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== Anime & Manga ==
* In Spain, saying you're "turning black" means [[That Makes Me Feel Angry|you're getting angry]], much like a video game boss [[Turns Red]], [[Captain Obvious|but black]]. A ''[[
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** Surprisingly, this is pretty much the only thing the terrible ''[[Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' parodies got right. In the second episode, their Harry Potter stand-in has become a teen... but the joke is that Billy and Mandy (who are standard [[Western Animation]] children who never grow up except as a [[Plot-Relevant Age-Up]] for a [[Flash Forward]]) are bewildered by the concept of aging.
* There are often [[Naruto]] parodies where other, better ninjas will mock Naruto for all of his negative traits, such as his [[Highly-Visible Ninja|lack of stealth]], [[Bratty Half-Pint|annoying attitude]], and [[Theme Deck|small movepool]]. Name a single Naruto character that DOESN'T do one of these and they're from [[Character Development|Shippuden]].
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== Film ==
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* ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Disaster Movie]]'' has a kid using foul language toward ''[[Hancock]]'', at which point Hancock slaps him. Not exactly an amusing gag to begin with, but particularly not amusing since something even more hilarious actually happens to such a kid in the real movie. Even worse, [[Shallow Parody|this actually appeared in some of the trailers]].
* [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] continue this in ''[[
* [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] give us a tag-teaming [[Trope Codifier]], as [[Bad Movie Beatdown
== Gamebooks ==
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== Live Action TV ==
* One of the very last [[Bob Hope]] specials on NBC tried to lampoon [[Batman (
* In 1995 ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' did a [[Cirque Du Soleil]] spoof -- ''[[Alegria]]'' was in New York at the time -- in which the highlight was a male performer presenting a female performer a bottle of wine, which was treated by the emcee as an amazing and whimsical feat. The skit suffers if you've seen the non-touring Las Vegas production ''Mystere'' (which opened in 1993), in which a clown presents a woman with champagne as part of an elaborate ''comic'' setpiece. And since nothing besides some costume details ''was'' specific to ''[[Alegria]]'', this overlaps with [[Shallow Parody]]. Cirque parodies in general seem to ignore the fact that the shows are often extremely funny and not simply two hours of posing and pretentiousness.
* [[Saturday Night Live]] has a long history of lengthy skits centered on some irritating everyday person, group, or behavior, but that don't add enough of a twist to do more than replicate their irritating qualities.
* ''The Chronicle'' was a [[Sci Fi Channel]] TV show that attempted to parody the tabloids, by stating that everything in them was true. The first episode parodied (or ripped off) the plot of the first ''[[Men in Black (
* A particular problem with British comedy shows in [[The Eighties]] was impressionists "doing" people like "Dame Edna Everage", "[[Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em|Frank Spencer]]" and "[[The Pink Panther|Inspector Clouseau]]", completely ignoring the fact that these were already comedy caricatures created by Barry Humphries, Michael Crawford and [[Peter Sellers]] respectively, leaving absolutely nothing left to parody.
** ''[[The Office]]'' both parodies and invokes this trope; David Brent, the manager, fancies himself a genius comedian, but the very fact that his 'act' is basically limited to riffing on these kind of characters is a pretty clue that ultimately he's got nothing.
* Andrea Martin of [[SCTV]] once remarked that the only show they couldn't satirize was ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'', because they couldn't come up with any situation that was more ridiculous than what the show already did.
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* There's a parody out there of "The Blue Tail Fly" in which the chorus is changed to "Jimmy drinks corn, and I don't care", meaning that Jimmy is drinking corn whiskey. Apparently the would-be parodists were unaware that the most common interpretation of the lyric "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care" is that of "cracking corn", which is to say, ''making'' corn whiskey. They not only failed to parody it, they arguably watered it down a notch...
* There's a "response" to ''[[The Lonely Island|The Lonely Island's]]'' "Jizz In My Pants" called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJsQcnB6GC0 "Puke In My Mouth"]. Those behind it fail to see the original was a parody, [[Self-Deprecation|self-deprecating]] and ''actually funny''. The result is you get a bunch of attractive women acting like self important [[Jerkass|assholes]] who spend the entire song mocking ''other'' people.
* ''[[Lady Gaga]]''' is often said to be parodying the pop-music genre by making her performances and appearance increasingly over-the-top and controversial to the point of being ridiculous. In other words, she's parodying pop stars by [[Britney Spears
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song "Perform This Way," a take on Gaga's "Born This Way," ends up having the same messages as the original song - to wit, [[Lady Gaga]] is a strange person, but that's okay.
* The Youtube meme of taking isolated vocal tracks of classic songs and running them through Microsoft's Songsmith program has led to some hilarious musical juxtapositions ([[Ozzy Osbourne|"Crazy Train"]] as bluegrass, [[Motorhead|"Ace of Spades"]] as folk-pop). But the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kxqMpGAL3I lounge jazz version of "Runnin' With The Devil"] by [[Van Halen]], while amusing, totally sounds like something David Lee Roth would've put on one of his solo albums.
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== Print Media ==
* This was practically the specialty of ''[[
** Several ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' parodies, apart from some [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] moments, could pass for real episodes. The corny dialogue was so dead on, some might wonder if the actual ''Mork and Mindy'' writers made them.
** In the late '70s, the people at ''Cracked'' seemed to figure out that ''featuring'' popular characters from, e.g., ''[[Star Wars]]'' or ''[[Happy Days]]'' was more lucrative than just parodying the works themselves, and could be done for a much longer time. The Fonz was so heavily featured that he was practically a ''Cracked'' "house character" for several years. Indeed, ''Cracked'' never actually did a parody, per se, of the ''[[Happy Days]]'' show. Instead, the magazine simply feature the characters, ''frequently'', in other comedy bits.
** In later years, their ''[[South Park]]'' parody pretty much played it straight as well - nothing at all like ''[[
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== Video Games ==
* Pretty much all the stuff that's played for laughs (like stupid guards and rescuing hostages on the toilet) in ''Mesal Gear Solid'', the [[Metal Gear]] parody in ''[[
** On the other hand, the [[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]] self-parody crossover with ''Ape Escape'' is spot-on, not least in having Snake complain about all the "[[Follow the Leader]]" types who could be doing this mission, and parodying the ridiculously intricate relationships in ''Metal Gear''.
== Web Original ==
* [http://www.cracked.com/article_17674_how-make-jokeless-comedy-studying-epic-movie-guys.html How to Make Jokeless Comedy: Studying the 'Epic Movie' Guys].
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* Before he became [[The Irate Gamer]], Chris Bores made a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZR9AnypvI "parody"] of [[Myth Busters]]. Though it's not as much a parody as it is a bland imitation.
* ''[[Key of Awesome]]'''s "I Need A Doctor" parody pokes fun at the [[Ho Yay]] between [[Heterosexual Life Partners|Dr Dre and Eminem]] by having Eminem hit blatantly on Dre, Dre responding with a sarcastic and only mildly irritated rejection, and Eminem [[Gay Moment|desperately attempting to backpedal and pretend he didn't mean it to regain some shred of heterosexuality]]. Eminem used this ''exact same joke'' in the song and video "Lose It", where he hits on Dre at a bar, and when he gets shot down, claims he's blind. The song and video also had a [[Ho Yay]]-ridden hook that went "[[Armored Closet Gay|Yeah, boy, shake that thing - whoops, I mean girl. Girl girl girl]]" and a section where Eminem [[Cosplay|cosplayed]] gay icon Madonna.
* The author of the comics and articles featured on [[Platypus Comix]] sometimes makes parodies that highlight some moronic things he found out the subject performed in real life. (eg, Some of the answers Far East Movement gives in [http://www.platypuscomix.net/people/geesix.html this fake interview] got lifted from [http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/hip-hop-media-training/far-east-movement-explains-meaning-behind-like-a-g6.html a real article], although the author also included some fabricated responses.)
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** Referenced in his [[A Simple Wish]] review when he yells at the character with a magic wand, "stop turning my jokes into something that already exist."
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' and ''The TV Land Awards'' have both featured skits that combine ''[[Sex and
* The old cartoon ''Batfink'' is basically a spoof of... the silly [[Batman (TV series)|Adam West Batman]] show. Which was a spoof of superheroes to begin with.
* The ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Blue Harvest" parodying ''[[Star Wars]] Episode IV: [[A New Hope]]'' features a joke about the Cantina band, Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes, simply playing only one song over and over again (you know the one). It's a joke that isn't even unique to Family Guy, and is just plain nonsense [[Outside Joke|if you ever watched the movie in question.]] Not only can you very clearly hear a change in music from the uproarious Benny Goodman-like "Mad About Me" to a mellower BGM, [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Cantina_Band_2 the friggin' soundtrack has both Cantina songs!]
** Also, in spite of the joke about how they'll have to continue the movie with [[Danny Elfman]] after [[John Williams]] kicks it, [[Did Not Do the Research|Elfman doesn't conduct his scores.]]
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