Parodies
Peter Marshall appeared in a recurring sketch of parodies, The East Hollywood Squares, the first of which aired Nov. 11, 1993 on the popular TV series In Living Color.
The Bergeron-hosted version of Hollywood Squares was parodied in a 1998 episode of Saturday Night Live during the show's 24th season premiere, where the game was played as normal despite the entire board collapsing and severely injuring or killing the panelists.
The show has also been parodied multiple times on The Simpsons, referred to as Springfield Squares and hosted by Kent Brockman. Howard Stern parodied the show as The Homeless Howiewood Squares.
In 1999, during its fifth season, MADtv aired a Hollywood Squares parody sketch starring Meg Ryan (Nicole Sullivan), Whoopi Goldberg (Debra Wilson), LL Cool J (Aries Spears), Michael Winslow (Phil LaMarr), and John (Michael McDonald) and Patsy Ramsey (Alex Borstein). Two later sketches were done in season 9, both of which featured host Tom Bergeron playing himself.
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“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)