> Superman fans are complaining that Underdog should be sued for
> being a copy of Superman.
>
> Get it through your heads. It's a parody, not a copy.
>
> If there weren't any scenes in it that were a parody of Superman,
> then it wouldn't really be "Underdog".
>
> "Look up in the sky, it's a bird. It's a plane. No, it\s
> Superman" (from the various Superman series')
>
> "Look up in the sky, it's a bird. |It's a plane. No, it's
> a frog" (from the original Underdog tv series)
>
> Clark Kent always running into the inside of a phone booth
> to change into Superman. (from various Superman series').
>
> Shoeshine boy always running into the inside of s phone
> booth to change into Underdog. And the phone booth explodes
> every time he does. (from the original Underdog tv series).
>
> Superman regularly saying "It's up, up, up and away I go"
> (from various Superman series).
>
> Underdog regularly saying "It's hip, hip, hip and away I go.
> (from the original Underdog tv series)
>
> WShen told it's a parody, Superman fans reply that it's a
> copy, not a parody , and that just because it was changed
> into a comedy doesn't make it a parody.
>
> That just changing one word, the word "Superman" in the
> opening line to "a frog" doesn't make it a parody, only a
> comedy that's a copy of Superman, not a parody.
>
> That just addi9ng one extra scene after the identity chabge
> in the phone booth (the phone booth exploding) doesn't make
> it a parody, only a comedy that's a copy of Superman.
>
> That changing one word ("up") in the line "up, up, up and
> away" to the word "hip" ("hip, hip, hip and away) isn't
> a parody, only a comedy that's a copy of Superman.
>
> Okay, Superman fans,just for the sake of argument, let's
> assume it is a copy of Superman instead of a parody.
> After all, there's also scenes in the original series like
> bullets bouncing off of Underdog since he\s invulnerable
> to them. Underdog having X-Ray vision and atomic breath.
>
> The statute of limitations expired decades ago.
>
> If you wanted to sue Underdog for being a copy of Superman,
> you should have done it fourty three years ago instead of
> waiting fourty three years before filing a lawsuit.
>
> I\m sure a judge would throw the case out of court if I
> waited almost half a century aftere some incident happened
> before filing a lawsuit about it.
>
> After almost half a century, Underdog is now firmly rooted in
> popular culture.
>
> And while I''m at it, should the creators of Underdog sue
> The Powerpuff girls for coptying their idea?
>
> Fans of The Powerpuff girls say that the issue of
> superheroes destroying the buildings while they're
> saving someone was never mentioned in any cartoons until
> that certain episode of The Powerpuff girls.
>
> Well, they're wrong. It was adresseed and mentionedin the
> very first episode of Underdog, decades before The Powerpuff Girls
> ever existed.
>
> If you don't believe me, just take a look at the Underdog
> episode titled "Safe Waif"
>
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