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More egregious cases will often ignore elements that justify the more ridiculous aspects of the work or mock the original for things the original doesn't even have.
 
Note this is sometimes unavoidable. For example, if you're parodying a film that hasn't come out yet, the trailer may be all you have to go on (although parodying something that has not yet branded itself into the public's consciousness would seem a little pointless). Occasionally, the parodists may make good guesses and succeed anyway. However, if you're making a parody of ''[[Citizen Kane (Film)|Citizen Kane]]'' and [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"|all you know]] is the "[[It Was His Sled|Rosebud]]" scene... well, there really is no excuse.
 
Also note that this trope does not encompass all bad parodies. ''Just'' knowing what you're parodying does not automatically make your parody funny... but it's at least a start.
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*** On the same note their ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' parody included the subplot from the book about some of the dinosaurs stowing away on a commercial freighter, a subplot that was dropped quite early during the production of the movie.
** ''Mad'' explained away in another ''Harry Potter'' parody that they knew they got things wrong but [[They Just Didn't Care|didn't particularly care]].
** They also did a parody of ''[[X-Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men 2]]'' from a draft script of the movie, as it poked fun at subplots that weren't actually in the film.
** Similarly to the ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' example: the parody comic of ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' was based on the first draft screenplay, which was ''significantly'' different from the finished film. In their rush to get a parody out on time, they ended up parodying something that only barely resembled the movie itself.
** From the animated TV show's ''[[Naruto]]'' parody you'd think they only watched the first 3 or 4 episodes.
* Marvel's ''Marville'' hopes irrelevant pop culture is enough to count as parody.
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* Marvel's parody comic ''Not Brand Ecch'' portrayed the [[Doom Patrol]] as shameless rip-offs of the more popular [[X-Men]] when in reality the Patrol came first.
** Though only by a few months at a time when comic book scripts were written longer in advance than that. Not to mention that the creator of Doom Patrol used to work for Marvel.
* ''[[Cracked (Magazine)|Cracked]]'', when it still was a magazine [[Follow the Leader|along the lines of]] ''Mad'', had an issue covering the 1989 Batman film wherein a Burt Ward-style Robin complains that not only is he absent from the film, but he's dead in the comics. Never mind that it was Jason Todd who died and Dick Grayson was currently Nightwing. (To be fair, in the eyes of most casual ''Batman'' fans that is basically nit-picking.)
** Pretty much any ''Cracked'' magazine parody, for that matter. They did little more than re-tell the movie or TV show straight up, with [[Parody Name|parody names]].
* The [[Lucas Arts]] ''[[Sam and Max]]'' strips frequently fell into this, possibly deliberately. Being produced for the [[Lucas Arts]] company newsletter and ''Sam And Max'' not starting out as [[Lucas Arts]] characters, Steve Purcell was allowed to draw them only if he parodied whatever games were coming out at the time. Because of this, he preferred to take the basic setting of the game he was parodying, dress Sam up as the main character of that game, and then just have the characters do their own thing - being more like one-off, themed adventures about fighting monsters or being bikers instead of parodies of ''[[Maniac Mansion]]'' and ''[[Full Throttle]]''. Notably, the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' parody had Sam and Max in pirate costumes going to a desert island... full of monkeys. [[Tropes Are Not Bad|To be fair, the strips are probably more hilarious for not being true parody]].
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** Tellingly ''not'' the case with ''[[Superhero Movie]]'', not by [[Seltzer and Friedberg]], though often assumed to be. Though not a great movie by a long shot, it is a rather direct parody of the first ''[[Spider-Man]]'' film, as is the better for it.
** It's been argued that [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] don't, in fact, do parody at all. What they do is pop culture ''acknowledgements'', feeling secure in the knowledge that there exist in America enough people [[Viewers are Morons|devoid of a sense of humor]] enough that they will think the movies are funny because of the marketing alone.
** ''[[Vampires Suck (Film)|Vampires Suck]]'' mostly averted this, except for a couple of throwaway gags.
* Somewhat more excusable example: ''[[Airplane!]]'' includes a parody of a famous scene from ''From Here to Eternity'' despite none of the writers having watched that film. Mind you, that's ''one'' parody in a film which included... well, a lot.
** According to the commentary, because the writers had never seen the film, they [[Popcultural Osmosis|didn't even know they were parodying it]].
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* ''[[Candide]]'' by Voltaire fits this trope in its attempts to parody the philosophy of Leibniz.
* ''[[Phules Company|Phule's Errand]]'' by Peter J. Heck includes a long sequence which is a ''painfully'' Shallow Parody of [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''[[Foundation]]'' novels. "Perry Sodden" = Comedy gold!
* 'Most parodies of one's own work strike one as very poor,' noted [[TST. S. Eliot]]. 'In fact one is apt to think one could parody oneself much better.' He noted this in the context of praising an aversion; Henry Reed's "[http://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofparts/chardwhitlow.html Chard Whitlow]", which doesn't settle for making cheap swipes at Eliot's best known works, but parodies what his poems are actually ''like''.
 
== Live Action TV ==
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** On the other side of the spectrum, you have the ''SNL'' parodies that are actually well-researched and spot-on, such as the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' parodies (which use characters that aren't featured in the movie trailers, use the first names of the Hogwarts teachers, and mention things like butterbeer) <ref>-- including the one that had [[Daniel Radcliffe]] on it as a washed-up Harry Potter who still lives in Hogwarts ten years after he was supposed to graduate</ref> and the one-off parody of ''[[There Will Be Blood]]'' from the season 33 episode hosted by Tina Fey (which was a Food Network show called "I Drink Your Milkshake," in which Daniel Plainview [Bill Hader] travels to America's malt shops and literally drinks their milkshakes). Bill Hader's Daniel Day Lewis is pitch-perfect, and the sketch references moments in the film that ''aren't'' [[Memetic Mutation|Memetic Mutations]], such as '''[[Large Ham|"I'VE ABANDONED MY CHIIIIIIIIIIILD"]]''' and Plainview's opening speech.
** [[They Plotted a Perfectly Good Waste|Intentionally used]] with the sketch "What Is Burn Notice?" from the season 35 episode hosted by Ashton Kutcher. The sketch was a game show in which the contestants have to tell the host (Jason Sudeikis) what the premise of ''Burn Notice'' is about, because he apparently doesn't know. The joke being that even though ''[[Burn Notice]]'' is purportedly one of the most popular shows on television, no one you know has ever seen it.
* ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' usually did targeted parodies pretty well, considering its entire premise was general parody. However, its parody of ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' falls into this. Donald Snead and Emily Neal are British, styled correctly and have a lot of sexual tension, but that's where the similarities end. Snead bears very little resemblance to John Steed personality-wise, and Mrs. Neal's use of a deadly lipstick is particularly glaring, much more reminiscent of April Dancer than Emma Peel. The episode is funny, but it's pretty clear the creators are unaware of just how stylistically different ''The Avengers'' was from most other spy shows.
* Done intentionally and fully admitted to on the "Movie Trailers That Are Destroying America" segment of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', where Colbert thinks of ridiculous reasons to consider movies offensive based entirely on the trailers.
* French and Saunders did a sketch about the ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' apparently without having read the books or seen the movies: Gandalf and Frodo repeatedly mention Frodo's quest to ''find'' the one ring to rule them all.
** A better example of the same flaw can be seen in ''[[Dead Ringers (TV series)|Dead Ringers]]''` early LOTR parodies, in which indeed Gandalf sends Frodo on a quest to ''find'' the Ring. Later on they were better researched.
** Similarly on ''[[The ChasersChaser's War Onon Everything]]'' with a sketch about rumours of a movie version of ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and imagining it directed by various people (Nick Giannopoulos, [[Woody Allen]] and [[Michael Moore]]). For some reason the first one had two Hobbits with a dynamic suspiciously similar to Frodo and Sam, and not a dwarf in sight.
** Note though that this was technically a parody of [[The Wog Boy]] and not of The Hobbit. Same for the Woody Allen and Michael Moore trailers.
* [[Bob Hope]] parodied ''[[Shogun]]'' on one of his specials. The sketch writers assumed Anjin-san (Richard Chamberlain) was the title character.
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** Truth Media usually tries really hard to get everything ''wrong'' so they can post and mock the inevitable replies from [[Troll|Trolls]] and [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys|so-called-experts.]] The [[Grand Theft Auto|GTA]] San Andreas review was quite noticeable for getting the main character's name wrong despite knowing his initials.
* As an [[April Fools' Day]] joke, Maddox of ''[[The Best Page in The Universe]]'' did a trailer for a fictional film, ''[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af08 Vague Genre Movie]'', mocking shallow parodies such as the [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] ones mentioned above.
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_15665_7-least-faithful-comic-book-movies.html This] ''[[Cracked]]'' article that talks about Ang Lee's ''[[Hulk (Filmfilm)|Hulk]]'' movie and how it differed from the comics, saying that [[The Incredible Hulk]] ''didn't'' delve into psychological themes and that it spent an odd amount of time focusing on Bruce Banner's father. The thing is, though, Bruce Banner's multiple personality disorder and abusive childhood became a huge part of his mythos starting as far back as the 80s with Joe Fixit (and maybe even earlier than ''that'') and continued during the 90s. Assuming this is still canon then that accounts for ''over half of the The Hulk's canon.''
 
 
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== Radio ==
* Every parody of ''[[A Prairie Home Companion (Radio)|A Prairie Home Companion]]'''s Garrison Keillor is based around: "The News From Lake Wobegon" (which is just one segment of a two hour show), his alleged need to [[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|"be more funny"]] (his style of humor is intended to be subtle and whimsical, not broadly comedic, and he also has a strong satirical streak), his excessive folksiness (which is meant to be a bit tongue-in-cheek), and his voice (which is so distinctive that most imitators can't seem to do it properly. A lot of Keillor imitations end up sounding more like Stuart McLean of ''[[The Vinyl Cafe (Radio)|The Vinyl Cafe]]''.)
* The 2000s British radio comedy ''[[Atomic Tales]]'' parodies 1940s and 1950s American radio sci-fi drama. The only problem is that it largely does so based on the popular conception of what such shows were like rather than what they were actually like. A major feature of the parody is unsubtle, invariably rightwing, "moral lessons" at the end, despite the fact that such radio drama rarely had characters deliver political speeches (not least because they were primarily adventure stories largely intended for children and were supposed to be escapist). Another target of the parody is the notion that science is "evil" despite the fact that such shows often celebrated scientific endeavour and achievement in a way, ironically, that makes them look naive now; the "dire warnings" aspect usually came-about from "mad scientists" who twisted science to evil purposes rather than science being evil itself.
* ''That Mitchell & Webb Sound'', the radio predecessor to ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'', had a few notable examples.
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== Theater ==
* ''The Drowsy Chaperone'' [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|purports]] to be a forgotten Broadway musical from 1928, but bears very little resemblance (especially in its songs) to the musicals of [[The Twenties]] it aims to parody. This may have to do with actual musicals of the period being rarely seen on stage generations later except in [[Adaptation Decay|Adaptation Decayed]] revival editions. The review at TalkinBroadway.com even pointed out that complete cast recordings of shows weren't made back then, which means that the musical theater fans the show is meant to appeal to will realize this is shallow almost immediately. (A more accurate [[Affectionate Parody]] of these shows is ''The Boy Friend'', which was written in the 1950s.)
* Travesties, in which characters from other works were placed in ridiculous situations that had little to do with the original, may be older than deeper parodies. As Macdonald notes in his [[Serious Business|careful dissection of the delicate art of parody]], this was a sure recipe for dumb, cheap laughs. ''[[Disaster Movie]]'' and its ilk are therefore [[Older Than You Think]], and demand [[True Art Is Ancient|our respect and veneration.]] Then again, with a name like Travesty, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|at least you know what to expect when you go into it.]]
* Parodies of/jokes about [[Cirque Du Soleil]], no matter the medium, can wind up as this. Apparently, ''everybody'' in a given troupe is French or French-Canadian, they spend the whole show posing or contorting pretentiously if they aren't weird clowns who accost helpless audience members -- as in an Expedia.com ad with a man's [[Imagine Spot]] having him pulled on stage to have a smiley face painted on his stomach -- and it's all boring, needlessly expensive, and [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|incomprehensible]]. This is a side effect of Cirque being a [[Love It or Hate It]] thing, possibly in conjunction with its perceived "[[Men Are Uncultured|unmanliness]]".
* This is [[Older Than Feudalism]]. [[Aristophanes]]' portrayal of [[Socrates]] in ''[[The Clouds (Theatre)|The Clouds]]'' has pretty much nothing to do with Socrates' actual views as a philosopher, and treats him as a combination of a pre-Socratic natural philosopher and a rhetorician. It also includes the common misconception of natural philosophers as atheists (which they generally weren't). Unfortunately, the misconceptions voiced by the play were partially responsible for Socrates' execution.
 
 
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** The second game had levels that didn't even fit the TV theme and were more like generic platformer levels, like the prehistoric stages. It also featured Gex...restating famous movie lines in a appropriate context. Not even doing a voice like in 3. Just...repeating them. Hilarious?
** In the 2nd game's prehistoric levels, Gex would say lines from Planet of the Apes. "Dr Zaius, would an ape make a human doll that talks?" "You cut out his brain, you nutty baboon." He didn't even repeat them as Charlton Heston said them, he asks the first one quite casually rather than the accusatory way it was said originally, though the second line was hissed.
* Most parodies of ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue (Video Game)|Pokémon Red and Blue]]'' will name the main character "Ash" and give him his counterpart from [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|the anime]] Ash's personality, when the game character's actual name is Red. Likewise, his rival will be named Gary instead of Blue, and if Team Rocket shows up, they'll usually be the more-or-less anime-exclusive Jessie, James and Meowth. In general, the parody will base itself mostly on the anime, even though it's quite different from the games. Even parodies made by gamers and fans are, at times, guilty of this.
* ''Thelemite'', and '''how'''. It's a fairly good game on its own merits, but as a parody of ''[[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]]'', it sort of kind of resemble the original game if you squint, and seems to have been written by someone who heard a summary of the game and once saw a picture of Alex Mercer. For starters, their Mercer stand-in becomes a "mutant ninja" who flies around kicking people complete with [[Power Glows]] and [[Kiai]]. This is roughly the equivalent of a parody of [[The Incredible Hulk]] that's utterly convinced the Hulk is a [[Token Mini-Moe|physically-ten-year-old]] [[Robot Girl]] whose primary form of attack is an exploding [[Rocket Punch]] -- the character is entirely unrelated, and although the attack does somewhat resemble something in their arsenal, it gets almost every other detail of it wrong.
* An advertisement for the racing game [[Blur (Videovideo Gamegame)|Blur]] acts like the [[Mario Kart]] games are kiddie games that are about "making friends" rather than competition. Only the complete opposite is true, especially in online races with other players. Wi-Fi competitions can be BRUTAL.
* The movie Dragon Brain in [[Grand Theft Auto IV]] appears to be a parody of [[High Fantasy]] films in general, but most of the jokes are about merchandising and CGI, rather than about typical fantasy movie cliches.
 
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1156 This] ''[[PHD]]'' strip was apparently written by someone whose entire understanding of ''[[Myth Busters]]'' comes from the commercials - especially seeing how there's hardly an episode where they ''don't'' use a control in their experiments. While they openly admit that most of the science that goes into each episode is left on the cutting room floor due to time constraints, their methodology does not exactly boil down to "blow something up and call it science". [http://xkcd.com/397/ This] ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' provides a nice counterpoint.
* ''[[Lil Formers]]'' seems to think that all of the humor in ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' came from endless repetitions of "more than meets the eye". The quotation was only used twice; once by Optimus Prime at the end, and again by [[Unlucky Everydude|Sam]] near the beginning, and even then he remarks on how lame his use of it was.
** Anytime [[Lil Formers]] parodies Transformers that aren't ''Generation 1'', this trope comes in full effect. The films, [[Transformers Animated]], the Unicron Trilogy... Eventually, ''[[Shortpacked (Webcomic)|Shortpacked]]'' did a [http://www.shortpacked.com/2009/comic/book-8/07-when-robin-didnt-meet-that-other-guy/smallbots/ strip] parodying Moylan's tendencies to not research his stuff at all and only mock them because they're "new" and "not G1".
* Intentional in ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'', which purports to be a [[Film Noir]] parody, but has very little in common with the genre except for using lots of black and white, taking place in a '[[Anachronism Stew|vaguely Prohibition-era]]' setting, and having three fedora-wearing detectives as the main characters ([[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything|who don't actually do any crime-solving until right at the very end]]). They don't even act like film noir characters, except for Problem Sleuth, who is occasionally [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] and dreams of solving crimes for 'hysterical dames'. In this case, it's just to contribute to the surrealism of it all.
** While ''Problem Sleuth'' is a Shallow Parody of Film Noir, it is also an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Adventure Game|Adventure Games]] and [[JRPG|JRPGS]] - [[Genre Busting|and the Film Noir Shallow Parody is a part of this]]. How many times have you seen a detective do a [[Limit Break]]?
* ''[[UnwindersUnwinder's Tall Comics]]'': [[The Rant]] for [http://tallcomics.com/?id=56 this page] [[Discussed Trope|discusses this trope]]. Parker noted that everybody and their mother has parodied ''[[Citizen Kane (Film)|Citizen Kane]]'' at some point, but the majority seem to only reference the scenes (the bit about the sled, "Rosebud", etc) that have spread via [[Popcultural Osmosis]]. Parker deliberately set out to avoid doing that with his parody, so he imagined a ''Citizen Kane'' sequel made by a director who's obviously familiar with the original but still managed to completely miss the point. Furthermore, Parker wasn't content to simply make "the ''Citizen Kane'' parody for people who actually watched the film"--he [[Shown Their Work|referenced a subplot that was left out of the finished film]], making his comic into "the ''Citizen Kane'' parody for people who read the screenplay".
* The author of ''[[Electric Wonderland (Webcomic)|Electric Wonderland]]'' admitted to have written [http://www.platypuscomix.net/electricwonderland/index.php?issue=10&pageType=index&seriesID=11 this parody] of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' without watching the show, instead relying on [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara's]] ''History of Power Rangers'' video about the series.
* In-universe in ''[[Bobwhite]]''. [http://www.bobwhitecomics.com/?webcomic_post=20110429 Cleo tries to play] an ironic ukelele cover version of [[Lady Gaga]]'s "Born This Way". She gets a few lines in before admitting that she's never actually listened to the song.
* The ''[[Bob the Angry Flower]]'' parody of ''[[Atlas Shrugged (Literature)|Atlas Shrugged]]'' is built around the heroes being unwilling to take upon themselves the responsibilities of rebuilding society, despite spending the last third of the book in a commune seemingly devoted entirely to demonstrating they could.
 
 
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* [http://www.the-editing-room.com/ "The Editing Room"] is a satirical website consisting of "abridged screenplays", whereby the author takes the mickey out of a film by having its character [[Lampshade Hanging|hang lampshades all over the place]] and by snarking away at story points. Most are quite clever, but after a while some seem juvenile and shallow.
** [[It Gets Worse]] when you realize that the writer doesn't even bother to do any research into the background of the movie, or at times doesn't appropriately represent the story.
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2291119 A review] of ''[[Game of Thrones (TV)|Game of Thrones]]'' on Slate.com attempted to parody [[A Song of Ice and Fire]]... by using a prose style more reminiscent of [[The Eye of Argon|Jim Theis]] than George R. R. Martin.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXIk696BlVg Peter Coffin's parodies] of the ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|New Moon]]'' trailers are the [[Tropes Are Not Bad]] version of this trope. It's also [[Justified Trope|Justified]], as the intention was to fool ''Twilight'' fangirls into thinking they were the real trailers - so he had to make them right after said trailers were first released. And it works; if the videos themselves aren't hilarious enough for you, the angry responses from fans about how they were TRICKED!!!!1111 will be.
* Invoked in [[MSF High]], in-game. Lily, when asked to cosplay as her boyfriend, instead did a [[Shallow Parody]] of RPG heroes, of which her boyfriend, Drake, is a Deconstruction/Reconstruction.
** Why? {{spoiler|She loves him too much to attempt to imitate him, which she knows would probably be more of a [[Deconstructive Parody]]}}
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** The episode "Jakovasaurs". ''The Phantom Menace'' wasn't out when these were made, so all they had to make fun of Jar Jar was the trailer. Yet it kinda works because it shows they knew, as they stated, "This is the new Ewok! This is what's going to ruin the movie!" Still, it's often listed around the worst episodes of the series.
** More recently, their parody of ''[[Inception]]'' [http://tv.gawker.com/5671082/south-park-creator-admits-to-plagiarizing-college-humors-inception-parodyturns out to have been earlier based on CollegeHumor's parody of the film]. How this is relevant is that apparently that was [[Critical Research Failure|the only way that Matt Stone and Trey Parker were familiar with the plot of the film.]]
* A ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch parodying ''Into the Blue'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this, with creator [[Seth Green]] explaining that [[Animation Lead Time|it was written before the movie came out]] and that they could only make the parody based on their guesses of what the movie would be like. He goes on to state he's sure that ''[[Into the Blue (Film)|Into the Blue]]'' by now will be a complete success and received several Academy Award nominations.
** The skit runs thus:
{{quote| '''Paul Walker''': We're going to have to go... ''[[Title Drop|Into The Blue!]]''<br />
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'''Paul Walker''': I do ''lots'' of situps... }}
* Most Western Animation parodies of Anime seem to fall into this. Many draw from extremely small reference pools, and are done by people that seem to fall into one of three camps: saw half an episode of ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'', saw two minutes of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', or has some vague memories of watching ''[[Speed Racer]]''. If they're really, really, really on the ball, they might get so edgy and modern as to crack jokes about [[Dragonball Z|powering up for three months and yelling while looking constipated]].
** ''[[The Simpsons]]'' had something resembling an anime parody on the season 12 episode "HOMR." While at an animation convention, Bart and Lisa watch a Japanese cartoon (which Bart refers to as "Japanimation," which actually isn't used as much as the term anime) in which a robot-wolf-like creature captures a female warrior who turns into a prawn and destroys the robo-wolf, who then turns into a pair of wind-up shoes and walks away. So the point Al Jean (the episode writer) is making is "Ha-ha-ha, [[Widget Series|anime is weird]]" (which Bart and Lisa lampshade). Oddly, it seemed more like a parody of American science-fantasy cartoons from the '80s (''[[He-Man and Thethe Masters of Thethe Universe (Animation)|Masters of the Universe]]'', ''Thundarr the Barbarian'' etc.) than actual anime. Same thing with the "Battling Seizure Robot" parody from season 10 (though that's was more of a reference to that infamous ''Pokémon'' episode "Electric Soldier Porygon," which was banned after viewers suffered seizures).
** ''[[Futurama]]'' has shown no improvement with its "Action Delivery Force" bit. For being first aired [[Two Decades Behind|in 2011]] and the most topical gag is Amy in a [[Sailor Moon]] knock-off outfit. And while older animes, like the heavily referenced [[Voltron]], weren't known for overly fluid animation or [[Macekre|quality adaptations to America]] the dubs never spoke with sterotypical [[Bad Bad Acting|Japanese accents]] either.
** For a dizzying combination of the traits described above, there's the recurring ''[[Pokémon]]'' parody Tinymon in ''[[Johnny Test]]'', whose hero looks like Ash Ketchum, acts more like a Bruce Lee parody and, naturally, talks like ''[[Speed Racer]]''.
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*** Except for the one he catches. That one is a dead ringer for [[Pokémon Colosseum|Shadow Lugia]].
** While the ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' episode "[[Trapped in TV Land|Channel Chasers]]" visits two [[Animesque]] shows, the one with poor lipsync and bizarre enunciation is specifically a parody of ''[[Speed Racer]]'', so it's somewhat better than most other examples.
** [[DextersDexter's Laboratory]] did anime parody twice, once specifically of ''[[Speed Racer]]'' and later in the series of common anime villains traits (like being [[Bishonen]] and wearing [[Scary Impractical Armor]]). The only problem was that the villain from the latter was a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] while majority of villains he was parodying at least try to justify their crimes. And he has speech pattern like he ran away from ''[[Speed Racer]]''.
** ''[[Popeye]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYRPvz-LV-k versus anime]'' is an internet animation that does this.
* A lot of animated shows parody comic book superheroes. Almost all of them act as if comic books stopped being published after the [[Silver Age]] and the last comic book adaption released was the [[Adam West]] ''[[Batman]]'' series.
** And some go into the notion that Superheroes aren't about fighting evil but violence and that every supervillain in the history is [[Card-Carrying Villain]].
* There was an episode of Droopy, Master Detective that was a satire of ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', and apparently, whoever wrote that episode was under the impression that Juliet was [[Distressed Damsel|a princess who got captured]] [[Super Mario Bros.|and that Romeo rescued her.]]
* An episode of ''[[Drawn Together]]'' included ''[[Daria]]'' as a victim of torture in Hot Topic's basement. She quips this is men's fault, which is missing the point, since she tends to be misanthropic towards everyone regardless of gender. (The mischaracterization was probably because Daria looks so much like the stereotypical [[Straw Feminist]], being [[Hollywood Homely|"ugly"]] and all.)
** A ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' episode also featured a parody of Ms. Morgendorffer... or rather, Mr. Morgendorffer. In the segment, sometime after the events of the show and being interviewed by Michael Moore in a "Where Are They Now? 90s" send-up, Daria became a post-op FTM transgendered person named Daryl. Daryl drolly explained the procedure to Moore, who in turn lost his lunch. That was based on the other generalized misperception (by many who didn't watch the show as well as some of the characters in the show itself) of Daria as being emotionless or "The Misery Chick". Being ''Robot Chicken'', though, it's entirely conceivable they made the parody ''for'' the people who didn't watch ''Daria''.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHlwzVqFNCA This] trailer for a canceled animated movie called ''Blue Planet'' begins with a rather shallow parody of ''[[Toy Story]]'' and ''[[A Bug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]''.
** The movie itself was eventually released as an FMV On-Rails shooter called ''[[Deadly Tide]]''.
* The writers of ''[[Futurama]]'' spare no opportunity to mock PCs. The only problem? They've apparently never actually used one. For instance, in the televised version of ''Into the Wild Green Yonder'' (the original DVD release used a different joke), one of the robots thinks, "I'd like to thank my operating system, Windows 7, for... ... ''System error''." Windows 7 being most famous among users for ''never crashing''.
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** Leapt into with both feet in "Lisa the Drama Queen," an apparent parody of the IMDB entry for ''[[Heavenly Creatures]]''.
* [[Recess]] gives us Bonkey the Green Dragon, a shallow parody to Barney The Dionsaur.
* Squat from ''[[Sidekick (Animationanimation)|Sidekick]]'' is a shallow parody of [[Twitter]].
 
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