Galaxy Quest!
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Pretty much everything from Weird Al.
Word Crimes for taking a song about dubious consent and changing it into a legitimately educational song.
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Blazing Saddles. It killed the western genre for a long time because of how well it parodied them
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.
That's interesting. I always felt the newer Bond films were taking themselves a bit too seriously. I suppose this might be why.
Austin pretty much forced them to play it straight. It's was a stupidly huge movie back when it came out.
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Weird Al's White And Nerdy, so much better than Ridin Dirty.
Airplane parodying the airliner movies like Zero Hour
Dr Strangelove parodying atomic terror movies like Fail Safe
Fail-Safe is amazing though. And I actually prefer that it's a computer glitch, that no individual causes everything to go bad, because the problem is the system
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Hot Fuzz is the best buddy cop movie I've ever seen.
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)
Why would I fight you? I’ve got your back! Now, let’s go to the Winchester for a pint until this all blows over.
Hahah, such an iconic line
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The minecraft parody songs. Iconic
r/TheDonald. If I remember right, it started as a meme sub before he actually ran, then it was overtaken by actual supporters.
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.
Any book written by future historians that accurately talks about this period of time will have a chapter devoted to Pepe the Frog and... God damnit it's all just so stupid.
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Spaceballs.
Merchandising! Merchandising! Spaceballs the t-shirt! Spaceballs the lunchbox! Spaceballs the FLAMETHROWER!!! The kids love this one.
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.
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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Airplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don't know about the existence of the latter
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.
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Cunk - parodying Attenborough and cosmos style docs
Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material
Happy Gilmore
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.
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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)
I guess Army of Darkness is an indirect parody of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
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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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Spinal Tap. The reactions to it are telling enough: allegedly Steven Tyler didn’t think it was funny, and the Edge just wept.
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