appearances from a trio of pop singers who are caricatures of [[Music/TheBlackEyedPeas will.i.am]], Music/LadyGaga, and Music/JustinBieber. |
| 234 | ** There's also mega-star Ladonna, [[Music/{{Madonna}} who needs no explanation]]. |
| 235 | ** The Brazilian dub made sure to exploit how Bert Coleman from "Expert or Liar" [[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2KZKR8-dReg/V1CPY55rXXI/AAAAAAAAEG0/3Gbo2WltttAQ8P9aiWaBye70ohJdVY7vACLcB/s1600/Especialista03.JPG unintentionally looks like local host Silvio Santos]] by having his voice be a Silvio impression. |
| 236 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'': |
| 237 | ** Ren is based on Peter Lorre. Yes, Lorre again. Creator/JohnKricfalusi has gone on record as saying Ren is the unholy lovechild of Lorre and Creator/KirkDouglas. And a little Burl Ives. Ironically, Burl Ives also gets a treatment, as "Stinky Wizzleteats," the singer of Stimpy's favorite song, "Happy Happy, Joy Joy." It's said that Ives was offended... not at the parody, but that Kricfalusi and company hadn't invited him to voice the role himself, allowing him to take a sledgehammer to the "beloved childrens' entertainer" persona he had built up -- in RealLife, Ives hated children. |
| 238 | ** Stimpy's voice is based on Larry Fine of ''Film/TheThreeStooges''. |
| 239 | * One of the recurring villains in ''WesternAnimation/{{Robotboy}}'' is Ronald Rump, a parody of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump. |
| 240 | * Mok, the Big Bad of ''Rock & Rule'', had Mick Jagger's [[FurryConfusion features]] and David Bowie's fashion sense. |
| 241 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', they show an aerobics instructor who is obviously based on Richard Simmons. As said aerobics instructor was ''played'' by Richard Simmons, this is more likely a case of InkSuitActor. |
| 242 | * ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' provides some more examples. |
| 243 | ** "Dogumagicary" features a spider-like movie director named "Creator/{{Quentin Tarant|ino}}ulino". |
| 244 | * ''WesternAnimation/SanjayAndCraig'': An episode from Season 2 has [[Creator/AnthonyBourdain Anthony Gourmand]], and said season's finale has [[Music/SnoopDogg Street Dogg]]. Ironically, both characters are voiced by the actual people! |
| 245 | * On Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheShnookumsAndMeatFunnyCartoonShow'', the Polite Coyotes (''Tex Tinstar'' segment) were patterned after the Beatles. |
| 246 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 247 | ** ''The Simpsons'' actually became famous early on for being one of the first cartoons to regularly subvert this trope by having celebrities voice ''themselves'' as characters, starting with Music/TonyBennett in the 1990 episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E5DancinHomer Dancin' Homer]]." At first these characters merely made cameos, but as time went on whole episodes began to be written around them. This resulted in a mild CelebrityParadox when Creator/AlecBaldwin portrayed himself and then, in a later episode, a completely fictional character. |
| 248 | ** Chief Wiggum was initially an impression of Creator/EdwardGRobinson. This gets a {{lampshade|Hanging}} in several episodes: "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day the Violence Died]]", a trial episode where cartoon maker Roger Meyers, Jr. talks about this very trope; "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E17BartGetsAnElephant Bart Gets an Elephant]]", where Wiggum dismisses a liquor store robbery report with "Yeah, right. [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba And I'm Edward G. Robinson!]]"; and "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E18SimpsonsBibleStories Simpsons Bible Stories]]", where in the Moses story Wiggum stands in for Robinson's character in ''{{Film/The Ten Commandments|1956}}''. Robinson's role in ''{{Film/The Ten Commandments|1956}}'' was also referenced in the episode "Homer Loves Flanders": "Where's your Messiah '''NOW''', Flanders?!" Finally, in the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS20E4TreehouseOfHorrorXIX Treehouse of Horror XIX]]'' segment "How to Get Ahead in Dead-Vertising" Wiggum meets the ghost of Robinson. |
| 249 | ** Lou the cop's voice is based on Creator/SylvesterStallone. (Though Lou is black.) |
| 250 | ** Dr. Julius Hibbert is a send-up of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'''s Dr. Cliff Huxtable (and, to a lesser extent, of Creator/BillCosby himself). |
| 251 | ** Mr. Burns' voice was based on that of UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan. |
| 252 | ** ''Creator/KelseyGrammer'' stated that he based Sideshow Bob's voice on Ellis Rabb. |
| 253 | ** Dr. Frink is an impression of Creator/JerryLewis. This was brought full circle in the "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror XIV" segment "Frinkenstein", where Lewis voiced Frink's dad. Not to mention he himself points out that a cartoon character at a convention is a ripoff of Creator/JerryLewis. |
| 254 | ** Rainier Wolfcastle (who plays the character [=McBain=]) is a [[TheAhnold not-so-subtle imitation]] of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. (This was made all the more obvious when TheMovie used Schwarzenegger as a character -- and his appearance, characterization, and voice were nearly identical to those of Wolfcastle.) |
| 255 | ** Mayor Quimby is a send-up of the Kennedy family in general, but most closely based on Edward (Ted). He also borrows traits from other politicians such as Michael Dukakis. |
| 256 | ** Magicians Gunter and Ernst = Siegfried and Roy. In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E10Springfield $pringfield]]", the duo were attacked by one of the exotic cats used in their act, which actually happened to the real Siegfried and Roy later on. When asked about the parallel, the writers said, in effect, "it was bound to happen sooner or later." |
| 257 | ** Talk show host Opal = [[Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow Oprah]]. Right down to her massive audience gift giveaways. |
| 258 | ** The announcer for the Springfield Isotopes baseball team is a dead ringer for longtime Dodgers announcer Vin Scully. Similarly, football-related scenes often feature an announcer who sounds like Keith Jackson. |
| 259 | ** Gil, the perennially unsuccessful salesman, is based on Creator/JackLemmon's ''Theatre/GlengarryGlenRoss'' character. Lemmon himself voiced a similar character in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E11TheTwistedWorldOfMargeSimpson The Twisted World of Marge Simpson]]". |
| 260 | ** Creator/HankAzaria has claimed that Moe's voice was based on a bad Creator/AlPacino impression. Creator/MattGroening has stated that Moe's appearance was based on Rich Hall. |
| 261 | ** The voice of Herman (voiced by Creator/HarryShearer) is based on UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush. Other viewers might suggest Creator/JackNicholson or Creator/GarySinise. |
| 262 | ** The "Yes Guy", also known as "that jerk who always goes 'Yeeeeessss?'" is a pastiche of a recurring character portrayed by Frank Nelson on various older sitcoms, most notably ''Radio/TheJackBennyProgram''. |
| 263 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E5SideshowBobRoberts Sideshow Bob Roberts]]", we're introduced to conservative talk-show host Birch Barlow, an obvious sendup of Radio/RushLimbaugh. |
| 264 | ** Heavyweight boxing champ Drederick Tatum and his manager Lucius Sweet are send-ups of Mike Tyson and Don King, respectively. This is lampshaded in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E3TheHomerTheyFall The Homer They Fall]]": |
| 265 | --->'''Homer:''' You know Lucius Sweet?! He's one of the biggest names in boxing! He's exactly as rich and as famous as Don King, and he looks just like him, too! |
| 266 | ** Also lampshaded with bearded children's folk singer Roofi. A graphic during a TV news report of a riot at a Roofi concert reads "Raffi denounces Roofi". |
| 267 | ** The Parson looks and sounds suspiciously like Music/BingCrosby. |
| 268 | ** Judge Constance Harm is a parody of [[Series/JudgeJudy "Judge Judith" Sheindlin]], particularly in her tough reputation and snarky demeanor when a litigant tried to bluff their way through her questions. |
| 269 | ** Booberella is based on Creator/{{Elvira|MistressOfTheDark}}. |
| 270 | ** Anger Watkins is derived from Creator/{{ESPN}} analyst Stephen A. Smith, complete with NoIndoorVoice. |
| 271 | ** Troy [=McClure=] was a mash up of BMovie mainstays Troy Donahue and Doug [=McClure=], the latter of which thought the character was hilarious. |
| 272 | ** Paris Texan, the daughter of Rich Texan is an obvious parody of Creator/ParisHilton, and a pun on Paris, Texas, as well. |
| 273 | * Ron the Rent-a-Cop from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'' can best be described as equal parts Creator/ChristopherWalken and Creator/ClintEastwood. |
| 274 | * ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'': In "The Quantum Ring", two of the magicians who came to visit the family were non-speaking caricatures of Penn and Teller. They later get killed for trying to kill Korvo. |
| 275 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 276 | ** ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' has Wes Weasely, an {{Honest John|sDealership}} who shares [[Series/ThePhilSilversShow Phil Silvers]]' voice, clothes, and glasses. In "Sonic Gets thrashed" one of the robot rejects is a robot chef named "Wolfgang Puke". |
| 277 | ** ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' parodied Music/JustinBieber in the episode "Battle of the Boy Bands," with Sonic, Tails and Knuckles creating an in-universe StylisticSuck boy band to stop Amy's obsession with pop star Justin Beaver. |
| 278 | * In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/SoulMusic'', the witch who runs TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday is modelled on Auntie Wainwright who owns the junk shop in ''Series/LastOfTheSummerWine''; Volf Volfssonssonsson, the Hubland barbarian, is TheAhnold; [[HonestJohnsDealership CMOT Dibbler]] is based on Private Walker, the spiv from ''Series/DadsArmy''; and Crysophrase the Breccia ton is [[Film/TheGodfather Don Corleone]] if he was made of rock. Robert Selacchi's apprentice assassin is modelled on former UK politician Michael Portillo, and is even named "Miguel Portiyo" (he was NoNameGiven in the book). |
| 279 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' loves averting this trope; one of their defining characteristics is their parodying of celebrities by name. To the point where the 200th episode involves [[spoiler:every celebrity they've pastiched suing the residents of ''South Park'' for collectively ridiculing them]]. Though in Season 20, when Herbert Garrison is elected President of the United States as a substitute for UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, the parallel is anything but subtle. |
| 280 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Sleepy Time", Gary’s voice in his dream is influenced by that of Richard Haydn, best-known as the Caterpillar from ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland''. |
| 281 | * Almost any cartoon featuring a sporting event will have a sportscaster or commentator blatantly ripping off the late Howard Cosell. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' switched that one up by featuring celebrity imitator Creator/RichLittle's severed head imitating Cosell -- and having Little actually do the voice.) Like the RecordNeedleScratch and the above-mentioned Senator Claghorn, one wonders, do any of the kids these days know exactly who is being parodied? |
| 282 | * "Monster expert" Dr. Jelly Goodwell in ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' is an obvious parody, at least in appearance and demeanor, of Jane Goodall. |
| 283 | * ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' has David Litterbin -- an obvious play on Creator/DavidLetterman. |
| 284 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'': |
| 285 | ** The episode "Keep Your Pantheon" depicts the Greek god Zeus as a caricature of Charlton Heston. |
| 286 | ** "The Rotha Khan" has Rotha Khan speak in a voice impersonating John Wayne. He even says "pilgrim" at one point. |
| 287 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin'', Rebecca Cunningham is a lot like Kirstie Allie's Rebecca character of "Cheers" in that she's the responsible one to the dashing rogue. |
| 288 | * Madney Speer on ''WesternAnimation/TaraDuncan'' who's, y'know, supposed to be like that [[Music/BritneySpears "Hit Me Baby, One More Time"]] singer (but the character looked more like P!nk circa 2000, and her song sounded very [[Series/HannahMontana ''Best of Both Worlds'']]-ish) |
| 289 | * Taz's dad in ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' was blatantly based on Music/BingCrosby right down to the nice glass of Ooooooo.J. And his brother Drew is Creator/BobHope, leading to several ''Film/RoadTo...'' parodies. |
| 290 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' had [=McDonald=] Trump, who made a fortune selling very expensive and very small pizzas. |
| 291 | * The LargeHam screaming of [[MadBomber The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' was said by Creator/MauriceLamarche in the book ''The Magic Behind the Voices'' to have been a nod to his friend Creator/SamKinison. |
| 292 | * ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': |
| 293 | ** Shirley the Loon was based loosely on Creator/ShirleyMacLaine, or at least on her public image as a [[NewAgeRetroHippie new age kook]]. |
| 294 | ** However, though you might think one-shot "Julie Bruin" falls here, she is actually voiced by Julie Brown (not "Downtown", the other one). |
| 295 | ** In "Stand Up And Deliver", Babs gets a spot at a comedy club's open mic night, but gets serious PerformanceAnxiety whe she has to come on after [[Creator/RobinWilliams Robin Killems]]. |
| 296 | * Spike the bulldog, in the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' series, has a Creator/JimmyDurante-like voice. |
| 297 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' franchise, celebrity host and sometime contestant Blaineley, who is something of a [[Music/BlackEyedPeas Fergie]] {{Expy}} -- particularly in hair colour (blonde), full name (they both share the name "Stacey"), and in singing style ("Blainerriffic", from one of the ''World Tour'' Aftermaths, which in title, beats, parts of its rhyming scheme, and IAmSong nature, derives considerable inspiration from "Fergalicious"). |
| 298 | ** Several of the contestants are basically cartoon teenage versions of celebrities and reality show stars. Owen and Scott are based on Richard Hatch and Russell Hantz of ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', Anne Maria is a parody of [[Series/JerseyShore Snooki]] (her label is even "The ''Jersey Shore'' Reject"; similarly Mike's Vito personality is meant to be The Situation), and Sugar is very clearly meant to be [[Series/ToddlersAndTiaras Honey]] [[Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo Boo-Boo]]. Likewise, Dakota is parody of Creator/ParisHilton, Sam is Creator/SethRogen, Beardo is described by the creators as Reggie Watts mixed with Creator/MichaelWinslow, and Jasmine is based on Bindi Irwin. |
| 299 | ** This extends to the hosts as well, with Chris himself being a blatant spoof of [[Series/{{Survivor}} Jeff Probst]], (with elements of [[Series/FearFactor Joe Rogan]]) while Chef is a parody of Creator/SamuelLJackson. |
| 300 | * One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' features a woman who is clearly supposed to be Music/{{Bjork}}, but no one refers to her by name. |
| 301 | ** Among the contestants, Junior's appearance is based on that of Music/JustinBieber, while Noah and Owen's dynamic in the series parody that of Creator/ChrisFarley and Creator/DavidSpade. TheHost Don is obviously based on [[Series/TheAmazingRace Phil Keoghan]]. |
| 302 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'' was particularly bad with this. In fact, one episode centered around a number of knockoffs of Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, Music/BritneySpears, etc., and the villain was Milan Stilton. |
| 303 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' involved a science fiction movie starring "Harold Edsel" and "Karen Fishhook", who bore suspiciously strong resemblances to Creator/HarrisonFord and Creator/CarrieFisher, respectively. Interestingly, about twenty years later, Ford would make a more overt Transformers appearance: Creator/{{Hasbro}} produced a "Franchise/StarWars Transformers" toy line, with Han Solo as one of the featured characters. Even more interestingly, is what happened much sooner than that. In ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', Susan Blu, who voiced Karen Fishhook, would also provide the voice of one of the franchises most popular female characters, Arcee. WordOfGod has actually gone on to describe Arcee's character design as being "the robotic equivalent of a naked Princess Leia", the character Fisher is best known for. |
| 304 | ** ''Transformers'' also employed more conventional impressions: Cosmos' voice was essentially a heavily-modulated Creator/PeterLorre (again...), while Hound's voice actor was a dead ringer for Creator/JimmyStewart. Both G1 and ''Animated'' Shockwave's voices are based on Creator/DavidWarner, specifically his performance as Sark from ''Film/{{Tron}}'' (in fact, his voice actor, Creator/CoreyBurton [[PoorMansSubstitute was even hired to take up Warner's role]] as Sark in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''), Optimus Prime's voice is based on Creator/JohnWayne, and Rumble's and Frenzy's voices were based on UsefulNotes/AlCapone and Leo Gorcey. |
| 305 | *** Lampshaded in the Luke Ski filk song ''The Ballad of Optimus Prime'', where Luke takes a line [[ReplacementScrappy to complain about Hot Rod's role]]: "We wanted John Wayne, and they gave us Judd Nelson!" |
| 306 | ** Even ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated]]'' has this going on, with Ultra Magnus' voice being a rather good imitation of Robert Stack (who, not-so-coincidentally, played the original Magnus in the 1986 movie), and Ironhide being Corey Burton's best approximation of Huell Howser. Swindle's mannerisms are modeled after those of Ron Popeil, and Mixmaster sounds suspiciously like Joe Pesci (which is played up in a [[WholePlotReference Whole Episode Reference]] to ''Film/HomeAlone''). Highbrow has a similar accent, mustache, and gap in his tooth to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry-Thomas Terry-Thomas]]. [[CowardlyLion Grandus]] sounds like another Creator/PaulLynde (and ScreamsLikeALittleGirl). Rattletrap sounds a lot like Lou Costello (which may or may not have been the inspiration for [[WesternAnimation/BeastWars Rattrap's]] accent, though it's at least less obvious with him). |
| 307 | ** Tracks is based on Jim Backus' performance as Thurston Howell in ''Series/GilligansIsland'', Red Alert was supposedly based on UsefulNotes/RichardNixon, and Mirage was based on Music/DeanMartin. |
| 308 | * Mouldy Milk in ''WebAnimation/TheTrashPack'' webseries is made to sound like Creator/MatthewMcConaughey. |
| 309 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' had English Muffinz, a stand-in for Music/JustinBieber, but as he's English instead of Canadian, he could also double as a parody of Music/OneDirection. |
| 310 | * Celebrity caricatures were common in several of the Creator/VanBeurenStudios cartoon shorts, such as Honey Bear dressing up as Creator/MaeWest and Gandhi making a cameo in "Croon Crazy", and a bird in "A Little Bird Told Me" being named Walter Finchell, a play on the famous radio star Walter Winchell. |
| 311 | ** An anthropomorphic horse who pops up in "Galloping Fanny" is obviously based off of Mae West. |
| 312 | ** The buzzard who turns his head into that of Jimmy Dirante in "On The Pan". |
| 313 | ** "Cupid Gets His Man" features a character who is a caricature of Creator/WCFields. |
| 314 | * The ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTalesInTheHouse'' episode "Bob and the Awesome Frosting Mustache" featured a mustachioed grape named Tom Celeriac, who was an obvious parody of that of Creator/TomSelleck. |
| 315 | ** The countertop scenes in one episode of the original ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' series (specifically ''Pistachio: The Little Boy That Woodn't'') spoofed ''Series/ExtremeMakeoverHomeEdition'' wherein a scallion look/soundalike of Ty Pennington renovated the countertop set. |
| 316 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' has many characters based on real people. To wit: |
| 317 | ** In the second-season episode "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?", the character of President Breyer is an obvious pastiche of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush (Bush-Breyer, get it?) with some UsefulNotes/BillClinton thrown in for flavor. Oddly enough, George W. Bush's down-home Texas mannerisms and dearth of intellectual rigor combined with Bill Clinton's lack of personal boundaries come off to make the character seem more like UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson than either Clinton or Bush. |
| 318 | *** Speaking of whom, The Revenge Society later picks up married couple Lady Hawk Johnson and Lyndon Bee. And yes, they do look and sound exactly like President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife "Lady Bird" Johnson. |
| 319 | ** Henry Kissinger as Doctor Henry Killinger. Although, no one is sure whether Kissinger has a Magic Murder Bag or not. |
| 320 | ** Brock Samson's trainer and mentor, Col. Hunter Gathers, bears a striking similarity to gonzo journalist Creator/HunterSThompson. After his sex change he bears a striking similarity to gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson with a pair of really big fake tits. |
| 321 | ** The yard sale episode featured a nameless supervillain looking suspiciously much like Music/EltonJohn browsing for dirty magazines. |
| 322 | ** Colonel Horace Gentleman is basically Creator/SeanConnery with a dash of William S. Burroughs thrown in. |
| 323 | ** Dr. Orpheus is a rather obvious caricature of Creator/VincentPrice, which fits with his also being an {{Expy}} of Comicbook/DoctorStrange (see comic book folder). |
| 324 | ** Lloyd Venture, Rusty's grandfather and [[spoiler: founder of the Guild of Calamitous Intent,]] is UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt through and through, including physical appearance, dress, and unique manner of speaking. |
| 325 | *** General Treister is also heavily based on Theodore Roosevelt, being a FourStarBadass BoisterousBruiser with a heavy mustache just like TR in his prime. |
| 326 | ** Mr. Brisby is a jaundiced view of Creator/WaltDisney, differing only in that he appears to have been limited to a wheelchair for the past twenty years, as opposed to having died and been kept frozen in the basement of Tomorrowland. |
| 327 | ** When 21 and 24 finally see each other out of costume, they comment that they look like Creator/KevinSmith without a beard and Creator/JerrySeinfeld with a unibrow, respectively. |
| 328 | * One ''WesternAnimation/WheelieAndTheChopperBunch'' story involves a country singer named "Johnny Crash". |
| 329 | * ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'': |
| 330 | ** Bat Blastagun's voice was a clear impression of Jack Nicholson. |
| 331 | ** One-shot character Dr. Wolfenstein from the episode "How the West was Shrunk" sounded like Creator/BorisKarloff. |
| 332 | ** Copycat is clearly based on Music/DeanMartin, sharing his appearance and voice. |
| 333 | ** Red Mantle and Dragon are heavily implied to be Music/BuddyHolly and Music/TheBigBopper respectively, as they were musicians who were recruited into the Guild prior to getting on a plane, with their deaths faked. [[UncertainDoom it's unclear]] if the same offer was extended to Music/RitchieValens |
| 334 | * ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': Iginio Straffi stated the Winx girls are each based on a female celebrity. Bloom is based on Music/BritneySpears, Stella is based on Creator/CameronDiaz, Flora is based on Music/JenniferLopez, Musa is based on Creator/LucyLiu, Tecna is based on Music/{{Pink}}, and Aisha is based on Music/{{Beyonce}}. |
| 335 | * ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets'' sometimes has this. In one episode they save a group of musical insects known as The Beetles (who are bug versions of Paul, John, George and Ringo), and in another they meet up with the Rat Pack which are three rats named Sammy (Sammy Davis Jr.), Blue Eyes (Music/FrankSinatra) and Dino (Dean Martin). And in "The Wonder Pets Save the Hound Dog," they save a baby hound dog whose father is a dog version of Elvis Presley, who wears a pair of velvet booties and loves peanut butter and banana sandwiches. |
| 336 | * In ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfQuest'', the titular Quest isn't voiced by Creator/PatrickWarburton, but it certainly '''sounds''' like he's voiced by Patrick Warburton. |
| 337 | * Voices based on Ed Wynn's famous "Perfect Fool" character... |
| 338 | ** WesternAnimation/WallyGator |
| 339 | ** Captain Peachfuzz from ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''. |
| 340 | ** Creator/TerryToons character Gandy Goose. |
| 341 | ** Choose Goose from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. |
| 342 | ** Zagraz from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983''. |
| 343 | ** Wade from ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''. |
| 344 | ** Ranger Jinx from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}''. |
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