History Main / Parody

* Season 5 of ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' is where Oggy assumes all kinds of roles, including parodying ones, such as those on Franchise/XMen, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', etc.

* ''The Hour of Slack'' is the nationally syndicated cardio show of the parody religion the Church of the [=SubGenius=]. It features sermons from creator Ivan Stang and random soundbites as it sends up radio evangelical shows. In some markets it is followed by a local edition (WREK-FM in Atlanta presents ''"Bob's" Slacktime Funhouse'').

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Several arcs in EGS:NP parody video games; Fantasy Wasteland parodies ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' and ''VideoGame/TheElderScrolls'', and Parable parodies ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}''.

* The ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' "Science Fiction Sketch" is a parody of British science fiction that comes across nowadays as being a very close parody of the Third Doctor era of ''Series/DoctorWho'' - ludicrous costumes, ScienceInGenreOnly, AliensInCardiff, a suave and painfully serious ScienceHero explaining the plot to a DumbBlonde [[TheWatson Watson]], TheBrigadier ... even though it aired six months before that era even started.

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* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' is a parody of general [[AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark adult American cartoons]] and American media in general while also parodying the MagicalGirl genre.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'': Let's just say the author parodied [[{{Hammerspace}} Hammerspace]] ''several'' times. From clothes to books to Death Notes to flowers, the characters' backs can store them all.

* ''WebVideo/PokemonPals'' is set 8 years after the Pokemon tv show. Now that they are older, the fact they are still living the way they were seems pretty sad.

** Specifically, Maxwell Smart himself is a fairly direct parody of [[Series/TheManFromUncle Napoleon Solo]], and 99 is a combination parody of [[Series/TheAvengers Emma Peel]] and [[Series/TheManFromUncle Illya Kuryakin.]] KAOS is a parody of [[Film/JamesBond SPECTRE]].

* ''Dave Hollins: Space Cadet'', a miniseries in ''Radio/SonOfCliche'', was a parody of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' in which the titular character was left as the sole survivor of his ship's crew. The premise of this would later be followed up with a SpiritualSuccessor in ''Series/RedDwarf''.

* Music/TheRutles was Neil Innes and Eric Idle's brilliant and uncannily accurate parody following the timeline of Music/TheBeatles. The songs were so close to the Beatles' work that Northern Songs (copyright holders of their music) threatened a plagiarism lawsuit against Chappell Music (the Rutles' songs). Howevy, George Harrison appeared in the Rutles' mockumentary "All You Need is Cash."

Another danger is the assumption that the audience is familiar with the subject matter being parodied; extensive parodies have multiple layers of comic gold. This can be shaky ground, depending on the age of your audience, and writers sometimes resign themselves to [[SmallReferencePools broad, widely known characters and situations]]. The problem is that such things have probably already been parodied to death. Enough parodies can cause a shift to that version of the character into becoming the archetype, leading to later subversions of subversions.

* A grand Italian tradition is that of redubbing, which consists in gag dubs of movies ranging from the sketches to full-length movies that may not share the film's plot or premise at all (sometimes with extensive new footage shot). Started with ''Film/{{Star Trek II|The Wrath of Khan}}'' way back in the 1980s, making the gag dub OlderThanTheyThink. Lots of parodies can be found [[http://www.stevenworks.com here]] (naturally in Italian, and many of which are strictly in local dialects).

* ''Series/ICarly'': The fake movie trailers. [[TeenDrama Kelly Cooper: Terrible Movie]] is about cliched teen chick movies, and [[DisasterMovie The Blowing]] pokes fun on disaster films.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic has made a career out of parody songs. While most of his songs directly parodies specific songs, he also does so-called "style parodies", where he makes light of a band or a singer's overall musical style, rather than a single work of theirs.