Editing Parma, Ohio (section)

==In popular culture==
===Moon Over Parma===
In the late 1980s, Bob McGuire penned a song entitled "Moon Over Parma", about an eccentric courtship that traverses the various suburbs of Cleveland. The song first received wide exposure on ''[[Big Chuck and Lil' John]]'' during its "New Talent Time" segment. Though McGuire was given the [[shepherd's crook]], McGuire's song was offered for free, in the form of [[sheet music]], to those who wrote to the show requesting a copy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8bVqPWKyd8| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/h8bVqPWKyd8| archive-date=December 11, 2021 | url-status=live|title=Moon Over Parma - Bob McGuire|website=[[YouTube]]| date=May 2013|access-date=September 5, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

''[[The Drew Carey Show]]''’s opening credits of its first season consisted of a caricature of [[Drew Carey]] — consisting of his face and a yellow tie — singing "Moon Over Parma" with an abridgment and some minor lyrical changes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV2NX1kabEg| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/ZV2NX1kabEg| archive-date=December 11, 2021 | url-status=live|title=Moon Over Parma|last=Eskayem2|date=May 13, 2011|access-date=September 5, 2016|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Parma Place===
Occasionally, during the 1960s and 1970s, Parma was the target of light-hearted jabs by local movie show hosts [[Ghoulardi]], [[Bob "Hoolihan" Wells|Hoolihan]], [[Big Chuck and Little John|Big Chuck and Lil’ John]], and [[Ron Sweed|The Ghoul]], due to its central European image promoted by the friendly rivalry between Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson and "Big Chuck" Schodowski and contrary to actual demographics. Ghoulardi, the horror host of late night Shock Theater at WJW-TV, Channel 8, in Cleveland from January 13, 1963, through December 16, 1966, made a series of shorts called "Parma Place" and focused on an alleged love of white socks, [[Plastic flamingo|pink flamingos]], [[Yard globe|chrome balls]], [[kielbasa]], [[pierogi]] and the [[polka]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Ghoulardi: inside Cleveland TV's wildest ride |first=Tom |last=Feran |author2=R.D. Heldenfels |year=1997 |publisher=Gray & Company |isbn=1-886228-18-3 }}</ref>

===Novak v. City of Parma===
{{main article|Novak v. City of Parma{{!}}''Novak v. City of Parma''}}
In March 2016, Anthony Novak, a resident of Parma, created a parody Facebook page superficially resembling the local police department's official page, with outlandish, satirical posts easily distinguished from actual police public-affairs content.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Eidelman |first1=Vera |last2=Shapiro |first2=Ilya |last3=Berry |first3=Thomas A. |title=''Novak v. City of Parma'' |url=https://www.cato.org/legal-briefs/novak-v-city-parma |website=Cato Institute |access-date=October 5, 2022}}</ref> Despite the page being voluntarily removed after 12 hours, the Parma Police subsequently obtained warrants and raided Novak's apartment in the middle of the night three weeks later, seizing electronic devices belonging Novak and his roommate, and arresting and jailing Novak for four days until he could make bail. Novak was charged with felony disruption of police operations, but was acquitted at trial; a subsequent lawsuit against the police for civil rights violations was rebuffed by the Sixth Circuit, citing qualified immunity.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wimer |first1=Andrew |title=New Supreme Court Appeal Asks: "Can Police Arrest and Prosecute You for Making Fun of Them?" |url=https://ij.org/press-release/new-supreme-court-appeal-asks-can-police-arrest-and-prosecute-you-for-making-fun-of-them/ |website=ij.org |date=September 27, 2022 |publisher=Institute for Justice |access-date=October 5, 2022}}</ref> Novak's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court garnered legal briefs from the [[ACLU]] and [[Cato Institute]], but gained notoriety because of a supporting brief filed by satirical website ''[[The Onion]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Onion advises the Supreme Court's 'total Latin dorks' on parody |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/10/04/1126699814/the-onion-supreme-courts-parody-law-enforcement-anthony-novak-parma |website=[[NPR]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=October 5, 2022}}</ref>