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This is a list of '''Pokémon parodies''', instances where a creative work or a part of one deliberately resembles or mocks the [[Pokémon]] franchise. Unlike [[List of references to Pokémon in popular culture|references]], they generally avoid the use of the names or any actual {{OBP|Pokémon|species}} species associated with the franchise. The following list is divided by the medium of the work, then sorted alphabetically by the name of the work making the parody.

==List of Pokémon parodies==
===Television and film===
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! style="background:#6AA9E4" | Episode
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| ''{{wp|Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day}}''
| ''Menma the Hero''
| style="text-align:left" | Tetsudō suggests that the wish Menma might want granted was to have a rare monster from a video game called "Nokezori Monsters" ("Nokémon" for short), which Jinta buys from the game shop Anaru works at. Some other games that were referenced were Gold, Opal, and Emerald.
|[[File:Anohana Nokemon.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Arthur (TV Series)|Arthur}}''
| ''Arthur Loses his Marbles''
| style="text-align:left" | Muffy says that she has fifty-four Dopeyman cards in a pack, in resemblance to Pokémon cards, and with one card a take on a Pikachu called "Stinkachu".
|[[File:ArthurLosesHisMarbles.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Asobi Asobase}}''
| ''Gotta "Catch" 'em All!''
| style="text-align:left" | Olivia plays "Bactéri Go", a parody of [[Pokémon GO]]. The title of the segment is a reference to the franchise [[Gotta catch 'em all!|slogan]].
| —
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Bob's Burgers}}''
| ''Mission Impos-slug-ble''
| style="text-align:left" | Louise collects Burobu trading cards, which Tina says is "like Pokémon but just everybody's a slug". Similarly to the Pokémon TCG, they were banned in school.
| —
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Clarence (2014 TV series)|Clarence}}''
| ''Clarence's Millions''
| style="text-align:left" | A kid introduces the latest trend at Aberdale Elementary School - ''Tappy Cards''. They are somewhat based on Pokémon, and the only way to play is to "buy 'em all", a reference to the Pokémon tagline, "Gotta Catch 'Em All!"
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|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Drawn Together}}''
| {{tt|N/A|Entire series throughout.}}
| style="text-align:left" | One of the main characters, {{wp|List of Drawn Together characters#Ling-Ling|Ling-Ling}}, is a direct parody of {{p|Pikachu}}. He mentions that one of his pastimes is [[EP038|giving children seizures]].
|[[File:Ling-Ling.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|The Emperor's New School}}''
| ''The Emperor's New Show''
| style="text-align:left" | The episode contains "Llamaballs", a parody of both the Pokémon anime and the {{wp|Dragon Ball}} series.
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|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Evil Con Carne|Evil Con Carne}}''
| ''Search and Estroy''
| style="text-align:left" | In a parody of both Pokémon and {{wp|Digimon}}, General Skarr and Major Dr. Ghastly create the "Poké-Digi Tank."
|[[File:SearchAndEstroy.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Everybody Loves Raymond}}''
| ''Hackidu''
| style="text-align:left" | The episode focuses "Hackidu", which is a spoof of Pokémon and {{wp|Yu-Gi-Oh!}}. Ray's daughter Ally makes a trade with a boy, giving him a sizable stack of cards for just one of hers, called "Scramisaur." Ray thinks the trade is unfair, so he talks to the boy's father and the trade is reversed. Ray then learns that he should not have reversed the trade, and attempts to get the card back. Hackidu is also watched on TV during the episode.
|[[File:Hackidu.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Good Luck Charlie}}''
| ''A L.A.R.P. in the Park''
| style="text-align:left" | The episode features a card game called "Pokeo", based on the Pokémon Trading Card Game and {{wp|Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game|Yu-Gi-Oh!}}. [[Type]] advantages are mentioned ("{{t|Grass}} power is no match for {{t|Fire|volcano}} power") and the chicken character "Chikapu" is a parody of {{p|Pikachu}}. A creature named "Slugmar" is also mentioned, presumably a portmanteau of {{p|Slugma}} and {{p|Magmar}}.
| —
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}}''
| ''It's Hokey Mon!''
| style="text-align:left" | The episode features a trading card game named "Hokey Mon".
|[[File:ItsHokeyMon.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Jackie Chan Adventures}}''
| ''Tough Break''
| style="text-align:left" | A franchise called "Gnomekop" appears in an episode, which is Pokémon spelled backwards plus a "G". It also uses the slogan "Gotta collect 'em all", similar to Pokémon's [[Gotta catch 'em all!]]
|[[File:Gnomekop.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Johnny Bravo}}''
| ''20,000 Leagues Over My Head''
| style="text-align:left" | Clam-League 9000 is a show which Johnny Bravo watches and enjoys. Due to his addiction with the show, Johnny goes to great lengths to secure all of the Clam-League 9000 toys, but unfortunately goes about it by deep-sea diving for actual clams. The Clam-League 9000 is somewhat of a lampoon fusion of both {{wp|Dragonball Z}} and Pokémon. The main rival characters of the show bear resemblance to Goku, Vegeta and Piccolo, the latter two being combined into one green skinned antagonist.
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|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Johnny Test}}''
| ''Johnny'mon'' and ''The Return of Johnny'mon''
| style="text-align:left" | Two episodes featured Tinymon, with a [[Pokédex|Tinydex]], [[Poké Ball|Tiny Cubes]] that contain creatures, a character named [[Ash Ketchum|Blast Ketchup]], and the slogan "Gotta snatch 'em all!". The episodes feature a legendary Tinymon known as "Screechereen", which greatly resembles [[Shadow Lugia]]. Blast Ketchup's Tinymon, Kadoomerang, also slightly resembles {{p|Squirtle}}. Evolution and attacks are also featured. For example, Screechereen evolves from Cuddlebuns, who is said to be the weakest Tinymon. It turned out that it needs love in order for it to evolve into the legendary Tinymon. Something similar to link cables are also featured. In the plot, Johnny and his sisters get stuck in a Tinymon game and need to trade with a cable in order to get out. However, a battle must first be won in order to access that function.
|[[File:Johnnymon.png|200px]]<br>[[File:Johnnymon 2.png|200px]]
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| style="background: #fff"| ''{{wp|Love Tyrant}}''
| ''Go to the Beach With Me? x It's Not a Matter of Knowing or Not ''
| style="text-align:left" | Near the start of the episode, Guri is surprised she can find a {{p|Pikachu|Pikabug}} on [[Pokémon GO|her way to the beach.]]
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|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Magical Girl Ore}}''
| ''Magical Girl - On Vacation''
| style="text-align:left" | A man falls into a lake while trying to catch a rare monster in a mobile game, referencing reports of deaths and injuries of players playing [[Pokémon GO]].
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|- style="background: #fff"
|''{{wp|Pinky Dinky Doo}}''
| N/A
| style="text-align:left" | In several episodes, Tyler is shown talking about or playing with action figures called "Moo-Moo Miggy Monsters", which is based on Pokémon. In one episode, Tyler plays a video game with a style very similar to Pokémon.
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|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|ReBoot}}''
| ''{{wp|ReBoot: My Two Bobs|My Two Bobs}}''
| style="text-align:left" | The episode's featured game is a game entitled "Pantsu Hebi X", which is a parody of both Pokémon-styled battles and anime in general. In it, the dog character Frisket reboots itself to resemble {{p|Pikachu}}.
|[[File:ReBoot.png|200px]]
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| ''{{wp|Rick and Morty}}''
| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51y9JIpzZbU N/A]
| style="text-align:left" | Although it doesn't happen in an episode, a pixelated video has ''{{tc|Scientist}} Rick'' and ''{{tc|Youngster}} Morty'' battle on what looks like a Pokémon stadium, where Mr. Meeseeks are used instead of Pokémon, and Meeseeks Boxes are used instead of Poké Balls.
Also, a mobile game Pocket Mortys is based on Pokémon and the show.
| [[File:Meeseeks.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Recess (TV series)|Recess}}''
| ''The Game''
| style="text-align:left" | The addictive card game featured in the episode, named "Ajimbo", appears to be a a parody of the {{pkmn|Trading Card Game}}.
|[[File:Ajimbo.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Sharknado 5: Global Swarming}}''
| N/A
| style="text-align:left" | During the "Sharkzilla" attack in Tokyo near the end of the film, a woman is seen on a street corner playing a shark-themed parody of [[Pokémon GO]]. She notes the rarity of her new catch to a second woman, who is wearing grenades painted like [[Poké Ball]]s on a belt, similarly to how {{Ash}} wears his Poké Balls in the [[Pokémon anime|anime]]. After throwing one of the grenades at the passing Sharkzilla, the second woman tells the first that there are "only five thousand more to go."
|[[File:Pokemon Go Sharknado parody.png|200px]]
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| rowspan="3" | ''[https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/The_Simpsons The Simpsons]''
| ''[https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Thirty_Minutes_Over_Tokyo Thirty Minutes over Tokyo]''
| style="text-align:left" | The effects of ''[[EP038|Electric Soldier Porygon]]'' are experienced by the family in the episode, after they watch the local program "Battling Seizure Robots".
||[[File:ThirtyMinutesOverTokyo.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''[https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Pokey_Mom Pokey Mom]''
| style="text-align:left" | The episode's title is based on the word "Pokémon".
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|- style="background: #fff"
|''[https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Looking_for_Mr._Goodbart Looking for Mr. Goodbart]''
| style="text-align:left" | This episode has several references. First it has an app called [https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Peekimon_Get Peekimon Get], which is a parody of [[Pokémon GO]]. The first Pokémon mentioned in the show is Rotata, which resembles Rattata. The episode features a parody of the [[Pokémon Theme]] called "[https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Homermon Homermon]". During the credits, Otto mentions playing the game while driving, which some people have done in real life.
|[[File:Peekimon Get.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Smosh: The Movie}}
| N/A
| style="text-align:left" | The plot of the movie revolves around Anthony and Ian going inside YouTube and changing an embarrassing video of Anthony singing a parodied version of the [[Pokémon Theme]] while failing to do a backflip. Additionally, numerous references to a series called "Magic Pocket Slave Monsters" are seen throughout the movie, including an arcade machine that features a parodied version of [[Ash Ketchum]] whipping a parodied version of {{p|Pikachu}}, albeit with circular ears, scars, and an eyepatch. The machine also parodies [[Poké Ball]]s with cube-shaped versions. The point of "Magic Pocket Slave Monsters" pays homage to Smosh's incredibly successful YouTube video where they lip-sync the [[Pokémon Theme]], which was taken down due to copyright reasons.
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| rowspan="2" | ''{{wp|South Park}}''
| ''{{wp|Chinpokomon}}''
| style="text-align:left" | The episode parodies Pokémon and fad culture in general. The line of toys have additionally made cameos in many subsequent episodes. Near the end of the episode {{wp|Kenny McCormick|Kenny McCormick}} dies of an epileptic seizure as a reference to the banned episode ''[[EP038|Electric Soldier Porygon]]''. The episode additionally heavily parodies the {{pkmn|anime}} and video games to a lesser extent. [[Ash Ketchum]] and [[James]] are both parodied. Some of the "Chinpokomon" seen closely resemble {{p|Pikachu}}, {{p|Meowth}} and {{p|Charmander}}.
|[[File:Chinpokomon.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|The End of Serialization as We Know It}}''
| style="text-align:left" | The episode make a reference to the Chinpokomon episode with one of the history results for a character being a Google seach for "new chinopokomon [[Alola|alolan]] region."<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/5h7voo/ike_was_looking_up_the_new_alolan_forms_on_last/ Ike was looking up the new Alolan forms on last night's South Park {{!}} Pokemon on Reddit]</ref>
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|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Steven Universe}}''
| ''Rose's Room''
| style="text-align:left" | Steven is seen playing the "Golf Quest Mini" videogame, which includes references to several Pokémon elements such as the character "Prof. Sandtraps", the professor's laboratory, the line "We're gonna sink 'em all", the battle trigger system, an NPC that looks like [[Brock]], and the seven-character limit for the player's name. The game also has references to ''The Legend of Zelda'' and ''Final Fantasy'', among others.
| [[File:Steven Universe Golf Quest Mini.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|TV Funhouse}}''
| ''Mexicans Day''
| style="text-align:left" | In this short, the {{wp|R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company}} has agreed to stop using {{wp|Joe Camel}} to advertise cigarettes to children and will instead make him a character in a tobacco-free cartoon called "Jokámel". This parody of the [[Pokémon anime]] stars a {{p|Pikachu}}-like Jokámel, near-exact copies of {{Ash}}, {{an|Brock}}, {{an|Misty}}, [[Jessie]], and [[James]], and sexual parodies of Pikachu, {{p|Meowth}}, and {{p|Geodude}}. Throughout the show, the audience is told to buy Jokámel merchandise and given subliminal messages to buy {{wp|Camel (cigarette)|Camel}} cigarettes.
|[[File:Jokámel.jpg|200px]]
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| style="background: #fff"| ''{{wp|Yin Yang Yo!}}
| ''Smoke and Mirrors''
| style="text-align:left" | Smoke catches Yang in Prison Prism ([[Poké Ball]] spoof), while later Mirrors catches Yin with it. They later force them to fight against each other in a tournament.
|[[File:Yin Yang Yo Poké Ball spoof.png|200px]]
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===Video games===
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! style="background: #6AA9E4; {{roundytl|10px}}"| Game
! style="background: #6AA9E4"| Details
! style="background: #6AA9E4; {{roundytr|10px}}"| Image
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| ''{{wp|Hearthstone (video game)|Hearthstone}}''
| style="text-align:left" | The flavor text of card "Master of Evolution" is "Will be really useful in the new "''Hearthémon''" game." "''Hearthémon''" is a blend of ''Hearthstone'' and ''Pokémon''.
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| rowspan="2"| ''{{wp|Hyperdimension Neptunia (video game)|Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk2}}''
| style="text-align:left" | At the beginning of Chapter 8 of the True End route, Rom and Ram (twin sisters who {{wp|Moe anthropomorphism|personify}} the [[Nintendo DS]]) mention playing the "Pocketed Monstrosities" games:
::'''Ram''': Lowee's best games are easily the ones in the "Pocketed Monstrosities" franchise. Players catch and raise 1,510,376 monsters.
::'''Rom''': Oh, yeah. I was playing it earlier and I captured the {{p|Eevee|Eebee}} monster.
::'''Ram''': No way! I really want that one! Gimme.
::'''Rom''': [[Trade|I'll give you its parents later.]] They're both [[Generation IV|fourth generation]], so you'll probably get one from them.
|[[File:HDNmk2-pokemon.jpg|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| style="text-align:left" | There is a villainous mouse named "Pirachu", a pun on both "Pikachu" and, given the general motif of the ''Neptunia'' franchise's villains, "{{wp|Copyright infringement of software|piracy}}".
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| rowspan="2" | ''{{wp|Hyperdimension Neptunia (video game)|Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3}}''
| style="text-align:left" | In Lowee, a boy named Mr. Akai wears a Pikachu-like messenger bag and a hat backwards. Like {{ga|Red}}, he rarely speaks, at least until he finally receives his copy of "Pocketed Monstrosities".
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|- style="background: #fff"
| style="text-align:left" | When the child IF challenges the Alternate Dimension Vert to a game of cards, Nepgear mentions how the Vert of her world was unbeatable at "Pocket Monstrosities" against the twins Rom and Ram.
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| ''{{wp|Pocket Mortys}}''
| style="text-align:left" | Rick has his Mortys battle other Mortys in a turn-based RPG within the multiverse. There are even badges to be collected by defeating other Ricks in a Morty battle. A Morty Manipulator Chip functions similarly to a Poké Ball, which will cause that Morty to join the player if its HP is low enough. Even the name is based off "Pocket Monsters", and Rick automatically engages in battle if he walks in the sight of an NPC, and the Mortys follow Rick just like Pikachu in {{v2|Yellow}}.
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|- style="background: #fff"
| ''{{wp|Segagaga}}''
| style="text-align:left" | One of the fictional games is called "Tukemono Monsuters". Its image resembles the Japanese box of {{game|Yellow}}.
| [[File:Segagaga Tukemono Monsuters.png|200px]]
|- style="background: #fff"
| ''[https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/The_Simpsons_Game The Simpsons Game]''
| style="text-align:left" | The game features "[https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Sparklemon Sparklemon]" in the level "[https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Big_Super_Happy_Fun_Fun_Game Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game]". [https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Homer_Simpson Homer] and [https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Lisa_Simpson Lisa] must travel to three temples where they fight the Sparklemon in turn-based {{pkmn|battle}}s before they can collect them in "[[Poké Ball|capturing balls]]". The first two Sparklemon are based on {{p|Pikachu}} and {{p|Squirtle}}. One of the Sparklemon also uses a strike called "{{m|Scratch}} Attack". [[Type#Type effectiveness|Type matchups]] are also presented in the form of moves' super-effectiveness, resistance, and immunity.
|[[File:The Simpsons Game.png|200px]]
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| ''{{wp|Trade & Battle: Card Hero}}''
| style="text-align:left" | An NPC exclaims that he has been watching the show "Rocket Monsters".<ref>[http://fryguy64.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=cameo&action=display&thread=4105 Trade & Battle: Card Hero - Text Dump]</ref>
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==See also==
* [[List of references to popular culture in Pokémon]]
* [[List of references to Pokémon in popular culture]]
* [[List of background references to Pokémon]]

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