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Contrast with [[Shallow Parody]], when source material ignorance produces a parody that departs too ''much'' from the original.

== Anime & Manga ==

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** When [[Emma Watson]] appeared on ''The Wayne Brady Show'' to promote the second film, Brady asked Watson if they were making the films quickly, saying "you can't have" it be "Hello, I'm Harry Potter and this is my chamber of puberty."

** 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.

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== Music ==

* 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.]]

* [[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.