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{{quote|''"We're gonna fly to school each morning, we're gonna smile the entire time,''
''We're gonna be more happy, we're gonna finally be fine!''
''We're gonna get more calm and normal, we're gonna fix our state of mind,''
''We're gonna be less crazy, we're gonna finally be fine!"''|''[[Community]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT89wX6_Fig Season 3 opening]}}
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* ''[http://www.spawn.com/features/series30/comic/ The Adventures of Spawn]'' is an online comic series designed to turn [[Spawn]] into a kid-friendly property. Yes, the military assassin who died and went to Hell, then made a [[Deal with the Devil]] in order to return to Earth. That Spawn.
* [[Spider-Man]], [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]], [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]], [[Incredible Hulk]], and [[Iron Man]] all have kiddified, self-contained stories in the ''[[Marvel Adventures]]'' line. In ''Marvel Adventures'', the heroes tend to be friends, everything works out predictably, and there are a few meta comments on the storylines in the "main" series.
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** What's ironic is that the Mini Marvels comic strips included at the end of the mainstream Marvel universe actually ''parodies'' the shallowness and silliness. The Mini Marvels strips point out how the stories taken seriously are [[Narm|much more ridiculous]] than their Lighter and Softer counterpart.
* ''Spidey Super-Stories'', a Marvel book for the younger set, inexplicably [http://notthebeastmaster.typepad.com/weblog/2004/03/hey_kids_death.html featured Thanos] at one point. Yes, the [[Thanos]] with a hard-on for Death, the one who killed half of everyone in the universe in an attempt to impress her. In a book for little kids. They must have just made him into a big purple guy.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* Parodied in ''[[FoxTrot]]'' at the end of a 1997 storyline where Paige receives an evaluation copy of the upcoming sequel to Jason's favorite computer game:
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'''Paige:''' It's a letter from the President of Blizzerbund Software.
'''Jason:''' No way! What's it say? What's it say?
'''Paige:''' ''(reading letter)'' "Dear Ms. Fox, thank you for your evaluation of our ''Riviablo'' CD-ROM beta. Per your suggestions, the final version of the game will have less violence, cuter monsters, and significantly easier puzzles. P.S. Thanks especially for the great idea to change the game's title to ''Happy Town''."
''(A few seconds later)''
'''Peter:''' I thought they sent you a form letter.
'''Paige:''' Oops. You're right. I must've misread it.
'''Andy:''' ''(offscreen)'' Jason, will you stop bawling long enough to tell me what's wrong?! }}
** Also, a later storyline has Andy forcing Peter and Jason to play Mothers Against Gory Games-approved versions of popular video games (such as ''[[Vice City|Nice City]]'') in an attempt to make them ''stop'' playing video games altogether.
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* The newly revived "ECW". It's used more as a launching platform for up and coming wrestlers and a place to dump useless ones (* cough* '''VLADIMIR KOZLOV''' * cough* ).
* [[John Cena]]'s "FU" ([[Don't Explain the Joke|a common internet acronym for "Fuck You"]]) was renamed to the "Attitude Adjustment". Similarly, the STFU ("Shut The Fuck Up") was renamed to the "STF Crossface Combo".
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** The F-U was also a [[Take That]] to the F-5 finishing move of [[Brock Lesnar]]. Officially, one of the reasons for changing the name was that the reference was beyond outdated, as a lot of Cena's present fanbase wasn't even toilet-trained when Lesnar was wrestling.
** Curiously, they kept [[A Date with Rosie Palms|Five Knuckle Shuffle]].
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