Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were originally a parody of Daredevil. I think they have surpassed it in popularity.
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Idiocracy
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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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
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Discworld
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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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
You'll never look at a music docu-drama the same.
One of my favorite singer-songwriters, Dan Bern, wrote many of the songs for that movie. Just an extra reason for me to love it.
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)
Hot Fuzz is up there for me too
Army of Darkness (person out of time becomes a leader against evil)
So an isekai
thanks i hate it
How dare you‽ You're right, but how dare you‽
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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I think a lot of Whitest Kid's U Know stuff genuinely transcends the topics its mocking by how good it is.
For example: WKUK - Kennedy Assasination
That song at 3:41 swims into my head from time to time, when I'm feeling stressed or overworked or uncertain about the future:
Somewhere out in space there is a place,
Where I can do what I want to,
And all at my own pace.Somewhere out of time I hope I'll find,
A place where I can just unwind,
And work on my own mind.Oh send me a signal, oh give me a prayer,
I just need to know that there's some spot out there,
Where I could be me and you could be you...
Just a pure sentiment longing for free time, personal agency, co-existence, brotherhood, and harmony -- which I think are topics everyone can click with.
RIP local sexpot.
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Family Guys "Blue Harvest"
Steamboat Willie was a parody of Steamboat Bill Jr., a Buster Keaton film.
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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.
They were just jealous they couldn't go to 11.
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Don Quixote
The Princess Bride
Cold Comfort Farm
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.
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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.
Before Spaceballs, contemporaneous with Star Wars, we had "Hardware Wars":
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My gf used to believe that Scary Movie was the original. She didn't had idea that there was an actual movie called Scream.
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 watched the original Scream years after seeing Scary Movie, and realized Scary Movie is just Scream on cocaine. A lot of the jokes are the same or just slightly different.
What's the line between being self aware and a parody?
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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.
It’s not a parody it’s a documentary so no.
I think we're seeing things happen that not even Idiocracy could predict.
Naked Gun.
Austin Powers.
Team America: World Police
The dicks, pussies, and assholes speech was based on an actual speech.
by who? where can i read it? how did i not know this? this sounds fascinating!
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