THE MONKEES: One I remember is where they are trying to "class up" their drunken cleaning lady to chaperone a party. It was a total take-off of the movie "My Fair Lady."

THAT 70'S SHOW: A parody of Casablanca on the episode where it was Eric's birthday and also the very same episode Eric feared of losing Donna when she decides to move away.

ALL AMERICAN GIRL: did a parody of PULP FICTION called "Pulp Sitcom". Margaret Cho, the star of the show had dated Quentin Tarantino, the director of Pulp Fiction.


BEWITCHED - Season 5 had an homage of Gone With the Wind.

THE BOB NEWHART SHOW - Season 4 made a parody of the movie THE STING.

There was an episode of Boy Meets World that I loved that parodied Scream. Jennifer Love Hewitt was in it.

Ohmygosh, janie jones, I loved that one too. Probably my favorite episode of that show. It had Neve Campbell too.

FAMILY GUY: They parodied Facts of Life. They parodied a lot of tv shows/movies. I know we can list a lot of those here.

DRAKE & JOSH: I Love Lucy. They parodied the famous candy maker scene. Very similar.

This is going back a few decades but Maverick did a great parody of Gunsmoke, called 'Gunshy'.

"The Dick Van Dyke Show"..."It May Look Like A Walnut" was a parody of "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers".

Also, what was the sitcom that had Bruce Willis as a guest star on an episode that parodied "Die Hard"? Seems like it was "Friends".

I saw some debate on it, but I enjoyed the My Boys ep that parodied SATC

The Simpsons have parodied or alluded to nearly every movie or TV show in the past 40 years. Here are my favorites:

Movie: The episode Cape Feare parodied some movie. C'mon, you know the one, it had the psychotic prisoner seeking revenge. Aw, it'll come to me.

TV Show: 24 Minutes was a spot on parody of 24.

That was a great parody! I preferred Cape Fear that starred Robert DeNiro over the original movie that starred Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum.

FAMILY GUY: parodied STAR WARS.

It was Mad About You, the episode where Jamie gave birth. Paul had to go back to the apartment for some contrived reason, and security wouldn't let him back in the hospital, because Bruce Willis was there after getting conked on the head while filming a movie, and was running around the bowels of the building convinced he was John McClain. Paul runs into him, and Bruce helps him sneak back in in time to help Jamie give birth.

I miss the days when every Hallowe'en episode of The Simpsons had at least one parody segment. My personal favourite's The Shinning. :)

Now I remember!

Regarding the "Gunsmoke" parody on "Maverick"...Back when Ernie Anderson ("The Loooooove Boat") was still working in Cleveland as horror movie host Ghoulardi, he supposedly did the most spot-on take-off of "Gunsmoke" ever, a 20 minute long bit with long stretches of characters doing and saying nothing. It was so accurate that people called the station to complain that it was boring.

Just thought of another one...Wasn't there an ep of "thirtysomething" that parodied Dick Van Dyke?

Roseanne did a parody of your typical 50's sitcom called "That's my Rosie".

King of Queens: Doug had dreams where he was was Ralph from THE HONEYMOONERS, an IPS driver in YOUNG & THE RESTLESS and also BRIAN'S SONG.

The Simpsons did a very funny parody of "Mary Poppins" once. The nanny's name was Sherry Bobbins.

And Port Charles did an absolutely hysterical send-up of "The Wizard of Oz" as a dream sequence for Lucy. I saved my VHS tape of that day's show; it was way too good to tape over. Lucy was the Dorothy character, Eve was the Wicked Witch, and Victor was the Cowardly Lion. What a hoot.

The 80's tv series "Fame" also did one

The plot being the students were doing their own production, then Doris got konked on the head and..... well, you know.

There was also a funny parody of the "lion tigers & bears, oh my!" segment that involved fast food that had to be avoided!

Fame also did an episode that took off from Rashomon. Of course many series have done the several-people-recall-the-same-incident-differently scenario, but this one copied the format and even some framing dialogue from the movie.

And yes, one of the thirtysomething episodes is "The Mike Van Dyke Show." A highlight is Hope's entrance as Mary Tyler Moore, complete with toreador pants and Capezios. All in B&W of course.

I love the movie Rashomon so when Fame did this episode, it turned out great.

Just Shoot Me did a scene where for whatever reason, The Bionic Woman/Six Million Dollar Man sound effects were used everytime a character moved or lifted something heavy.

A Different World also did a Rashomon-like episode where the viewers saw what actually happened, then go the biased versions.

And while this isn't parody, Cold Case has done numerous episodes based off of films: Disco Inferno (Saturday Night Fever), Yo, Adrian (Rocky), Creatures of the Night (where the flashbacks actually DID parody The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Detention (The Breakfast Club), Dog Day Afternoons (Dog Day Afternoon), Wilkommen (Cabaret), Knuckle Up (Fight Club), Shuffle, Ball Change (Flashdance/Footloose/Billy Elliot), Stand Up And Holler (Mean Girls), Boy Crazy (Boys Don't Cry), True Calling (Dangerous Minds/Any "White Teacher Comes Into Black School And Inspires The Kids To Get Their Act Together" film)

I think we're starting to stray away from straightforward movie parodies, and moving into plot archetypes here.

That being said, one of my guilty-pleasure episodes of Star Trek: TNG is the one where the entire crew is on shore leave at a space station while they run a sweep for all the particles that build up during warp speed travel, terrorists hold them hostage while their compatriots are stealing a chemical residue from the warp engines, and Captain Picard crawls through the bowels of the ship to take out the terrorists one by one. I forget the original title of the episode, but I always call it "Die Hard on the Enterprise". :)

That was the best Simpsons episode in years!

A couple that haven't been mentioned yet:

The X-Files parodied Cops in “X-Cops.” And Felicity paid homage to The Twilight Zone with the excellent episode “Help for the Lovelorn.”

Ah, yes. Season six's Starship Mine, where Picard goes all Air Force One on those people. Get off my starship! Good times.

Here's a good one?

SNL did a hilarious skit parodying the famous Twilight Zone episode "Eye of the Beholder", where a woman is having plastic surgery to repair her mangled face.

When the bandages come off, it's revealed that woman is flawlessly beautiful, while everyone around her (who react to her face with shock and revulsion) have mutilated pig-like faces.

SNL's version had the male doctor and orderlies gushing about how hot the woman (played by Pamela Anderson) was, while the female nurse tried unsuccessfully to convince them she was a freak. Even Rod Serling couldn't come up with his usual closing anecdote, as he too was bowled over by how hot the woman was.

If the latest Simpsons episode, "Lisa the Drama Queen," left you very confused, it is because it was based on the 1994 Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, a movie I had never heard of until I read the TWoP thread for the episode. The movie was about a notorious incident in New Zealand where two teenage girls developed an unhealthy, obsessive friendship that involved creating their own fantasy world. When their teachers and parents tried to separate them, the girls murdered one of their mothers. The Simpsons didn't go that far, though people were weirded out that Lisa and her friend were acting like "more than friends," which also copied the movie.

My favorite parody episode was on Clone High with the episode "Raisin the Stakes: A Psychedelic Rock Opera in 3 Acts." A drug dealer convinces the clone teens that they can get high from smoking raisins and a rock opera ensues. They mostly send up Hair, but there are also nods to Tommy, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Wall ("I'm building a fence . . ."), and Yellow Submarine ("This isn't working! Love is just an abstract concept--it can't knock down stuff!")

And one of those girls grew up to be popular mystery novelist Anne Perry. One of my friends recommended her books to me, but I just can't bring myself to buy them. I look at her name on the cover and think: murderer.

But to get back on topic: Futurama, of course, did many, many parodies, but my favorite was the episode "War Is the H-Word," which tipped its hat to M*A*S*H, with a surgeon robot named iHawk and the use of Todd Sussman's voice over the P.A. (He did most of the P.A. announcements on M*A*S*H.)

Oh! I was just going to post the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before," a hilarious send-up of the original Star Trek series and its fandom. Clearly written by a bunch of Trek geeks, so it's a very affectionate parody and gets funnier and funnier the more you know about Trek lore.

Best of all, the actual Trek actors (except for DeForest Kelley and James Doohan) all voice themselves and seem to be having a blast. Walter Koenig steals the show. "Say 'wessels.'" "NO."

How about the South Park episode about the Plane(t)-arium, which was a great parody of the Star Trek episode "Dagger of the Mind"? Complete with one of the boys repeating Kirk's line about having your mind emptied "by that ... thing".

The best part:
Bender: Can people who hate Star Trek leave?
Walter Koenig: Excellent question!
Then WK's disappointment when Melllvar says everyone has to stay.

I know that Robot Chicken's basic raison d'etre is parodying other programs, but one recent bit from one of the episodes had me rolling. There was a opera version of "The Wrath of Khan" that was so well done, so funny, so artistically perfect (the opera singing may not have been an authentic translation into Italian, but if it wasn't I didn't notice) that I thought I might actually love the show again. There was even a great "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan" aria. Bravissimo, Signore Green!

ROSEANNE: Parodied the opening credits of THE PATTY DUKE SHOW in her closing credits. Lecy Goranson and Sarah Chalke both played the parts of Patty Duke's character and the cousin who is a look-a-like. The parody was also in black and white.

As far as Robot Chicken parodies go, the one that was wrong on so many levels yet animated very well was their parody of Munich and the Laff-a-lympics--Laff-a-Munich!

LOL! And the "grrrrrr" when Melllvar yells at him to "say it in the accent!"

I also loved Nichelle Nichols' completely flat, sarcastic delivery of the line about how hot Melllvar was.