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* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs a lampshade]] on the trope when, at the opening ceremonies of a nationwide [[Spelling Bee]], celebrity moderator George Plimpton announces, "And now, our unlicensed knockoff of the Olympic anthem."
** It also played this one straight, in quite a lot of episodes. Who can forget "Springfield, Springfield," or the whole of the episode "Simpsoncalifragalisticexpiali(annoyed grunt)tious"? The latter was a parody of ''[[Mary Poppins]]'', and had some of the best of these you're likely to see anywhere - particularly Barney's version of "Feed the Birds" ("Buy Me a Beer") and the family's version of "Spoonful of Sugar' ('Cut Every Corner").
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