These screenshots are from “30 Rock: A One-time Special” (watch it on the Internet Archive once it comes back online). The original “night cheese” scene was from S3E17 “The Ones”
After the ‘Night Cheese’ incident — which is where Tina sang ‘Night Cheese’ — which was like a second and cost, like, $50,000, the network was like, ‘You guys gotta chill it.’
https://www.vulture.com/2013/03/jeff-richmonds-best-musical-moments-on-30-rock.html
I thought parody is protected? Isn’t that the whole deal with weird al, he asks the original artists but he doesn’t technically need permission?
They prefer to pay than open a precedent against themselves.