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GnomeTitan Since: Aug, 2013
2024-01-10 07:56:57

I suppose it can actually be both - a shallow parody can be seen as a shout-out. And both tropes are YMMV, so which one is used depends a lot on who writes the example.

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010
2024-01-10 08:07:56

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.

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GnomeTitan Since: Aug, 2013
2024-01-10 09:02:38

^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.

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