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Redundant Parody

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Redundant Parody	comment	Parodies are hard to write if you're unfamiliar with the original work. Sometimes, you'll make points that the work itself refutes. Sometimes, you'll treat tongue-in-cheek works like they're serious. But some spoofs make an even more serious error. They try to mock the original work with their own humorous spin but reproduce the original instead of parodying it. The original included the exact same material, perhaps as a self-aware joke, which renders the parody superfluous. As a result, the parody doesn't actually twist or exaggerate the original work. People unfamiliar with the original may laugh at the joke, but others will be put off by the spoof writer's ignorance and the redundancy of the resultant parody. Some comedy writers avoid this trap by limiting their targets. RiffTrax, for example, refuses to mock comedies, fearing their commentary will sound too much like the original. For parodies that do this deliberately, to send the implied message "We can't make this any dumber than it already is", see Spoofed with Their Own Words, which may be accompanied by a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer. Note that sometimes this can be accomplished less through exact replication and more through the subtle changes that are made. The lack of a proper punchline is key to Anti-Humor. Replicating a classic scene through swapping out certain archetypes can create comedy through absurdity, such as replacing a Giant Mook with a Cute Bruiser in a fight scene. And there may be a novelty in taking established characters and having them act out a classic story. Compare and contrast with Shallow Parody. Not to be confused with Spoofing Spoofiness, which is when a work being parodied is already a parody.
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Redundant Parody / int_1023f8fd	comment	After the finale of Unraveled, The Hard Times published a parody article titled "Brian David Gilbert Begins Comprehensive Deep Dive Into How to Get Health Insurance Now" where Brian breaks down the healthcare system out of panic that he doesn't have job security anymore. The joke of Brian using Unraveled to deal with his own financial woes was already done in the Unraveled episode "When can Mario retire?" when Brian analyzes the complicated retirement system and eventually panics over his future retirement prospects. Years later, he would do an actual video breaking down some of the complexities of the United States healthcare system.
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Redundant Parody / int_132b2793	comment	Beatrice discussed this in a video focusing on "deconstructive" anime, which, in her view, often weren't actually deconstructive but simply darker or more dramatic takes, labeled such by people unfamiliar with the genre. In particular, she pointed out that the idea of Shinji being a "deconstruction" because of his apprehension about piloting the Eva doesn't really work, because the idea of a mecha pilot or Kid Hero initially having Refused the Call or suffering trauma over the course of their adventures is an element in countless mecha shows, going all the way back to Kouji Kabuto.
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Redundant Parody / int_17c7b5e2	comment	The April 30 2020 Hi and Lois strip had Dot and Ditto watching "a new crime show for kids" called CSI: Sesame Street. The joke is the contrast of adult crime drama with kiddie puppets. Except those kiddie puppets spoof adult crime dramas all the time, and had done a CSI bit way back in 2007.
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Redundant Parody / int_182e496	comment	Loaded Weapon 1 is a parody of the Lethal Weapon series, which, by 1993 (when Loaded Weapon 1 was released), contains a toilet blowing up while being filmed on national television (though granted, the first two are more serious action films). The movie itself sideways acknowledges it with that very scene; they set up like there will be a parody of the scene and the whole joke is that nothing notable happens.
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Redundant Parody / int_1aa793b6	comment	Hiimdaisy makes an extended sequence where the protagonist tries to convince his friends to stop the latest victim before the victim declares "YOU'RE NOT ME!", which will make the Shadow version of them go berserk. This actually comes up during the Shadow Naoto fight in the game - Kanji stops the others shouting for Naoto not to say it, pointing out that they just aren't going to listen given the emotional turmoil they're experiencing (and although he doesn't point it out, none of the victims ever listen), and instead the Investigation Team should just let it happen and beat down the Shadow afterward.
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Redundant Parody / int_1ce6fbc6	comment	His review of Yogi Bear opened with a re-enactment/parody of a fan-animated "alternate ending" where Boo-Boo shoots Yogi. Though this video itself is a parody of the pivotal scene of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
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Redundant Parody / int_1d591bd1	comment	Before he became The Irate Gamer, Chris Bores made a "parody" of MythBusters. Though it's not as much a parody as it is a bland imitation.
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Redundant Parody / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons The episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" feature segments taken from Pulp Fiction that are played almost straight, with little original humour. It's less of a parody and more a near shot-for-shot remake. The segment about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in "Margical History Tour" is a parody of Amadeus—a film that was already pretty comedic (albeit darkly so) to begin with. Since Mozart is portrayed by Bart, most of the jokes revolve around Mozart being an immature and irreverent jokester with a naughty and juvenile sense of humor, which is...the entire premise of Amadeus. Furthermore, if you know anything about history, the real life Mozart was reportedly more immature, irreverent, naughty, and juvenile than Bart's take on him.
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Redundant Parody / int_2be07289	comment	Vampires Suck includes gags about how often Jacob is shirtless, something which the The Twilight Saga adaptations already poked fun at. ("Does he even own a shirt?")
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Redundant Parody / int_2f3162e4	comment	The TV Land Awards featured a skit that combines Sex and the City with The Golden Girls, or at least were aimed in that direction. Problem is, 70% of the humor in The Golden Girls already derives from these aging women unashamedly talking about their sex lives. The same punchline was attempted by Robot Chicken, though they ramped it up with Refuge in Audacity (by which we mean on-screen, barely-censored sex) as a back-up punchline. As frank as The Golden Girls was about sex, it never had Sophia courting an entire high school basketball team (dressed as a cheerleader).
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Redundant Parody / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto parodies tend to mock Naruto's childishness and loudmouth attitude as unfitting for a ninja. It doesn't take a very close reading of the early series to recognize that these traits were intended to be negative, and something he'd grow out of, and most characters call him out on it.
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Redundant Parody / int_32a01588	comment	MAD also had a comic in which the Disney version of Pinocchio stomps on Jiminy Cricket. Although such a thing never happens in the Disney version, something similar did happen in the original book the movie is based on.
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Redundant Parody / int_33a8ce24	comment	Parodies and modern versions of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" often invert the genders (having the man wishing to leave and the woman trying to convince him to stay) believing this subverts the original. This is clearly ignorant of the fact that the song was introduced by the film Neptune's Daughter where it's performed twice, the second of which is gender-inverted.
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Redundant Parody / int_358dd136	comment	Epic Movie (2007) decided to parody X-Men by having Wolverine position his claws to look like he was Flipping the Bird, even though this same joke was used at one point in the original movie. And it was a pretty memorable moment, so it just goes to show that nobody involved had seen X-Men even once. And just to add insult to injury, as the page image shows, the original did it much better. Not much better than that is a parody of Borat — and by "parody", the film means "direct lift of an exchange from Borat, almost word for word, acted out by a man imitating Borat." And needless to say, Borat is already a comedy. Also, it's revealed that the "chocolate river" in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory was actually a sewage line full of human feces. This joke was already made in the original film where his guests were disgusted when they saw the river and said it must be a polluted pool of industrial waste, only for Wonka to correct them that it actually was chocolate. And like Borat, Willy Wonka basically already was a comedy (albeit not purely so).
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Redundant Parody / int_36395288	comment	Kirby parodies inevitably bring up the fact that the titular character eats people (and everything else). This has, to an extent, been brought up in official media - the anime series has some jokes about the idea of him eating other characters, including a scene where he randomly tries to eat Knuckle Joe's hand and an episode where he swallows King Dedede by sucking up one of his dolls.
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Redundant Parody / int_363e69e1	comment	Eiga Sentai Scanranger had a chapter that attempted to parody spy movies, with each of the heroes becoming a pastiche of a well-known character in the genre. The thing is one of them becomes Boston Powered, New England Man of Mystery, and the villain is even outright compared to Dr. Evil. During the big fight at the end "Boston" uses his powers to turn into Fat Bastard, too. It also takes the "don't be a dick" scene from xXx but doesn't sound any more ironic than the real one (it's hard for it to sound like a joke when the new version addresses childhood obesity), really just swapping out the word "dick" with "twit" to keep it family-friendly. The chapter was noticeably left out when the story was reposted elsewhere, with even the chapter numbers and teasers deliberately moved around to exclude it.
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Redundant Parody / int_3b34143f	comment	He's also made a couple jokes about Harry Potter, imagining a version where Harry has some serious issues due to everyone acting like he's The Chosen One. While the issue is skated over in the movies, it's a huge theme of the original books (Doug tends to only reference the films when they come up in his videos).
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Redundant Parody / int_3d5c05c9	comment	Bob the Angry Flower has a parody sequel◊ to Atlas Shrugged which has been widely circulated, where people admit, sometimes quite proudly, that they found Ayn Rand's book too long to read. If they had actually read it through, they might have discovered that industrialists such as Dwight Sanders do take up farming after leaving the world behind for Galt's Gulch. Notley later apologized for this and produced another cartoon that spoofed Objectivism directly and more accurately.
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Redundant Parody / int_3f4a104b	comment	The Dilbert Future, a 1997 book featuring Scott Adams' cartoons and musings about the future, has a part about the holodeck from Star Trek. The central joke is that people in real life would use the holodeck for sex. This isn't very funny if you've watched much Star Trek (especially Deep Space Nine) because that's actually what it's used for pretty often. This joke is also used in the copypasta "10 Things I Hate About Star Trek."
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Redundant Parody / int_42efb78	comment	Deadpool 2 features a case in a scene where Wade tries to calm down the Juggernaut by telling him "Sun's getting real low", only for it to fail miserably. This is mocking how the Black Widow calmed the Hulk down in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Marvel Cinematic Universe beat Deadpool to the punch by using the same joke six months prior in Thor: Ragnarok. (This is a rare case where it was completely accidental, as the films were in production at around the same time, and Age of Ultron itself played the whole thing dead straight.) The Deadpool short film Deadpool: No Good Deed has Deadpool struggling to put on his suit inside a phone booth while John Williams' Superman: The Movie theme plays. But, even the 1978 movie poked fun at Superman using a phone booth to change, as he glanced briefly at one before deciding to change in a revolving door.
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Redundant Parody / int_44e0b783	comment	A common joke made about Garfield is that it doesn't make sense for Garfield to hate Mondays since he doesn't do anything. This has already been acknowledged in the comic strip. Earlier comics also had a Running Gag of improbably bad things happening to Garfield on Mondays, such as a piano falling on his head or getting a Pie in the Face out of nowhere, which he would go to extensive lengths to avoid.
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Redundant Parody / int_45854dfc	comment	The episode "War is the H-Word" parodies the general premise of Starship Troopers, depicting Earth's military invading a deserted alien world and getting its ass kicked until the climax. In the episode, the human forces (led by Zapp Brannigan) are portrayed as a bunch of violent, jingoistic morons who are outclassed in every way—and despite propaganda about the evils of their opponents, they turn out to be the aggressors in the conflict. But nearly all of this is the case in Starship Troopers as well: director Paul Verhoeven very openly intended it as a satire of militarism, with the story depicting a fascist government underestimating a more powerful opponent. Even the idea that the humans are the aggressors (with the apparent inciting incident being a False Flag Operation) is one of the most common readings of the film. In a lot of respects, the Futurama parody just made the original satire more obvious.
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Redundant Parody / int_45d3a1f8	comment	The creators of Holy Musical B@man! decided not to include The Joker for this reason, since there's very little jokes to be made about the character that haven't already been done, either by other parodies or by the source material. Instead, they used little-known DC villain Sweet Tooth, giving him a Practically Joker makeover that split the difference; they got the fun of the Joker-Batman rivalry, complete with a Harley Quinn expy, but using a different character with a different schtick (candy instead of practical jokes) gave them the freedom to do their own thing with it.
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Redundant Parody / int_49a87cb3	comment	Stupidly big swords. Cloud's sword in Final Fantasy VII was deliberately designed to look ridiculous (if in a Campily cool way), to reflect that Cloud is a cocky showoff and overcompensating. The remake further parodies its impractical size when Cloud tries to pull it out when standing under a door frame. He hits the frame and has to back out of it to get enough room to draw his sword.
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Redundant Parody / int_4c99197e	comment	Most parodies of The Muppet Show go after subjects (Carnivore Confusion, Interspecies Romance, etc.) that were already extensively lampshaded and discussed in the show itself.
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Redundant Parody / int_4f1098ae	comment	Hellsing Ultimate Abridged has much the same problem, as Hellsing was already an incredibly silly show. Jan Valentine, in particular, is virtually identical to his original incarnation — you could probably switch out his scenes with the ones in the actual dub and barely notice.
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Redundant Parody / int_4fc1c922	comment	When the cast of Wicked appeared in a German talk show, the host joked about Elphaba: "That's what happens if you eat too much spinach as a child." In the musical, Elphaba does in fact sarcastically remark to the other students: "No, I'm not seasick. Yes, I've always been green. No, I did not eat grass as a child."
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Redundant Parody / int_4fddf2da	comment	One 1955 issue of MAD Magazine features a parody of Popeye where the title character is renamed "Poopeye". The authors of said parody were apparently unaware that there's a character with that name in the actual Popeye comics: he's Popeye's nephew.
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Redundant Parody / int_5307b01d	comment	Penny Arcade: "In The Before-Now" dealt with Gabe's past obsession with Kris Kross, an early '90s rap duo who wore their clothes backward. The punchline is that it's hard for a guy to go to the bathroom with his jeans on backward. Kris Kross' first album actually made that same joke in one of the spoken word tracks between songs. "Believe Me, We Tried" discusses this. It starts with Gabe noting that they were going to make jokes about the then-upcoming DoomÂ³, but decided not to because every development screenshot of the game looked like the kind of joke they would make.
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Redundant Parody / int_5439ec9c	comment	Mother Goose and Grimm: There was a comic once of a man watching TV with a woman behind him looking shocked, and the caption, "Scully discovers the XXX Files." But in The X-Files, it was well-established that Mulder really did stash porn all over the office, and that Scully was perfectly aware of it and didn't care. Another strip featured Edward Scissorhands playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with a little kid, and continually losing. This joke especially falls flat considering it was used in the movie as a running gag. And he did it again.
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Redundant Parody / int_5921531a	comment	Many parodies of Persona 3 focus on how weird and disturbing the Evokers are, gun-shaped devices that allow the user to summon their Persona by shooting themselves in the head. The weirdness of Evokers is commented on a few times in Persona 3 itself, and crossover spinoffs will always have a member of another game's party point this out.
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Redundant Parody / int_59da62aa	comment	The notorious Fallout: New Vegas mod The Frontier came under fire for a scene where the player character can forcibly enslave a mentally ill woman. The developers, when called on it, claimed that they were trying to subvert the long-standing Fallout tradition of dialogue options requiring a Speech check being the best option, since blindly going for the Speech check is how you enslave America. The problem is that not only is the dialogue option that starts this sequence not a Speech check, but the original game already has two sequences that do the same thing better - during the Boomers sidequest "Young Hearts", choosing the Speech check while talking to Janet will get her blown up, instantly failing the quest, and in the Dead Money DLC, picking a speech check during your first interaction with Dean Domino results in him turning on you at the end, because he becomes convinced you're going to pull a fast one on him.
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Redundant Parody / int_5fb6422f	comment	Ruins, a parody (in the vaguest sense of the word, given everything in that comic is Played for Drama) of the series Marvels, seems to be based primarily on subverting the premise of how wonderful it would be to watch the Marvel Universe unfold by making it out as a massive Crapsack World where everyone is either an asshole or dying. Except the ideas that the Marvel Universe is kind of a Crapsack World and it would be nervewracking and disillusioning to live in a world of superheroes were both major themes of Marvels; even the opening issue ends with the narrator being caught in the middle of a brawl and losing his eye in the process.
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Redundant Parody / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd: In the strip "Dorm Poster," a character sees their roommate having put up a poster of the album cover for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, so they decided to "get back" at them by making a poster that inverts the light dispersion, bunching the rainbow together using a lens and directing it towards an inverted prism to turn it back into white light. The thing is, the concept has already been used◊ for the album's back cover, albeit without the lens. "Etymology" has Luke Skywalker asking Han Solo to explain what a falcon is. But as that trope page points out, the novelization had this joke (because Luke comes from the desert):
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Redundant Parody / int_60e46926	comment	It's a standard Doctor Who parody joke to make fun of the Fourth Doctor's ridiculously long scarf. MAD joked that it was self-knitting and a newspaper cartoon featured a giant tape dispenser with the striped pattern reading "Dr. Who Scarf (cut to length)". The show made jokes about it already, usually from some incredulous character of the week.note Word of God says it actually ended up as it did as a result of a misunderstanding. The producer gave the seamstress several balls of yarn with the intention that she choose which ones she wanted. She thought she was supposed to use all of them.
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Redundant Parody / int_60e46d26	comment	MAD: In its 1950s Comic Book incarnation, it sometimes ended up committing this trope. In their Disney parody, for example, much of the humor derived from Donald Duck losing his clothes and getting captured by a duck farmer who could barely understand him. Pretty funny in itself, but Donald winding up naked and coming off as incomprehensible due to his quacking voice happened in quite a few actual Donald Duck cartoons (though not necessarily at the same time). Inverted and Hilarious in Hindsight with a Shrek-scenes-we'd-like-to-see comic written when the first movie was released. It shows Donkey with dragon/donkey hybrid babies, which became a reality in the sequels. MAD also had a comic in which the Disney version of Pinocchio stomps on Jiminy Cricket. Although such a thing never happens in the Disney version, something similar did happen in the original book the movie is based on. In the magazine proper, in an article about the comics section of the Vatican newspaper, they make a joke in a FoxTrot parody about Jason pointing out that George Lucas could sue God for stealing the plot of Star Wars. The actual strip had done the same joke in reverse(in that Jason suggested God sue George Lucas) years before.
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Redundant Parody / int_61f1473	comment	Smosh did a parody of Death Note. The joke is that the guy with the Death Note gets Drunk with Power, develops a god complex, and becomes a Knight Templar murdering anyone he doesn't like... which is exactly what happens in the series itself.
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Redundant Parody / int_6274efe4	comment	A MAD skit showed Bluto gaining massive strength and beating Popeye up after a waitress inadvertently switches their lunch orders and he gets the sailor's spinach. The problem is, this was done way back in the classic era at least once. Why it doesn't happen more often is usually explained simply by saying Bluto hates spinach, and when he does partake, it's because it's either forced on him, or he makes the supreme sacrifice to help Popeye fight against a common enemy (such as a group of Japanese soldiers in one of the WWII-era pictures). Another episode included a parody of ShamWow called "SpongeWow", showing a Vince Offer parody using SpongeBob SquarePants to clean all manner of gross or harmful surfaces, causing SpongeBob much discomfort. However, a prior episode of SpongeBob itself, "Model Sponge", featured a scene with the same basic premise as the skit, involving SpongeBob being hired as an actor for a cleaning sponge commercial when he thinks he has lost his job at the Krusty Krab and is forced to have to clean a ridiculously filthy bathroom, much to his increasing displeasure.
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Redundant Parody / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic: In his Top 11 Drug PSAs, he makes a joke about R2-D2 from Star Wars smoking a cigarette when robots don't have lungs to damage... which C-3PO himself comments on in the PSA. He says he wants R2-D2 to stop so he can set a good example for humans. Referenced in his A Simple Wish review when he yells at the character with a magic wand, "stop turning my jokes into things that already exist!" Played straight when one of the fairy godmothers says they have to turn in their wands when coming to the test for the same reasons that cowboys in the old west had to turn in their guns when coming into town, especially in Dodge City, "that's why nobody got plugged." Then, the NC says that's like asking NRA members to turn in their rifles before a meeting, and expecting everyone to comply safely. But people did get shot in town at times in Dodge City and the rest of the old west (though nowhere near the extent portrayed in fiction), some of the most famous old west shootings, including the gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, took place specifically to enforce these laws, so if you know anything about the Old West, he just repeated her joke in an NRA context. Furthermore, NRA conferences are gun-free. In his review of Last Action Hero, while he devotes one rant to how Danny points out all the clichÃ©s and plot holes that he could be commenting on, he also cracks a joke about F. Murray Abraham's character's betrayal being unsurprising because he's never played a good guy in a movie yet. A trait that's brought up repeatedly in the film, usually focusing on how his character killed Mozart in Amadeus. In fact, there's nothing in the entire review that suggests he's remotely aware it's a comedy; half his comments amount to pointing out one of the absurd background jokes and announcing that they make no sense. He's also made a couple jokes about Harry Potter, imagining a version where Harry has some serious issues due to everyone acting like he's The Chosen One. While the issue is skated over in the movies, it's a huge theme of the original books (Doug tends to only reference the films when they come up in his videos). In his review of Eight Crazy Nights during the Bum Biddy song, he complains about Davey singing, "But he never quit on me", when Whitey did quit on him. Davey's line immediately after this was, "Till I told him he was useless and his sister was freaky." His review of Yogi Bear opened with a re-enactment/parody of a fan-animated "alternate ending" where Boo-Boo shoots Yogi. Though this video itself is a parody of the pivotal scene of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. In his Starship Troopers review, he brings up the possibility of it being satire (which it is), but still makes jokes about the intentionally ridiculous elements and (intentionally) fascistic elements.
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Redundant Parody / int_63230cb	comment	Dragon Ball Z KAI Abridged Parody: Episode 3.5 has Goku lampshade the Artifact Title nature of the series in the Android arc, after the Dragon Balls are permanently gone, due to Kami and Piccolo fusing, he exclaims "But then what are we in!?" Akira Toriyama already made this joke in early Dragon Ball in the Emperor Pilaf arc, after Bulma revealed that the Dragon Balls become inert for a year after a wish is granted, Oolong asked "What's going to happen to the title of the manga now?" Although, given how much research they usually do, it could be a Mythology Gag than a straight example of redundant parody.
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Redundant Parody / int_653f2044	comment	The main joke in Shane Dawson's parody of Unfriended is that the movie would be over in an instant if the main characters just ended their Skype call. In the actual movie, they have a very good reason not to do so: Laura will kill them immediately if they try.
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Redundant Parody / int_658f7bd	comment	Another strip featured Edward Scissorhands playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with a little kid, and continually losing. This joke especially falls flat considering it was used in the movie as a running gag. And he did it again.
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Redundant Parody / int_691be369	comment	There was a comic once of a man watching TV with a woman behind him looking shocked, and the caption, "Scully discovers the XXX Files." But in The X-Files, it was well-established that Mulder really did stash porn all over the office, and that Scully was perfectly aware of it and didn't care.
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Redundant Parody / int_69392c59	comment	The Cinema Snob: Referenced at the end of his Bingo review, where he realizes that the film was most likely a parody, and proceeds to tell us how dumb he feels.
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Redundant Parody / int_69fa7496	comment	Parodies of Uncle Scrooge will inevitably make a joke about how diving headfirst into a pool of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck is a terrible idea, and that it would probably lead to a concussion in Real Life. But the actual Uncle Scrooge comics have acknowledged this multiple times, going all the way back to the first Uncle Scrooge issue, "Only a Poor Old Man", which ends with the Beagle Boys knocking themselves unconscious after Scrooge convinces them to try it themselves. In the same story, Scrooge just coyly replies "It's a trick" when asked how he himself can do it. Indeed, most of Scrooge's stories portray him as a Memetic Badass who regularly pulls of improbable feats that leave his friends baffled; swimming in gold is pretty basic for him. In another issue, Scrooge notes that he needed lots of practice to be able to do it, after using it as a Spot the Imposter test.
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Redundant Parody / int_6aa63e52	comment	To capitalize on the release of Mortal Kombat (2021), the erotic gacha game Crystal Maidens featured an event introducing several new maidens who were gender-flipped parodies of Mortal Kombat characters, including Raiden, Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Their female version of Sub-Zero was called "Frost"... who has been an actual character in Mortal Kombat ever since 2002's Deadly Alliance.
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Redundant Parody / int_6cb2d709	comment	At the height of Pottermania were many out-of-touch parodies that focused around the idea of Harry and his friends growing up and becoming teenagers with all the foibles that entails such as sexual attraction and social awkwardness ("Harry Potter and the Onset of Puberty"). This is what much of the series actually concerns itself with. Apparently, they stopped reading after the first book and assumed later entries continued the "kid in a candy store" sense of wonder (perhaps combined with Not Allowed to Grow Up) instead of maturing along with the target audience.
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Redundant Parody / int_6d8311c4	comment	Another theme in dark parodies is humans eating PokÃ©mon or PokÃ©mon eating each other. PokÃ©mon edibility has been canon for years, with PokÃ©dex entries remarking on how certain species eat one another (sometimes violently) or are eaten by humans, and in PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver the poaching of Slowpoke to eat their tails is a plot point.
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Redundant Parody / int_6e82f5f4	comment	Their video for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) remake has Erin beat Leatherface by just kicking him in the balls. She does kick him in the balls in the actual film (in the meat freezer scene) and it barely slows him down.
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Redundant Parody / int_6e94492	comment	How It Should Have Ended: Their video for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) remake has Erin beat Leatherface by just kicking him in the balls. She does kick him in the balls in the actual film (in the meat freezer scene) and it barely slows him down. Their video for Moana pokes fun at the fact that the Ocean could have just returned the Heart of Te Fiti itself instead of going through the trouble of presenting this task to Moana. The movie itself actually has Maui comment on this, with Moana reluctantly admitting that she has no idea why. Maui later deduces that the ocean believes it would mean more if a human, like Moana, accomplished the task, as it would inspire ocean travel once again.
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Redundant Parody / int_70814599	comment	When reviewing an episode of Stargate SG-1, Chuck also made a Who's On First? joke regarding the System Lord Yu, despite the fact that the show itself had already done so many such jokes that Daniel even noted that they were getting old in an 8th season episode.
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Redundant Parody / int_73e23cc7	comment	The Key of Awesome's "I Need a Doctor" parody pokes fun at the Ho Yay between Dr. Dre and Eminem by having Eminem hit blatantly on Dre, Dre responding with a sarcastic and only mildly irritated rejection, and Eminem 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 "Just 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 "Yeah, boy, shake that thing - whoops, I mean girl. Girl girl girl" and a section where Eminem cosplayed gay icon Madonna.
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Redundant Parody / int_7884e8d1	comment	The episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" feature segments taken from Pulp Fiction that are played almost straight, with little original humour. It's less of a parody and more a near shot-for-shot remake.
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Redundant Parody / int_8125b468	comment	One common joke about Batman is "what if Batman was inspired by something else when he decided to become a superhero?", which usually leads to some kind of jokey theme like "Shards of Glass Man" or "Curtain Man." There was a tongue-in-cheek What If? story that delved into the idea as early as 1974 (where various alternate Bruce Waynes take on the monikers of Scorpion, Owl, Shooting Star, Stingray, and Iron Knight), and it was rendered (sorta) canon in The Multiversity, where characters going by those identities who are clearly the local Batman equivalents show up.
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Redundant Parody / int_87b55b5d	comment	The Onion: They crossed this with Spoofing Spoofiness in 1999, with an article that treats a (fictional) "Weird Al" Yankovic parody of "Livin' La Vida Loca" called "Livin' La Vida Mocha" as Serious Business. Thing is, Ricky Martin's original has this infamous Lyrical Shoehorn in the chorus—"Her lips are devil-red and her skin's the color mocha." Whether they weren't aware that "mocha" was in the original, or the joke was that Yankovic was guilty of this trope isn't clear. A 2019 article pokes fun at the Kingdom Hearts series by announcing that Kingdom Hearts III will incorporate characters and locations from Touchstone Pictures films (Touchstone Pictures being an alternate label used for Disney-distributed films that aren't aimed at Disney's traditional demographic), including Turner and Hooch, Sister Act, Air Force One, and Pretty Woman. In fact, the series has already done this: The Nightmare Before Christmas (one of the films highlighted in the very first Kingdom Hearts game) actually was released as a Touchstone Pictures film—since Disney execs in 1993 disapproved of its morbid content, and didn't want the company's name associated with it.
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Redundant Parody / int_8d98042f	comment	One episode of Game Grumps has Arin mocking Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom for the concept of the Indoraptor, pointing out the silliousness of how the creature works — where you aim a gun at a target and hit the trigger and it "tags" the target with a laser that makes the Indoraptor attacks it — by Stating the Simple Solution of "why not just have a gun that shoots bullets" and laughing about how it's just an overcomplicated solution to a problem that was solved a hundred years ago. The movie actually does address this, with the Indoraptor being nothing more than an experimental proof of concept just to test the practicality of using a dinosaur as a controlled bioweapon, and wasn't meant to actually be sold or used for combat. Dr. Wu fiercely insists as such while his boss decides to just sell it anyways once the bidders start bidding on the Indoraptor in the millions.
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Redundant Parody / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: Many parodies of Persona 3 focus on how weird and disturbing the Evokers are, gun-shaped devices that allow the user to summon their Persona by shooting themselves in the head. The weirdness of Evokers is commented on a few times in Persona 3 itself, and crossover spinoffs will always have a member of another game's party point this out. Parodies of the Social Link system and the protagonist being The Casanova. Persona 4: The Animation had Episode 13 and 14 as a two-parter that mocks how weird a day of Social Linking (and other in-game activities like fishing) looks to an outside observer, and both it and spinoffs frequently parody the protagonist's Casanova reputation.
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Redundant Parody / int_91684031	comment	Comparisons between PokÃ©mon battles and cockfighting fall into this category: the plot of PokÃ©mon Black and White outright revolves around the questionable ethics of catching the eponymous creatures and having them battle each other. Most blatantly, PETA made this the focus of one of their parody games... while specifically parodying the exact game which already examined the topic... and praising and comparing themselves to the villainous Animal Wrongs Group from said game.
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Redundant Parody / int_990dea86	comment	Their video for Moana pokes fun at the fact that the Ocean could have just returned the Heart of Te Fiti itself instead of going through the trouble of presenting this task to Moana. The movie itself actually has Maui comment on this, with Moana reluctantly admitting that she has no idea why. Maui later deduces that the ocean believes it would mean more if a human, like Moana, accomplished the task, as it would inspire ocean travel once again.
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Redundant Parody / int_9b891ef2	comment	Before them both, Scary Movie was a parody primarily of Scream, a movie which was already a satire (sort of) of the Slasher Genre.
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Redundant Parody / int_9d9551de	comment	The predecessor manga Codename: Sailor V has a famous scene where Sailor V makes a speech so elaborate and long that it runs for two pages, to the point where the enemy cuts her off in annoyance.
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Redundant Parody / int_9e634a39	comment	Adult Wednesday Addams: Not the series itself but there is a porn parody called Very Adult Wednesday Addams that uses dialogue from the one-night stand episode almost verbatim. Ironically, that video did not run into any copyright problems and is still available to watch.
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Redundant Parody / int_9f497127	comment	The Editing Room had the abridged script for Deadpool (2016) highlighting, if only for Self-Deprecation, how the author is trying to do a mockery of what could already be seen as a superhero spoof. The sequel went the same way:
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Redundant Parody / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Most non-satirical attempts to make the franchise Darker and Edgier fall kind of flat, considering that even the main series installments (to say nothing of spin-offs and other official adaptations) have had everything from terrorist bombings, to child abuse, to multiple accounts of attempted genocide. In most cases, these ideas could be the plots of actual PokÃ©mon games if you removed the added sexual content, violence, and profanity of questionable necessity. Comparisons between PokÃ©mon battles and cockfighting fall into this category: the plot of PokÃ©mon Black and White outright revolves around the questionable ethics of catching the eponymous creatures and having them battle each other. Most blatantly, PETA made this the focus of one of their parody games... while specifically parodying the exact game which already examined the topic... and praising and comparing themselves to the villainous Animal Wrongs Group from said game. Another theme in dark parodies is humans eating PokÃ©mon or PokÃ©mon eating each other. PokÃ©mon edibility has been canon for years, with PokÃ©dex entries remarking on how certain species eat one another (sometimes violently) or are eaten by humans, and in PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver the poaching of Slowpoke to eat their tails is a plot point. When PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus was leaked, Typhlosion's Hisuian form was the subject of jokes that it was The Stoner due to its facial expression. According to the official website, it's supposed to have a stoner-like personality.
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Redundant Parody / int_a0c28448	comment	RiffTrax rarely does comedies precisely to avoid this trope. They still ran into this problem with The Avengers, thanks to Joss Whedon's typically witty script. At one point Bill makes a joke only to have Tony Stark repeat it, and Mike responds, "I keep telling you, you have to make better jokes than Robert Downey Jr. or this whole thing collapses on itself!" Notably, it was years before they tried to tackle another Marvel Cinematic Universe title with Avengers: Endgame (and even then they note that the film's "riffing itself" when Tony Stark refers to the rundown Thor as "Lebowski"). The key exception to the "no comedies" rule comes with Mary Jo Pehl and Bridget Nelson's RiffTrax Presents installments, which have included the Monogram Pictures "Teen-agers" B-movies of the 1940s and several 1980s-'90s made-for-TV movies, as these films' attempts at humor are so corny as to be mockable in and of themselves.
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Redundant Parody / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama The episode "War is the H-Word" parodies the general premise of Starship Troopers, depicting Earth's military invading a deserted alien world and getting its ass kicked until the climax. In the episode, the human forces (led by Zapp Brannigan) are portrayed as a bunch of violent, jingoistic morons who are outclassed in every way—and despite propaganda about the evils of their opponents, they turn out to be the aggressors in the conflict. But nearly all of this is the case in Starship Troopers as well: director Paul Verhoeven very openly intended it as a satire of militarism, with the story depicting a fascist government underestimating a more powerful opponent. Even the idea that the humans are the aggressors (with the apparent inciting incident being a False Flag Operation) is one of the most common readings of the film. In a lot of respects, the Futurama parody just made the original satire more obvious. The parody of The Wizard of Oz in "Anthology of Interest II" ends with the Wizard (portrayed by the Professor) giving Dorothy and her companions a handgun for self-defense ("Who needs courage when you have...a gun!"), as if the idea of a character in The Wizard of Oz carrying a gun is inherently absurd. Except the actual film features exactly that: the Scarecrow carries a revolver while traveling to the Witch's castle to kill her. It's even implied that the Wizard gave him the gun, just like in the parody.note The Wizard of Oz was made in 1939, when it wasn't considered taboo to depict firearms in family films.
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Redundant Parody / int_a32b6a64	comment	Any parody of The West Wing is contractually obligated to make fun of the series for having the characters constantly carry on conversations while walking through hallways for no reason. But the show regularly made fun of itself for doing that; as early as the fourth episode, Josh and Sam admitted that they had no idea where they were actually walking.
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Redundant Parody / int_a34863aa	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been subjected to its fair share of parodies since its heyday in the 1980s—as befitting one of the most popular multimedia franchises of the 20th century. As any fan will tell you, the cartoon was pretty damn tongue-in-cheek to begin with, essentially being a buddy comedy with action and sci-fi thrown in. Even the original Darker and Edgier comic book was just as much an Affectionate Parody of superhero comics as it was a superhero comic in its own right. The central premise (temperamental young mutants fight crime in New York City) was something of a take-off on X-Men, while their origin story (a runaway truck full of radioactive waste gives birth to superheroes with martial arts training) was a clear parody of Daredevil. Even the Turtles' wise mentor "Splinter" was a parody of Daredevil's mentor "Stick", while their enemies "The Foot Clan" were based on Daredevil's "The Hand".
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Redundant Parody / int_a4420d22	comment	According to the writers of The Venture Bros., this proved an issue with trying to parody G.I. Joe in one episode. The episode has a sequence where a group of agents charge into battle, with the joke being that they all have incredibly stupid codenames. As it turned out, they'd regularly come up with joke codenames and then discover that there were actual Joes with those names, forcing them to scrap those names and make new ones. (To their credit, they managed to avert this in the final episode, with all the agents to feature having original names.)
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Redundant Parody / int_a485ad0f	comment	The Angry Video Game Nerd criticizes the Video Game Adaptation of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure for its inane plot of having them time travel to set things right simply so their band won't break up, and for them killing Mooks in the game because of how killing ancestors could mess up the future. Both of these aspects are noted and made fun of in the film, with the ludicrous nature of them time-travelling to keep their band together Played for Laughs since their band will eventually unite humanity in a utopia of world peace.
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Redundant Parody / int_a81325d3	comment	The stock jokes about Final Fantasy are: Stupidly big swords. Cloud's sword in Final Fantasy VII was deliberately designed to look ridiculous (if in a Campily cool way), to reflect that Cloud is a cocky showoff and overcompensating. The remake further parodies its impractical size when Cloud tries to pull it out when standing under a door frame. He hits the frame and has to back out of it to get enough room to draw his sword. Spiky hair. Cloud's outrageous hair was already occasionally mocked in the original Final Fantasy VII (for example one NPC refers to him as "pokey headed") as well as spin-off titles like Dissidia Final Fantasy (Such as Shantotto calling his hair a "distraction"). Much like his sword, Cloud's hair was meant to emphasize a sense of compensatory flamboyance. Due to Cloud's recognisability, Spiky hair is often stereotyped and parodied as being a typical thing for the series as a whole, when actually it's not really that common outside of FFVII related media. Emo teens. Much of the humour in Final Fantasy VIII derives from what happens when you put stupid and immature teenagers in charge of saving the world, like when Squall storms out of the room in a huff about some perceived slight and the other characters are clueless about his attitude. Bishounen. From a man in a hostess club mistaking Cecil for a waitress in Final Fantasy IV to Faris making Galuf doubt his sexual orientation in Final Fantasy V to Cloud's appeal to gay and straight men alike in Final Fantasy VII to Noel being called 'even prettier' compared to his female sidekick in Final Fantasy XIII-2, this is mocked nearly every time the subject comes up. The main character having Laser-Guided Amnesia. Final Fantasy X makes an extended joke out of Tidus faking it (claiming he was exposed to Sin's toxins), since his actual backstory is just as unbelievable, and even he has trouble saying any of it with a straight face.
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Redundant Parody / int_ada547f3	comment	Pornography studio Wood Rocket is known for producing cheap & quick porn parodies. One day they released The Bed Room, a parody of Tommy Wiseau's The Room (2003). But The Room itself has enough lengthy sex scenes in its first half that it could easily be mistaken as being softcore porn itself. So a lot of people saw The Bed Room as pointless. The Cinema Snob addressed this redundancy in his review of The Bed Room.
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Redundant Parody / int_af457929	comment	In his review of Eight Crazy Nights during the Bum Biddy song, he complains about Davey singing, "But he never quit on me", when Whitey did quit on him. Davey's line immediately after this was, "Till I told him he was useless and his sister was freaky."
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Redundant Parody / int_b0fc9724	comment	An episode of Saturday Night Live guest-hosting Jeremy Renner parodied The Avengers (2012) by having Hawkeye run out of arrows to shoot at the Chitauri and how it essentially takes him out of the fight. The problem is, this actually did happen in the original film. A 2020 episode guest-hosted by Daniel Craig had a digital short, a "deleted scene" from the upcoming No Time to Die,note which was initially postponed to November 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic before being pushed to October 2021. with Chloe Fineman as Ana de Armas who leads Bond into the casino... which is actually closer to what Las Vegas casinos are really like, complete with drunk and rowdy gamblers. However, the Bond film Diamonds Are Forever is not only largely set in Vegas, but also makes a point about how Bond's style makes him stand out among Americans when we see him in a casino. Granted, it's downplayed from most other examples because the main joke is actually Bond getting sidetracked by gambling and acting exactly like the drunk & rowdy gamblers instead of actually continuing his mission, much to Fineman's dismay.
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Redundant Parody / int_b30ae4db	comment	The Game of Thrones spoofs in Disenchantment got some accusations of this, ignoring the fact that Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire are already such a brutal Genre Deconstruction of high fantasy that they often border on satire. For example, one character in Disenchantment gets impaled on the stand-in for the Iron Throne—but in A Song of Ice and Fire, it's said to be a common occurrence for kings to be injured or killed on the Iron Throne (it's meant to be a symbol of the burdens of leadership, so it was designed to be dangerous and precarious to sit on). Luckily, this mostly stopped after the first season.
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Redundant Parody / int_b3f687d1	comment	In the magazine proper, in an article about the comics section of the Vatican newspaper, they make a joke in a FoxTrot parody about Jason pointing out that George Lucas could sue God for stealing the plot of Star Wars. The actual strip had done the same joke in reverse(in that Jason suggested God sue George Lucas) years before.
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Redundant Parody / int_b5a087d7	comment	The same punchline was attempted by Robot Chicken, though they ramped it up with Refuge in Audacity (by which we mean on-screen, barely-censored sex) as a back-up punchline. As frank as The Golden Girls was about sex, it never had Sophia courting an entire high school basketball team (dressed as a cheerleader).
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Redundant Parody / int_b5ac5dd2	comment	Avatar: The Abridged Series, due to parodying a show that's a dramedy to begin with. For example, its parody of the episode "The Storm" has a scene where Katara says: "Aang would never run away! [Aang gets on his glider and flies off] Aang, stop running away!" The original was exactly the same, only with different wording.
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Redundant Parody / int_b9b06d7e	comment	Not much better than that is a parody of Borat — and by "parody", the film means "direct lift of an exchange from Borat, almost word for word, acted out by a man imitating Borat." And needless to say, Borat is already a comedy.
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Redundant Parody / int_ba1083f7	comment	When talking about Guitar Hero and Rock Band, it's common to make fun of the implausibility of achieving worldwide fame and success by exclusively playing note-for-note covers of already-famous songs, a joke that loses its bite when one remembers that the win screen of the very first Guitar Hero made this joke itself as the player character is quoted "Never thought I'd get this far playing covers."
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Redundant Parody / int_bb55a676	comment	Parodies or lists mocking "lame comic characters" have a habit of including characters that were always intended to be jokes. Arm Fall Off Boy of the Legion of Super-Heroes in particular often gets spoken of in "what were they thinking?" tones, when he made exactly two very brief appearances where the entire gag was that this idiot thought his ability to detach his arm made him Legion-worthy. (In fact, his presence was essentially an early Ascended Meme in the fandom.)
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Redundant Parody / int_bc848d30	comment	Many parodies of SpongeBob SquarePants go the Bloodier and Gorier route, featuring intense violence. However, SpongeBob arose from the Ren & Stimpy grossout era, and as a result, is no stranger to Family-Unfriendly Violence through the occasional Black Comedy Burst, many of which aren't too far off from those parodies.
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Redundant Parody / int_bca72091	comment	Animal Crossing parodies usually have Isabelle as the jaded, overworked Hypercompetent Sidekick to the New Leaf player character's bumbling mayor. This was already joked about in-series with two completely different characters: Phyllis, the jaded, overworked, nightshift-running pelican at the town hall/post office, who picked up the slack from Tortimer, the bumbling mayor from the Nintendo 64 game to Wild World/City Folk. The idea of a normally cheerful character turning out to be a Stepford Smiler has also been Zipper T. Bunny's gimmick since his debut.
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Redundant Parody / int_bdb0a080	comment	In his review of Last Action Hero, while he devotes one rant to how Danny points out all the clichÃ©s and plot holes that he could be commenting on, he also cracks a joke about F. Murray Abraham's character's betrayal being unsurprising because he's never played a good guy in a movie yet. A trait that's brought up repeatedly in the film, usually focusing on how his character killed Mozart in Amadeus. In fact, there's nothing in the entire review that suggests he's remotely aware it's a comedy; half his comments amount to pointing out one of the absurd background jokes and announcing that they make no sense.
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Redundant Parody / int_bf4abb02	comment	DC's Redtool, from the Harley Quinn solo series, is a parody of Deadpool. The problem is that Deadpool is already a parody himself (his original inspiration being DC's own Deathstroke), and his personality and humor style are very similar to Redtool's, making the latter come off less as a parody and more as a pure Captain Ersatz. Making this more redundant is that Harley (especially around the New 52 and Rebirth eras) is already treated as an Alternate Company Equivalent to Deadpool anyway in some of her solo books thanks to her Meta Guy attitude.
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Redundant Parody / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: It's a standard Doctor Who parody joke to make fun of the Fourth Doctor's ridiculously long scarf. MAD joked that it was self-knitting and a newspaper cartoon featured a giant tape dispenser with the striped pattern reading "Dr. Who Scarf (cut to length)". The show made jokes about it already, usually from some incredulous character of the week.note Word of God says it actually ended up as it did as a result of a misunderstanding. The producer gave the seamstress several balls of yarn with the intention that she choose which ones she wanted. She thought she was supposed to use all of them. Jokes involving presenting the title as an actual question or similar gags on its odd name have been part of the actual show since the second episode of the original series. That's episode, not serial. It is also, in fact, the intended MEANING of the title.
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Redundant Parody / int_c720f71e	comment	While recut trailers on YouTube try their best to avoid being as close to the original film they're riffing, many can fall victim to redundant parody if done incorrectly. For instance, this re-cut trailer for The 'Burbs tries to make it appear as a horror movie. The problem is the fact that the film is already a black comedy with horror elements, and it has also been described as a straight up Horror Comedy.
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Redundant Parody / int_cb6a6d5b	comment	The Avengers (1998) tries to be a self-aware parody of the original series when the series was already self-aware.
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Redundant Parody / int_cbae024e	comment	In 2017, a Twitter user named "xnulz" posted a still from a Taylor Swift video with the caption "Name a bitch badder than Taylor Swift". This led to a long thread where people mentioned women throughout history with amazing, inspirational accomplishments. Presumably, a lot of the responses assumed the original poster was some young, naÃ¯ve Swift fan who had a lot to learn about life. If they'd bothered to look at xnulz's other tweets, they would've seen that xnulz was very much a part of the Weird Twitter spectrum, posting Non Sequitur jokes, often accompanied by pics, like "I'll never understand the hype about dogs......", as well as taking jabs at things like Kylie Jenner and McDonald's. In other words, the original tweet was mocking Taylor Swift, and, however noble their intent in celebrating women, the responses were ultimately just making the same joke as the original (that there are plenty of "badder bitches" than her).
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Redundant Parody / int_cf7739d0	comment	For example, the review Jesus Beezus (a blog of the Ramona Quimby books) does of Ramona and her Mother has this line:
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Redundant Parody / int_d1702e57	comment	When PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus was leaked, Typhlosion's Hisuian form was the subject of jokes that it was The Stoner due to its facial expression. According to the official website, it's supposed to have a stoner-like personality.
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Redundant Parody / int_d288705d	comment	Lampshaded/parodied by Forbidden Broadway's take on "The Song That Goes Like This" from Spamalot. The song starts out using the exact same lyrics as the original, then points out that fact, and then accuses the show of stealing from Forbidden Broadway.
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Redundant Parody / int_d2cb10af	comment	Many parodies of Tarzan poke fun at how an animal man, raised in the jungle, is somehow clean-shaven. This is actually a rather large plot point in Tarzan of the Apes, the very original book: he finds an abandoned cabin that contains a hunting knife and some children's books containing photos of clean-shaven Englishmen — he cuts off his beard to look more like them.
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Redundant Parody / int_d31cdea	comment	An online video called The Hungry Games, mocking the trailer for The Hunger Games by making it about an eating contest, calls the main character "Catnip" as a Parody Name. The creator evidently didn't realize that in-universe, that's Gale's personal nickname for Katniss.
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Redundant Parody / int_d7aab7c1	comment	An anime episode wherein Usagi has trouble transforming when in her house, to the point where the angelic wings are long enough to knock dishes over when she turned around, and in general would have been more effective had she not transformed to begin with.
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Redundant Parody / int_d7ef9bb8	comment	The Deadpool short film Deadpool: No Good Deed has Deadpool struggling to put on his suit inside a phone booth while John Williams' Superman: The Movie theme plays. But, even the 1978 movie poked fun at Superman using a phone booth to change, as he glanced briefly at one before deciding to change in a revolving door.
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Redundant Parody / int_d80d2982	comment	The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt episode "Kimmy Goes to the Doctor!" parodies Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark by having Titus audition for the role of "Spider-Man #12" in its nonexistent sequel Spider-Man 2: Too Many Spider-Men!, a plodding trainwreck that features multiple Spider-Men onstage at once. The actual Spider-Man comics have actually done just that: it was called The Clone Saga, and it's also widely remembered as a plodding trainwreck. Later continuities would also make jokes about the saga in the same fashion. Spider-clones have been a staple of the Spider-Man mythos for years, and there actually are several other characters in the comics who have also assumed the role of Spider-Man; and yes, they have all teamed up before. And on top of that, the original musical being spoofed had up to sixteen actors, dancers, stuntmen, and acrobats playing Spider-Man at various points, and yes, there were a few moments when all of them were on stage.
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Redundant Parody / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: The episode parodying Pet Sematary has the Jud Crandall expy warn Stephen Stotch not to resurrect his (not actually) deceased son via a cursed burial ground in a way that simply puts the idea in Stotch's head and gratuitously provides him with instructions on how to pull it off, ostensively sending up how easily the events of parodied story could have been avoided if Jud had kept his mouth shut. However, the original book and its film adaptations make it clear that part of the burial ground's power is in compelling those who know about it to reveal it to others, with Jud Crandall himself acknowledging that he should have realised he was being manipulated.
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Redundant Parody / int_dac2531c	comment	Baywatch actually managed to do this to itself. The episode "Rescue Bay", where a TV producer is inspired by the lifeguards to create the titular Show Within a Show, is intended as a bit of Self-Deprecating Humor, but as Allison Pregler of Baywatching points out, none of what we're shown of Rescue Bay is any more ridiculous or over the top than what the actual show does on a regular basis. Taken out of context, it could easily pass as part of any episode of Baywatch.
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Redundant Parody / int_dad73e07	comment	Many parodies of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory have the Oompa-Loompas be slaves owned by Willy Wonka. Trouble is that the Oompa Loompas were African pygmies in the first version of the original book, before Bowdlerization.
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Redundant Parody / int_e0f3d2b6	comment	The Honest Trailers entry for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) makes a joke about how Tails uses his ass to fly. Except the movie itself made that exact same joke when Sonic saw Tails flying for the first time.
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Redundant Parody / int_e2496ef1	comment	The Comebacks is a spoof movie that parodies sports movies as a whole, and it features a particularly egregious example. The film has a scene that directly parodies the "dodge a wrench" scene from DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, almost shot-for-shot. Except, DodgeBall was a comedy film that made fun of various sports movie tropes & cliches, and its "dodge a wrench" scene was already played for laughs to begin with.
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Redundant Parody / int_e7321fa1	comment	The Bob & Tom Show likes to cast its hosts and/or characters in wacky variants on recent hit movies, and fell victim to this when they cast white trash caricature Donnie Baker in "Funeral Crashers" — apparently unaware that the concept of picking up women at a funeral had already been explored in the third act of Wedding Crashers.
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Redundant Parody / int_ea4f62db	comment	A somewhat common criticism of Family Guy's Cutaway Gags post-cancellation and revival is that they come off as this sometimes. Compare, say, a gag from Season 2's "The Story on Page One" (Peter works as a Ghostbuster, but ends up busting the completely benign Sam Wheat) to one from Season's 7 "Baby Not On Board" (a direct recreation of part of the opening to Back to the Future, just with Peter in place of Marty McFly).
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Redundant Parody / int_ebc16967	comment	Parodies about the car bonus stage from Street Fighter II often feature jokes about how the poor shmuck who owned that car will be horrified once he comes back and sees you've junked it. Except... this is based on a similar minigame from Final Fight (which Street Fighter shares a universe with), which makes exactly this joke at the end.
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Redundant Parody / int_f2638929	comment	Virgin vs. Chad: One variant of the Virgin is the Virgin Chad, a guy who is so insecure about his masculinity that he deliberately does (or says he does) the opposite of whatever the public deems uncool, unlike the Chad Virgin who doesn't care what anyone else thinks about him. In the original image macro that spawned the meme, the Chad avoided "Virgin" activities like being considerate of others, listening to music, and looking at the ground, while the Virgin was simply trying to live his life. The only difference between Chad and the Virgin Chad was which one was depicted uglier.
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Redundant Parody / int_fa738078	comment	Sailor Moon: Many parodies supposedly mocking the conventions of Sailor Moon's ditzy and at times ineffectual behavior, ridiculously idealistic and energetic nature, flashy but impractical transformations, melodramatic and long-winded speeches about love and justice, and blatantly terrible attempts at keeping her identity secret largely repeat what the original work lampshaded. Although most of these things are more or less played straight and accepted as genre conventions, truth be told the Magical Girl formula was far from new when Sailor Moon debuted. Usagi very much started out as akin to an Affectionate Parody of magical girl heroines at first: she was not nearly as competent as she was believed to be, which earned her no small amount of snark from her teammates. Her first attempts at heroism usually left her falling flat on her face. And her extremely girly personality was consistently Played for Laughs. Indeed, the cornerstone of her early Character Development was learning to be a competent hero and properly take on her responsibilities as Princess of the Moon. Many of the villains both one-off and arc-based often looked terrifying as well as acting equally horrific, at times causing enough suffering that they'd not look out of place in a much Darker and Edgier deconstruction. The predecessor manga Codename: Sailor V has a famous scene where Sailor V makes a speech so elaborate and long that it runs for two pages, to the point where the enemy cuts her off in annoyance. An anime episode wherein Usagi has trouble transforming when in her house, to the point where the angelic wings are long enough to knock dishes over when she turned around, and in general would have been more effective had she not transformed to begin with. The hilariously terrible attempts to keep her identity safe are played so straight as to be a Stealth Parody. Parodies that like to play on Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask being Usagi's Useless Boyfriend often forget that this was a major character arc for his manga counterpart, and he already acknowledged that he's weaker than Sailor Moon would ever be, with even some villains mocking him for it. That doesn't stop him from developing his own signature move and becoming one of the most important fighters in that continuity. His reputation for being useless largely comes from the anime, where he's weaker and his role is more downplayed since two of the anime's directors (Junichi Sato and Kunihiko Ikuhara) famously disliked him.
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