Films •
Harry Potter was one of many spoofs in the 2007 film
Epic Movie. • Richardson Productions LLC produced "Harvey Putter and the Ridiculous Premise" in 2010. •
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins is a 2011 Australian
parody feature/
medium-length film inspired by the
Kermode and Mayo film review programme. In his review of the film
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, BBC radio film critic
Mark Kermode remarked that the general plot of the film was so similar to the
Harry Potter series that it may as well have been called
Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins. His co-host
Simon Mayo declared that he wanted to see that film. Assembling a cast made up of performers from amateur musical theater societies around Sydney and penning the screenplay himself, Jeremy Dylan and his production team started shooting on 6 June 2010 and shot the film over seven days between June and mid-October, on location, in Australia. • In
Scary Movie 2, the book was parodied, titled "Harry Pothead", with a picture of Harry smoking on a
bong. • ''
Whorrey Potter and the Sorcerer's Balls is a gay pornographic parody of the first film and novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'' and was released in 2010. • In
The Starving Games, Harry Potter and friends appear briefly, only to be told that their film franchise has concluded and need not be parodied further.
U.S. television Animated •
The Simpsons: • In "Wiz Kids", the third act of the episode "
Treehouse of Horror XII",
Lisa and
Bart attend Springwart's School of Magicry, and must fight against the evil Lord Montymort (
Montgomery Burns). Harry is in their class, and has just one line of dialogue (provided by
Tress MacNeille): after
Edna Krabappel accuses him of chewing gum in class he replies "No, ma'am, it's
brimstone". • Lisa's favorite book series,
Angelica Button, is a recurring gag and clearly a parody of Harry Potter: • In the episode "
The Haw-Hawed Couple", Lisa asks
Homer to read her Angelica Button book to her for bedtime. Homer, learning that the character Headmaster Greystash will die (à la
Albus Dumbledore in
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), hides the fact from Lisa by inventing a happier ending, though Lisa does read the real ending and decides that Homer's was better. • In the episode "
Smoke on the Daughter", the Simpsons go to the midnight release of the final Angelica Button book. On the ride home from the store, Lisa skims through the book, revealing all of the best parts. Once Lisa reveals that the book ends well the Simpsons exclaim "Yay!" and all except Lisa throw their copies of the book out the car windows. •
Nigel Planter is a recurring character in the
Cartoon Network series
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. He first appeared in the episode "
Toadblatt's School of Sorcery", which parodies
Animal House as well as
Harry Potter. He reappeared in the episodes "
Nigel Planter and the Chamber Pot of Secrets", "
One Crazy Summoner" and "Order of the
Peanuts". The episodes feature Lord Moldybutt, a parody of
Lord Voldemort, and whenever someone says his name, something unfortunate happens. Toadblatt's School of Sorcery is a parody of
Hogwarts, and the Squid Hat, voiced by
"Weird Al" Yankovic, is a parody of the
Sorting Hat. The house of Weaslethorpe is a parody of
Gryffindor and the opposing Gunderstank house is a parody of the Hogwarts house
Slytherin. :*In the episode "One Crazy Summoner", Billy seeks out Nigel Planter because he believes he can talk to snakes; Nigel later corrects him, stating that he cannot speak to snakes, but snacks. Nigel then asks for help winning the affections of Herfefnie Pfefferpfeffer, a parody of
Hermione Granger, who ends up falling for Dorko Malfly, a parody of
Draco Malfoy, instead. :*In the episode "Order of the Peanuts", Mandy was able to predict how Nigel Planter would sneak into the school. She was right in guessing that he would fill the position of "Defence Against really Dark Things", since it changes in every book and film. They also commented on the changing of Dumbledore's actor after the second film. • In the
American Dad! episode, "Dope and Faith",
Roger is annoyed at
Steve when he starts gloating about how special he is after being told this by a
fortune teller at a carnival, and decides to play a prank on him in retaliation. He sends him a fake acceptance letter from Hogwarts, but the address given is actually that of a
crackhouse. After Steve "enrols" he still fails to realize this, as he believes the outer appearance of the building is due to enchantments, that the crack operation is
potions class, and that the Spanish-speaking dealers are chanting magic words. When Steve "borrows" some "Potions supplies", the dealers follow him home, and Roger convinces him that they are
Death Eaters in disguise. Roger manages to defeat them in a
shootout, although Steve believes that he himself vanquished them, as he had been wielding a
chopstick given to him by Roger which he believed was a
magic wand, and he was unable to see what was really going on due to having broken his glasses prior to the battle. •
Henry Skreever was the title of a book series mentioned in three episodes of the
PBS Kids television series
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." In the third, "Prunella Deegan and the Disappointing Ending", Marina and Prunella race to see who can finish reading the last book,
The Knights of the Bouillabaisse, first. The school of magic that Henry attends is known as "Pigblisters" (Hogwarts). Students participate in the game "Soupitch" (Quidditch), a dangerous, mobile tree is called "The Mangling Maple" (The Whomping Willow), and instead of broomsticks, students ride on flying carpets. • In the animated series
Cyberchase, the young spellcaster Shari Spotter attends Frogsnorts school of magic under Professor Stumblesnore. The show's main characters must solve a series of magical themed logic problems to save the day. • An episode of ''
The Emperor's New School is called "The Prisoner of Kuzcoban", which is a parody of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban''. • In the
Clifford the Big Red Dog episode "Magic in the Air", Charley becomes so overly obsessed with fictional book character, Peter Poundstone (a series of books about a young wizard similar to the Harry Potter series), that he attempts to use magic to create a diorama (as part of a school assignment). • The series
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius features an episode where Jimmy and his friends film a movie. In one of the scenes, Jimmy is Parry Bladder and attends Pigpimples school who needs to defeat a parody of the basilisk in a parody of the Chamber of Secrets. • In the
Futurama episode "
Crimes of the Hot",
Al Gore is shown to have written a book called
Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth, a more successful version of
Earth in the Balance. • In
The Fairly OddParents episode "Wishology", one of Timmy's wishes is a Harry Potter parody. Vicky and Timmy are shown playing Quiddich, where Timmy portrays Harry, Vicky portrays Lord Moldywart (Voldemort), and Poof is the "Purple" snitch. • In the animated series
Martha Speaks, the character TD is a fan of a character called
Harry Blotter. TD sat down to watch a marathon of the films in the series. He said that all four prequels and all four sequels were being aired, followed by the premiere of the ninth movie, which didn't make much sense, as there should already have been nine movies if there were four prequels and four sequels. Blotter's enemy, possibly, is the "Dark Lord of Really Dark Darkness", though this may have been a character created by TD for a school project about
Thomas Edison. • In the
Mad episode "Potions 11 / Moves Like Jabba", Harry Potter gathers a team of wizards to find a wand that will let the franchise live forever in a parody of ''
Ocean's 11''. • In
Fanboy & Chum Chum, the two child wizard characters, the British red-headed boy is called Kyle Bloodworth-Thomason, who is a parody of
Ronald Weasley and his German white-haired rival, Sigmund the Sorcerer is a parody of
Draco Malfoy.
Non-animated • Harry Potter has been parodied several times on the U.S.
sketch comedy 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. In addition, Hermione Granger was played by
Lindsay Lohan, who wore a revealing sweater that showed a good deal of her breasts, causing Harry and Ron, then the Weasley twins, and even Snape and Hagrid to gawk at her in amazement and lust. (The boys decide to use the Invisibility Cloak to spy on Hermione in the bath.) This was to parody the fact that Hermione had reached puberty. A recent sketch featuring
J. K. Rowling (played by
Amy Poehler) showed deleted scenes from
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban where
Albus Dumbledore (played by
Bill Hader) acts
gay. More recently,
Daniel Radcliffe played Harry in a sketch where it has been ten years since his graduation (though this was never shown in the books), and is still at Hogwarts as a tenant. Harry meets new students and realizes Ron and Hermione have become professors. • Harry Potter has also been parodied on
MADtv, where
Triple H played Harry. • The Disney Channel comedy series
So Random! featured a sketch called "Harry Potter: In The Real World", showing Harry in the real world, trying to find a job at fictional fast food restaurant, Flippy's. Harry's lightning bolt scar and his birth scroll are shown. The
So Random Christmas special featured a sketch called "Volde-mart", where Voldemort owns a supermarket and can't get any of his Voldemort dolls to sell, and is furious when he finds out that the Harry Potter dolls are flying off the shelves, so furious that he uses the Avada Kedavra curse on a Harry Potter cardboard cutout in similar style to how Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort uses the curse when he destroys the Horcrux in Harry in
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. Also, as a parody of the final film, Harry Potter enters and says Daniel Radcliffe's line, "Come on Tom, let's finish this the way we started it, together." and then hugs Voldemort. Also mentioned in this sketch is Toy's R Severus, in parody of the character Severus Snape. • "Harry Bladder" was a sketch shown on the sketch comedy series
All That. Instead of flying on a broom, Harry rode a leaf-blower. The sketch also featured a bowlegged Professor Chafe. • In the series
Wizards of Waverly Place, the episodes "Wizard School Part 1" and "Wizard School Part 2" features Alex and Justin Russo going to a wizarding summer school named Wiz-tech, where everyone wears round glasses and yellow and black robes. When Alex sees the similarities, she says, "You remind me of someone. Terry something... Barry something... Larry something! Oh, forget it." Dumbledore is parodied as Headmaster Crumbs, Draco Malfoy is parodied as Jerko Phoenix, and the villain is named Dr. Evilini, who plans on taking Justin's powers. Quidditch is parodied through a game called 12-ball, which is similar to ping pong. To end the game, you "hit the tattler"; tattler also being another name for a "snitch." In another episode of the same series, Alex, Justin and Max magically travel to an apartment where they meet author H. J. Darling, (a parody of
J. K. Rowling) to inquire as to her reasoning for using stories from their lives in her series called "Charmed and Dangerous", (a parody of the Harry Potter books themselves). • An episode of
Pair of Kings featured a flashback showing
King Brady at school, when he used to dress up like Harry Potter, and dubbed himself as
Brady Potter, and even addressed his twin brother
King Boomer as
Boomer Weasley, but eventually stopped doing so, after he, along with Boomer, were tied up by the school bully, Rondo, who used Brady's incredibly long scarf. • Harry Potter was also parodied in the series ''
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide'' in the episode "Guide to: Substitute Teachers and The New Kid". In the end of "The New Kid" part, a boy wearing glasses, clothes and a scarf similar to Harry Potter's in the film series appears, wanting to go on a tour of the school. In a Halloween-themed episode, Ned has to take his BAT test, a parody of OWLs. • In the
Fetch episode "CSI: Ruff", a school called Dogwarts is featured, which is a reference to Hogwarts. • In Episode 4281 of
Sesame Street, Telly & Gordon are looking for Gordon's reading glasses in order for Telly to read the latest Furry Potter book,
Furry Potter and the Goblet of Fur by J. K. Furball. • Harry Potter was also mentioned in the
Drake & Josh episode "Megan's New Teacher".
UK television • In the final episode of
Only Fools and Horses, titled "
Sleepless in Peckham", Del and Rodney try to come up with money-making ideas. Del's idea is for Rodney to write a Harry Potter book but Rodney refuses due to
copywriting. Del informs Rodney to change the name to 'Harry Trotter', calling him "a little
git with
John Lennon glasses". • In
the first series of
The Legend of Dick and Dom, Princes
Dick and Dom send their terrible wizard, Mannitol, back to wizard school while they hunt down a dragon's clack, the next potion ingredient. •
Alistair McGowan, on his show
Big Impression, did a sketch called "Louis Potter and the Philosopher's Scone". It featured impressions of
Louis Theroux (as Harry 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. •
BBC satirical comedy programme
Dead Ringers featured Harry Potter in several sketches over the years, at one point spoofing
Star Wars, Potter and
The Lord of the Rings in a single sketch, calling attention to the mysterious old magician who befriends the young male lead character. • 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 (who was later cast as
Rita Skeeter in
the film adaptation of Goblet of Fire) as Hermione;
Nigel Planer as Dumbledore (wearing the beard and costume of
Richard Harris);
Jeremy Irons as Professor Severus Snape;
Alison Steadman as
Minerva McGonagall;
Ronnie Corbett as Hagrid and
Basil Brush as
Dobby the house elf. The broadcast of this parody was preceded by a message from J. K. Rowling. French was subsequently cast as The Fat Lady in 2004's
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. The end of
Secret Chamberpot featured an advert for the sequel,
Gobs of Fire, which was never made. It is unknown whether it was ever planned, or if it was just a spoof. •
2DTV featured a sketch in which an
Ofsted inspector was inspecting
Hogwarts. The inspector found no faults with the school, except for the atrocious acting of the
Year 9 students (Harry, Ron and Hermione). • Episode 2.3 of the BBC comedy
Extras featured a thinly-veiled spoof of Harry Potter with
Daniel Radcliffe and
Warwick Davis parodying their own Potter roles. Radcliffe's character was repeatedly shown trying to seduce his female co-workers on the set, but failed miserably and blamed them when he was caught by his mother. •
Gromit, from the
Wallace and Gromit short film series graduated from Dogwarts University; Dogwarts is a parody of
Hogwarts. • Flacky Rotter and the Friend Count of Justice was a parody shown in the second series of the
CBBC TV series
TMI. • In one episode of the short-lived CBBC series ''Gina's Laughing Gear
, a short parody of Harry Potter (and Supernanny'') was shown, wherein Supernanny attempted to punish the trio of protagonists (played by different actors in an attempt to parody the originals) with the "Naughty step", later getting transfigured into a mouse and placed in "Ron"'s pocket. • In the
Doctor Who episode
The Shakespeare Code,
The Doctor and
Martha Jones talk about witches and refer to the book series, she says: "It's all a bit
Harry Potter", to which The Doctor replies saying that he already read '
Book 7' and that he cried at the end (the episode aired three months before the book's publication, explaining why it is referred as 'Book 7'). At the end of the episode
William Shakespeare, Martha Jones use the ancient word
Expelliarmus (a Harry Potter spell) to banish the
Carrionites; because of the success of banishing the Carrionites, The Doctor shouts: "Good old
J.K.!". There are also some small references in the episode about
David Tennant, who plays The Doctor and also played
Barty Crouch Jr. in the
fourth Harry Potter film. • An episode of
The Pinky and Perky Show has an episode with a character named Harry Trotter. • An episode of
Bear Behaving Badly titled
Nev the Bear Wizard features a parody of the Harry Potter series, in which
Nev the Bear is transported through a magic door into The School of Magic And Magic Stuff. The main characters of the series are then shown as parodies of characters from the Harry Potter series; Nev is Nevvy Potter, Crazy Keith is Keithione, Dorris is Ronnis, Aunt Barbra is Bagrid, Postie is Poochie, and Mr Prank is Valdiprank.
Other television •
The Wedge, an Australian
sketch comedy, parodies
Harry and
Hermione in love on a
"Cooking With..." show before being caught by
Snape. • An episode of
Kirby: Right Back at Ya!, also known as
Kirby of the Stars in its original Japanese version, titled "A Novel Approach", features a book titled "Pappy Pottey and the Fool's Stone". •
Berndi Broter und der Kasten der Katastrophen (literally "Berndi Broter and the case of disasters"), an episode of the German children's television puppet character
Bernd das Brot, who attend Blockharz. • In many episodes of 'You're Skitting Me!' (an Australian comedy show), there are Harry Potter parodies always ending in a character saying "You just HAD to invite Voldemort, didn't you?" • In
Tensou Sentai Goseiger, the Dark Headder was named after the Harry Potter books. ==Publications==