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Yes but there's nothing that mandates that the parody has to change names, a trademark is only protection if there's a reasonable doubt people will mistake the product for the official one. Not the case here.
People get permission, pay licenses, to be on the safe side, but the law explicitly protects parodies that are likely to piss off the original creator, because that's kind of the point!
People think (And corporations encourage them to do so) that copyright and trademark mean they own words and sounds and visual concepts, while that's not the case. Maybe if people were more familiar with what copyright law actually allows they wouldn't be so quick to want to throw it all out the window.
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