Ask Lemmy

Word Crimes for taking a song about dubious consent and changing it into a legitimately educational song.

Dr. Strangelove was released before Fail Safe. The story goes that they were both being filmed around the same time and Kubrick used his pull with the studio to make sure Fail Safe was released later in the year.

Seems a really odd thing to insist your parody is released before the movie it's parodying. And I don't think there were all that many movies about the terror of nuclear war until after the Cuban missile crisis. It takes a couple of years to make a movie and Dr. Strangelove came out less than two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, so it was pretty much the first of it's kind.

Seems to me like Dr. Strangelove is a black comedy, not a parody.

Austin Powers did nearly the same with Bond/spy flicks for a while. From Wikipedia:

Daniel Craig, who portrayed James Bond on screen from 2006 to 2021, credited the Austin Powers franchise with the relatively serious tone of later Bond films. In a 2014 interview, Craig said, "We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers fucked us", making it "impossible" to do the gags of earlier Bond films which Austin Powers satirized.

Hot Fuzz is one of the better examples in this thread, because it doesn't run solely on ribbing buddy cop films. If you've never seen a buddy cop film in your life, Hot Fuzz is still a perfectly good comedy with some surprisingly touching moments.

Knowing what it parodies makes it better, of course, but it doesn't look down at them.

Just as Shaun of the Dead is the best zombie movie (come fight me)

or r/TheDarnold

when sam darnold starting tearing up the league with the vikings it seemed that sub was right all along

of course this is the vikings we're talking about so obviously it came crashing down

It was so weird watching that live.

Merchandising! Merchandising! Spaceballs the t-shirt! Spaceballs the lunchbox! Spaceballs the FLAMETHROWER!!! The kids love this one.

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.

Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material

It can be pretty telling how someone reacts to Starship Troopers being what it is, and I love it for that.

I've seen a lot of people mistake it for a parody of Airport, which...I think there's a reference or two in there but Airplane! is a parody of airline disaster thrillers in general and Zero Hour specifically. The sick kid and the stewardess singing with the guitar is actually a reference to Airport 1975.

Airplane! II, The Sequel is a parody of Airport, with the whole bomb in the suitcase plot.