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See also [[Democracy Is Bad]] and [[Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup]].
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* Parodied in [[Robert Altman]]'s ''[[The Player]]''. One minor subplot features the main character taking a movie pitch from an Auteur screenwriter about a wrongfully accused woman dying in the gas chamber. The screenwriter insists "no stars, just talent" and emphasizes that he refuses to change the [[Downer Ending]] because [[True Art Is Angsty|"That's reality"]]. By the end of the movie, not only are the leads in this film being played by [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]] and [[Julia Roberts]], but the downer ending has been completely changed. The Screenwriter's justification? [[Money, Dear Boy|Test audiences hated it.]]
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'':
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** Also parodied with Phillips' Vision, a means that Duke invents because "some artsy director ruins a classic movie with a [[Downer Ending]]." Duke intends to put it back "the way God intended" - allowing [[Spartacus]] to escape with his family and friend, and have Elsa return to Rick at the end of ''[[Casablanca]]'' (with Sam there, too!).
== [[Film]] ==
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