TV Spoofs - How close can you come?

[Sean Renaud]

Touche self friend Hypoxia. I should have started with "where you SHOULD put it." As Lovecraft is happy to point out (though my experience has been more pleasant and varied) the readers will happily punish you for mislabeling something. He often brings up incest and non-con. Daughters love their daddies and the incest crowd will gobble it up. Dare have a daddy force himself on his daughter and the skies will open upon thee. I've never tried THAT one to know. Still my point on heirarchy is about where you should put something not where Laurel will move it. My literally hundreds of stories experience with Laurel is she's not overrulling you unless you goofed and goofed hard.

My original question here was more to do with if you could get a Celeb heavy story out of celeb status. And I was curiuos and we've effectively got 1.5 answers. 1 being celeb out ranks everything. .5 being unless it's chain stories. Which may just be the exception that proves the rule.

For the most part I have no interest in spoofing either. But you know what? I love fanfic. I'm not making fun of 2 Broke Girls if Max and Caroline have an encounter. I just wan tto s Max topless. She's fantastic!

I guess you bring up an interesting Q though. Is a spoof enough to overturn the "you can't age people up" rule. I'll start with I accept but disagree with the reunion episode clause for the same reason that the time travel clause doesn't work. IT's a one off sid thingy. But if I wanted to write a story called the Sampsons with Homie, Midge, Brat and Liza can they all be legal?

 

[Hypoxia]

Which may just be the exception that proves the rule.

Phrase-Nazi note: In this phrase, "prove" means to test, as in a printer's proof sheet to test the print quality, testing booze's alcohol content (its 'proof'), or a mathematical proof demonstrating a theorem's validity. An exception does not validate a rule, but proves it wrong.

I guess you bring up an interesting Q though. Is a spoof enough to overturn the "you can't age people up" rule. <snip> But if I wanted to write a story called the Sampsons with Homie, Midge, Brat and Liza can they all be legal?

I think an EXPLICITLY aged spoof would be okay. I've seen a graphic novel (long comix) where a character obviously Dennis the Menace is a mid-20s stoner and wanker. If Brat and Liza are older and Married With Children and Homie and Midge are greying grandparents then you've obviously jumped the underage bar.

 

[PervOtaku]

In the old days, porn movie parodies used modified names compared to the thing being parodied. These days they don't bother. I think something must have changed regarding the copyright owners being able to take action on that sort of thing.

In the amateur-written prose world, fanfiction (porn or not) has pretty much never bothered changing the names, which mostly isn't a problem since they are fairly low-profile in fan magazine (the old days) or on the web (now). The exception of course being something you're able to actually sell on a high-profile basis, of course I'm speaking of the former Twilight fanfic 50 Shades of Grey.