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• SatireRelated: Imitating a target’s style can reveal its habits as absurd.

• Political satireRelated: Imitating political speeches and rituals can expose their conventions as absurd.

• MetafictionRelated: Metafiction often uses parody to reveal and test literary conventions.

• CaricatureRelated: Parodists exaggerate signature mannerisms and features much as visual caricaturists do.

• Fair UseRelated: Parody may need recognizable borrowing to make its target clear, as in Campbell.

• Don QuixoteRelated: Cervantes uses knightly adventures to comic effect while also testing their appeal.

• Social satireRelated: Imitating familiar social forms can reveal their absurd assumptions.

• GenreRelated: Parody depends on recognizable conventions and makes them conspicuous through exaggeration.

• ComedyRelated: Comedy often uses imitation to expose the habits of its targets.

• Film genreRelated: Parody depends on familiar genre conventions and exposes how they operate.

• The OnionRelated: Its articles copy the language and formats of journalism.

• Incongruity theoryRelated: Parody can expose a mismatch between a form’s conventions and its exaggerated use.

• UlyssesRelated: Several episodes humorously imitate genres, rhetoric, and literary conventions.

• HumorRelated: It generates humor by transforming familiar conventions into comic imitation.

• BurlesqueRelated: Like burlesque, parody depends on imitation, but it targets recognizable conventions more directly.

• Comedy filmRelated: Parody makes familiar film conventions funny by copying and distorting them.

• Menippean satireRelated: Parody lets the mode expose the assumptions hidden in authoritative styles.

• Stock characterRelated: Parody can expose the conventions underlying a familiar character type.

• Comic novelRelated: Parody lets a novel make familiar literary conventions themselves the subject of comedy.

• Literary genreRelated: Parody makes genre conventions visible by exaggerating or subverting them.

• CarnivalesqueRelated: Parody turns authoritative language and forms into objects of play.

• Mock-heroicRelated: Mock-heroic uses imitation of epic conventions as a comic device.

• Monty Python and the Holy GrailRelated: The film imitates heroic quests and medieval storytelling to mock their conventions.

• Remix cultureRelated: Parody transforms its source while relying on audiences to recognize it.

• American humorRelated: Parody draws on familiar American media, genres, and public figures.

• Karl KrausRelated: Kraus mimicked journalistic and political styles to reveal their distortions.

• LyricsRelated: Changing familiar lyrics can create commentary through recognition and contrast.

• Postmodern artRelated: Parody gives postmodern art a way to quote styles while exposing their conventions.

• François RabelaisRelated: Parody lets Rabelais imitate scholastic, legal, and religious language while exposing its excesses.

• Spike MilliganRelated: Milligan’s scripts repeatedly twisted familiar genres, institutions, and dramatic conventions.

• 30 RockRelated: The sitcom repeatedly imitates television genres, advertising, and entertainment-industry conventions.

• A Modest ProposalRelated: Swift mimics policy proposals and statistical argument to make their assumptions appear grotesque.

• Fan artRelated: Some fan art is parody, but fan art need not critique its source.

• Grant WoodRelated: American Gothic’s familiar composition has made it a frequent target of visual parody.

• Larry FlyntRelated: The fictional advertisement in Hustler used parody to mock Falwell.

• Stephen ChowRelated: His films repeatedly recast martial-arts, sports, and spy-film conventions as comic material.

• Novelty songRelated: Many novelty songs reshape familiar melodies or conventions to make a joke.

• Gangnam StyleRelated: Psy adopts the swagger of a luxury lifestyle to puncture its seriousness.

• Bielefeld conspiracyRelated: The conspiracy exaggerates familiar claims about secrecy and suppression.

• Hector-Jonathan CrémieuxRelated: Crémieux’s mythological subjects let Offenbach’s operas mock serious operatic conventions.

• Leslie NielsenRelated: His spoof roles imitate the authority and seriousness of genre heroes.

• Paul ScarronRelated: Scarron’s travesty of Virgil shows how parody can expose the conventions of high literary forms.

• Rick and MortyRelated: Episodes often recast familiar science-fiction stories and film tropes for comic purposes.

• Sarabhai vs SarabhaiRelated: Rosesh’s earnest, awkward poems parody sentimental performance and amateur verse.

• The Benny Hill ShowRelated: The show’s conspicuous chase conventions became easy targets for later comic imitation.

• DoujinshiRelated: Parody is a common mode for reworking popular characters and stories.

• Frédéric DardRelated: The novels play with familiar detective-story formulas rather than simply reproducing them.

• I'm Sorry I Haven't a ClueRelated: The programme borrows the forms of serious games and treats them with mock solemnity.

• Ogden NashRelated: His verse often turns familiar poetic conventions into comic material.

• Postmodernist filmRelated: Parody can be confused with pastiche, though postmodernist borrowing need not ridicule its models.