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{{trope}}
{{quote|Did I just abridge my own series?
|''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' [[Clip Show]]}}
When a work parodies ''itself.''
There are several ways to do this. Some involve [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]].
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If a self-parody is to be done without direct self-reference, an easy method is having a [[Show Within a Show]] be a parody of the original show. The parallels should be obvious to the alert viewer, but the characters may write them off.
All deliberate self-parodies tend toward [[Self
Supertrope to [[Adam Westing]], which is when an actor self-parodies his best-known character or his own public persona.
This is hard to do well. And woe to the work that does it by accident.▼
▲This is hard to do well. And woe to the work that does it by accident.
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== [[Advertising]] ==
* A law firm company released several ads showing people hugely distraught over minor things, such as a paper cut or power going out during an intense video game session, and the "victims" demand justice for the parties responsible. The ads usually end with the number to call to firm and a disclaimer saying "But keep in mind that you really need to be injured."
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' invokes this trope during the 25th Tenkaichi Budokai when there's a screening of a movie about "How [[Fake Ultimate Hero|Mr. Satan]] defeated Cell".
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* ''[[Darker
* ''[[Nurse Witch Komugi]]'': a spin-off/self parody of the ''[[Soul Taker (
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' had a [[Neon Genesis Evangelion
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJFMmNop0e4 This] trailer of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has idiocies like [[Henshin Hero]] Setsuna F. Exia, Lockon's ghost freaking out Tieria and Allelujah, Haro playing [[Body Snatcher]] with Tieria, Sergei and Marie/Soma eating bamboo as pandas and Patrick getting shot in the ass by a UFO.
== [[Card Games]] ==
* ''[[Magic:
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Some interpretations of ''[[All Star Batman and Robin]]'' suggest that it is a
* [[Marvel Comics]] has published quite a few, including ''Not Brand Echh'' (later called, ''Wha...Huh?'' and ''Marvel: Now What?'' in one-shot specials) and its [[Spiritual Successor]], the original ''What The--?!'' (which Marvel claims takes place in the same reality as the former series, Earth-665). They also released ''Marvel Tails'' (sic) which starred Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham, and other [[Funny Animal]] versions of Marvel heroes.
* The ''Marvel Super Heroes: What The-?!'' series by [[Marvel Comics]] is a Stop-motion style series of parodies and jokes regarding the Marvel universe, with oddities such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8E0dcj1RRs M.O.D.O.K.], the old shame of Tony, ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil]]'' ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oZ1gmd0sMk War]'', and the highly regarded [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPqQvRrzqAw Old Man Logan].
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Enchanted]]'' was Disney making fun of itself.
* ''[[
* ''[[Gremlins 2 The New Batch]]'' basically made fun of the first film and audience reactions to it.
* ''[[A Cock
* ''[[Snakes
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''How to Write a Blackwood Article'' has its protagonist ask a parody of himself for writing advice. She in turn goes on to "write" Poe's ''A Predicament'', in which she [[Malaproper|mangles a fair number of literary references]] and [[Losing Your Head|gets beheaded by a clock]] due to a combination of [[Too Dumb to Live|stupidity]] and [[Exact Words]] being used against her...[[Undead Author|and survives to lament having lost her head, her manservant and her dog all at once.]]
* The "Roonil Wazlib" gag in ''[[Harry Potter and
* In ''[[Lensman|Children of the Lens]]'', the protagonist at one point poses as a writer of space operas, and we're treated to a paragraph or so of his
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* [[Michael Moorcock]]'s "The Stone Thing: A Tale of Strange Parts". The story of an [[The Exile|exiled]] and [[Flying Dutchman|doomed wanderer]], who has lost most of his extremities and all of his loved ones due to the vast array of [[Evil Weapon|cursed weaponry]] he's forced to carry around with him. It takes every aspect of ''[[The Elric Saga]]'' [[Up to Eleven]] and ends with a totally outrageous punchline.
== [[Live
* Believe it or not, but ''[[Sesame Street]]'' had a "Cookie World" episode. Starring who else?
* From ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', some of House's favorite soaps. Maybe.
* "Jerry" on ''[[Seinfeld]]''.
* "Wormhole X-Treme" and "200" from ''[[Stargate SG
* In ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', the sketch "What the Stars Foretell" has a character starting to rattle off synonyms, then a poster drops down so the studio audience can continue reading from the [[Long List]]. Terry Jones and Michael Palin wrote this as a parody of Chapman and Cleese's thesaurus-inspired sketches; they were surprised when it was accepted for the show.
** Also written as a joke was the sketch "The Extremely Dull Life of a City Stockbroker," a parody of Jones and Palin's sketches by Chapman and Idle. This goes to show how easily a [[Gag Series]] can accommodate
* ''[[Gekisou Sentai Carranger]]'' is both a full ''[[Super Sentai]]'' series and a parody of the Sentai formula. ''[[Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger]]'' is its [[Spiritual Successor]].
** And on the other side of the Pacific, ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'' and (to a lesser extent) ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]''. ''RPM'' was something of an interesting clash, as it was the same time a [[Darker and Edgier]] take on the source material (the Rangers are the main force protecting the only human city left after a robot apocalypse) and ''constantly'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] its own tropes at the same time ("Sometimes when I morph, I can't help but notice this gigantic explosion right behind me for no apparent reason. (...) Now, could that happen to me in the kitchen or something?").
* In ''[[Father Ted]]'', the priests are big fans of a series called Father Ben about stupid priests who live on an island.
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "The Zeppo" (season 3, episode 13) made fun of the cliches the show established.
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* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'': The [[Show Within a Show]] "Kid Gets Acquainted With the Universe".
* [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] had "A Day in the Life" in season 2 and "The Play's the Thing" in season 4.
* Every ''[[The X
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'''s "The Stinson Missile Crisis" parodied itself via the setting of Robin in court-mandated therapy after a mysterious sequence of events, telling her therapist the story of How She Wound Up Assaulting A Woman And Getting Stuck In This Court-Mandated Therapy. She then proceeds to use an unnecessary level of detail and a ridiculous number of tangents that she insists are essential in order to understand the full story while her therapist waits impatiently and is repeatedly fooled into thinking that ''this'' moment is the one where she ''finally'' Assaults The
** Not only that, but her story leads both Kevin and the viewers to believe that the woman she assaulted is Nora, when in fact it turns out to be someone completely different, possibly referencing HIMYM's pilot episode, where both Ted's kids and the viewers were falsely led to believe that The Mother was Robin.
* The final clown segment in [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s ''Dralion'' goofily reenacts all of the show's serious acts, complete with threadbare mockeries of key costumes and props.▼
* An accidental example of this is "Right Brain", a song from the 1994 New York Theatre Workshop version of Jonathan Larson's ''[[Rent]]''. Later becoming "One Song Glory", many fans who hear this old version of the inspirational song can hardly listen without feeling the need to vomit or burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.▼
* The tribute concert to Cameron Mackintosh, "Hey Mr Producer", features a pre-taped segment in which [[Stephen Sondheim]] and [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] parody their songs "Send in the Clowns" and "Music of the Night", while ribbing Cameron Mackintosh at the same time. It can be called the highlight of the show. ▼
== [[Music]] ==
* [[
== [[Radio]] ==
* [[Orson Welles]] was the guest host of ''[[The Jack Benny Program]]'' for four episodes in 1943 while Jack was ill. The main humor of the episodes comes from Welles parodying his own image as a director with a huge ego and a flair for over-the-top filmmaking:
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'''Welles:''' Well, I've called my story very simply "The March of Destiny", and it deals with everything that ever happened. }}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The Black Dog Game Factory in ''[[
== Theatre ==
▲* The final clown segment in [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s ''Dralion'' goofily reenacts all of the show's serious acts, complete with threadbare mockeries of key costumes and props.
▲* An accidental example of this is "Right Brain", a song from the 1994 New York Theatre Workshop version of Jonathan Larson's ''[[Rent]]''. Later becoming "One Song Glory", many fans who hear this old version of the inspirational song can hardly listen without feeling the need to vomit or burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
▲* The tribute concert to Cameron Mackintosh,
* Although the cabaret show ''[[Forbidden Broadway]]'' is about parodying ''other'' shows, it does take the occasional potshot at itself and its playwright/lyricist Gerard Alessandrini.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The last panel in this comic: ''"We rejoin ''[[Diesel Sweeties]]'' [http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/2513 #2513] already in progress..."''
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'''Clango:''' "Additional nonsensical rejoinder!" }}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[South Park]]'' does this on occasion:
** The episode "Butt Out" is a parody of the standard ''South Park'' formula, as Kyle points out in a moment of [[Genre Savvy]].
** [[Word of God]] confirms this in the case of Terrance and Phillip: When the [[Moral Guardians]] first started complaining about the show, they decided to make a show within their show that was [[Refuge in Audacity|even]] [[Refuge in Vulgarity|worse]].
** It goes meta in ''200'', in which Kyle and Cartman call each other "fat-ass" and
* ''[[
* ''[[The
* ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' had a monster filming Juniper's adventures and broadcasting them in a show named "The Battles and Brawls of Juniper Lee".
* At the end of the
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