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This usually stems from ignorance of the source material. The writer underestimates the original's capacity for incongruous situations, characterization or dialogue, falsely thinking such elements will necessarily parody the source. Parody Failure also results from misunderstanding how works play with their own tropes. Works that deconstruct themselves or play their tropes for laughs render some parodies redundant.
The jokes in a Parody Failure may succeed on their own - they may have succeeded on their own in the original work - but they fail as a critique on or response to the original. Viewers may also simply enjoy a Parody Failure by interpreting it as a [[Shout
Contrast with [[Shallow Parody]], when source material ignorance produces a parody that departs too ''much'' from the original.
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* At the height of [[Harry Potter|Pottermania]] were many lame "parodies" that involved... get this!... Harry Potter entering puberty and being a very unpleasant teenager! Who wants to read a book about that? Apparently they were expecting the later entries to continue the "kid in a candy store" sense of wonder from the first book instead of maturing along with the target audience.
** 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
* 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
* ''[[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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