Parody within a Parody

The Internet is perhaps the greatest creative force at has ever existed. Nothing proves that more than the energy behind fandom communities. People focus their dedication to a piece of art and use that energy to expand on the property in ways the original creators never dreamed.

Of course, this isn't new. Building on top of previous art has been a staple of the creative process for as long as humans have created art. Now, however, the process by which something is imitated, parodied, or built upon had been shrunk to almost zero.

So, of course, let's take a look at My Little Pony. As they have been doing since the show began they took an existing piece of art and parodied it for use on the show. This time they picked a famous song from the music man which had been famously parodied in the Simpsons. So while the source is the same for the secondary work created by two separate professional animation teams the Internet combined the parodies to create a third level of parody. A parody within a parody, if you will. Best yet this came out only hours after that episode of My Little Pony had aired.

"Ya Got Trouble" from "The Music Man" (Embed disabled)

"The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

"Monorail" from The Simpsons

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Doctor Whooves comes to life

In Japan it’s not an unusual thing for people to come together and create fanmade animation based around their favorite properties. However, that doesn’t happen so often in American fandom communities. Maybe they lack the rabid nature of the Japanese fans or just the lack of a property that drives American fans to go through the trouble. Well, My Little Pony has inspired fans to create some custom animation around the character known as Doctor Whooves. In the clips below we see two scenes from Doctor Who recreated with 100% custom animation. I look forward to seeing more complete adventures of Doctor Whooves if the animators decide to continue with the work they’ve started here.

Ponified form of an extended version of The Doctor’s message to Martha Jones in the two part “Human Nature/The Family of Blood”.

Ponified form of the climactic moment from “The End of Time Part 2” as The Doctor decides to turn around and face his greatest enemy yet.

Q enters Equestria for some fun

A small clip from the second season of My Little Pony has leaked and surprisingly it features the voice of Star Trek The Next Generation's Q, John de Lancie. He will be playing a powerful monster named Discord that will be putting the Ponies through some kind of challenge for his own amusement while making sure they cannot use their special abilities… wait a second…. He's playing a powerful being that is putting the cast through a pointless game for his own amusement… It's Q! Q has crossed over into Equestria to play with the Ponies! I guess he got tired of not having Picard around. Oh man, Rainbow Dash is not a marry Pony.