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[-] [email protected] 148 points 2 months ago

Pretty much everything from Weird Al.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 141 points 2 months ago

Blazing Saddles. It killed the western genre for a long time because of how well it parodied them

[-] [email protected] 97 points 2 months ago

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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[-] [email protected] 110 points 2 months ago

Hot Fuzz is the best buddy cop movie I've ever seen.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago

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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[-] [email protected] 69 points 2 months ago

Airplane parodying the airliner movies like Zero Hour

Dr Strangelove parodying atomic terror movies like Fail Safe

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[-] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago

Naked Gun.

Austin Powers.

Team America: World Police

[-] HobbitFoot 24 points 2 months ago

The dicks, pussies, and assholes speech was based on an actual speech.

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[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago

Weird Al's White And Nerdy, so much better than Ridin Dirty.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago

r/TheDonald. If I remember right, it started as a meme sub before he actually ran, then it was overtaken by actual supporters.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

It was so weird watching that live.

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[-] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago

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)

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

By Grabthar's hammer, what a movie.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

Army of Darkness (person out of time becomes a leader against evil)

So an isekai

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago

How dare you‽ You're right, but how dare you‽

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago

Airplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don't know about the existence of the latter

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

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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[-] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago

Spinal Tap. The reactions to it are telling enough: allegedly Steven Tyler didn’t think it was funny, and the Edge just wept.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

They were just jealous they couldn't go to 11.

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[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago

Bugs Bunny far surpassed It Happened One Night. His manner of speaking, saying “doc,” and his obsession with carrots are a direct parody of Clark Gable’s character from that movie, but modern audiences don’t realize he’s a parody at all and instead assume the carrot thing it based on rabbits’ real dietary preferences.

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[-] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Amish paradise. I find the song better than the original(s)

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[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Cunk - parodying Attenborough and cosmos style docs

Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material

Happy Gilmore

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[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago

Blur - Song 2 was intended as a parody of American rock and is laden with nonsense lyrics. It's their most known song in America by a wide margin and might even be their most known song globally.

Woohoo

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[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago

The Onion is way better than real life, especially currently.

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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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[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As an animation nerd I gotta mention Shrek. As a parody of "Disney princess movies" it killed the entire genre dead.

The only time Disney tried to play the tropes somewhat straight again was the Princess and the Frog, and THAT was a major flop (though racism probably also played a part in that).

Since then Disney only made remakes or titles like Frozen that spend 70% of their runtime mugging at themselves and poking fun at their own tropes (... While still circling back to them anyway and failing to make any point or commentary)

On a less "this made a major cultural impact" note and more of a "this personally completely altered my entire sense of humour and replaced the original in my heart" -- SnapCube's Realtime Fandub Games Sonic Adventure 2

Oh oh ohohoh! Just remembered JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Very much a manga that was poking fun at contemporaries like Fist of the North Star... And while it didn't outlive or outdo them per se, it definitely gained a life of its own, continuing to this day and actually being quite influential in its own right.

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[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

Idiocracy started as a parody, and is now becoming a reality.

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Yugi Oh The Abridged Series

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were originally a parody of Daredevil. I think they have surpassed it in popularity.

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No, it's satire. Or it used to be anyway. But it's not a parody of anything.

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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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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

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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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is better than Hamlet. Sure, it had the benefit of an extra couple of centuries of progress in art, but I think it still counts.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Deadpool It was a parody of DCs Deathstroke, right down to the guy's name Slade/Wade.

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I have not seen the original, but Airplane! for sure.

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Don Quixote
The Princess Bride
Cold Comfort Farm

[-] HobbitFoot 21 points 2 months ago

Steamboat Willie was a parody of Steamboat Bill Jr., a Buster Keaton film.

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