"With MSPA I am always on the lookout for raw material to manipulate in esoteric ways, and it's usually garnered through satire. But then I ride that material pretty hard, and before you even know what's going on, it's not satirical anymore! Ask yourself this: at what point did John's love of Con Air cease to be a mockery of the film, and became more of a SHRINE to it? Hard to say."
Many parodies take things apart to laugh with the work and the fans. Malice is almost never intended to the source, just good fun.
Affectionate Parodies are generally done by fans (and sometimes creators) of the source material. Don't presume, however, that because of this, the Affectionate Parody can't be harsh; ultimately, it can be even more cutting than usual. As devotees of the thing parodied, the creators know exactly where its faults, flaws, and weak points are and can use that in full effect. Knowing enough about the source material, good and bad, can help the creators avoid making a Redundant Parody or a situation where they Spoofed the Ironic Film Seriously. Unfortunately, if the jokes are mean-spirited enough about their subjects in general, fans might mistake the creators for hating the subjects and, well, it can lead to Misaimed Fandom.
They often function as both a send-up of a genre and an honest member of it. Generally, there's some kind of underlying plot, a twisted version of a stock tale, and actual characters, even if they're swathed in cliches like a mummy in wrappings. Some of them can lean more toward the "Affectionate" than the "Parody" and just seem like more light-hearted versions of the usual with maybe some Lampshade Hanging. Very often, affectionate parodies are based on humoring as many tropes typical of the genre as possible, and can easily be classified as Troperiffic.
Often times, being parodied is a sign of doing something right. Being parodied by well known artists like Weird Al or South Park means that you've made something big, and is the price of making a hit. However, it can mean that the parodied work becomes too popular and overrated due to the influx of new fans from the likes of Weird Al and South Park, the latter having a very large Misaimed Fandom. When the parody is well received by the creator of the original, then this is Approval of God.
Many a comedy Fanfic has used this.
See also Satire/Parody/Pastiche and Adam Westing, where the original actor joins in the fun. If an Affectionate Parody is so loving that the parody aspect falls out, it is an Indecisive Parody, and may be a sign that the creators are about to make a Decon-Recon Switch.
Compare Take That!, where the parody/reference is a lot less affectionate.
Contrast Deconstructive Parody, though the two can overlap.
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Advertising
- This commercial
spoofs kaiju. Ultraman in particular. Also '80s (neo-classical) power metal.
- This Irn-Bru advert spoofs the flying sequence from Christmas classic The Snowman. Showing a variety of Scottish landmarks instead of ones from the South East of England and the music is a parody version of Walking in the Air.
- The 2015 San Francisco Giants' parody of the Full House opening, aptly named Full Clubhouse. Brandon Crawford rocking his long hair and strumming a guitar like Uncle Jesse, Hunter Pence polishing his scooter, and Jeremy Affeldt's shit-eating grin must be seen to be believed.
- UFO Kamen Yakisoban ads are a parody of tokusatsu series such as Kamen Rider, starring Yakisoban, a noodle-themed superhero who fought the evil kettle thief Kettler. The ads themselves also got a parody in "Kakesoban," a superhero who suffered amusing injuries and failed to beat Kettler, who was a heavy smoker.
- Taco Bell's semi-annual advertisements for its Nacho Fries are Real Trailer Fake Movies that parody several different movie genres. So far, they've done a conspiracy thriller, a dystopian film, a musical biopic, a buddy picture, a Science Fiction film, a horror film, and a mecha anime.
- Some of the commercials are parodies of very specific subgenres, while others are more broad. The dystopian film is specifically a parody of dystopian YA novel adaptations like The Hunger Games or Divergent, the science fiction film is a parody of space exploration movies and takes heavy influence from Interstellar, and the horror film is a parody of the Haunted House subgenre of horror. The final commercial that was released for the Nacho Fries campaign, meanwhile, was based entirely on fan comments and can best be described as a sci-fi buddy comedy that's a mix between Palm Springs and Mad Max: Fury Road.
Comic Books
- Lucky Luke, by Morris and (most of it) René Goscinny is an affectionate parody of just about everything one can find in the Western genre.
- While Alan Moore's Miracleman and Watchmen were dark deconstructions of the Super Hero genre, his later 1963 is an affectionate parody of the Silver Age.
- The same could be said of his run on Supreme which used many goofy Silver Age-style ideas and stories. Extra points for the fact Moore also made a parody of a parody, taking the MAD Superman parody Superduperman and writing one based on Supreme, who himself is a Superman analogue.
- 1963 is an Affectionate Parody of the stories and characters of the Silver Age, but more of a pointed Take That! to the creators behind them, with the letters pages implying that "Affable" Al Moore (Moore's fictionalised version of himself within the 1963 universe and a clear take-off of "Smilin'" Stan Lee) is an egotistical tyrant who shamelessly takes credit for the achievements of others.
- Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade is an affectionate parody of the Silver Age of Comics. Supergirl is a massive weirdness magnet and her best friend is Mad Science incarnate.
- The Nextwave comic book series.
It's an absolute distillation of the superhero genre. No plot lines, characters, emotions, nothing whatsoever. It's people posing in the street for no good reason. It is people getting kicked, and then exploding.
- The Assistant Editor's Month frequently created such stories, but perhaps the most affectionate of the lot was "Once an Avenger, Always an Avenger!" (Iron Man #178), a story parodying the current events of the Iron Man comic (as well as Marvel's generally melodramatic writing style), but with an Avengers fan club instead. Complete with images of the Iron Man-cosplaying kid drowning his sorrows in soda after being fired from the team so as to respect the current roster.
- Marvel Comics frequently does this in its own media. One of the most prominent examples is the world of Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider-Ham, an anthropomorphic animal version of the Marvel Universe. Alternate reality storylines, such as the ones in Excalibur, also included humorous parodies.
- What makes the Supermegatopia Spider-Ham an affectionate parody of an affectionate parody, apparently, as the SMT take on her is to make her a cute, if slightly plump, girl. The sarcasm is retained, as well as a slight desire to just stay home and watch TV instead.
- Really, this was the entire point of the What The title, with one issue featuring Man-Thang and Swamp-Thang getting into a largely ineffective fight over who stole whose origin; Frank Casket, the Pulveriser, and his Cloud Cuckoolander war against crime; and Wrillimean, a Wolverine spoof who spoke entirely in "Slice and dice! No quarter! I'm the best at what I do and I ain't pretty!"
- Mutant Beach Party, a version of a lot of the events of 80s X-Men stories condensed into two parts.
- Little Ego, by Vittorio Giardino, is an erotic parody of Little Nemo. Though the art style was a lot more realistic, it retains the color, odd plot shifts, multi-panels and, of course, the main character waking up in her bed at the end.
- Runaways uses this as well, especially with Victor Mancha, who is programmed to worship in-universe superheroes and often plays straight man to the more smarter of the group.
- Green Lantern: Word of God states that Kyle Rayner's stint as Parallax during the Sinestro Corps War was meant to be a parody of Kyle's interactions with Hal Jordan when he was Green Lantern and Hal was Parallax.
- 1982's The Fantastic Four Roast, written and laid out by Fred Hembeck and issue #34 of Marvel's What If...? series (first version), were some of the gut-bustingly funny send-ups drawn straight ever.
- Doug TenNapel's one-shot comic, Solomon Fix, is an affectionate parody of the British. It was inspired by the "fancy Englishmen" TenNapel worked with while making Earthworm Jim.
- MAD magazine was for nearly its entire run defined by its parodies of major TV shows and movies... and real life as well.
- Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters is the first Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombats parody of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Deadpool as a character tends to be an affectionate parody of the Dark Age of Comics and of stereotypical '90s anti-heroes.
- Wilq is a mix of Superman (capable of flight, wears a cape) and Batman (how he wants to be perceived).
- Inodoro Pereyra, a comicbook from the Argentinian writer "Negro" Fontanarrosa, is an affectionate parody of El Gaucho Martín Fierro.
- Superlópez: In Spain, the Supergroup stories are considered one of the finest parodies of the superhero genre.
- Colt Noble and the Megalords was a one-shot from Image that is this in regards to Masters of the Universe, though very much more "affectionate" than "parody" as it doesn't directly mock any of the elements lifted from He-Man so much as create comical situations around them (such as the characterization of Prince Jaysen/Colt Noble as a horny idiot and Archfiend as the world's worst boyfriend). The continuation in Mini Comics Included did parody one specific element of the original He-Man toyline: namely, the premise behind He-Man impersonator Faker, who has blue skin and orange hair. The Faker equivalent, Duper, is fired by Archfiend because he can change shape but not colors, but ends up fooling Colt's love interest Mareea because she's colorblind.
- Ultimate Adventures is a parody of the Batman franchise, in which the vigilante is a deluded billionaire who relies heavily upon his teenaged sidekick.
- Bongo Comics Radioactive Man parody of 1980s comics, Who Washes the Washmen's Infinite Secrets of Legendary Crossover Knight Wars, is a shining example of how to do this. It is spot-on and obviously written and illustrated by creators who love those comics. Just as importantly, it is very funny - so funny, in fact, that you don't even have to know what they're parodying to enjoy it.
- Largely the point of Planetary, in which each issue explores a skewed version of a particular pop-culture icon through the eyes of the main characters; Japanese kaiju movies one issue, 1960s super-spy thrillers another, and so on. It was often Played for Drama, however, in that while the writers were clearly affectionate towards many of the things they were drawing upon, they were also willing to criticise as well; to illustrate, one issue featured a group of characters clearly based on the Vertigo Comics characters of the 1980s and 1990s, and while one of them passionately champions their political and social relevance and edginess, another bluntly points out that when taken out of that specific set of contexts and appearing in the present day, they can't help but look a bit silly.
- The Adventures of Philip and Francis by Pierre Veys and Nicolas Barral, published by Dargaud, the same publisher as the original books, Blake and Mortimer. Published albums include The Empire Under Threat, The Machiavellian Trap and the (supposedly) upcoming The Yellow "M" vs. Godzilla.
- Wrong Earth pokes fun of Batman through the premise of there being two Batman type characters existing in two different universes: Dragonflyman is a parody of Batman (1966) and comes from a campy and at times silly universe, while Dragonfly is a parody of more darker versions of Batman and comes from a brutal and overly violent universe. The premise is that they accidentally swap universes, with much hilarity coming from how both of them react to the worlds they are in. Despite both characters being heavily exaggerated versions of Batman however, they both portrayed as competent crime fighters with plenty of depth to their characters, which makes it clear that this was written as a love letter to the franchise.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles began as a Daredevil parody, riffing on Frank Miller's ninja-heavy reinvention of the series in the 1980s. It's since become...quite a bit more than that.
- Age of the Sentry spends a lot of time mocking the foibles of the Superman stories of the 50s and 60s, and plays the idea of a character operating on Silver Age DC rules in the relatively more grounded Silver Age Marvel for all it's worth. However, it also shows a great deal of fondness for those stories, and goes out of its way to match their tone and storytelling, throwing in dozens of little nods to Superman's history. The last issue goes so far as to feature a possible explanation for Sentry's true origin and nature, that is also a barely-veiled argument against DC's attempts to reboot Superman to be more like Marvel or more "realistic", claiming they get rid of what gives the character life.
- Angry Birds Comics: Game Play: Master Pig Theatre: The Strange Case of Minion Jakyll & Mr. Hyde is this to The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Comic Strips
- Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin's alter egos are often used to spoof their various genres. Tracer Bullet covers Film Noir, Spaceman Spiff is a parody of Sci-fi adventure stuff like Flash Gordon, and Stupendous Man... well, guess. Occasionally, the comics Calvin was actually reading would be used to give a not-so-affectionate critique of the ultraviolent Dark Age of Comic Books.
- Knights of the Dinner Table is essentially a good-natured sendup of tabletop gamer culture. The creators even produced their own licensed verion of the 1st Edition AD&D rules, Hackmaster.
Films — Animation
- Phil Lord & Chris Miller have made a career of making very manic and creative parody films and many of them have been animated.
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs takes the concept of the book and turns it into a parody of disaster films.
- The LEGO Movie frequently (though not completely) parodies summer blockbuster movies. The fact that everything's Built with LEGO helps, as even the most spectacular explosions and overloaded action sequences end up sillier as a result.
- America: The Motion Picture is a comedic riff that parodies everything that is considered American (including its folklore, politics, and history).
- Boogie is a massive spoof towards the suave, cool, Private Detective badass, as well as Film Noir and Heroic Bloodshed cinema. The titular "hero" is anything but heroic (beating up senior citizens and not giving a single shits on civilian casualties and collateral damage) and definitely NOT cool (he burps, farts, and beats up women). Onscreen deaths of children and old people alike are Played for Laughs, and somehow the movie makes it work.
- Chicken Run is a stop motion animated version of The Great Escape and other prisoner-of-war escape movies. Albeit with a happier ending.
- In Frozen II, Kristoff's solo song, "Lost In The Woods", is one big love letter to 80's power ballads and the common cliches in their music videos, including dramatic angles and lighting, loud guitar twangs, soulful close-ups of his face superimposed onto the shot, and using a hanging pinecone like a studio microphone. To top it all off, it's a sort of fantasy sequence in which Sven and the other reindeer of the forest are singing with him part of the time as backing vocalists.
- Mr. Puzzles Wants You to Be Less Alive is an ostensibly AI-generated script that was animated, skewering horror tropes and specific properties.
- Shark Tale is an affectionate parody of gangster films, which probably helps in that they feature Robert de Niro as the Don, and he played Vito in the second Godfather movie.
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a parody of musicals and Disney films. Odd combination but it surprisingly works.
- Kung Fu Panda is an affectionate parody of Wuxia films, while being a sincere example at the same time.
- Rango is an affectionate parody of the Spaghetti Western.
- Hotel Transylvania (2012) is an affectionate parody of Universal Horror and vampire movies.
- Igor is an affectionate parody of Universal Horror and the Frankenstein movies in particular.
- The "I'll Make a Man Out of You" sequence in Mulan (1998) can be seen as an affectionate parody of a Boot Camp Episode.
- Surf's Up parodies the mockumentary.
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water is one of Pirate movies, the Belic conflicts, the post-apocalyptic genre, and the Superhero blockbuster.
- It would probably be easier to list the things The LEGO Batman Movie doesn't parody about the Dark Knight. His over-the-top edginess, his relationship with The Joker literally being played like a romance, his Informed Loner tendencies, you name it. They even take some affectionate shots at the nature of the live action Batman films themselves, and imply every incarnation of Batman was just a different phase he went through.
- Ronal the Barbarian parodies the Conan the Barbarian franchise.
- Megamind is one for superheroes, with a few small touches of Deconstructive Parody mixed in.
Magazines
- Much like fellow publication Animage, 月刊OUT (1977) enjoyed publishing parody manga. These include:
- Char Neko no Koto (a parody of Mobile Suit Gundam by Ai Naniwa). A retelling of the events of the anime...except they're all cats.
- Strange Aristocratic Story (a parody of Voltes V by Yuuki Masami). The story centers around a Royal Family gripping with drama between the Prince and the other nobles, with Mac Beth-level backstabbings.
- My Home Gjie (a parody of Space Runaway Ideon by Sesaku Iwasaki). A Slice of Life series about the married life of Gjie and Cheryl, and their next-door neighbours, the Jordan family.
- Even freakin' Batman shows up in one parody manga!
Pinball
- America's Most Haunted parodies Paranormal Investigation television shows such as Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and Destination Truth. The Video Mode, "Flippy Ghost," is a parody of Flappy Bird.
Professional Wrestling
- Sakura Hirota has done parody gimmicks of Command Bolshoi, Aja Kong, The World Famous Kana, Stan Hansen, Kinnikuman, Bull Nakano, Kyusei Ninja Ranmaru, Lady Gaga, Mayumi Ozaki, Ayako Hamada, The Undertaker, Toshi Uematsu, GAMI and Akira Maeda, among others.
- Ebessan has also done Hansen as well as The Great Kabuki, Miracle Man, Gamma, Abdullah the Butcher (eventually endorsed by the real thing at All Japan's excite series), Satoshi Kojima, Jushin Thunder Liger, Cactus Jack (another real thing endorsement at ROH's third anniversary), Goldberg, Y2P 160kg (who approved at Zero 1 land II), Jumbo Tsuruta, Rey Misterio, Kurt Angle, Killer Khan, El Blazer (endorsed in VKF), Akebono, Tarzan Goto, Bret Hart, Dump Matsumoto, Tiger Jeet Singh, Ultimate Warrior, Kodo Fuyuki and probably a few more we've overlooked.
- WWE wrestler Gregory Helms's former character, The Hurricane, was an Affectionate Parody of Superheroes, especially Superman and the Adam West Batman. His character previous to that was an Affectionate Parody of comic-book fanboys, as he trotted out his encyclopedic knowledge of the Green Lantern and compared situations from the comic to everything he came across in his wrestling career (in fact, his costume as Hurricane was heavily influenced by the costume worn by Kyle Rayner as the Green Lantern).
- In 2005, Shocker, Máscara Mágica, and El Terrible held a competition in mockery of competition based reality shows that had the same format as WWE's Million Dollar Tough Enough called "Guapos University," in which they searched for a new member of their CMLL group, Los Guapos.
- The LayCool characters were affectionate parodies of the Alpha Bitch with them being fashion obsessed, finishing each other's sentences, their own Buffy Speak catchphrases and a whole lotta Les Yay. And they were still some of the best written heels on Smackdown.
- Dragon Gate turned CZW wrestler Rich Swann into Swann Hanson, a parody of Stan Hansen. For the record, Stan is a "smash mouth" striker while Swann is a high flying garbage wrestler.
- Southpaw Regional Wrestling is a series of short clips made by WWE talent depicting a fake wrestling territory from the mid-late '80s, complete with low production values, bad costumes, Leave the Camera Running moments, and adverts for their upcoming show at a tiny venue.
- Solo Darling's Night of the Living Sugar Creature T-shirt.
- From the 2003 WWE Divas Desert Heat DVD: There is an Easter Egg attached to the "Ivory Whips It Good" extra of her, in a black bikini, doing a parodic Baywatch-style slow motion run.
- At WWA The Inception, Disco Inferno introduced...The Village People's Elbow.
- The Proletariat Boar Of Moldova's "BOAR IS WAR" T-shirt is one of the logo of WWF RAW IS WAR.
Puppet Shows
- Fur TV is a parody of The Muppets but with drugs, alcohol, and sex with Lapeño as a Kermit Expy and Mervin as a perverted version of Elmo.
- Following its Channel Hop to HBO, Sesame Street created two PSAs about respect, one an affectionate parody of Game of Thrones, the other of Westworld, Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Evan Rachel Wood, and Jeffrey Wright all reprised their roles from their respective series for the ads.
Radio
- The Stan Freberg Show: Stan Freberg recorded several Affectionate Parodies of Dragnet, including "St. George and the Dragonet" and "Little Blue Riding Hood" ("only the color of the hood has been changed to prevent an investigation"). The supposed Dragnet catchphrase "just the facts, ma'am" originated in these parodies.
- I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue was of other Panel Games and Game Shows:
- Most notable is the "Just A Minim" round, where they have to sing a well-known song without hesitation, repetition, or deviation — needless to say, the songs are deliberately chosen to make this hard, Old McDonald Had A Farm being one hilarious example. Since Jack Dee took over as host, the parody has extended to Jack channelling Just a Minute chairman Nicholas Parsons' effusive hosting style.
- In unrelated rounds that involve the buzzer (such as 'Word for Word'), panellists (particularly Tim note ) have also been known to issue challenges of hesitation, deviation or repetition.
- I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again always had an extended sketch at the end of each episode, presented as the Prune Play Of The Week. These were often affectionate parodies of plays, books, genres, or whatever was on TV at the time. Their parody of Star Trek: The Original Series is quite memorable, mostly for being a parody of something still well-known.
Spock: Illogical, captain. Allow me to raise my eyebrow to signify how ridiculous that is.
Announcer: See him! See him raise the incredible eyebrow!
Spock: And now...the other eyebrow. [fanfare]
Announcer: The other eyebrow! Oh, the talent! Oh, the joy!
Spock: And now... [drumroll]... both eyebrows at once! [fanfare]
Announcer: Fantastic! Magnificent! - In and Out of the Kitchen is a parody of lifestyle cookery shows.
Sports
- [1] [2][3] Frank Caliendo's sports impersonations are between this and Indecisive Parody.
Tabletop Games
- The Pokéthulhu roleplaying game is an arguably affectionate but very tongue in cheek cross-parody of, guess what, Pokémon and the Cthulhu Mythos.
- Depending on who you ask, the Munchkin (Steve Jackson) roleplaying game series is either an affectionate parody or a Take That! at the selfish, loot-grubbing behavior of some gamers. Though it very likely is both.
- The game Illuminati is one of conspiracy theories.
- Rocketmen is an affectionate parody of Buck Rogers, and the Raygun Gothic genre.
Theatre
- Avenue Q is an Affectionate Parody of The Muppets, and Sesame Street, in particular. Of course, some of the puppeteers of Avenue Q were once Sesame Street workers themselves. (One of them — Stephanie d'Abruzzo — still is.)
- Blue Man Group is, in part, an Affectionate Parody of the modern art scene that ironically has become far more successful than most serious examples of performance art.
- Spamalot and The Producers both mock musical theater conventions while simultaneously celebrating them.
- As does Something Rotten!, which also parodies the works of William Shakespeare (portrayed here like a rock star).
- The Musical of Musicals: The Musical! parodies (in order): Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Kander And Ebb and "One" from A Chorus Line.
- "What Am I To Do?", the ridiculously purple love song sung by a Noël Coward-like character in The Man Who Came to Dinner, was written by Noel Coward's long-time friend Cole Porter (who even signed his name on the song's manuscript as "Noel Porter").
- Much of the musical Bye Bye Birdie revolves around Affectionate Parody of 1950s rock 'n' roll.
- While Don Quixote is a Take That! of its subject matter, Man of La Mancha is more of an affectionate parody.
- The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet is an affectionate parody of Romeo and Juliet/Shakespeare, as well as Dr. Seuss.
- Arsenic and Old Lace affectionately parodied murder plays, with a Genre Savvy protagonist and nowhere-near-sinister killers.
- Two Gentlemen of Lebowski is a loving tribute to both The Big Lebowski and the works of William Shakespeare. The affection for Lebowski is clear, but the affection for the bard really shines through in the print version, which features "annotations" explaining the then-current references Shakespeare was making as he wrote the play.
- Done to Death parodies all sorts of the Mystery Fiction genre. However it is also very much an Indecisive Parody.
- From Team StarKid:
- Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier parodies Disney's Aladdin, Wicked, and the Disney 90s renaissance.
- A Very Potter Musical and its sequels are full-length musical parodies of the Harry Potter books and movies. The sheer amount of effort that must have gone into its production, the very obscure references, and Word of God guarantees that the writers, cast, and crew are all huge fans.
- Holy Musical B@man! is an affectionate parody of Batman and superheroes in general.
- Westeros: An American Musical: The entire idea of the play is to retell A Song of Ice and Fire with parodies of songs from Hamilton. That concept alone, along with the fact that emphasis it put on awesome moments as well, makes it clear that any fun poked at the plot or any changes made by Game of Thrones is in good spirits.
- Noises Off is a parody of, Well, theatre, and all the craziness that happens in a production.
Theme Parks
- At Universal Studios:
- Disaster! was a tongue-in-cheek parody of typical disaster/action movie cliches.
- Dudley Do-Right's Ripsaw Falls contains numerous parodies of classic Disneyland attractions.
- The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera has a "Coney Skyland" park in the Jetsons scene, a clear parody of "Coney Island".
- "The Universe & You" posters at Men in Black: Alien Attack are purposely designed to mimic the retro Disneyland posters.
- Elements of the Shrek 4D queue very blatantly parody Disney.
- Krustyland in The Simpsons Ride, which parodies not only the Disney Theme Parks but SeaWorld, Six Flags and Universal themselves.
- Weeki Wachee Springs: The Sirens of the Deep Mermaid Camp video ends with the participants and the instructors singing "I wish I was a Weeki Wachee Mermaid" to the tune of the old "I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Weiner" jingle.
Web Animation
- The 30 Second Bunnies Theatre pokes fun at movies by reenacting them in thirty seconds with cartoon bunnies. Most of the time these are slasher movies.
- The Amazing Digital Circus: "The Mystery of Mildenhall Manor": The horror adventure that Pomni and Kinger get sent on is a sendup to indie horror game tropes such as a story told through extensive audio logs, a gloomy and mazelike mansion as a setting, hiding from a powerful supernatural creature, and surprise twist endings.
- Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse serves as an Affectionate Parody of the entire Barbie franchise, poking fun at everything from her her ridiculous job history to the fact that she's remained vaguely twenty-ish for over fifty years.
- CAPTAIN YAJIMA is a parody of not only campy Japanese TV series of the 1960s, but also Tad Mochinaga's "Animagic" stop-motion style pioneered by Rankin/Bass TV specials. This is best seen in how only characters' bottom lips move when they talk.
- The Dota 2 Reporter, by Wronchi Animation, parodies the gameplay of Dota 2 and lampshades any Reality Is Unrealistic moments with "You'll just have to accept this and move on".
- Ducktalez Animations makes fun of Resident Evil (episode 2), Dragon Ball Z (episode 3), The Matrix, The Iron Giant (episode 5), The Dark Knight (episode 6), the Terminator series, and more.
- Father Tucker: "Like Unto Sheep" is an unabashed parody of Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog, with the titular Pedophile Priest playing the role of Ralph Wolf and Mother Superior serving as the stand-in for Sam Sheepdog.
- Fazbear and Friends (ZAMination): The series in general is a parody of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise and other Indie horror games, and this is the reason why there are Crossovers within the series and in the shorts.
- FreedomToons parodies some people whom its creator Seamus Coughlin is explicitly a supporter of.
Dear Ben Shapiro, I'm sorry for making another video about you. Please don't melt me with your laser vision. I'm actually a huge fan.
- The Fruitless Quests of Nabiu: The series took a lot of inspirations from 80's media, primarily making fun of elements common in Final Fantasy and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
- Girl-chan in Paradise parodies Shonen anime, as well as poorly animated and dubbed anime too.
- Homestar Runner features many affectionate parodies in its various cartoons, mostly of things from the creators' childhoods. A prime example would be Cheat Commandos, a parody of merchandise-driven kids' TV shows such as G.I. Joe.
- If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device is a satiric take on Warhammer 40,000 which pokes fun at its more ridiculous aspects, but is nonetheless respectful and as accurate as possible to the source material. As the author himself says on the latter, in TTS, "everything is canon (except Malal)"
- Mystery Skulls Animated is an affectionate send-up to Scooby-Doo with the supernatural investigator adults, their dog and their van obviously inspired by the Scooby gang. The story of Mystery Skulls gang is quickly proven to be darker and more tragic, though the series maintains affectionate references to the longstanding franchise.
- Paranormal High School: Happens on occasion with videos, such as when Heeko is shrunken down into a kid turning into a Detective Conan parody for that video, or when Kuroi decides to pretend to be Link for a day due to not having enough money to buy The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
- PONY.MOV. The series' over-the-top art style and Crosses the Line Twice sense of humor may suggest the opposite kind of parody, but its creator has stated on his Tumblr blog that he's a legitimate fan of the show it makes fun of.
- Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to Be a Magical Girl: The pilot riffs on the classic tropes of Magical Girl Warrior cartoons, with Zira as the enthusiastic fan voice playing off of Aika's boredom with the Strictly Formula lifestyle, while the primary bad guy is an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain based on the recurring bad guys-slash-romance interest archetype who's comically misread what his dynamic with the hero is like here. Among numerous references to shows like Sailor Moon and Puella Magi Madoka Magica, it even casts actors who've played magical girls in said shows.
- Resident Evil Musicals has every character from the Resident Evil franchise dumbed down and singing to musicals. It features a side-series called Resident Evil: Survivor which is both an affectionate parody of the Survivor reality show and Resident Evil itself.
- Space Stallions is an affectionate parody of cartoons from the '80s and late '70s such as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983), She-Ra: Princess of Power, ThunderCats, SilverHawks and Battle of the Planets.
- SPARKLE ON RAVEN parodies fanime from the late-2000s in everything from its Magical Girl plot to its Stylistic Suck MS Paint artstyle. The creators' unbridled love for the genre is apparent, as they're very careful to keep the authentic sense of sincerity seen in most actual fanime.
- StarCrafts isn't afraid to parody everything about StarCraft II from its tone to gameplay. Not only does the series reimagine characters in a more humorous light (like depicting Zerglings as lovable rambunctious little puppies instead of voracious alien locusts), but it also ridicules the non-sensible mechanics like how a Void Ray's laser can't fry giant mechs but can't so much as scratch a lowly marine. Nonetheless, Carbotanimations genuinely enjoy the games with Blizzard themselves enjoying the series.
Webcomics
- 8-Bit Theater is an affectionate parody of console (specially Final Fantasy I) and table top RPG's (the fantasy genre in general) that also contains an epic story line.
- An American Nerd In Animated Tokyo is an affectionate parody of most Eastern RPGs and many Shōnen anime, mixed in with some Western Animation jokes.
- Angel Moxie: Of Magical Girl series.
- Anime News Nina had a couple of Affectionate Parodies of various anime genres, the one that appeared the most was Ultimate Mop Daisuke DX, which showed how ludicrous To Be a Master Shonen stories could be by applying the same concept to janitorial work.
- Brawl in the Family primarily focuses on the Super Smash Bros. series and the video games affiliated with its participants (particularly Kirby).
- Buttlord GT is a very harsh parody of all the most stupid aspects of Dragon Ball Z. The laser-precise humour, however, marks the author as someone who obviously watches it religiously.
- Charby the Vampirate started off as a loosely linear, dark comedy, based on horror movie send ups.
- Chasing Ice started life as an artwork affectionately parodying Yuri!!! on Ice. The comic still celebrates certain yaoi tropes and the romance genre as a whole.
- Kristofer Straub's Checkerboard Nightmare was a lovingly critical exploration of webcomics. His current project, Starslip, embraces and skewers sci-fi tropes in equal measure.
- The Cockeyed Comix series Cliche City is this to Sin City
- Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman, is an affectionate parody of Half-Life 2, as the title suggests.
- Consolers parodies events in the game industry, presenting video game news and history through Anthropomorphic Personifications of video game companies.
- Darths & Droids imagines the Star Wars films were never made and was instead the homebrew creation of a bunch of eclectic tabletop gamers. The authors have a clear knowledge of both subjects and the jokes are never mean-spirited.
- Dating a Team Magma Grunt is a romance-comedy about the main protagonist of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire dating a team magma grunt.
- DM of the Rings used screencaps from the movie to show it as a Tabletop RPG — complete with players whining about the DM's railroading and loquaciousness.
- I Don't Want This Kind of Hero is a humorous (sometimes, at least) Deconstruction and parody of the superhero genre.
- Erma parodies just about anything related to horror genre.
- Dorito Faced Sempai-san and Shota Boy was an Affectionate Parody of Animesque So Bad, It's Good Yaoi, before eventually taking a life of its own and having several memetic mutations along the way. Now it's basically become a celebration of them.
- George the Dragon performs affectionate parody of all sorts: from fine art, to movies, to Saturday morning cartoons.
- Girl Genius parodies pulp 1940s serials, old-school Science Fiction, Victorian-era Steampunk in the vein of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, Fairy Tales, and every Mad Scientist trope in the book (the main characters all suffer from a trait which causes both madness and scientific genius... and by "suffer", we mean they enjoy every minute of it).
- The "Legends of Celida" story-line of El Goonish Shive is a parody of The Legend of Zelda series and deconstructs how Zelda's Sheik form works.
- Imperial Entanglements is a parody of Star Wars: The Old Republic, following the storylines, but with wacky characters and unique jokes and dialog.
- The Last Days of FOXHOUND is about as affectionate of a parody as you're going to find of Metal Gear Solid.
- Link's Log captures the quirky feel of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in a stylized manga.
- Living with Insanity sometimes goes this route, such as the Talent Scouting arc where David attempts to kidnap Lar DeSouza of Least I Could Do and Looking for Group. While making jokes about him and Ryan Sohmer, the arc is much more a loving tribute and Herbert has stated he has a lot of respect for the pair and their work. However, Paul does sort of ruin it by not even bothering to draw them to look anything like the real people.
- Looking for Group started as a parody of World of Warcraft, but eventually turned into a parody of the High Fantasy / MMORPG genre as a whole.
- Lovely Lovecraft: Although this webcomic has its share of serious moments, it is also a funny but reverent take on the works of H. P. Lovecraft (with occasional homages to other Cthulhu Mythos authors).
- Monster of the Week: The complete cartoon X-Files is parody of The X-Files with Agent Mulder and Agent Scully pointing out stupider aspects, but The Rant shows author is really fan of the show.
- MS Paint Adventures parodies many RPG and Gamebook tropes.
- Problem Sleuth does double duty, poking fun at the convoluted puzzles of the Adventure Game and the convoluted plot-lines, combat abilities and sheer scale of Limit Breaks of Fantasy RPGs.
- Homestuck continues the trend with the notorious Inventory Management Puzzles. Later in the story, it becomes difficult to tell the difference between video game parody and actual plot elements. Also, as the page quote indicates, it likes to parody the hell out of individual fictional works like Con Air.
- My Life as a Background Slytherin is a very loving parody of Harry Potter.
- My Mamma is In — Burned is Out! does not mock either side of the "based alternative" debacle, but instead focuses on the absurdity of the situation by showing what it could become in the future and how stupid reasons for changing the words can be.
- The Noob is a very insightful parody of MMORPGs and the people that play them.
- The Order of the Stick affectionately parodies the 3.5 edition of Dungeons & Dragons, as well as numerous fantasy tropes and tabletop roleplaying games in general.
- Our World: "Mysteries of the Unexplained" to Unsolved Mysteries.
- Persona 3 FTW is this of Persona 3, and its sequel, Persona 4TW, is this of Persona 4.
- Pocket Princesses makes fun of the Disney Princesses as only a die-hard fan could.
- Poison Ivy Gulch spoofs The Western, using stock Western Characters like the marshal, undertaker, prospector, saloon girls and so on in funny situations, much in the tradition of Blazing Saddles and Tumbleweeds.
- Sluggy Freelance does this quite a bit. Star Trek and Alien in "The Sci-Fi Adventure", Voltron and Star Wars in "GOFOTRON Champion of the Cosmos", World of Warcraft and other MMORPGs in "Years of Yarncraft", Harry Potter in the "Torg Potter" stories, at least to begin with.
- Super Megatopia is a cheesecake laden parody of every superhero in existence. Highlights include Ferret Man (a combination expy of Batman and The Punisher — Oh, Crap!!), Buxom Gal (an expy of Power Girl, right down to the costume, except Buxom Gal's powers are tied to her ever increasing bust size), Avatar (she's a god/dess! She doesn't know which one she is at any given time, but she has alien technology to help her prove her point).
- In addition, "Crushed: The Doomed Kitty Adventures" parodies Sword and Sorcery fantasy games in general, but on-line RPG gaming in particular (such as the Temple of Infinite Lives and Crushed having to trek back to her body to retrieve her gear).
- Radiant Dumb is an affectionate parody of Fire Emblem and its various game mechanics. Occasionally, it pokes fun at the story of Radiant Dawn and Path of Radiance.
- Doing these was the whole point of the original run of Zortic, prior to its Cosmic Retcon.
- In Anime News Network's Anime News Nina, the Show Within a Show Ultimate Mop Daisuke DX is an affectionate parody of the Shōnen genre (but especially Naruto).
- San Peng Guo's Three Kingdoms Comics is this trope of Dynasty Warriors.
- Teh Gladiators is a parody of World of Warcraft, but a gentle, loving one.
- Tomics by Tom Gould, himself a devout Catholic, is a lighthearted take the stories of Jesus and the saints.
- Voodoo Walrus reveled in this in introducing an entire team of overly muscled, gun toting mercenaries ala the comic anti-heroes of the late 80's and early 90's. The overuse of pouches and loud colors might suggest poking fun at Rob Liefeld's creations.
- The cast of Times Like This occasionally do this, discussing what could've happened in Star Wars; or Gilligan's Island; or various commercials redone with historical figures. They even re-enacted the opening to a TV show.
- Welcome To Hereafter does this an arc with the sunism church and Christian/Jewish dogma — Jesus even lampshades it. What makes even funnier is that all (real) religions get a comedy treatment.
- Moonstuck is a pony-centered parody of Homestuck.
- Meanwhile, both MSPA series get a Touhou Project-centric parody in Create.swf Adventures.
- Humon's not-so-Affectionate Parody of James Bond, Agent 300, became a popular enough Breakout Character to get his own Original Flavor fanfic spinoff, Secret Agent Men.
