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[–] [email protected] 52 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

TIL Airplane! is a parody.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours 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

[–] [email protected] 75 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

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] 60 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I saw Spaceballs before I saw Star Wars. I cannot take any Star Wars movie seriously now.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Before Spaceballs, contemporaneous with Star Wars, we had "Hardware Wars":

https://youtu.be/WUDEUQMCyKE

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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] 45 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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] 27 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

By Grabthar's hammer, what a movie.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Yeah! The wild part is that many hardcore Trek fans - myself included, of course - just take it for granted that Galaxy Quest will be included, and toward the top end, of any ranking of Trek films.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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

So an isekai

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago

thanks i hate it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago

Hot Fuzz is up there for me too

[–] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Naked Gun.

Austin Powers.

Team America: World Police

[–] HobbitFoot 20 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

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] 18 points 23 hours ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don't even consider that show parody, I consider it Star Trek with a different brand name

[–] [email protected] 8 points 18 hours ago

Season 1 was basically Seth MacFarlane's TNG fan scripts... it's a Star Trek series through and through.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

This does not fit the criteria so im sorry in advance, but it reminded me of the "Somebody That I Used To Know" song and that there is a really cool "5 people 1 guitar" cover that has 200M views which is a good 8% of the original video with 2.4B views.

They actually use 9 hands on that guitar (10 if you consider the one holding the top end)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M

[–] [email protected] 22 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

You'll never look at a music docu-drama the same.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

It basically killed music biopics for 10 years or so.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago

The Planet of the Apes musical.

This one threw my head for a spin. Had to take a deep dive to disentangle what was original and what the Simpsons added.

And frankly, some of the Simpsons musical numbers would have done the original films credit.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

There's a great video on YouTube where some of the relevant scenes from the original, Zero Hour, are played alongside their equivalents in Airplane!. Some of it is basically word for word the same. Will try and find it and add as an edit...

Turns out there are lots of such videos! Not sure if this is the one I saw or not, but it's very similar, if not, https://youtu.be/8-v2BHNBVCs

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago

It’s not a parody it’s a documentary so no.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago

I think we're seeing things happen that not even Idiocracy could predict.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 23 hours ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 22 hours ago

It's been a while, but as far as I can remember, I liked Hot Shots way better than Top Gun.

[–] HobbitFoot 21 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Don Quixote

The Princess Bride

Cold Comfort Farm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Not really a parody but "happy but beats 2 and 4 are swapped."

The truth is this: oof!

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