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== 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 ~~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.

* 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.

* ''[[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 ~~of -- and~~ it had already used the joke of the tabloids being true.

* ''[[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 of—and it had already used the joke of the tabloids being true.

* 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.

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== 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" ~~-- apparently~~ unaware that the concept of picking up women at a funeral had already been explored in the third act of ''[[Wedding Crashers]]''.

* ''[[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"—apparently unaware that the concept of picking up women at a funeral had already been explored in the third act of ''[[Wedding Crashers]]''.

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* ''[[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 ''[[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]]ed gay icon Madonna.

* 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.