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== Anime & Manga ==
== Anime & Manga ==
* In Spain, saying you're "turning black" means [[That Makes Me Feel Angry|you're getting angry]], much like a video game boss [[Turns Red]], [[Captain Obvious|but black]]. A ''[[Dragonball]]'' parody comic had Mr. Popo (Who is black) say he was "turning black" as a joke... except he actually says that on the Spanish anime dub at one point.
* In Spain, saying you're "turning black" means [[That Makes Me Feel Angry|you're getting angry]], much like a video game boss [[Turns Red]], [[Captain Obvious|but black]]. A ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' parody comic had Mr. Popo (Who is black) say he was "turning black" as a joke... except he actually says that on the Spanish anime dub at one point.




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** Surprisingly, this is pretty much the only thing the terrible ''[[Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' parodies got right. In the second episode, their Harry Potter stand-in has become a teen... but the joke is that Billy and Mandy (who are standard [[Western Animation]] children who never grow up except as a [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] for a [[Flash Forward]]) are bewildered by the concept of aging.
** Surprisingly, this is pretty much the only thing the terrible ''[[Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' parodies got right. In the second episode, their Harry Potter stand-in has become a teen... but the joke is that Billy and Mandy (who are standard [[Western Animation]] children who never grow up except as a [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] for a [[Flash Forward]]) are bewildered by the concept of aging.
* There are often [[Naruto]] parodies where other, better ninjas will mock Naruto for all of his negative traits, such as his [[Highly-Visible Ninja|lack of stealth]], [[Bratty Half-Pint|annoying attitude]], and [[Theme Deck|small movepool]]. Name a single Naruto character that DOESN'T do one of these and they're from [[Character Development|Shippuden]].
* There are often [[Naruto]] parodies where other, better ninjas will mock Naruto for all of his negative traits, such as his [[Highly-Visible Ninja|lack of stealth]], [[Bratty Half-Pint|annoying attitude]], and [[Theme Deck|small movepool]]. Name a single Naruto character that DOESN'T do one of these and they're from [[Character Development|Shippuden]].
* ''[[Eiga Sentai Scanranger (Fanfic)|Eiga Sentai Scanranger]]'' had an episode where the characters spoof various superspies. Including [[Austin Powers]]. The villain of the piece (a pseudo Blofeld named, get this, Blofish) is even referred to as a "monocle-wearing Dr. Evil." It also doesn't help that the writer's idea of parodying these movies was having his poor man's Bond take off his tuxedo to reveal a wetsuit underneath instead of the other way around, and his poor man's [[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]] use .44's instead of .45's.
* ''[[Eiga Sentai Scanranger]]'' had an episode where the characters spoof various superspies. Including [[Austin Powers]]. The villain of the piece (a pseudo Blofeld named, get this, Blofish) is even referred to as a "monocle-wearing Dr. Evil." It also doesn't help that the writer's idea of parodying these movies was having his poor man's Bond take off his tuxedo to reveal a wetsuit underneath instead of the other way around, and his poor man's [[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]] use .44's instead of .45's.


== Film ==
== Film ==
* ''[[Epic Movie (Film)|Epic Movie]]'' decided to parody ''[[X-Men (Film)|X-Men]]'' by having Wolverine bend his claws to look like he was flipping the bird, even though [http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af08 this same joke was used at one point in the original movie.]
* ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Epic Movie]]'' decided to parody ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men]]'' by having Wolverine bend his claws to look like he was flipping the bird, even though [http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af08 this same joke was used at one point in the original movie.]
* ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Disaster Movie]]'' has a kid using foul language toward ''[[Hancock]]'', at which point Hancock slaps him. Not exactly an amusing gag to begin with, but particularly not amusing since something even more hilarious actually happens to such a kid in the real movie. Even worse, [[Shallow Parody|this actually appeared in some of the trailers]].
* ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Disaster Movie]]'' has a kid using foul language toward ''[[Hancock]]'', at which point Hancock slaps him. Not exactly an amusing gag to begin with, but particularly not amusing since something even more hilarious actually happens to such a kid in the real movie. Even worse, [[Shallow Parody|this actually appeared in some of the trailers]].
* [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] continue this in ''[[Vampires Suck (Film)|Vampires Suck]]''. The trailer contains a joke where the Jacob ripoff character says his contract states he must be shirtless every 10 minutes. This might be amusing until you consider that his constant shirtlessness was already [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' movies already.
* [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] continue this in ''[[Vampires Suck]]''. The trailer contains a joke where the Jacob ripoff character says his contract states he must be shirtless every 10 minutes. This might be amusing until you consider that his constant shirtlessness was already [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] by the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' movies already.
* [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] give us a tag-teaming [[Trope Codifier]], as [[Bad Movie Beatdown (Web Video)|Film Brain]] (of [[That Guy With the Glasses (Website)|That Guy With the Glasses]]) and Korey Coleman of Spill.com have pointed out that ALL of their films consist of nothing but allusions to summer/winter blockbusters that came out around each parody's respective release date, with hardly any actual "jokes" made at their expense (not to mention that some of these films, like ''[[Nacho Libre]]'' or ''Borat'' are already "spoofs" of some sort and hardly merit anyway).
* [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] give us a tag-teaming [[Trope Codifier]], as [[Bad Movie Beatdown|Film Brain]] (of [[That Guy With The Glasses]]) and Korey Coleman of Spill.com have pointed out that ALL of their films consist of nothing but allusions to summer/winter blockbusters that came out around each parody's respective release date, with hardly any actual "jokes" made at their expense (not to mention that some of these films, like ''[[Nacho Libre]]'' or ''Borat'' are already "spoofs" of some sort and hardly merit anyway).


== Gamebooks ==
== Gamebooks ==
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== Live Action TV ==
== Live Action TV ==
* One of the very last [[Bob Hope]] specials on NBC tried to lampoon [[Batman (Film)|the 1989]] ''[[Batman (Film)|Batman]]'' [[Batman (Film)|movie]], and had Hope done up as Jack Nicholson's Joker. Both Batman and Superman were in the skit, and Hope refers to them by derisive names like "Bat-Brain" and "Super-Stupe", and getting laughs from his equally aging studio audience. Hope and his writers must have thought that villains do not talk like that to heroes, but especially since Denny O'Neil, this is almost exactly the way the Joker talks down to opponents.
* One of the very last [[Bob Hope]] specials on NBC tried to lampoon [[Batman (film)|the 1989]] ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' [[Batman (film)|movie]], and had Hope done up as Jack Nicholson's Joker. Both Batman and Superman were in the skit, and Hope refers to them by derisive names like "Bat-Brain" and "Super-Stupe", and getting laughs from his equally aging studio audience. Hope and his writers must have thought that villains do not talk like that to heroes, but especially since Denny O'Neil, this is almost exactly the way the Joker talks down to opponents.
* In 1995 ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' did a [[Cirque Du Soleil]] spoof -- ''[[Alegria]]'' was in New York at the time -- in which the highlight was a male performer presenting a female performer a bottle of wine, which was treated by the emcee as an amazing and whimsical feat. The skit suffers if you've seen the non-touring Las Vegas production ''Mystere'' (which opened in 1993), in which a clown presents a woman with champagne as part of an elaborate ''comic'' setpiece. And since nothing besides some costume details ''was'' specific to ''[[Alegria]]'', this overlaps with [[Shallow Parody]]. Cirque parodies in general seem to ignore the fact that the shows are often extremely funny and not simply two hours of posing and pretentiousness.
* In 1995 ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' did a [[Cirque Du Soleil]] spoof -- ''[[Alegria]]'' was in New York at the time -- in which the highlight was a male performer presenting a female performer a bottle of wine, which was treated by the emcee as an amazing and whimsical feat. The skit suffers if you've seen the non-touring Las Vegas production ''Mystere'' (which opened in 1993), in which a clown presents a woman with champagne as part of an elaborate ''comic'' setpiece. And since nothing besides some costume details ''was'' specific to ''[[Alegria]]'', this overlaps with [[Shallow Parody]]. Cirque parodies in general seem to ignore the fact that the shows are often extremely funny and not simply two hours of posing and pretentiousness.
* [[Saturday Night Live]] has a long history of lengthy skits centered on some irritating everyday person, group, or behavior, but that don't add enough of a twist to do more than replicate their irritating qualities.
* [[Saturday Night Live]] has a long history of lengthy skits centered on some irritating everyday person, group, or behavior, but that don't add enough of a twist to do more than replicate their irritating qualities.
* ''The Chronicle'' was a [[Sci Fi Channel]] TV show that attempted to parody the tabloids, by stating that everything in them was true. The first episode parodied (or ripped off) the plot of the first ''[[Men in Black (Film)|Men in Black]]'' film. Thing is, ''Men In Black'' was already a parody/comedy, so there was very little that could be made fun of -- and it had already used the joke of the tabloids being true.
* ''The Chronicle'' was a [[Sci Fi Channel]] TV show that attempted to parody the tabloids, by stating that everything in them was true. The first episode parodied (or ripped off) the plot of the first ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'' film. Thing is, ''Men In Black'' was already a parody/comedy, so there was very little that could be made fun of -- and it had already used the joke of the tabloids being true.
* A particular problem with British comedy shows in [[The Eighties]] was impressionists "doing" people like "Dame Edna Everage", "[[Some Mothers Do Ave Em|Frank Spencer]]" and "[[The Pink Panther|Inspector Clouseau]]", completely ignoring the fact that these were already comedy caricatures created by Barry Humphries, Michael Crawford and [[Peter Sellers]] respectively, leaving absolutely nothing left to parody.
* A particular problem with British comedy shows in [[The Eighties]] was impressionists "doing" people like "Dame Edna Everage", "[[Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em|Frank Spencer]]" and "[[The Pink Panther|Inspector Clouseau]]", completely ignoring the fact that these were already comedy caricatures created by Barry Humphries, Michael Crawford and [[Peter Sellers]] respectively, leaving absolutely nothing left to parody.
** ''[[The Office]]'' both parodies and invokes this trope; David Brent, the manager, fancies himself a genius comedian, but the very fact that his 'act' is basically limited to riffing on these kind of characters is a pretty clue that ultimately he's got nothing.
** ''[[The Office]]'' both parodies and invokes this trope; David Brent, the manager, fancies himself a genius comedian, but the very fact that his 'act' is basically limited to riffing on these kind of characters is a pretty clue that ultimately he's got nothing.
* Andrea Martin of [[SCTV]] once remarked that the only show they couldn't satirize was ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'', because they couldn't come up with any situation that was more ridiculous than what the show already did.
* Andrea Martin of [[SCTV]] once remarked that the only show they couldn't satirize was ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'', because they couldn't come up with any situation that was more ridiculous than what the show already did.
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* There's a parody out there of "The Blue Tail Fly" in which the chorus is changed to "Jimmy drinks corn, and I don't care", meaning that Jimmy is drinking corn whiskey. Apparently the would-be parodists were unaware that the most common interpretation of the lyric "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care" is that of "cracking corn", which is to say, ''making'' corn whiskey. They not only failed to parody it, they arguably watered it down a notch...
* There's a parody out there of "The Blue Tail Fly" in which the chorus is changed to "Jimmy drinks corn, and I don't care", meaning that Jimmy is drinking corn whiskey. Apparently the would-be parodists were unaware that the most common interpretation of the lyric "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care" is that of "cracking corn", which is to say, ''making'' corn whiskey. They not only failed to parody it, they arguably watered it down a notch...
* There's a "response" to ''[[The Lonely Island|The Lonely Island's]]'' "Jizz In My Pants" called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsQcnB6GC0 "Puke In My Mouth"]. Those behind it fail to see the original was a parody, [[Self-Deprecation|self-deprecating]] and ''actually funny''. The result is you get a bunch of attractive women acting like self important [[Jerkass|assholes]] who spend the entire song mocking ''other'' people.
* There's a "response" to ''[[The Lonely Island|The Lonely Island's]]'' "Jizz In My Pants" called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsQcnB6GC0 "Puke In My Mouth"]. Those behind it fail to see the original was a parody, [[Self-Deprecation|self-deprecating]] and ''actually funny''. The result is you get a bunch of attractive women acting like self important [[Jerkass|assholes]] who spend the entire song mocking ''other'' people.
* ''[[Lady Gaga]]''' is often said to be parodying the pop-music genre by making her performances and appearance increasingly over-the-top and controversial to the point of being ridiculous. In other words, she's parodying pop stars by [[Britney Spears (Music)|doing the same thing]] [[Madonna|they've all been doing]] [[Michael Jackson|for decades.]]
* ''[[Lady Gaga]]''' is often said to be parodying the pop-music genre by making her performances and appearance increasingly over-the-top and controversial to the point of being ridiculous. In other words, she's parodying pop stars by [[Britney Spears|doing the same thing]] [[Madonna|they've all been doing]] [[Michael Jackson|for decades.]]
* [[Weird Al Yankovic]]'s song "Perform This Way," a take on Gaga's "Born This Way," ends up having the same messages as the original song - to wit, [[Lady Gaga]] is a strange person, but that's okay.
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song "Perform This Way," a take on Gaga's "Born This Way," ends up having the same messages as the original song - to wit, [[Lady Gaga]] is a strange person, but that's okay.
* The Youtube meme of taking isolated vocal tracks of classic songs and running them through Microsoft's Songsmith program has led to some hilarious musical juxtapositions ([[Ozzy Osbourne|"Crazy Train"]] as bluegrass, [[Motorhead|"Ace of Spades"]] as folk-pop). But the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kxqMpGAL3I lounge jazz version of "Runnin' With The Devil"] by [[Van Halen]], while amusing, totally sounds like something David Lee Roth would've put on one of his solo albums.
* The Youtube meme of taking isolated vocal tracks of classic songs and running them through Microsoft's Songsmith program has led to some hilarious musical juxtapositions ([[Ozzy Osbourne|"Crazy Train"]] as bluegrass, [[Motorhead|"Ace of Spades"]] as folk-pop). But the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kxqMpGAL3I lounge jazz version of "Runnin' With The Devil"] by [[Van Halen]], while amusing, totally sounds like something David Lee Roth would've put on one of his solo albums.
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== Print Media ==
== Print Media ==
* This was practically the specialty of ''[[Cracked (Magazine)|Cracked]]'' Magazine:
* This was practically the specialty of ''[[Cracked]]'' Magazine:
** Several ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' parodies, apart from some [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] moments, could pass for real episodes. The corny dialogue was so dead on, some might wonder if the actual ''Mork and Mindy'' writers made them.
** Several ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' parodies, apart from some [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] moments, could pass for real episodes. The corny dialogue was so dead on, some might wonder if the actual ''Mork and Mindy'' writers made them.
** In the late '70s, the people at ''Cracked'' seemed to figure out that ''featuring'' popular characters from, e.g., ''[[Star Wars]]'' or ''[[Happy Days]]'' was more lucrative than just parodying the works themselves, and could be done for a much longer time. The Fonz was so heavily featured that he was practically a ''Cracked'' "house character" for several years. Indeed, ''Cracked'' never actually did a parody, per se, of the ''[[Happy Days]]'' show. Instead, the magazine simply feature the characters, ''frequently'', in other comedy bits.
** In the late '70s, the people at ''Cracked'' seemed to figure out that ''featuring'' popular characters from, e.g., ''[[Star Wars]]'' or ''[[Happy Days]]'' was more lucrative than just parodying the works themselves, and could be done for a much longer time. The Fonz was so heavily featured that he was practically a ''Cracked'' "house character" for several years. Indeed, ''Cracked'' never actually did a parody, per se, of the ''[[Happy Days]]'' show. Instead, the magazine simply feature the characters, ''frequently'', in other comedy bits.
** In later years, their ''[[South Park]]'' parody pretty much played it straight as well - nothing at all like ''[[Mad (Magazine)|Mad]]'' and its constant [[Lampshade Hanging]], [[No Fourth Wall|fourth-wall demolition]] and hilarious [[Deus Ex Machina]] endings.
** In later years, their ''[[South Park]]'' parody pretty much played it straight as well - nothing at all like ''[[Mad]]'' and its constant [[Lampshade Hanging]], [[No Fourth Wall|fourth-wall demolition]] and hilarious [[Deus Ex Machina]] endings.
* ''[[Mad (Magazine)|Mad]]'', in its 1950s [[Comic Book]] incarnation, sometimes ended up committing this trope. In their Disney parody, for example, much of the humor derived from [[Donald Duck]] losing his clothes and getting captured by a duck farmer who could barely understand him. Pretty funny in itself, but Donald winding up naked and coming off as incomprehensible due to his quacking voice happened in quite a few ''actual'' Donald Duck cartoons.
* ''[[Mad]]'', in its 1950s [[Comic Book]] incarnation, sometimes ended up committing this trope. In their Disney parody, for example, much of the humor derived from [[Donald Duck]] losing his clothes and getting captured by a duck farmer who could barely understand him. Pretty funny in itself, but Donald winding up naked and coming off as incomprehensible due to his quacking voice happened in quite a few ''actual'' Donald Duck cartoons.




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== Video Games ==
== Video Games ==
* Pretty much all the stuff that's played for laughs (like stupid guards and rescuing hostages on the toilet) in ''Mesal Gear Solid'', the [[Metal Gear]] parody in ''[[Ape Escape (Video Game)|Ape Escape]] 3'', is stuff that was played for laughs (or at least played non-seriously) in the actual series. The ending line of the PAL version ("I go wherever the wind takes me. So long as war never ends, I will always have a place in this world.") would not sound remotely out of place in the actual games - the canon is already so deliberately over-the-top that it's pretty much impossible to parody.
* Pretty much all the stuff that's played for laughs (like stupid guards and rescuing hostages on the toilet) in ''Mesal Gear Solid'', the [[Metal Gear]] parody in ''[[Ape Escape]] 3'', is stuff that was played for laughs (or at least played non-seriously) in the actual series. The ending line of the PAL version ("I go wherever the wind takes me. So long as war never ends, I will always have a place in this world.") would not sound remotely out of place in the actual games - the canon is already so deliberately over-the-top that it's pretty much impossible to parody.
** On the other hand, the [[Metal Gear Solid 3]] self-parody crossover with ''Ape Escape'' is spot-on, not least in having Snake complain about all the "[[Follow the Leader]]" types who could be doing this mission, and parodying the ridiculously intricate relationships in ''Metal Gear''.
** On the other hand, the [[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]] self-parody crossover with ''Ape Escape'' is spot-on, not least in having Snake complain about all the "[[Follow the Leader]]" types who could be doing this mission, and parodying the ridiculously intricate relationships in ''Metal Gear''.




== Web Original ==
== Web Original ==
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_17674_how-make-jokeless-comedy-studying-epic-movie-guys.html How to Make Jokeless Comedy: Studying the 'Epic Movie' Guys].
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_17674_how-make-jokeless-comedy-studying-epic-movie-guys.html How to Make Jokeless Comedy: Studying the 'Epic Movie' Guys].
* ''[[Avatar the Abridged Series]]'' suffers from this some of the time, due to parodying a show that already has a high joke quotient. For example, its parody of the episode "The Storm" has a scene where Katara says: "Aang would never run away! [Aang gets on his glider and flies off] Aang, stop running away!" The original was exactly the same, only with different wording.
* ''[[Avatar: The Abridged Series]]'' suffers from this some of the time, due to parodying a show that already has a high joke quotient. For example, its parody of the episode "The Storm" has a scene where Katara says: "Aang would never run away! [Aang gets on his glider and flies off] Aang, stop running away!" The original was exactly the same, only with different wording.
* Before he became [[The Irate Gamer]], Chris Bores made a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZR9AnypvI "parody"] of [[Myth Busters]]. Though it's not as much a parody as it is a bland imitation.
* Before he became [[The Irate Gamer]], Chris Bores made a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZR9AnypvI "parody"] of [[Myth Busters]]. Though it's not as much a parody as it is a bland imitation.
* ''[[Key of Awesome]]'''s "I Need A Doctor" parody pokes fun at the [[Ho Yay]] between [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Dr Dre and Eminem]] by having Eminem hit blatantly on Dre, Dre responding with a sarcastic and only mildly irritated rejection, and Eminem [[Gay Moment|desperately attempting to backpedal and pretend he didn't mean it to regain some shred of heterosexuality]]. Eminem used this ''exact same joke'' in the song and video "Lose It", where he hits on Dre at a bar, and when he gets shot down, claims he's blind. The song and video also had a [[Ho Yay]]-ridden hook that went "[[Armored Closet Gay|Yeah, boy, shake that thing - whoops, I mean girl. Girl girl girl]]" and a section where Eminem [[Cosplay|cosplayed]] gay icon Madonna.
* ''[[Key of Awesome]]'''s "I Need A Doctor" parody pokes fun at the [[Ho Yay]] between [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Dr Dre and Eminem]] by having Eminem hit blatantly on Dre, Dre responding with a sarcastic and only mildly irritated rejection, and Eminem [[Gay Moment|desperately attempting to backpedal and pretend he didn't mean it to regain some shred of heterosexuality]]. Eminem used this ''exact same joke'' in the song and video "Lose It", where he hits on Dre at a bar, and when he gets shot down, claims he's blind. The song and video also had a [[Ho Yay]]-ridden hook that went "[[Armored Closet Gay|Yeah, boy, shake that thing - whoops, I mean girl. Girl girl girl]]" and a section where Eminem [[Cosplay|cosplayed]] gay icon Madonna.
* The author of the comics and articles featured on [[Platypus Comix]] sometimes makes parodies that highlight some moronic things he found out the subject performed in real life. (eg, Some of the answers Far East Movement gives in [http://www.platypuscomix.net/people/geesix.html this fake interview] got lifted from [http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/hip-hop-media-training/far-east-movement-explains-meaning-behind-like-a-g6.html a real article], although the author also included some fabricated responses.)
* The author of the comics and articles featured on [[Platypus Comix]] sometimes makes parodies that highlight some moronic things he found out the subject performed in real life. (eg, Some of the answers Far East Movement gives in [http://www.platypuscomix.net/people/geesix.html this fake interview] got lifted from [http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/hip-hop-media-training/far-east-movement-explains-meaning-behind-like-a-g6.html a real article], although the author also included some fabricated responses.)
* In [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'s Top 11 Drug PSA's, he makes a joke about a Star Wars smoking one about robots not having lungs to damage...which C-3PO himself comments in the PSA.
* In [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s Top 11 Drug PSA's, he makes a joke about a Star Wars smoking one about robots not having lungs to damage...which C-3PO himself comments in the PSA.
** Referenced in his [[A Simple Wish]] review when he yells at the character with a magic wand, "stop turning my jokes into something that already exist."
** Referenced in his [[A Simple Wish]] review when he yells at the character with a magic wand, "stop turning my jokes into something that already exist."
* ''[[How It Should Have Ended (Web Animation)|How It Should Have Ended]]'s'' video for ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Film)|The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' remake had Erin beat Leatherface by just kicking him in the balls. She did kick him in the balls in the actual film (in the meat freezer scene) and it barely slowed him down.
* ''[[How It Should Have Ended]]'s'' video for ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' remake had Erin beat Leatherface by just kicking him in the balls. She did kick him in the balls in the actual film (in the meat freezer scene) and it barely slowed him down.




== Western Animation ==
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' and ''The TV Land Awards'' have both featured skits that combine ''[[Sex and The City]]'' with ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', or at least were aimed in that direction. Problem is, 70% of the humor in ''The Golden Girls'' derives from these aging women unashamedly talking about their sex lives.
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' and ''The TV Land Awards'' have both featured skits that combine ''[[Sex and the City]]'' with ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', or at least were aimed in that direction. Problem is, 70% of the humor in ''The Golden Girls'' derives from these aging women unashamedly talking about their sex lives.
* The old cartoon ''Batfink'' is basically a spoof of... the silly [[Batman (TV)|Adam West Batman]] show. Which was a spoof of superheroes to begin with.
* The old cartoon ''Batfink'' is basically a spoof of... the silly [[Batman (TV series)|Adam West Batman]] show. Which was a spoof of superheroes to begin with.
* The ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Blue Harvest" parodying ''[[Star Wars]] Episode IV: [[A New Hope]]'' features a joke about the Cantina band, Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, simply playing only one song over and over again (you know the one). It's a joke that isn't even unique to Family Guy, and is just plain nonsense [[Outside Joke|if you ever watched the movie in question.]] Not only can you very clearly hear a change in music from the uproarious Benny Goodman-like "Mad About Me" to a mellower BGM, [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cantina_Band_2 the friggin' soundtrack has both Cantina songs!]
* The ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Blue Harvest" parodying ''[[Star Wars]] Episode IV: [[A New Hope]]'' features a joke about the Cantina band, Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, simply playing only one song over and over again (you know the one). It's a joke that isn't even unique to Family Guy, and is just plain nonsense [[Outside Joke|if you ever watched the movie in question.]] Not only can you very clearly hear a change in music from the uproarious Benny Goodman-like "Mad About Me" to a mellower BGM, [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cantina_Band_2 the friggin' soundtrack has both Cantina songs!]
** Also, in spite of the joke about how they'll have to continue the movie with [[Danny Elfman]] after [[John Williams]] kicks it, [[Did Not Do the Research|Elfman doesn't conduct his scores.]]
** Also, in spite of the joke about how they'll have to continue the movie with [[Danny Elfman]] after [[John Williams]] kicks it, [[Did Not Do the Research|Elfman doesn't conduct his scores.]]
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