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Post by Lance Uppercut on Aug 29, 2021 4:27:46 GMT -5
I don’t mean like family guy doing an opening bit or playing the music. But a whole episode based on another show and not like some classic show that’s a generation behind.
Besides community?
I mean, it’s kind of weird right? Like “hey this show is great, it’s our competition but let’s honor them”. Or it’s a weird tonal shift because the genres don’t match.
Raising hope, there was an entire episode where the family wanted some occasion recorded in the style of modern family because they loved that show. Right down to the talking heads.
Even weirder is that Leverage, a spy/con drama, did a entire episode where they were spoofing the office. I mean literally, they invaded an office that had a documentary crew following them around so they did the exact same camera cuts and subject interviews where they completely acknowledge the camera.
Scrubs had an episode where they spoofed house after everyone there talked about how much they loved house. It’d be one thing to point out that dr Cox pretty much is the house archetype but they even gave him the limp and the case he solved was literally used in an episode of house as a cutaway joke (client turned orange from too many carrots).
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Aug 29, 2021 13:02:26 GMT -5
Archer parodying Bob's burgers for part of an episode because Stirling's voice actor also does Bob's voice. (with an amnesia trope thrown in for good measure.)
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Post by Cyno on Aug 29, 2021 14:17:39 GMT -5
I loved the episode of Scrubs where they parodied House.
Also, South Park parodying Family Guy and The Simpsons.
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Post by James Fabiano on Aug 29, 2021 14:25:53 GMT -5
I'm sure Animaniacs had many of these moments.
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Post by mystermystery on Aug 29, 2021 18:38:47 GMT -5
I think this counts:
Murder She Wrote did a "Friends" episode with a murder on the set of the new hit comedy "Buds" with Jessica mentioning her disapproval for the sex-heavy comedy of the show.
The episode's title was "Among Friends"
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Aug 29, 2021 18:50:13 GMT -5
I we going to count all the times WWE, WCW and ECW all parodied each other?
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 29, 2021 18:53:48 GMT -5
The Simpsons did an episode 24 Minutes.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 29, 2021 20:10:23 GMT -5
The Simpsons parodying Married with Children...
Ahhh no Peg
*flushes toliet to hooting
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Post by Cyno on Aug 29, 2021 20:14:47 GMT -5
The Simpsons parodying Married with Children... Ahhh no Peg *flushes toliet to hooting I'd mention Futurama, but Married... With Children wasn't on at the time of that parody. Though Leela playing the Peg role was a nice touch. |
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 29, 2021 20:20:13 GMT -5
The Simpsons parodying Married with Children... Ahhh no Peg *flushes toliet to hooting I'd mention Futurama, but Married... With Children wasn't on at the time of that parody. Though Leela playing the Peg role was a nice touch. I always wonder if they went to Ed O'Neill for Al and he refused or if they just didn't bother |
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Aug 29, 2021 20:23:22 GMT -5
I don’t mean like family guy doing an opening bit or playing the music. But a whole episode based on another show and not like some classic show that’s a generation behind. Besides community? I mean, it’s kind of weird right? Like “hey this show is great, it’s our competition but let’s honor them”. Or it’s a weird tonal shift because the genres don’t match. If you mean when Community would make fun of Glee, the commentary tracks on the DVDs provided some insights into that. They did that specifically because Glee wasn't their competition, they were getting totally beaten by Glee. So to them, it was funny that they would make fun of them and take shots at them. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 30, 2021 3:20:21 GMT -5
The Simpsons parodying Married with Children... Ahhh no Peg *flushes toliet to hooting Though it’s cut in the syndicated version, Flanders believes he’s been damned by god for laughing at a MWC joke in the Osaka Flu episode. |
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Aug 30, 2021 4:07:54 GMT -5
not a full on parody, but ER had a character in one episode who had been nicknamed McCreamy, obvious reference to the Grey's Anatomy character, I recall he got that name caught doing an extracurricular activity on his own
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Post by thirteen3 on Aug 30, 2021 5:14:18 GMT -5
When The Animaniacs parodied the Power Rangers.
Even as a kid I thought that was really cringey.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Aug 30, 2021 5:39:48 GMT -5
A late series episode of Murder She Wrote had Jessica solve a murder on the set of a sitcom that was pretty much Friends.
This episode was made due to the fact that Friends was airing in the same time slot as Murder...and was pulling in higher ratings.
Edit: Totally missed that post from above.
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Post by mrtuesday on Aug 30, 2021 6:22:24 GMT -5
The Simpsons parodying Married with Children... Ahhh no Peg *flushes toliet to hooting Dr. Hibbert, a character that's been on the Simpsons since the beginning, started as a Parody of Bill Cosby's character on the then-airing Cosby Show. |
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Aug 30, 2021 21:55:07 GMT -5
not a full on parody, but ER had a character in one episode who had been nicknamed McCreamy, obvious reference to the Grey's Anatomy character, I recall he got that name caught doing an extracurricular activity on his own Er and greys anatomy were on at the same time? That’s feels like two different eras/generations |
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Aug 31, 2021 9:16:40 GMT -5
not a full on parody, but ER had a character in one episode who had been nicknamed McCreamy, obvious reference to the Grey's Anatomy character, I recall he got that name caught doing an extracurricular activity on his own Er and greys anatomy were on at the same time? That’s feels like two different eras/generations Oh yeah, ER didn't end until 2009 But that's the difference between ER & Grey's, it ended |
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Post by agent817 on Aug 31, 2021 10:17:40 GMT -5
The Simpsons did an episode 24 Minutes. You could also put in The Springfield Files in there, as well. Both episodes were crossover parodies. I also felt like David Duchovny was having fun in that monologue. He played it straight yet knew that the sequence was a parody. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 1, 2021 3:22:25 GMT -5
 This was more Simpsons writers responding to John K. and telling him to shutup and go actually finish an episode.... but still. (edit: I did miss the entire episode bit in the OP... it was late! but my point stands >_>) |
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