Adaptation Decay: Difference between revisions

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* [[Adaptation Induced Plothole]]

* [[Adaptation-Induced Plothole]]

* [[Animated Adaptation]], taking into account the [[Animation Age Ghetto]]

* [[Bowdlerise]]

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* The aptly named movie ''[[Adaptation]]'' portrays a highly self-referential example of this.

* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' played around with this type in the ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder|Dino Thunder]]'' episode "Lost and Found in Translation". In it, the Rangers discover a Japanese television show which seems to be based off of their adventures (which is really an episode of ''[[Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]'', the show used to create ''Dino Thunder''). Conner is initially upset with the show for, in his opinion, making a mockery of both the Rangers and America, but by the end of the episode he learns [[An Aesop]] about diversity.

* Briefly seen in the ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''Lucifer Rising'', when [[Bernice Summerfield]] sees the end of a 22nd century holo-drama in which a beautiful computer expert defeats the Martians and claims the handsome museum curator. She is surprised to realise that this is meant to be the Martian invasion of 2090... just as the readers are surprised to realise it's meant to be 1969 serial "[[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~/Recap/S6 E5 The Seedsof Death|The Seeds of Death]]", in which the computer expert is a [[Spock]] and the museum curator is an elderly eccentric. And there's apparently no mention of the Doctor's involvement either.

* Briefly seen in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] novel ''Lucifer Rising'', when [[Bernice Summerfield]] sees the end of a 22nd century holo-drama in which a beautiful computer expert defeats the Martians and claims the handsome museum curator. She is surprised to realise that this is meant to be the Martian invasion of 2090... just as the readers are surprised to realise it's meant to be 1969 serial "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6 E5 The Seedsof Death|The Seeds of Death]]", in which the computer expert is a [[Spock]] and the museum curator is an elderly eccentric. And there's apparently no mention of the Doctor's involvement either.

* Mercilessly parodied in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episodes featuring the [[Show Within a Show]] ''[[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Wormhole X-Treme!]]'', a television program based loosely on the "actual" events of the Stargate program which is allowed to go ahead by the powers-that-be in order to act as a cover for the real thing. Each episode that features ''Wormhole'' takes liberties with the original source material for laughs, and [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs numerous lampshades]] on various plot holes and inconsistencies in previous ''SG-1'' episodes.

* According to [[Les Luthiers]], the ''Las Majas Del Bergant?'' zarzuela (a Savoy Opera about a Spanish ship whose crew is attacked by pirates) is based on a novel... about a Bulgarian lumberjack and his parrot. The only character left from the original novel was the parrot. This is forgivable, considering that [[Les Luthiers]] are a comical group and ''Las Majas del Bergant?'' is one of their most hilarious performances.

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