Harry Potter parodies

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These are parodies to the Harry Potter series.

Contents 1 Books 2 Sketches on Saturday Night Live 3 MAD Magazine 4 Other

[edit] Books

• Barry Trotter, by Michael Gerber— a series of Harry Potter parodies published in the United States and the United Kingdom.
• Henry Potty and the Pet Rock by Valerie Frankel — a new kid-friendly US parody that spoofs most of children's literature, ISBN 1-59594-088-X, 2006.
• Porri Gatter by Andreyi Zhvalevskiyi and Igor' Miyt'ko — Belarusian series of Harry Potter parodies.
• Tanya Grotter by Dmitri Yemetz — Russian series about a magical schoolgirl, described by the author, as "a sort of Russian answer to Harry Potter".
• Parry Hotter And The Seamy Side Of Magic by K.C. Ellis.
• Heri Kókler, a Hungarian parody of the Harry Potter series by an author with the fake name G. B. Rottring.
• Harry Twatter, Satirical (Possibly Fictional) title insinuating pornographic reference.
• Harry Pouter, by Peter M. Jolin, a series of Harry Potter parodies published in English and Czech language (under name Harry Trottel), up to date there are three sequels.

[edit] Sketches on Saturday Night Live

In all sketches, Harry is portrayed by Rachel Dratch except for the "Welcome Back, Potter" sketch in which Harry is played by Will Forte.

• Weekend Update sketch, in November 17, 2001: Harry goes to the show, because of the first movie, and can't perform any "real" magic. His explanation is that "I have been on press junkets for 73 days! All I do is make GRRR

[edit] MAD Magazine

• Harry Plodder and the Kidney Stone —a text-driven parody of the first book by Desmond Devlin, illustrated by James Warhola. Cover story of Mad Magazine March 2000 issue.
• Harry Plodder and the Sorry-Ass Story— a parody of the first film, by Desmond Devlin, illustrated by Mort Drucker. Cover story of Mad Magazine December 2001 issue.
• Harry Plodder and the Lamest of Sequels— a parody of the second film, by Desmond Devlin, illustrated by Tom Richmond. Cover story of Mad Magazine December 2002 issue.
• Harry Plodder and the Pre-Teen Nerds are Actin' Bad — a parody of the third film, by Desmond Devlin, illustrated by Hermann Mejia. Cover story of Mad Magazine July 2004 issue.
• Harry Plodder Has Gotta Retire — a parody of the fourth film, by Desmond Devlin, illustrated by Hermann Mejia. Cover story of Mad Magazine December 2005 issue.
• The four later stories were all parodies of the Harry Potter movies, and it can be safely presumed that three more installments are due sometime in the future. MAD has also run occasional Potter-themed pieces which are not direct parodies, such as "The Differences Between Hogwarts and Your School," a J.K. Rowling installment of their "Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds" feature, and an Amazon.com page parody using the "Order of the Phoenix" book as its subject.

[edit] Other

The titles: "Harry Potter and the..." have openly led to innumerable parodies:

• The Potter Puppet Pals is a series of Flash Animations about Harry Potter. Episodes so far have been about annoying Snape and killing Lord Voldemort with automatic weapons. Bothering Snape and Trouble at Hogwarts—two parodies featuring puppet-style Harry Potter characters in "new" adventures. A running gag has been Dumbledore getting completely naked randomly in the story. A third movie, "Wizard Angst" has recently been released, and is about Harry in a bad mood.
• There is an online computer game called Barry Potter and The Stoned Philosopher, it is about Harry Potter's twin brother Barry who hates owls. He goes to Warthog school for wizards and in the game you have to shoot owls and wizards flying over warthogs, the more points you get, the more ammo refills you get.
• "Breadbox Editions", short versions of the Harry Potter movies, are parodies. Harry Potter and the Stone of Your Choice: Breadbox Edition, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Breadbox Edition and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Breadbox Edition.
• In The Big Bite Show, they had a sketch called Harry Potter and the Da Vinci Code of Suduko
• Wiz Kids the third act of Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror XII- Lisa and Bart go to "Springwart's School of Magickry". Harry Potter is in their class and they must fight against the evil Lord Montymort (Montgomery Burns). Harry actually has one line:

Mrs. Krabapple: Harry Potter, are you chewing gum?

Harry: No, ma'am, it's brimstone. [He blows a small fireball]

• Alistair McGowan, on his show Big Impression did a sketch called "Louis Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". It featured impressions of Louis Theroux (as Louis Potter), Neil and Christine Hamilton (as the Dursleys), Nigella Lawson (as Hermione), Anne Robinson (as Ron), Mark Lawrenson (as the Quirrell-figure) and Gary Lineker (as the Voldemort figure). It also featured impressions of Robbie Coltrane (as Hagrid) and Alan Rickman (as Snape), these last two being the actual actors who played parts in the film.
• The Order of the Stick used a character for strip #253[1] named Larry Gardener, a student at Warthog's School of Wizardry and Sorcery. When asked to described himself thus: "I'm a precocious youth who manages to regularly trounce wizards with far more skill, experience, and emotional maturity than myself. I have only token respect for the rules, which is okay because of my so-called 'authority figures' regularly bend, break, or simply forget about the laws in order to accommodate my latest adventure. Which is good, because whatever odd occurrence or random event is happening in the area, it always directly relates to me and my past. Always." Upon the discovering that his interviewers are villains recruiting for a new wizard, he proclaims, "I will stop you with my badly-mangled Latin and questionable logic!" and manages to say "Stoppus Badguyus!" before being killed by a half-orc with an axe.
• "Nigel Planter and the Chamber Pot of Secrets"—an episode of Season Three of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. The episode features Nigel Planter parodying Harry Potter; Lord Mouldybutt, parodying Lord Voldemort; and the house of Weaslethorpe, parodying Gryffindor.
• "Wizard People, Dear Reader"—an audio work by Brad Neely of Austin, Texas. Originally a free CD shared with Neely's friends, "Wizard People" provides an ongoing farcical narration, meant to be played while a DVD of the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone plays with the sound off. In 2004, the New York Underground Film Festival rented a print of the film from Warner Brothers, screened it with the sound off, and played Neely's soundtrack instead. Shortly thereafter, website Illegal Art made Neely's work available for free download. In the following year, Neely also performed "Wizard People" live in several cities, until Warner Brothers took action against theatres that had rented prints, and forced them to cancel the shows.
• In 2003, Comic Relief performed a spoof story called Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan. It featured Dawn French as a female Harry; Jennifer Saunders as Ron Weasley and J. K. Rowling; Miranda Richardson as Hermione; Nigel Planer as Dumbledore (wearing the beard and costume of Richard Harris); Jeremy Irons as Professor Severus Snape; Ronnie Corbett as Hagrid and Basil Brush as Dobby the House Elf (Basil explains that he only took the role after being turned down for Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers).
• In The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, episodes feature "Toadblat's School of Sorcery", Nigel Planter (who has a L on his forehead), and other obvious Harry Potter spoofs, such as 'Lord Mouldybutt'.
• In the episode Peterotica of the Fox television program Family Guy, Peter writes several erotic novels with titles similar to real novels. One of them is "Harry Potter and the Half-Black Chick."
• Henry Skreever was the title of a book series in two episodes of the children's television show Arthur. In the first, "Prunella's Special Edition", a new book had just come out entitled Henry Skreever and the Cabbage of Mayhem and all the characters were reading it. The second, "Prunella Sees the Light", featured the Henry Skreever movie, Henry Skreever and the Brick of Wonders. This parody features the villain "Lord Moldywort."
• "Harry Bladder," a sketch on the children's comedy show All That.
• A collection of Harry Potter sketches on the Australian comedy show Big Bite. It was based on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and included such characters as Haggis, Professor Stumblebum, and Mailman, Mailboy's father (the two Malfoys).
• Hari Potret, an Indonesian TV series for young children, aired from mid-2000 until late 2004. It features a little boy named Hari who loved photography (therefore nicknamed 'potret', means 'photo'). He lived with his cruel uncle (Oom Balon), aunt (Tante Rika), and cousin (Duta), and later on he discovered that he was the son of the most powerful wizardry couple. They are deceased, murdered by an evil wizard named Baron Muka Peot (roughly translated as "Crumple-Faced Baron") who obsessed with the idea of taking control of the whole world. Hari made friends with little boy genie, Jin Farid, and a girl fairy, Pipit. They unfunnily resembles Harry Potter's best friends Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger respectively, as Jin Farid was portrayed as funny but plucky (compare to Ron) and Pipit was portrayed as bushy-haired, cunning and bossy (compare to Hermione). Hari was described as being able to turn all his photos into the moving ones, like those magically-transformed photos/paintings in Harry Potter books. The character of Duta also had a gang of three naughty schoolboys, who resemble Draco Malfoy and his colleagues, Gregory Goyle and Vincent Crabbe.
• Terry Rotter by Andreas Mueller, a German series of Harry Potter parodies. These novels are also satires, mainly of German politics and society. Terry's arch enemy is Heinrich Himmler, the Dark Lord. The first part of this series of free E-books won the Palm Paper Awards in 2006.
• Anti-Fanfic Harry Potter and the Death of Harry Potter by Lunar Buchanan et al. whose content has received much criticism, as well as acclaim and features a parallel storyline from both the Harry Potter books and parodies.
• Harry Podder: Dude Where's My Wand?, a play by Desert Star Theater in Utah. It tells the story of Harry Podder, a boy whose parents were killed by the Dark Lord Voldie. Harry himself survived the attempt with nothing but a scar on his chest in the shape of the word 'Dude'. Harry was taken to his aunt's house in Murray, where he lived for sixteen years. He was then picked up by Bumbledore, Headmaster of Warthogs, the finest wizarding school on the entire Wasatch Front. There he met fellow students Hermione Ranger, Ron Sneasely, and Draca Malfolk. He also met two teachers: Prof. McGargoyle, Spells 101; and Prof. Squirrel, Abstinence from the Dark Arts. Squirrel is secretly an accomplice of Voldie's, and the two plot to steal the copy of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince kept at Warthogs from the Lair-That-Must-Not-Be-Named, so that Voldie can know the future and figure out how to defeat Harry.
• In the children's series Cyberchase, the young spellcaster Shari Spotter attends Frogsnorts school of magic under Professor Stumblesnore.
• Hari Potret first appeared in another TV series called Jin & Jun, probably as a small parody regarding to the booming popularity of Harry Potter in Indonesia. There, Hari used the famous spell "Wingardium leviosa" to do ALL kinds of magic (instead of only for levitating objects, as described in the first Harry Potter book). Later, after the producers ended Jin & Jun, they made Hari Potret into a separated series.

Strangely, though, the local TV channel that hosted "Hari Potret" had managed to cooperate with Warner Bros to air "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" movie, and Hari Potret acted as the 'warming-up' for two months before the actual Harry Potter showed.

• In a story arc of webcomic Zebra Girl Jack, a budding magician, discovers a "Magi-Net" and therein encounters a wizard named Harold DuVase. Jack stumbles over the real nature of the 'Net, dies in a subsequent fight, does a Gandalf-like return, and concludes the story with a bittersweet triumph. The scar is cleverly represented symbolically in Harold's glasses.
• Webcomic Sluggy Freelance's main character is Torg, a bright but uncomplicated fellow whose last name we never learn. In Pete Abrams' first parody, Torg Potter and the Sorcerer's Nuts, Torg is mistaken for the Lastnameless One and brought into Hoggelrynth to learn magic. He subsequently defeats a plot by Professor Santory Snapekin to achieve ultimate power. (Maybe.) Despite Torg's not having any actual magic powers he is embroiled in a plot to turn everybody into chocolate in Torg Potter and the Chamberpot of Secretions. In Torg Potter and the President from Arkansas Blearious Stank escapes from prison, and Torg is considered to be in danger due to being the "Torg Potter of record". The parodies are obviously modelled after the movies, not the books, and follow the movie releases. We are still waiting for a parody of Goblet of Fire as of this writing.
• In the episode "Magic in the Air" from the series Clifford the Big Red Dog, Charley gets overly obessed with fictional book character, Peter Poundstone (a series of books about a young wizard similar to the Potter series), that he attempts to use magic to create a diorama (as part of a school assignment) using his magic. [2]
• On Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, there is an episode where Jimmy and his friends film a movie. In one of the scenes, Jimmy is Parry Bladder and he goes to Pigpimples School of Wizardry, where the vilian is "The-evil-one-whose-name-is-really-hard-to-prononce" instead of "he-who-must-not-be-named"/"you-know-who"(Lord Voldemort). Afterwards, a giant snake attacks him.
• The Australian sketch comedy program, Big Bite, featured a series of parodies under the name "Harry Potter and the Incredibly Secret Chamber of Secrets". Harry, Ron and Dobby are referred to by their original names. Hermione is variously called 'Heminonanee', 'Harmonium' and 'Hymen'. Other characters parodied include 'Professor Stumblebum', 'Haggis', 'Mailboy' (and his father 'Mailman'), 'Nearly Legless Nick' and 'Several Snakes' (not seen).
• On the Sev Wide Web, which parodies many pop culture icons, Hairy Plopper is an internet cartoon parodying Harry Potter.
• In an episode of Futurama Al Gore's head claims to be the author of "Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth", which was more popular than "Earth in the Balance" his other book.
• In the "Password: Swordfish" episode of Robot Chicken has Harry Potter battle the monster Pubertus with the help of Snoop Dogg as Dumbledore and a magic rubbing rock.
• At one of the final scenes of The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny Harry Potter's glasses can be seen on the ground.
• The only one Latvian Harry Potter parody - is Harry Potter And The Magical Dick which also has a sequel called Harry Potter And The Sausage of Destiny. Both parts have a moderate success on youtube.com , but actually were leaked only in Russian.
• Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley can be seen exiting Diagon Alley in the Marvel comic New Excalibur #3 as Juggernaut charges through London.
• Mastermovies.nl has made a dutch voice-over of Harry Potter: 'Barry Pooter' [3]
• In 2005, the University of Queensland Law Revue parodied the song Scar by Missy Higgins, where a hormonal Harry (on piano) and Silent Bob-style Dumbledore (on guitar) pitched "Harry Potter: The Musical" to J.K. Rowling.[4]
• In the South Park episode The Return of the Lord of the Rings to the Two Towers the boys play Lord of the Rings. Meanwhile some other kids play Harry Potter to which Eric Cartman shouts: "FAGS!".