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- Simply put, this trope is what happens when a Parody (generally a mean-spirited one) is created by people who have an ill-informed and/or superficial impression of their target, resulting in a parody that only satirizes a work's most obvious surface-level aspects—while failing to satirize any of its substance or themes.
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Compiled with an Introduction & Notes by Dwight MacDonald. Simply put, this trope is what happens when a Parody (generally a mean-spirited one) is created by people who have an ill-informed and/or superficial impression of their target, resulting in a parody that only satirizes a work's most obvious surface-level aspects—while failing to ...
Feb 19, 2019 · 136K. 4M views 5 years ago #reylo #kyloren #ladygaga. We’re taking this SHIP to a whole new level in a galaxy far, far away. When the characters of Star Wars meet the emotional medley of...
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Feb 6, 2019 · 93K. 5.7M views 4 years ago. GRAMMYs host Alicia Keys gets together with 2-time GRAMMYs host James Corden for a beautiful duet parodying "Shallow" from the hit film "A Star Is Born," in which...
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Mar 10, 2019 · We’re giving this one a solid 10/10. Check out the hilarious “Shallow” parody below: For comparison, you can check out Gaga and Cooper’s intimate Oscars performance of the track: https ...
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Mad magazine (and the TV series) sink to this. It can be justified, as the parody has to fall close to the date of the work's release, and often the writer(s) are working on early script drafts or...Marvel's Marville hopes irrelevant pop culture is enough to count as parody.Marvel's parody comic Not Brand Ecch portrayed the Doom Patrol as shameless rip-offs of the more popular X-Men when in reality the Patrol came first.Cracked, when it still was a magazine along the lines of Mad, had an issue (#248 or #249 or thereabouts) covering the 1989 Batman film wherein a Burt Ward-style Robin complains that not only is he...One of many, many flaws in the Seltzer and Friedberg "parody" films, such as Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, and the aptly named Disaster Movie. In fact, Disaster Movie parodied films wh...Somewhat more excusable example: Airplane! includes a parody of a famous scene from From Here to Eternity despite none of the writers having watched that film. Mind you, that's one parody in a film...Pleasantville has the eponymous, which is supposed to be a parody of shows from the 50's, but is actually just how a modern person who has never watched Leave It to Beaver or The Andy Griffith Show...The 41-Year-Old Virgin who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It. "Hey, remember this scene from a Judd Apatow movie? Well we don't have any writers, so we're just going to do the sc...Phule's Errand by Peter J. Heck includes a long sequence which is a painfully Shallow Parody of Isaac Asimov's Foundationnovels. "Perry Sodden" = Comedy gold!'Most parodies of one's own work strike one as very poor,' noted T. S. Eliot. 'In fact one is apt to think one could parody oneself much better.' He noted this in the context of praising an aversio...Mad TV once did a parody of The Dark Knight during its final season where Batman (played by Matt Braunger) couldn't afford good gadgets because of current economic issues and make it seem like that...Zigzagged with Saturday Night Live. Some of their parody sketches will be dead-on with what they're parodying; others...not so much.Get Smart usually did targeted parodies pretty well, considering its entire premise was general parody. However, its parody of The Avengers falls into this. Donald Snead and Emily Neal are British,...Done intentionally and fully admitted to on the "Movie Trailers That Are Destroying America" segment of The Colbert Report, where Colbert thinks of ridiculous reasons to consider movies offensive b...A notable aversion is Weird Al's "The Saga Begins," a parody of "American Pie" about Star Wars Episode I, almost entirely before the movie was released. It works because he got all the plot details...
Something Awful's "Truth Media" reviews are an intentional combination of this and Stealth Parody in regards to "leaked scripts" of movies and other "sneak-peek" reviews of popular media. A particu...As an April Fools' Day joke, Maddox of The Best Page in The Universe did a trailer for a fictional film, Vague Genre Movie, mocking shallow parodies such as the Seltzer and Friedbergones mentioned...Cracked.com's 7 Least Faithful Comic Book Movies talks about Ang Lee's Hulk movie and how it differed from the comics, saying that The Incredible Hulk didn't delve into psychological themes and tha...Pop Culture Shocke Therapy uses Shallow Parody as mortar and brick. Every strip is just some random thing happening, only for a random character to be involved and thus... and thus... it is conside...
Professional Wrestling gets this treatment all the time. Apparently, most observers over the age of 35 or so not only have never heard of John Cena, but seem to believe that the "Attitude Era" neve...CHIKARA made "CP Munk," a chipmunk version of CM Punk. That was the whole joke.Every parody of A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor is based around: "The News From Lake Wobegon" (which is just one segment of a two hour show), his alleged need to "be more funny" (his st...The 2000s British radio comedy Atomic Talesparodies 1940s and 1950s American radio sci-fi drama. The only problem is that it largely does so based on the popular conception of what such shows were...That Mitchell & Webb Sound, the radio predecessor to That Mitchell and Webb Look, had a few notable examples.Pretty much any parody of Jerry Seinfeld will include the line "What's the deal with airline food?" Jerry's entire stand-up career was based around the fact that he tackled much more esoteric subje...
Feb 19, 2019 · A STAR WARS Is Born – “Shallow” Parody with Lyrics. by Amy Ratcliffe. Feb 19 2019 • 6:00 AM. We’re taking the Kylo Ren and Rey to a whole new level in a galaxy far, far away. When the...
A page for describing ShallowParody: Western Animation. Shows with their own pages: Family Guy Robot Chicken The Simpsons Individual examples: Baby Looney ….
