Ask Lemmy

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

Definitely White and Nerdy, and Like a Surgeon and Amish Paradise are on par.

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.

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

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)

It was so weird watching that live.

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

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.

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.

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 guess Army of Darkness is an indirect parody of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?

Galaxy Quest belongs at the top of any such list. It's widely considered to be one of the best Star Trek movies.