For my wife Spaceballs is the original and Star Wars is the spoof.
But more seriously, too many people didn't register that Scream was a parody. That way it managed to surpass older slashers.
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I wouldn't call Scream a parody. Scary Movie was the parody. Scream was just self aware that it was a scary movie in a universe where scary movies exist.
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I saw Spaceballs before I saw Star Wars. I cannot take any Star Wars movie seriously now.
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Cunk - parodying Attenborough and cosmos style docs
Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material
Happy Gilmore
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Airplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don't know about the existence of the latter
it also spawned the whole genre and although Leslie Nielsen made lots of movies before this, his legacy is this as well as the other parody movies
Yeah they cast a lot of guys like Peter Graves and Robert Stack that normally appeared in the over-serious thriller type movies. So Leslie Nielsen was just one of that group of actors they cast to have guys deliver silly lines in that stern serious tone that they did in actual serious movies.
But of course Leslie Nielsen was amazing at it, and didn't need to do those over-serious movies anymore. And don't call me Shirley!
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TIL Airplane! is a parody.
It’s such a close parody that they actually secured the rights to remake it. Much of the dialogue is exactly the same.
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The best parodies are humorous takes that treat the source material with repect.
Shaun of the Dead
Galaxy Quest
Army of Darkness (person out of time becomes a leader against evil)
Galaxy Quest belongs at the top of any such list. It's widely considered to be one of the best Star Trek movies.
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Army of Darkness (person out of time becomes a leader against evil)
So an isekai
How dare you‽ You're right, but how dare you‽
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Naked Gun.
Austin Powers.
Team America: World Police
The dicks, pussies, and assholes speech was based on an actual speech.
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Spinal Tap. The reactions to it are telling enough: allegedly Steven Tyler didn’t think it was funny, and the Edge just wept.
Steven Tyler didn’t think it was funny
This Is Spinal Tap should have had one of the band members with a pre-pubescent girlfriend, but I guess that would have been too over the top even for them.
In case anybody doesn't know this, '70s rockers were notorious for their consumption of literally underaged girls. Tyler in particular even assumed legal guardianship of his bit of jailbait so he could take her on tour with him.
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Kung pow: enter the fist
Steve Oedekerk, the writer/star of King pow: enter the fist, is amazing in every way - especially if you were consuming media in the 90s. He
- wrote and directed when nature calls
- cowrote the nutty professor
- wrote including Patch Adams
- wrote Nutty Professor II: The Klumps - wrote and directed Bruce Almighty
- created thumbnation
- executive produced Jimmy Neutron and his studio gave us two Jimmy Neutron movies
Kung pow is one of my favorites. Ironically my wife hates it, but loves when nature calls.
I weirdly dislike most of these things. Nature calls was fine.
Still glad people found joy in his work though. Obviously talented.
The Orville
I don't even consider that show parody, I consider it Star Trek with a different brand name
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
You'll never look at a music docu-drama the same.
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Idiocracy.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were originally a parody of Daredevil. I think they have surpassed it in popularity.
They were a parody of other comics as well, notably X-Men (hence the "teenage mutant" part) and Howard the Duck.
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Sometimes the Simpsons parodied things so well, that it's only later on in life that I realize iconic and hilarious Simpson moments were actually parodies.
The Cape Fear episode. The Citizen Kane episode. The Thelma and Louise episode. The Planet of the Apes musical.
fuckin' classics
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Does idiocracy count?
No, it's satire. Or it used to be anyway. But it's not a parody of anything.
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It's been a while, but as far as I can remember, I liked Hot Shots way better than Top Gun.
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Discworld
This does not fit the criteria so im sorry in advance, but it reminded me of the "Somebody That I Used To Know" song and that there is a really cool "5 people 1 guitar" cover that has 200M views which is a good 8% of the original video with 2.4B views.
They actually use 9 hands on that guitar (10 if you consider the one holding the top end)
There's a difference between a parody and a cover. Weird Al does parodies, this is a cover.
Steamboat Willie was a parody of Steamboat Bill Jr., a Buster Keaton film.
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