Editing Fiddler on the Roof (section)

===Parodies===
Parodies relating to the show have included ''Antenna on the Roof'' (''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' magazine #156, January 1973), which speculated about the lives of Tevye's descendants living in an assimilated 1970s suburban America.<ref name=Solomon/> In the film ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire]]'' (1993), [[Robin Williams]] parodies "Matchmaker".<ref>Willistein, Paul. [https://www.mcall.com/1993/11/25/mrs-doubtfire-offers-williams-at-his-best/ "''Mrs. Doubtfire'' Offers Williams At His Best"], ''The Morning Call'', November 25, 1993, accessed March 30, 2012</ref> In a 1994 ''[[Animaniacs]]'' parody, ''Pigeon on the Roof'', [[the Goodfeathers]] decide to marry their girlfriends; song parodies include "Scorsese" ("Tradition"), "Egg Hatcher" ("Matchmaker") and others.<ref>Arbeiter, M. [https://nerdist.com/article/animaniacs-9-best-episodes "9 of the Best Animaniacs Episodes to Rewatch"], Nerdist.com, January 7, 2018, accessed December 26, 2021</ref> In 2001, the [[H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society]] published a musical theatre and album parody called ''[[A Shoggoth on the Roof]]'', which sets music from ''Fiddler'' to a story based on the works of [[H. P. Lovecraft]].<ref>[http://www.cthulhulives.org/shoggoth ''A Shoggoth on the Roof''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415023717/http://www.cthulhulives.org/shoggoth/ |date=April 15, 2012}}, H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, March 30, 2012</ref> Spanish comedian and TV-host [[José Mota (comedian)|Jose Mota]] parodied "If I Were a Rich Man" with the song "Si no fuera rico" ("If I weren't a rich man") during his 2008 New Year's Eve special.<ref>Monjas, CH. L. (December 30, 2008) {{cite web|url= https://www.eldiariomontanes.es/20081230/television/destacados/tras-desaparecer-cruz-raya-20081230.html|title= Tras desaparecer Cruz y Raya hago un trabajo de mayor compromiso social|date= December 30, 2008| publisher=El Diario Montenes| access-date=July 25, 2020}}</ref>

References to the musical on television have included a 2005 episode of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' titled "Jews and Chinese Food", involving a production of the musical.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/shows/gilmore-girls/jews-and-chinese-food-396577/recap "Episode Recap: ''Gilmore Girls'': 'Jews and Chinese Food'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812235828/http://www.tv.com/shows/gilmore-girls/jews-and-chinese-food-396577/recap/ |date=August 12, 2014}}, TV.com, accessed March 30, 2012</ref> A skit by ''[[The Electric Company]]'' is about a village fiddler with a fear of heights, so he is deemed "Fiddler on the Chair".  In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "[[When You Wish Upon a Weinstein]]" (2003), [[William Shatner]] is depicted as playing Tevye in a scene from ''Fiddler''.<ref>[http://www.sfjff.org/film/detail?id=5876 "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809143107/http://www.sfjff.org/film/detail?id=5876 |date=August 9, 2014}}, ''San Francisco Jewish Film Festival'', 2009, accessed April 3, 2012</ref>  The second episode of ''[[Muppets Tonight]]'', in 1996, featured [[Garth Brooks]] doing a piece of "If I were a Rich Man" in which he kicks several chickens off the roof.  "The Rosie Show", a 1996 episode of ''[[The Nanny]]'', parodied the dream scene, when Mr. Sheffield fakes a dream to convince Fran not to be a regular on a TV show.  A 2011 episode of NBC's ''[[Community (TV series)|Community]]'', entitled "Competitive Wine Tasting", included a parody titled ''Fiddla, Please!'' with an all-black cast dressed in ''Fiddler on the Roof'' costumes, singing "It's Hard to Be Jewish in Russia, Yo".<ref>VanDerWerff, Emily Todd. [https://www.avclub.com/community-competitive-wine-tasting-1798167935 "''Community'': 'Competitive Wine Tasting'"], April 14, 2011</ref> [[Chabad.org]] kicked off their 2008 "To Life" telethon with a pastiche of the fiddle solo and bottle dance from the musical.<ref>[http://www.bottledancers.com/2008_chabad_telethon.html "The Amazing Bottle Dancers Kick Off the 2008 Chabad Telethon!"], Bottledancers.com, 2008, accessed October 19, 2015</ref>

Broadway references have included ''[[Spamalot]]'', where a "Grail dance" sends up the "bottle dance" in ''Fiddler''{{'}}s wedding scene.<ref>Demers, Ben. [http://dctheatrescene.com/2012/03/15/monty-pythons-spamalot "''Monty Python's Spamalot''"], DCTheatreScene.com, March 15, 2012</ref> In 2001, Chicago's Improv Olympic produced a well-received parody, "The Roof Is on Fiddler", that used most of the original book of the musical but replaced the songs with 1980s pop songs.<ref>Jones, Chris. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/2001/06/28/parody-hits-the-roof/ "Parody hits the ''Roof''"], ''Chicago Tribune'', June 28, 2001, accessed January 25, 2012</ref> In 2004 the original Broadway cast of the musical ''[[Avenue Q]]'' and the Broadway 2004 revival cast of ''Fiddler on the Roof'' collaborated for a Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit and produced an approximately 10-minute-long show, "Avenue Jew", that incorporated characters from both shows, including puppets. The song "Sunrise, Sunset" appears in the direct-to-video animated Disney film "[[The Lion King 1½]]".{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}