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Sometimes, the greatest satire happens when no one actually realizes what you made is supposed to be satirical. And, in fact, it happens a lot more often than you think.

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Gilderoy Lockhart is a foppish moron. He was written to rake fun of a real person. Lockhart is based on a man J.K. Rowling knew and despised, who was

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Coyote/I Road Runner cartoons were a staple of Saturday morning TV. They were created as satire. In 1949, chase cartoons were something of a trope. An

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Naked Came The Stranger was a bestseller. ked uT Came Came The Strange The by Penelope Ashe It was written as a parody. In 1966, Newsday reporter Mike

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Invader Zim had a test subject named Nick. CHEN 1o Nick was short for Nickelodeon. Creator Jhonen Vasquez wanted Invader Zim to be very dark. Nickelod

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In 1991, the Beer Lovers' Party took 16 seats in Poland's parliament. o0 Dut the party was a literal joke. Polish satirist Janusz Rewinski decided tha

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The song Valley Girl perfectly captured' '80s slang. That slang was rnade up on the spot as an insult. The spoken parts of the song were improvised

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In the 1920s, paintings by Pavel Jerdanowitch fetched a small fortune. There was no pavel Jerdanowitch. In 1924, a struggling novelist named Paul Jord

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In The Dead Pool, Molly Fisher is brutally killed. She's a shoutout to a filr critic. Critic Pauline Kael called Dirty Harry fascist, pro-violence, p

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The Walter Scott was a steamboat in Huckleberry Finn. It was narned that as an insult. Author Mark Twain thought Sir Walter Scott's novels glorified w

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According to the original Hitchhiker's Guide, The worst poet in the universe is Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge. That's a real guy. Johnstone i

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Scott and Melinda Tucker were the villains in a CSI episode. They were a dig at Sore realtors. One of the producers had worked with real estate agents

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Goldfinger is the quintessential Bond villain. And a real-life architect. Author lan Fleming butted heads with architect Erno Goldfinger when Goldfing

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Dolores Umbridge is a sadistic Harry Potter character. She's a parody of a reat person. The character is based on a real teacher that J.K. Rowling did

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Raymond Burr played the killer in Rear Window. And he's an fyou frorn Hitchcock. Director Alfred Hitchcock hated working with producer David O. Selzni

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Yankee Doodle' is a patriotic American staple. vagney But it was written as a joke. The song is generally attributed to a British army physician nam

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The Cask Of Amontillado is one of Poe's darkest tales. Poe wrote it to burn his rival. A writer named Thomas Dunn English took a swipe at Edgar Alla

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The donkey is the symbol OF the Democratic Party. It WaS originally an insult. The Democratic Party of America adopted the donkey logo specifically be

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The hero in Willow must defeat a two- headed dragon. It's narned after Siskel and Ebert. Willow is a George Lucas film, and Lucas decided the two-head

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In 1944, a poetry journal dedicated an issue to Ern Malley. 1944 AutumnNumber to Commemorate the Australian Poet Ern Malley Ern Nlalley never existed.

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A credits scene from Dodgeball features a fat, ranting Ben Stiller. RIN CNUNCW So He's speaking for the director. Rawson Marshall Thurber wanted the u

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Graffiti artists were asked to decorate the Homeland set. obell nV KO6 So they wrote Horoneland iS racist. Producers of the series, which is notorio

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Schrodinger's cat is a famous thought experiment. Schrodinger was rocking the idea. The paradox is that a cat who is sealed in a box with poison is bo

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Everyone loves to hate Biff Tannen. He was essentially the BTTF tearn's revenge puppet. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale were the creative team behind a n

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