Surprisingly Accurate Parodies

Last night's ep of the Looney Tunes show had a hilarious "flashback" where bugs, lying to daffy, said he grew up on krypton. Not only did they actually use the john williams superman music, but the design of krypton was EXTREMELY similar to the one in the first movie.
 
Every time Family Guy parodies a game show, they seem to do it very accurately ? the right sound effects, right theme song, right gameplay, everything.
 
Well, most shows do that, though usually only if they get the name of the show right (Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, etc.) though others just mix/go a little further with them and change the name for laughs (The Happy Super Smile Family Challenge Wish Show, Wheel of Morality, etc.). However, this isn't always the case, as "Me Wantee" seemed like an accurate parody of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?, although the burning of the half million dollars may have been a bit much.
 
Also in the first start wars family guy special Peter makes a comment about Hyperspace being freaky and we cut to the Tom Baker opening of Dr who

Also what about the Pokemon and yugi oh parody in the grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy in the end things get so out of that that Mandy makes a special card to make toast of the other monsters
 
Family Guy's Star Wars parodies are very accurate because they run them by Lucasfilm, and thry give them the okay to use them. That's why they have the John Williams music and exacting SW-like details.
 
In the newest episode of Regular Show, Mordecai and Rigby get a zombie action movie with a protagonist that resembles Bruce Campbell from the Evil Dead films.
 
Didn't Animaniacs do a parody on Fat Albert called Obese Orson or something? That one was pretty well from what I recall. Especially the part where "Albert''s friends told him they couldn't chase the Warners cause their creators weren't able to animate fast movements.
 
A lot of credit to the accurate portrayal of the Fat Albert parody can be contributed to a number of WBA workers having worked at Filmation in the past (especially Paul Dini, who worked on Fat Albert writing scripts for the Brown Hornet portion of the show).
 
Yes, there's that, but with Family Guy, Fox has them run their Star Wars bits through Lucasfilm for their approval, even before they did the movie parodies. Seth McFarlane has said as much on DVD commentaries.

Probably because Fox doesn't want to ruffle George Lucas' feathers, I would imagine.
 
Their Green Lantern parody wasn't half bad, either. All the background Green Lanterns were actual real Corps members in the comics.

Speaking of DC parodies, I was pleasantly surprised by Robot Chicken's episode where the Teen Titans visit the Justice League in their satellite. Possibly because not even the DCAU's League or the Teen Titans show had either team acknowledge the other.
 
Drawn Together was pretty good for parodying the various animated genres and characters they had on the show.

Some examples:

Ling-Ling's human trainer is shown to be a child who resembles Ash.

In an episode where the cast build an Indian casino in the backyard, Marge Simpson is seen in the background playing the slots, as a homage to her gambling addiction.

A Stimpy knock-off that showed up one time was voiced by Billy West.
 
They also parodied the old SImpsons gag or panning into a room and us finding something (money, rats, etc.) inside the walls. In this case, it was Bart and Lisa's skeletons.
 
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