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==== '''[[Sub -Trope|Sub Tropes]]s: ===='''

* [[The Bard Onon Board]]

* [[Charlie and Thethe Chocolate Parody]]

* [[Die Hard Onon an X]] ''([[Die Hard]])''

* [[May the Farce Be Withwith You]] ''([[Star Wars]])''

Compare [[Parody Episode]], [[Whole Costume Reference]] (the clothing version). May be a [[Twice -Told Tale]].

== Anime &and Manga ==

* Episode 18 of the ''[[Dirty Pair (Light Novel)|Dirty Pair]]'' TV series is a straight-up remake of the Clint Eastwood movie ''[[The Gauntlet]]'', with the girls filling in for Clint.

* Speaking of ''[[Astro Boy]]'', his origin story bears more than a few parallels to Pinocchio. Knowing [[Osamu Tezuka]], this was almost definitely intentional. He's [[Fable Remake|remade stories]] from ''[[Doctor Faustus (Theatre)|Faust]]'' to ''[[Crime and Punishment (Literature)|Crime and Punishment]]'' to, yes, '''[[The Bible]]'''.

* An episode of ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]: 2nd Gig'' was a futuristic homage to ''[[Taxi Driver]]'', and another was a homage to the sniper shootout at the end of ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]''.

* "Battle Aboard the St. Anne", and "Pokemon Shipwreck" two episodes of a three-part arc on the [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokemon anime]], were directly inspired by ''[[The Poseidon Adventure]]''.

* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' episode 75 is based on [[Agatha Christie (Creator)|Agatha Christie]]'s novel ''[[And Then There Were None]]'' -- the—the episode's title actually means "and then there were none", and it uses a different nursery rhyme ("Who Killed Cock Robin") in the same manner that the novel uses the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians".

== ComicsComic Books ==

* [[Gorsky and Butch]] do a brief ''Matrix'' parody in their first book. In the third one, they do a more extended parody: Butch makes a [[Face Heel Turn]], joining the agents of Comix, in hope of achieveingachieving his goals and finally ending the senslesssenseless plot so he can star in a 'real comic'. In the meantime Gorsky leads the resistance under the guise of Morfinius, atemptingtempting to destroy the Comix by making Jerry ( the heroes [[Butt Monkey]] sidekick) the main character.

** They also do Aliens at one point: the whole section of the comic is the movie but it turns out to be an illegal copy with borked subtitles: all sorts of whackywacky hijinks result from it, most importantly the aliens getting replaced with sheep because their name have been misspelled (makes sense in Polish) - the marines discover a nest with missing colonists hanging on the walls in oversized wool sweaters.

* The comic book version of ''[[Pv PPvP (Webcomicwebcomic)|Pv PPvP]]'' did a homage/parody of ''[[The Matrix]]'' called "The Comix".

* ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' did this quite a bit in the late 80s and 90s, with parodies of such things as ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', ''[[Twin Peaks]]'', ''[[Edward Scissorshands]]'', and many more.

* The whole Hellfire Club section of the ''[[X -Men]]'''s ''[[The Dark Phoenix Saga]]'' is basically [[Chris Claremont]]'s riff on the ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "A Touch of Brimstone", in which Mrs Peel gets brainwashed into being the Hellfire Club's Queen of Sin by John Cleverly Cartney. Claremont even gives Mastermind the real name Jason Wyngarde, after Peter Wyngarde, who played Cartney, and [[Jason King (TV)|Jason King]], Wyngarde's most famous role.

* The story of [[Captain America (comics)|Steve Rogers']] return to the land of the living, ''Captain America: Reborn'', is a extended reference to ''[[Slaughterhouse -Five]]''.

* ''[[Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy (Fanfic)|Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy]]'' is a rather unlikely example, as every so often it parodies episodes from actual TV shows instead of the usual things. To list what the author referenced so far: ''[[The Backyardigans]]'', ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' (three times so far!), and even ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]''. Make that of what you will.

* ''[[Brave New World (Fanficfanfic)|Brave New World]]'' is pretty much a [[Darker and Edgier]] retelling of [[Paper Mario: theThe Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand -Year Door]]. But with [[Pokémon (Franchise)|Pokémon]]!

* The ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6644618/1/ "Who's Your Daddy?"] is essentially a [[Whole -Plot Reference]] to the movie ''[[Look WhosWho's Talking]],'' with a side order of ''[[Three Men Andand Aa Baby]]''. One of Roy Mustang's one-night stands shows up with the infant son who resulted from their time together, hands him over, and disappears. He shoulders the task of fatherhood, relying on his devoted subordinate Riza Hawkeye to help him while he tries to find his son the perfect mother. Just about the time he realizes she's been there all along, the baby's real mother tries to take him back.

* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: theThe Abridged Series]]'' fanfic ''[[Decks Fall Everyone Dies (Fanfic)|Decks Fall, Everyone Dies]]'' is a recreation of ''[[Moulin Rouge]]'', altered to fit the Yu-Gi-Oh universe.

* ''The Best Night Ever'' is a ''[[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic that retells ''[[Groundhog Day (Film)|Groundhog Day]]'' using [[Prince Charmless|Prince Blueblood]] getting stuck in a loop of the events of the season one finale "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E26 The Best Night Ever|"The Best Night Ever"]]".

* ''[[Avatar]]'' received much praise for its visuals, but criticism for its storyline being basically a retelling of, ''Dances With Wolves'', ''A Man Called Horse'', ''The Last Samurai'', ''Ferngully: The Last Rainforest'', ''Atlantis: The Lost Empire'' and ''Pocahontas''.

** A whole episode of ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' was dedicated to parodying the movie, ending in the "bad boy" and "basketcase" ending up together in the end, with the "pretty girl" and "jock" ending up together. Toby didn't end up with anyone, though... like Brian.

** ''[[Lizzie McguireMcGuire]]'' also did an entire episode based on that plot. Three kids (including Lizzie) where brought together because they were accused of starting a [[Food Fight]].

** An episode of ''[[DawsonsDawson's Creek]]'' was a parody with several characters lampshading it.

* The movie ''[[My Own Private Idaho (Film)|My Own Private Idaho]]'' keeps dropping in and out of the plot of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Henry IV]]''.

* Film example: ''[[Seltzer and Friedberg|Epic Movie]]'' was essentially <s> a parody of</s> ''The Chronicles Of [[Narnia]]: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'' and a [[Shallow Parody]] of everything else they could put together.

** Likewise, ''[[Meet The Spartans]]'' did the same for ''[[Three Hundred|300]]'', as did ''[[Disaster Movie (film)|Disaster Movie]]'' for ''[[Cloverfield]]'' and ''[[Vampires Suck (Film)|Vampires Suck]]'' for both ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'' and ''[[New Moon]]''.

* Similarly, most of the first ''[[Scary Movie]]'' follows closely the plot of ''[[Scream (Filmfilm)|Scream]]'' (with some scenes from the second and a slew of late 90s horror in-between) and the second is mostly based on ''[[The Haunting]]''. (the others have the main plot being an amalgalmamalgam instead, with the third being a mix of ''[[The Ring]]'' and ''[[Signs]]'', and the fourth mixes ''[[War of the Worlds]]'', ''[[The Village]]'', ''[[The Grudge]]'' and ''[[Saw]]'')

* ''[[O Brother, Where Art Thou?]]'' is based off of Homer's ''[[The Odyssey (Literature)|The Odyssey]]''. Although the entire plot is only loosely similar, there are certain parts that mirror the source material quite closely.

* ''[[The Cheap Detective]]'' combines the plots of ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]'', ''[[The Big Sleep (Filmfilm)|The Big Sleep]]'', and ''[[Casablanca]]''.

* Now, rip-offs of ''[[Alien]]'' or ''[[Aliens]]'' are legion, but the movie ''Carnosaur 2'' repeats the whole plot of ''Aliens'' almost scene by scene, with [[Spear Counterpart|Spear Counterparts]]s of Ripley and Newt, and dinosaurs instead of the Xenomorphs (with a ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]'' stand-in for the Alien Queen).

* ''[[Repo Men]]'' has been accused of being this to ''[[Repo! theThe Genetic Opera]]''.

*** The novel that Repomen claims to be based on came out after the ''Genetic Opera'' concept was created. The book came out the same year as ''Repo:! The Genetic Opera'', which had been originally a stage play before it was adapted to be a movie by the play's creator. This dates that concept well ahead of the book.

* While [[Mel Brooks]] is [[As You Know|fond of referencing/parodying films, classic and contemporary, in his works]], ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'' is essentially ''[[It Happened One Night]]'' [[Recycled in Space|inrecycled space.through]] ''[[Star Wars]]''.

* [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s done a couple of these. ''[[Throne of Blood (Film)|Throne of Blood]]'' was basically ''[[Macbeth (Theatre)|Macbeth]]'' in medieval Japan, and ''Ran'' could be considered ''[[King Lear]]'' in medieval Japan.

* Many teenage romantic comedies do this. To name a few, [[Clueless]] is Jane Austen's ''Emma'', [[Ten10 Things I Hate About You]] is Shakespeare's ''The Taming of the Shrew'', and [[She's the Man (Film)|She's the Man]] is Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night.''

** ''[[Easy A (Film)|Easy A]]'' is an aversion, since while it repeatedly references Nathaniel Hawthorne's ''The Scarlet Letter'', the plot is not the same at all.

* Although it isn't apparent at first, ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' is a combination of two [[Transformers Generation One1|G1 cartoon]] episode plots: {{spoiler|the three-part episode "The Ultimate Doom", with the Decepticons attempting to transport Cybertron to Earth via space bridge and then enslave humans to restore it to its former glory; and the two-part episode "Megatron's Master Plan", where the Decepticons receive the help of several treacherous, sycophantic humans, also resulting at one point in the Autobots being exiled from Earth, and their chosen means of escape destroyed in transit by the machinations of the Decepticons, though the Autobots survive in both cases.}}

* Several ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' novels are referential [[The Parody|parodies]] of famous works. For instance, ''Wyrd Sisters'' spoofs ''[[Macbeth]]''.

* [[Arthur Conan Doyle (Creator)|Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes]] story "A Scandal in Bohemia" can be read as a remake of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s "The Purloined Letter".

* [[The Laundry Series]] is full of [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]]s, but the plot of ''The Jennifer Morgue'' is a whole plot reference to [[James Bond]]. An ''in-universe'' whole plot reference: the bad guy uses [[Post -Modern Magik]] to make himself untouchable by anyone but a person who resembles James Bond, and as a side effect develops a tendency to monologue.

* The "[[Known Space|Man-Kzin War]]" novel ''The Children's Hour'' by [[Jerry Pournelle]] and [[SMS.M. Stirling]] does a whole-plot lift of the movie ''[[Casablanca]]'', except at the end when {{spoiler|"Ilsa" dumps "Lazlo" and runs off with "Rick".}}

* The story "Honor in the Night" from the third ''[[Star Trek: Myriad Universes]]'' book applies the series' [[For Want of a Nail]] premise to the Original Series episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". The end result can be summed up as "''[[Citizen Kane]]'' in the [[Star Trek]] universe".

* ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' has an entire episode based on the movie ''Ladyhawke'', down to the eclipse. It's [[Lampshaded]] by Prue: "I swear I saw this in a movie once."

* A number of people have noted quite a resemblance between ''[[The Fixer (TV series)|The Fixer]]'' and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callan_<!--:Callan 28TV_series29(TV series)|Callan]]''. Both are ITV shows, so copyright isn't an issue here. -->

* ''[[Early Edition (TV)|Early Edition]]'' had an episode with a plot that strongly resembled the classic movie ''[[Roman Holiday]]''. Princess gone missing, officials covering her while she meets a down to earth man and they enjoy the American city together; and they both end on much the same note.

* The ''[[3rd Rock Fromfrom the Sun]]'' episode "Citizen Solomon" includes a plot based on a portion of ''[[Citizen Kane (Film)|Citizen Kane]]''. Oddly, it's the [[Two Lines, No Waiting|"B" story]] which is based on ''Kane'', not the "A" story. In the episode, Tommy is Kane, Alissa is Susan and August is Leland.

** Oh hold on...Citizen Solomon, Citizen Kane...SolomonKane. [[WaynesWayne's World|Wow, that's weird.]]

* The original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic (1978 TV series)|The original ''Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'']] and its sequel, ''[[Galactica 1980]]'', succumbed to this several times. It wasn't so much homage or parody as... wholesale plot theft, usually in response to the Dreaded Deadline Doom. Example: "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero" came from ''[[The Guns of Navarone]]''.

** Even ''"The Return of Starbuck''", the one episode of ''Galactica 1980'' that many fans will accept, bears a striking resemblance to ''[[Enemy Mine]]'', which had first appeared in short story format in 1979.

* ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', especially the first season, references ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]''. Crichton sometimes notices.

* ''[[Scrubs]]'' has an episode based on ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', from the yellow lines to the exits, to three of the main characters needing a heart, courage and a brain.

* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'''s "QPid", the [[Costumer]] part, anyway, is pretty much ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (Filmfilm)|The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'' (lampshaded by Worf's complaint about not being a Merry Man), down to a fight between Robin/Picard and Guy of Gisborne on a staircase. Which makes Vash's absolute refusal to play [[Distressed Damsel in Distress|Marian]] a whole lot funnier. (Though someone somewhere seems to have gotten Guy of Gisbourne and the Sheriff confused, because Q is clearly playing Basil-Rathbone-Guy but calls himself the Sheriff, and Guy more resembles the dim-witted, rotund Sheriff of the movie.)

** ''[[Eureka]]'' later used the ''TNG'' episode "Remember Me" as a [[Whole -Plot Reference]] for the episode "Games People Play". Which was the point, since it was the 100th episode.

* The ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "Countdown" is either a rare example of a [[Whole -Plot Reference]] played entirely straight, or a cynical attempt to rip off the plot of a film most of ''MacGyver'''s audience wouldn't have seen. The episode "Trumbo's World" went so far as to use footage from the movie it was ripping off. (Respectively, ''Juggernaut'' and ''[[The Naked Jungle]]''.)

* In the ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Roulette", Olliver's storyline is blatant rip-off of the 1997 Michael Douglas film ''[[The Game (Filmfilm)|The Game]]'', right up to the male lead having suicidal tendencies.

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'':

** The [[Sinking Ship Scenario]] episode "Voyage of the Damned" is ''[[The Poseidon Adventure]]''.

** The first two [[Christmas Special|Christmas Specials]]s with the eleventh Doctor are based on well-known Christmas stories, possibly setting a new trend. The first is actually called [[Yet Another Christmas Carol|"A Christmas Carol"]], and the second is [[The Lion, the Witch Andand Thethe Wardrobe|"The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"]]. Neither sticks very close to the original story past the basic premise.

* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' did this with the Season 6 opener, "Broken," wherein he is a patient in a mental hospital: did somebody say ''[[One Flew Over the CuckoosCuckoo's Nest]]''? Why, yes I did. Subverted in that while the references were played up, everything was the opposite of ''One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest'': the nurses and psychiatrists were actually trying to help, and {{spoiler|House's attempt to "liberate" one of the other patients ends badly. ''Really'' badly.}}

** ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'' made a similar reference. The psychiatrist running the place clearly has it in for Cal ([[Jerkass|which makes perfect sense]]) but {{spoiler|when he's shown the evidence that Cal's symptoms are coming from ergot rather than schizophrenia he lets him and the other victims out without hesitation}}.

* The underlying storyline of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''' fourth season is ''[[Carnivale]]'' with abilities.

* ''[[Magnum, PIP.I.]]'' did this once with ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''. [[Lampshaded]] by Magnum spending the whole episode racking his brains as to why it all seemed so familiar.

** It hits even closer to home [[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Tom Selleck was considered to star as Indy]], but was unable to get out of his contract with ''Magnum'', thus paving the way for [[Harrison Ford]].

** ''[[Good Eats]]'' does this all the time; the episode about scallops, for example, was a spoof of ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]''. An exhaustive list of examples would be too long.

* ''[[The Latest Buzz]]'' has a full episode based around ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.

* ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'': "Back to Earth" becomes a [[Whole -Plot Reference]] to ''[[Blade Runner]]'' around halfway in, and most of ''Queeg'' is based on ''[[The Caine Mutiny]]''. Also, "The Last Day" is based on the [[Jack Nicholson]] film ''[[The Last Detail]]''.

* On episode of ''[[Thirty Rock (TV)|30 Rock]]'' was an extended reference to ''[[Amadeus]]'' with Frank as Salieri, Tracy as Mozart, and Tracy's porn video game as the masterpiece.

{{quote| '''Frank''': I've devoted a lifetime to porn, and he masters it in '''one day'''?!}}

* ''[[Big Wolf Onon Campus]]'' had an episode called "The Manchurian Werewolf." [[The Manchurian Candidate (novel)||Can you guess?]]

* ''[[Twelve12 Angry Men]]'' is another stock plot that's been much copied. It's been done on ''[[The Odd Couple]]'', ''[[Happy Days]]'', and ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' just to name a few. The former is interesting in that series star Jack Klugman was in the original film. While it might not be the original example, many examples of the [[Rogue Juror]] trope will probably call upon this in some way.

* ''[[The Goodies (TV)|The Goodies]]'' had an episode called ''Punky Business''. It seemed like it was going to be a spoof on punk, and then it turned into "[[Cinderella (Literaturenovel)|Cinderella]]".

* In its final season, ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]'' had an episode called "The Spy Who Mugged Me," which played out like a ''[[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]]'' film (complete with an [[Casino Royale (Film)|intense card game]], killer sharks, etc.).

* In ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' has done a few of these. An easy one to spot is Abed's birthday dinner with Jeff which is a reference to [[My Dinner Withwith Andre]].

* When ''[[Cold Case (TV)|Cold Case]]'' wasn't basing it's episodes off of [[Real Life]] cold (and "hot") cases, it often did this. "Blood On The Tracks"= [[The Big Chill]], "Disco Inferno"= [[Saturday Night Fever]], "Detention"= [[The Breakfast Club]], etc.

* In a particularly obscure example, the ''[[Nebulous]]'' episode "The Lovely Invasion" is a very close parody of an early ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Claws of Axos". Additionally, the episode "The Deptford Wives" is just ''[[The Stepford Wives]]'' with a little ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' thrown in for good measure.

* Chapter 3 of ''[[Bully (Videovideo Gamegame)|Bully]]'' is basically the plot of S.E. Hinton's ''The Outsiders''.

* The first third of ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' is basically ''Juice'' mashed together with ''[[Boyz N the Hood]]''.

* ''[[Red Dead Revolver]]'', as a game where the [[Showdown At High Noon]] is a frequent occurance, has a quickdraw tournament in the vein of ''[[The Quick and Thethe Dead]]''.

** Earlier in the game, there is a stage where the player must blow up a bridge on a battlefield by wading into the water and placing explosives on the pillars, much like in ''[[The Good, the Bad Andand Thethe Ugly]]''.

* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', [[Hitman Withwith a Heart|Thane's]] loyalty mission, where he tries to make his son go down a different path than the one he took, [[When You Coming Home, Dad?|and to make up for not being a part of his son's life]] is basically a whole plot reference to [[Harry Chapin]]'s song "Cat's In The Cradle," to the point where the achievement for completing the quest is named after the song.

* ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'' was always big ont the [[Shout -Out|Shout Outs]], from single NPCs to entire quest lines, but two zones in the ''Cataclysm'' expansion brings it to a new level. The Redrige Mountains are all about ''[[Rambo]]'', while around half of Uldum consists of [[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Harrison Jones]] fighting for an ancient relic against nazi goblins.

* ''[[Devil Survivor 2]]'' has a series of [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]s, utterly immune to conventional weaponry, attacking Japan, which only a handful of special poeple have the potential to stop, is a [[World of Woobie]], has ''major'' [[Kill the Cutie]], [[Order Versus Chaos]] themes, a [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]] who loves humans (and happens to secretly be one of said abominations) and [[Deconstructor Fleet|viciously deconstructs]] all tropes related to its [[Mon|genre]]. [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Where have I heard this before]]...?

* ''[[Ctrl +Alt +Del]]'''s [[Animated Adaptation]] did a two-episode homage to ''[[Star Wars]]''.

* ''[[Pv PPvP (Webcomicwebcomic)|Pv P]]'' did a series of strips echoing the plot of ''[[Watchmen (Comic Bookcomics)|Watchmen]]'' when the movie came out, but due to the difference in mediums, Scott Kurtz used syndicated cartoon characters and called it "The Ombudsmen". They mapped onto the Watchmen superheroes (Dagwood for Dr. Manhattan, Dilbert for Ozymandias, etc.) surprisingly well.

* ''Pibgorn'' did ''[[A Midsummer NightsNight's Dream]]'' with [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipped]]ped roles and actual [[The Fair Folk|fairies]] [[Recycled in Space|IN THE THIRTIES!]]

* Many ''[[Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic)|Sluggy Freelance]]'' parodies cobble together from different works in a genre, but the "Torg Potter" storylines were mostly whole plot.

** ''[[Snakes Onon a Plane]]'' - "Sealions On An Airship"

** ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' - "A Present From The Future" is an homage to the episode "Out Of Time" and is even named after a working title of it.

** ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' - "Story Hour"

** ''[[X -Men (Filmfilm)|X Men]]'' - "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|C-Men]]"

** ''[[Bubba HotepHo-Tep]]'' - "Return Of The King"

** ''[[Mad Max (Film)|Mad Max]]'' - "Luakels Of The Wasteland"

** ''[[King Kong]]'', ''[[Gone Withwith the Wind]]'' and ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' (again) - "To A Theatre Near You"

** ''[[The Matrix (Film)|The Matrix]]'' - "The Thandrix"

** ''[[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]]'' - "Casino Imperiale"

* Which animated show did the first epic ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Whole -Plot Reference]]? Hint: It was neither [[Family Guy]] nor [[Robot Chicken]]. It dates back to [[Muppet Babies]] ("''Animal Vader!!''"), [[Tiny Toon Adventures]], ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' (a rather nostalgia fuel one since they had used the whole cast), and ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' in the episode with [[Mark Hamill]], with Gonzo as "Dearth Nadir".

* ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'' has done this many times (''[[Mary Poppins]]'', ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'', and more).

* ''[[Family Guy]]'' did ''[[Poltergeist (Filmfilm series)||Poltergeist]]'', ''[[Back to Thethe Future (Filmfilm)|Back to The Future]]'' and ''[[Rocky III]]'', as well as ''[[Family Guy Presents Laugh It Up Fuzzball]]'' for ''[[Star Wars]]''.

* ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' also did this with a whole episode based off of ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]''. And one for ''[[James Bond]]'' (or perhaps that style of spy fiction in general, it's hard to tell). They also once did ''[[What's Eating Gilbert Grape]]'', with squirrels.

** Lampshaded in "Return of the Bling," which is (as the name suggests) a ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' parody. At the very end, Roger bites one of Stan's fingers off for no apparent reason. When Steve demands to know why, Roger just shrugs and says "They did it in the movie."

* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had "I Am Jimmy", the first half of which was parallel to ''[[I Am Legend]]'', with Jimmy and Cerbee being the last man and dog in [[Hell|he]]-- Err—Err, "Miseryville".

* ''[[Sealab 2021]]'' played this trope straight... on ''itself''. The show is a comedy "sequel" to ''Sealab 2020'', starting out simply with footage from the latter show being [[Gag Dub|Gag Dubbed]]bed to episodes with increasing original animation. However, one episode, "7211" had the new voice actors re-dubbing a ''Sealab 2020'' episode verbatim, letting the originals' boring plot and surreality of the situation play out for laughs. {{spoiler|Sealab still explodes at the end, of course.}}

** [[Harvey Birdman, Attorney Atat Law]] did the same thing in "Turner Classic Birdman" - introduced by [[Turner Classic Movies]] host Robert Osbourne as if it were an old movie on TCM.

* ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' was '''made''' out of this, doing cartoons inspired by sources such as ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'' ("Hearts of Twilight") and ''[[Duck Soup]]'' ("Good King Yakko").

* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' did an impressive rendition of ''[[Sunset Boulevard]]'' featuring Elmyra as Norma, Montana Max as Joe, and Hamton as Max. Another episode of ''Tiny Toons'' was a parody of "Voyage of the Kon-Tiki", of all things, with Plucky as Thor Heyerdahl ("aah, mango juice").

** They also did an episode that was a recreation of ''[[Citizen Kane (Film)|Citizen Kane]]'' with Montana Max as Charles Foster Kane, ''[[Star Trek]]'' starring Furball, Plucky and Hampton and ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' with Buster, and ''[[Superman (Filmfilm)|Superman]]'' with Babs.

* So far, the [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'' seems to consist mainly of these.

* ''The Chipmunks Go to the Movies'', the last season of ''Alvin and the Chipmunks'', consisted only of these, the targets being relatively recent movies such as ''[[Batman (Filmfilm)|Batman]]'', ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'', ''[[Back to The Future]]'', and whatnot.

* ''[[South Park]]'' also did ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' and ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' episodes, and a parody of ''[[Great Expectations]]'', appropriately starring Pip as... Pip. Except for Estella's out-of-period insults such as "butt pirate", this version is more faithful to the book than a lot of serious adaptations. At least, until the end of the second act when it goes ''completely'' off the rails and becomes an action movie parody. (Estella doesn't kill a giant pile of bunnies in the novel? Next thing you know, we'll claim the robot monkeys don't appear in Dickens.)

** There were also episodes based on the ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'', the ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' ("The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers"), ''[[King Kong]]'', ''[[Three Hundred (Film)300|Three Hundred]]'', ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'', ''The Lottery'', ''[[The Grapes of Wrath (Literature)|The Grapes of Wrath]]'', ''[[Tron]]'', ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'', ''[[High School Musical]]'', ''[[The Human Centipede]]'' the '[[Star Trek]]'' episode "Dagger of the Mind", Hannibal Lecter's scenes in ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]''.

* ''[[Futurama]]'''s pilot episode is a goofy version of the already satirical novel ''[[Immortality Inc]].'' Funnily enough, Bender would later become more like the corresponding character from the book -- thebook—the scene where Bender and Fry go to a bar ends with them becoming fast friends, while in the book the Bender-analogue takes the opportunity to {{spoiler|drug him and sell his organs}}.

* ''The World's Greatest [[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]'' consisted entirely of [[Whole Plot Reference|Whole Plot References]] to classic tales like ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.

* The ''[[Fillmore!]]'' episodes "A Cold Day at X", "Two Wheels, Full Throttle, No Brakes" and "Immune to All But Justice" were essentially kid-friendly versions of ''[[Assault On Precinct 13 (Film)|Assault Onon Precinct 13]]'', ''[[Gone in Sixty Seconds]]'' and ''[[Lethal Weapon 2]]'' respectively.

** Of course ''[[Fillmore!]]'' as a whole is referencing every late 60's/early 70's Quinn Martin detective show.

* ''[[Rugrats]]'' did a an episode based on ''[[Flowers for Algernon (Literature)|Flowers for Algernon]]'', replacing Charly's temporarily heightened intelligence with Chuckie's [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome|temporarily heightened sense of smell]], and an [[ItsIt's a Wonderful Plot]] episode. There's also one where Angelica and Susie remade ''[[Thelma and Louise]]''.

* The entire second season of ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' was composed of whole-episode parodies, from ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'' to ''[[The Island of Doctor Moreau|The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' to ''[[Mission Impossible|Mission: Impossible]]'' to ''[[Hello, Dolly!|Hello, Dolly]]'' to flippin' ''[[Amadeus]]''. It seems that every single episode is one of these. Additionally, the first season had a parody of, of all things, ''The Crawling Eye'' (in "The Cloud").

* The "Decepticon Air" episode of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' is basically one large send up to ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'', with a touch of ''[[Con Air]]'', obviously.

** The "A Bridge Too Close" two-parter takes some inspiration from ''[[The Bridge Onon the River Kwai]]''.

* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' loved to do this a lot with a lot of semi-obscure movies/radio shows/etc like ''Marty'', ''[[The Birdman of Alcatraz]]'', ''[[War of the Worlds]]'', ''[[Twelve Angry Men|12 Angry Men]]'', ''Carmen'', and even ''[[The Longest Day]]''.

* The ''[[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars]]'' episode "Senate Spy" shamelessly rips off [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Notorious]]'', swapping CGI Anakin Skywalker & Padme Amidala for [[Cary Grant]] and [[Ingrid Bergman]].

* On ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'', the "Dial M For Monkey" short "Wrasslor" is based on a story from ''Marvel Two-In-One Annual'' #7, with Wrasslor taking the role of The Champion and Monkey taking the role of [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|The Thing]].

* The plot of the ''[[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode "Squeaky Boots" is one long shout-out to [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''The Tell-Tale Heart'',

* The ''[[Beetlejuice (Animationanimation)|Beetlejuice]]'' cartoon did a few of these, including homages to ''[[ItsIt's aA Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' and ''[[How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying]]''.

* ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' has done this at least twice, with ''[[The Thing (Filmfilm)|The Thing]]'' and ''[[Evil Dead]]''.

* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'' did its own rendition of ''[[The Nutcracker (Theatretheatre)|The Nutcracker]]''...taking place in a dump.

* ''[[Minoriteam]]'' had "Evilfellas", a brilliant episode-long take on ''[[Goodfellas]]'' and ''[[Casino]]''. The action is moved to a circus world, with a [[Monster Clown]] filling [[Joe Pesci]]'s roles. "[[Memetic Mutation|Funny, how]]?"

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has a couple. [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S1 /E10 Swarm of the Century|"Swarm of the Century"]] is essentially [[Star Trek: theThe Original Series|"The Trouble With Tribbles"]] with less Klingons.

** The episode "Video Game Wizards" is a another towards [[The Wizard (film)]]. They even have a power glove like device that turns to be a dud.

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