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If done poorly, the parody aspect seems more like a cover for ripping off the most recent movies, as sometimes there's nothing particularly iconic about the things being parodied. Much of this depends on your definition of "narrow".
These works are almost always doomed to become [[Unintentional Period Piece
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== Live Action TV ==
* Many a sketch comedy show has fallen into this trap. ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' manages to avoid it most of the time, but some of the lesser seasons have succumbed.
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' often falls into this as part of its attempt to add [[Parental Bonus
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== Western Animation ==
* Recent episodes of ''[[South Park]]'' have included parodies of ''[[Mr. Popper's
* The ''[[Animaniacs]]'' song "Video [[Stealth Pun|Revue]]", set in a video store (which ''in itself'' makes this sequence dated) is basically a [[Long List]] of characters and plot points from random movies from the 1980s and early '90s, some of which are barely remembered today (if that).
** To be honest, however, a lot of referential jokes and songs in Animaniacs went this way, especially if you did not live in the USA in the 1980s-early 1990s.
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