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▲== 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 ''[[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.
== Comic Books ==
* Early in Marvel Comics' parody ''What Th--?!'' series, writer-artist [[John Byrne]] penned a story in which [[Superman]] and the [[Fantastic Four]] meet. After the Thing shows up, Byrne adds a footnote saying, "I'm sorry, it's impossible to write parody Thing dialogue that doesn't sound like the real thing."
== Fan Works ==
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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 ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* 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]].
== Film ==
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{{quote|'''Gabriel Utterson''':"If he be Mr. Hyde, I shall be Mr. Seek."}}
▲== 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.
* In 1995 ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' did a [[Cirque Du Soleil]] spoof -- ''[[Alegria]]'' was in New York at the
* ''[[The Chronicle]]'' was a [[Syfy]] 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
* 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.
* In the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode guide, the writers admit that ''[[Catalina Capers]]'' was one of the hardest episodes to write, being an unfunny musical comedy, thus making it difficult to effectively mock.
== 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...
* ''[[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.]]
== Newspaper Comics ==
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** There was a comic once of a man watching TV with a woman behind him looking shocked, and the caption, "Scully discovers the XXX Files." Which wasn't actually funny if you had any knowledge of ''[[The X-Files]]'', since it was well-established that Mulder really did [[Porn Stash|stash porn]] all over the office, and that Scully was perfectly aware of it and didn't care. (Not that it would be all that funny anyway...)
** Another strip featured ''[[Edward Scissorhands]]'' playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with a little kid, and continually losing. This joke especially falls flat considering it was used in the movie as a running gag. [http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/store/add.php?iid=535 And he did it again.]
== Radio ==
* ''[[The Bob and Tom Show]]'' likes to cast its hosts and/or characters in wacky variants on recent hit movies, and fell victim to this when they cast white trash caricature Donnie Baker in "Funeral Crashers"
== Theater ==
* Lampshaded/parodied by [[Forbidden Broadway]]'s take on "The Song That Goes Like This" from ''[[Spamalot]]''. The song starts out using the exact same lyrics as the original, then points out that fact, and then accuses the show of stealing from [[Forbidden Broadway]].
== Web Comics ==
* [http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif This] ''[[Bob the Angry Flower]]'' parody sequel to ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' has been widely circulated where people admit, sometimes quite proudly, that they found [[Ayn Rand]]'s book too long to read. If they had actually read it through, they might have discovered that industrialists such as Dwight Sanders ''do'' take up farming after leaving the world behind for [[Mary Suetopia|Galt's Gulch]].
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Abridged Series|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 ''[[
* ''[[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 [[
* In [[The Nostalgia Critic]]'s review of ''[[Casper (film)|Casper]]'', he ends by making a lengthy ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' joke, despite the fact that such a joke was already made in the movie and ''he showed it''. In his 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.
* An online video called ''The Hungry Games'', mocking the trailer for ''[[The Hunger Games]]'' in making it about an eating contest, calls the main character "Catnip" as a [[Parody Name]]. The creator evidently didn't realize that in-universe, that's Gale's personal nickname for Katniss.
* College Humor made a fake trailer for a version of ''[[The Dark Knight Saga|The Dark Knight]]'' done in the style of the 1960s ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' TV show. Much of the humor seems to rely on the apparent fact that a movie about this incarnation of Batman would turn out way too silly. Someone must not have gotten word that this TV show ''does'' have [[Batman: The Movie|a very silly movie]].
== 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.
* The array of [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]-esque superheroes in the supporting cast of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' includes, among others, [[Captain America (comics)|Major Glory]], [[The Mighty Thor|Valhallan]], [[Incredible Hulk|The Infraggable Krunk]], [[Iron Man|Living Bullet]], [[Scarlet Witch|Miss Spell]], and... White Tiger, who, while a [[Black Panther]] parody, shares a name with a ''real'' Marvel character.
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