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{{quote|"''The objections to breadth in parody are that it is not sporting to hunt with a machine gun, that jocularity is not wit, and that the critical edge is blunted. Most of what passes for parody is actually so broad as to be mere burlesque.''"
|''[[Serious Business|Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm - and After. Compiled with an Introduction & Notes by Dwight MacDonald]]''}}
Simply put, this trope is what happens when [[The Parody]] is created by people who [[Did Not Do the Research]]. Instead, they watched the trailer (or the commercials or just absorbed it through [[Popcultural Osmosis]]) and then wrote the parody from that. Close enough, they decide.
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* ''[[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 ''[[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 Chaser's War on 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.
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