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When a parody remains popular after the original works being parodied are no longer well known to the audience. Named for the fact that, when listening to the earlier work of "Weird Al" Yankovic, modern fans may be so unfamiliar with the songs being mocked as to not even realize that the Weird Al song is a parody. For example, many people are now more familiar with "I Lost on Jeopardy!" than with the original "Jeopardy" by the Greg Kihn Band (or even the original game show from the sixties). Some may even have forgotten Richard Harris' "MacArthur Park," or Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" (or Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise," for that matter), remembering only Weird Al's "Jurassic Park" or "Amish Paradise" .

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