Affectionate Parody: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"Not true, the sixth Element is mine, and that's faithfulness to the source material! The best parodies are the ones that positively build on the original work, rather then rely on repetitive cursing and pop culture jokes. There's a reason the original series caught people's attention in the first place, and paying tribute to that isn't a cop-out, its comedy!"''

 

{{quote|''"With [[MS Paint Adventures|MSPA]] I am always on the lookout for raw material to manipulate in esoteric ways, and it's usually garnered through satire. But then I ride that material pretty hard, and before you even know what's going on, it's not satirical anymore! Ask yourself this: at what point did [[Homestuck|John's]] love of ''[[Con Air]]'' cease to be a mockery of the film, and became more of a SHRINE to it? Hard to say."''

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131217083340/http://www.irn-bru.co.uk/advert/snowman.html This Irn Bru advert] spoofs the flying sequence from Christmas classic [[The Snowman]], showing a variety of Scottish landmarks instead of ones from the South East of England and the music is a parody version of Walking in the Air.

 

* ''[[Student Council's Discretion]]'' is a pretty good example of parody Anime in the first few episodes of the first season. They even do this right before the start of the first episode, citing stuff that would probably get them sued for copyrights left and right.

* ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'' parodies all Anime, particularly ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'', ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]'', and ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''

* ''[[One Piece]]'' is a fairly standard [[Shonen]] anime with a focus on humor that occasionally leans toward parody. The most obvious, though, is cowardly hero Usopp's disguise of "Sogeking", a clear parody of live-action tokusatsu series'. He even has a theme song, complete with 60's style Japanese Live-action special effects and the appearance of being largely filmed inside a [[BBC Quarry|quarry]].

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is arguably as much an Affectionate Parody as it is a [[Reconstruction]] of the super robot genre; the heroes are able to win, for example, on [[Determinator|pure determination]] alone, literally (and I do mean ''literally'' as the series explains halfway through the series) and it's otherwise just [[Serial Escalation|so over the top]] and [[Beyond the Impossible|outright impossible]] as to be awesome even when it's not trying.

* ''[[Sumomomo Momomo]]'', the manga slightly more so than the anime, is an affectionate parody of both martial arts anime and [[Unwanted Harem]] romantic comedies.

* Being a very popular show, ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' has been parodied in lots of anime and manga. The [[Super Mode|Super Saiyan Transformation]] and [[Kamehame Hadoken|Kamahame-Ha]], the show's most recognizable trademarks, are always used. It even shows up in the shojo genre: [[Shugo Chara|FU-GI-SA-KI-HAAAA!]]

* [[Mad Magazine]] was for nearly its entire run defined by its parodies of major TV shows and movies...and real life as well.

* ''[[Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters]]'' is the first [[Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats]] parody of the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''.

 

== [[Fan Works]] ==

* ''Twilight The Musical'' is...[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|one of these for]] ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|and it's a musical.]]

** That's debatable though; the creators profess to love ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' in their [[Lying Creator|behind-the-scenes material]], but then, they also say that they were [[Everything's Worse with Bears|attacked by a bear]].

* The [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3140141/1/Calvin_at_Camp_Never_Had_a_Friend_Like_Ed movie] [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3475442/1/Calvin_at_Camp_The_Return_of_Bowser parodies] in ''[[Calvin at Camp]]'' are like this, complete with song parodies.

 

* ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]'' is a fairly obvious example of this, it being a parody of the hard rock and [[Heavy Metal]] of the 70s and 80s. It's shown to be an affectionate parody by the sympathetic portrayal of the band towards the end of the film, and the fact that it references things that only fans of the genre could possibly get.

** Christopher Guest, who played Nigel Tufnel in the movie, has gone on to make several mockumentary's of his own, such as as [[Best in Show]] and [[A Mighty Wind]], all of whom can be considered affectionate towards their (rather daft) characters.

* ''[[Baseketball]]'' spoofs inspirational sports movies.

* ''Mafia!'' spoofs (you guessed it) gangster films. This was Lloyd Bridges' final film.

* The Korean film ''[[The Host (2006 film)|The Host]]'' is hard to take as anything other than an Affectionate Parody of Asian monster movies. Watched with a group of friends, the movie is hilarious.

* ''[[Pootie Tang]]'', ''[[The Hebrew Hammer]]'', ''[[I'm Gonna Git You Sucka]]'', and ''[[Black Dynamite]]'' are a few examples of this trope on [[Blaxploitation]] movies.

* ''Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer'' parodies [[Hillbilly Horrors]].

* [[Flubber]] and [[Inspector Gadget (film)|Inspector Gadget]] parodies anything from Disney.

* "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from ''[[Mulan]]'' would be an Affectionate Parody of a [[Boot Camp Episode]].

 

* The ''[[Enchanted Forest Chronicles]]'' are affectionate parodies of fairy tales in general. Including but not limited to [[Sleeping Beauty]] (Cimorene's "Great Aunt Rose, who was asleep for a hundred years") and Rumpelstiltskin (a dwarf who ends up raising over a dozen children because he always asked the girls to guess his name, but they never could, even after he changed it, so he had to take their babies).

* [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' ([[TV Tropes/Memes|mandatory]] '''[[Fake Ultimate Hero|HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!]]''') novels are a weird case. While their main purpose is to point out and spoof the more ridiculous aspects of the ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' universe, they actually take place in it, and are apparently considered canon. So, it's a strange blend of this trope and [[Take That Us|Take That, Us]].

* ''Snooze: The Best of Our Magazine'' (1986) is supposed to be a collection of writing from the ''[[New Yorker]]''. (It even includes parodies of the kind of cartoon found in the magazine, and also things like filler paragraphs and drawings.) It qualifies as an Affectionate Parody because only people who read the ''New Yorker'' would relate to ''Snooze'', and at least two ''New Yorker'' writers contributed to it.

* ''[[Casabianca]]'': innumerable parodies, especially ''Casabazonka'' by [[Spike Milligan]], are collectively vastly better known than the original.

* In ''[[I Moved Your Cheese]]'' by Deepak Malhotra, characters speak of "the good book", strongly alluding to ''[[Who Moved My Cheese?]]''.

 

** Likewise, the episode "The Unicorn and the Wasp" is an Affectionate Parody of murder mysteries, especially those written by Agatha Christie.

** "Love & Monsters" straddles the line between this and [[Take That]] of the show's own fan-base. It affectionately parodies the 'good' fans, showing them to be, if socially awkward and a bit geeky, ultimately decent, likeable people who come together and form connections with each other based on their shared affection and love for 'The Doctor' and what he represents. Furthermore, these connections allow them to express and develop their creativity and even fall in love with one another. The 'bad' type of fan, who treats fandom as it were some kind of joyless, ritualistic vocation with themselves, naturally, the bullying egotists at the top of the hierarchy? Well, they're presented as a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' ''monster''. Read into that what you will.

** Some if these you actually have to be fairly familiar with the writings yourself to even get. For example, in the intro Isildur's death is blamed on the ring's treachery, which causes Mike to remark that being a bloodthirsty tyrant may have had ''something'' to do with it.

* Ray Larabie made affectionate parody ''fonts''.

 

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

 

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* The [[Lay Cool]] characters were affectionate parodies of the [[Alpha Bitch]] with them being fashion obsessed, finishing each other's sentences, their own [[Buffy-Speak]] catchphrases and a whole lotta [[Les Yay]]. And they were still some of the best written heels on Smackdown.

 

* ''[[Two Gentlemen of Lebowski]]'' is a loving tribute to both ''[[The Big Lebowski]]'' and the works of [[William Shakespeare]]. The affection for ''Lebowski'' is clear, but the affection for the bard really shines through in the print version, which features "annotations" explaining the then-current references Shakespeare was making as he wrote the play.

* ''[[Done to Death]]'' parodies all sorts of the [[Mystery Fiction]] genre. However it is also very much an [[Indecisive Parody]].

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The Capcom brawler ''[[God Hand]]'' glaringly mixes together nearly every classic [[Beat'Em Up]] [[Cliché]] in the book, including [[Pac-Man]]-esque [[Hyperactive Metabolism|food pickups]], [[Everything Trying to Kill You|outrageously silly enemies]] in far-fetched environments and a [[Excuse Plot|puddle-deep storyline]] that's only there to string together all the game's fighting. The game has also been speculated to be an affectionate parody of [[Shonen]] [[Fighting Series]] such as ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''.

** Speaking of Clover Studios, don't forget to mention ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'', although whereas God Hand affectionately parodies the gameplay of old beat-em-ups, ''Viewtiful Joe'' affectionately parodies the plots, characters, and settings of [[Toku]]satsu and Comic Book heroes in general. The actual gameplay is a highly enjoyable twist on 2D beat-em-ups, however.

== [[Web Animation]] ==

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' features many affectionate parodies in its various cartoons, mostly of things from the creators' childhoods. A prime example would be ''Cheat Commandos'', a parody of merchandise-driven kids' TV shows such as ''[[G.I. Joe]]''.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* [[Welcome To The Hereafter]] does this an arc with the sunism church and Christian/Jewish dogma—Jesus even lampshades it. What makes even funnier is that all (real) religions get a comedy treatment.

* ''[[Moonstuck]]'' is a [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|pony-centered]] parody of ''[[Homestuck]]''.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* The ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "For Real" include shots of people commenting on the trials over the internet in what can only be a affectionate jab at series fans, and at [[Shipping Tropes|shippers]] in particular.

* ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' parodies things frequently, some examples being:

** ''[[Star Trek]]'' ("[[The Gods Must Be Crazy|The Gourds Must Be Crazy]]"),

** ''[[Hamlet]]'' ("Omelet"),

** The Boulder was actually voiced by former WWF wrestler Mick Foley, as well as being a visual parody of [[Dwayne Johnson|Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]].

** Not to mention "The Ember Island Players". How can you not love a show that ''[[Take That Us|parodies itself?]]''

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' has parodied ''[[Star Wars]]'' and demonstrated more knowledge of and reverence for the originals than most, including character names and terms that aren't mentioned in the movies.

* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' seems to have been designed from the outset to ask the question "What if [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] was [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]", leading to a "affectionate parody of spy movie conventions and superheroes" as part of its central concept.

* ''[[Regular Show]]'': Rigby's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbEsbZzKExs favorite internet video] may be an affectionate parody of ''[[Homestar Runner]]''.

* ''[[The Goode Family]]'' had an episode ("[[Butt Monkey|Gerald]]'s Way or The High Way") that [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|has tons of parodies to mafia films, prison films and RobertDeNiro films]].

 

 

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