Satire / Parody
An episode of Animaniacs features the segment "Nighty Night Toon", a direct parody of the book. It features current Winnie the Pooh voice actor Jim Cummings as the narrator (using his Pooh voice) and Slappy Squirrel as the Old Lady. A full-length parody of the book was published as Goodnight Bush.
An episode of the kids' show Dinosaurs featured Grandma reading a copy of Goodnight Rock to Baby Sinclair.
Mad Magazine #400 contained the article Goodnight Room illustrated by Jack Syracuse and written by Desmond Devlin, depicting President Bill Clinton's last days in office.
McSweeney's featured a piece entitled Sparknotes: Goodnight Moon by Sean Walsh that uses Brown's book to parody the bloated elucidation of Sparknotes.
Goodnight Dune was created by Julia Yu and combines Goodnight Moon and Dune. It was inspired by a CollegeHumor post called Five Sci-Fi Children's Books.
Goodnight Keith Moon, written by Bruce Worden and Clare Cross, is a parody based on the death of The Who drummer, Keith Moon. The book features many references to The Who as well as to Cass Elliot who died in the same room years earlier.
For the 2011 Christmas season, writer and illustrator David Milgrim created Goodnight iPad under the pseudonym Ann Droyd. In it a houseful of children are busy interacting with various electronic devices, playing Angry Birds, watching 2001 on a large-screen TV and following Twitter feeds on mobile phones and tablet computers, until the mother rabbit throws all the devices out the window so everyone can sleep. "The thing that really inspired me about the idea was my fascination with how much things have changed since the world depicted in Goodnight Moon," the author told The New York Times. "Our homes are really nothing like that anymore. The contrast between that quiet book and our noisy, buzzing lives seemed ripe for exploration and humor."
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