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[[Parody Episode|Parody Episodes]]/[[Whole -Plot Reference|Whole Plot References]] of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''. Because of [[Small Reference Pools]], the parodies are usually of the [[Judy Garland]] film, not [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Literature)|the original books]]. If it's a [[Something Completely Different]] episode in a series, it will almost certainly be based on the film sufficiently to take advantage of the pre-existing [[But You Were There and You And You]] concept.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Music]] ==
* The De La Soul music video for "Oooh" (from their 2000 album, "AOI: Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump") was a ghetto version of ''The Wizard of Oz''. In the video, a woman with a chihuahua in her purse is denied access to a club (by [[Hey ItsIt's That Guy|Dave Chappelle]], using the voice he uses for his crackhead characters on ''[[Half Baked]]'' and ''[[Chappelles Show]]''). When she tries to sneak in, the woman falls and finds herself in the land of "Oooh" dressed as Dorothy with the three members of De La Soul as the Lion, The Scarecrow, and the Tin Man heading off to Brick City to see the Great Wiz (played by Wu Tang Clan member Redman). The difference between this parody and all other ''Wizard of Oz'' parodies is that: (1) The shoes "Dorothy" has on are silver platform heels (which is a reference to the ''Wizard of Oz'' book, which had Dorothy's shoes as silver rather than ruby like in the popular film version), and (2) The whole thing turns out to be a thought in the woman's head as she's being insulted by the bouncer, averting the [[But You Were There and You And You]] trope (and referencing "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"'s ending in which everything the protagonist did was just an extended fantasy), and the woman enters the club unnoticed.
* [[Blues Traveler]] have a [[Wizard of Oz]] parody in the video "Runaround".
* Appropriate for a singer with an album called "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", [[Elton John]]'s video for "[[Original Sin]] has [[Mandy Moore]] as a girl who dreams she's attending a 1970's Elton show, after meeting a Glinda-like Good Witch.
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* An episode of the ''[[ALF (TV)|ALF]]'' cartoon show.
* ''The World's Greatest [[Super Friends]]'' episode "The Planet of Oz": A tornado transports the Hall of Justice to Oz, where Mr. Mxyzptlk, who has once again escaped from the 5th Dimension, informs the Super Friends that they must find The Wizard to get home. Along the way they encounter the Wicked Witch of the Worst Kind in a gingerbread house. The witch turns [[Superman]] into the Tin Man, [[Wonder Woman]] into the Cowardly Lion and [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]] into the Scarecrow.
* ''[[South Park]]'' had a [[Whole -Plot Reference]] to ''The Wizard of Oz'' without being an out-and-out parody, when the boys went to see the Prime Minister of Canada to gete Kyle's baby brother Ike back.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' did one in which Candace read the book and fell asleep, having an Oz-based dream in which (in order of appearance):
** Perry is Toto;
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