I was recently watching Community, and there's an excellent parody, Inspector Spacetime. It starts as a throw-away joke and I worried it might be a bit cringe-worthy, but Abed and Troy return to it over the season until there's a whole host of stuff about it. I hear some fans even made a spin-off (they changed the title).
It's a parody of Old Who. But it doesn't just take the most obvious traits and change the names slightly (though it does that too with Dalek-analogues etc). It amplifies. It takes the concept of the police-box and doctor's attitude and the doctor's time with UNIT and rolls them up into a simple idea where Inspector Spacetime is more directly police-detective themed. Which wasn't in the original, but is somehow even more true to it.
In Inspector Spacetime, there *was* a female incarnation, but many fans hated her (implied to be a combination of disliking the character, and disliking having a female character at all). And the characters argue whether that was a good thing (because more representation) or bad thing (because they didn't like it). All those parts come from Doctor Who, even though that combination never actually happened.
Likewise, sluggy freelance made an excellent parody of Harry Potter. It was occasionally a bit gross. But it didn't seem hostile to its target, as too many Potter parodies are. Rather, it affectionately continued many things people like about the original (Dumbledore being in charge, the camaraderie of the school, etc) while massively playing up everything that was potentially out of place (how dumbledore can be annoying when he orders people around, how the plot is carefully set up, but doesn't always make sense internally).
In particular, for book #2, the monster is NOT a giant snake. It's a completely DIFFERENT monster that incapacitates people in an entirely DIFFERENT way that JUST SO HAPPENS to be caused three different ways for three different victims, giving a clue as to the monster's actual (ridiculous) underlying nature.
http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Inspector_Spacetime_(television_show)
http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/030915
It's a parody of Old Who. But it doesn't just take the most obvious traits and change the names slightly (though it does that too with Dalek-analogues etc). It amplifies. It takes the concept of the police-box and doctor's attitude and the doctor's time with UNIT and rolls them up into a simple idea where Inspector Spacetime is more directly police-detective themed. Which wasn't in the original, but is somehow even more true to it.
In Inspector Spacetime, there *was* a female incarnation, but many fans hated her (implied to be a combination of disliking the character, and disliking having a female character at all). And the characters argue whether that was a good thing (because more representation) or bad thing (because they didn't like it). All those parts come from Doctor Who, even though that combination never actually happened.
Likewise, sluggy freelance made an excellent parody of Harry Potter. It was occasionally a bit gross. But it didn't seem hostile to its target, as too many Potter parodies are. Rather, it affectionately continued many things people like about the original (Dumbledore being in charge, the camaraderie of the school, etc) while massively playing up everything that was potentially out of place (how dumbledore can be annoying when he orders people around, how the plot is carefully set up, but doesn't always make sense internally).
In particular, for book #2, the monster is NOT a giant snake. It's a completely DIFFERENT monster that incapacitates people in an entirely DIFFERENT way that JUST SO HAPPENS to be caused three different ways for three different victims, giving a clue as to the monster's actual (ridiculous) underlying nature.
http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Inspector_Spacetime_(television_show)
http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/030915