Narrow Parody: Difference between revisions

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If done poorly, the parody aspect seems more like a cover for ripping off the most recent movies, as sometimes there's nothing particularly iconic about the things being parodied. Much of this depends on your definition of "narrow".

These works are almost always doomed to become [[Unintentional Period Piece~~|Unintentional Period Pieces~~]]. See also [[Small Reference Pools]]. Sometimes overlaps with [[Shallow Parody]], which is so badly researched that it gets vital details wrong and/or substitutes generic jokes in place of actual parody.

These works are almost always doomed to become [[Unintentional Period Piece]]s. See also [[Small Reference Pools]]. Sometimes overlaps with [[Shallow Parody]], which is so badly researched that it gets vital details wrong and/or substitutes generic jokes in place of actual parody.

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== Live Action TV ==

* Many a sketch comedy show has fallen into this trap. ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' manages to avoid it most of the time, but some of the lesser seasons have succumbed.

* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' often falls into this as part of its attempt to add [[Parental Bonus~~|Parental Bonuses~~]]. It's often borderline impossible to do a true parody of the subject matter, so they simply copy the title, the appearance of the characters, and the general setting. [[True Blood|True Mud]], for example, was about a man's attempt to get a waitress to serve him Mud (as opposed to spud, cud, and a dud).

* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' often falls into this as part of its attempt to add [[Parental Bonus]]es. It's often borderline impossible to do a true parody of the subject matter, so they simply copy the title, the appearance of the characters, and the general setting. [[True Blood|True Mud]], for example, was about a man's attempt to get a waitress to serve him Mud (as opposed to spud, cud, and a dud).

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== Western Animation ==

* Recent episodes of ''[[South Park]]'' have included parodies of ''[[Mr. Popper's ~~Penguins|Mr. Poppers~~ Penguins]]'' and ''[[Jack And Jill]]'' based solely on their trailers.

* Recent episodes of ''[[South Park]]'' have included parodies of ''[[Mr. Popper's Penguins]]'' and ''[[Jack And Jill]]'' based solely on their trailers.

* The ''[[Animaniacs]]'' song "Video [[Stealth Pun|Revue]]", set in a video store (which ''in itself'' makes this sequence dated) is basically a [[Long List]] of characters and plot points from random movies from the 1980s and early '90s, some of which are barely remembered today (if that).

** To be honest, however, a lot of referential jokes and songs in Animaniacs went this way, especially if you did not live in the USA in the 1980s-early 1990s.