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The question here is whether it's a "parody" or not. Shallow Parody's YMMV status isn't from whether it's a parody or not, it's whether it's YMMV or not. It parodying another work is a concrete fact and if it isn't, then it cannot be a Shallow Parody.
In this case, the example is so lacking in context I can't possibly understand why it's a shallow parody, why would Gumball and Darwin being those roles indicate a lack of knowledge? How is it parodying anything? I suspect that the entry might not know what a parody is.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.^I was assuming that it was a parody because of the way the OP basically says that in the last sentence.
Unfortunately, I can't weigh in on whether it's an example or not, because I'm unfamiliar with the shows, and as you write the example is lacking in context.
I was merely trying to answer the meta-question in the OP: even if the two shows parody other shows in exactly the same way, and everybody agrees that it is parody, the troper troping show A may consider it a Shallow Parody and the troper troping show B may not (because they don't think it's shallow). Shallowness (in this context at least) is considered YMMV, so it's only natural if different tropers have different opinions.
Edited by GnomeTitan

This entry has been bothering me for a while now, and I think I figured out how to articulate my reasonings. In the Western Animation section for Shallow Parody, this is said for Teen Titans Go!:
My issue with this, is In Wander Over Yonder, there’s a reference to Gravity Falls, but it’s more a parody of Scooby-Doo
, yet it gets listed as a Shout-Out.
So my question is, why is it when WoY does a parody of a show that uses the designs but the plot of a different show, it’s considered a Shout-Out, yet when TTG does the exact same thing it’s considered a Shallow Parody?
Edited by BlueBlazes