Airplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don't know about the existence of the latter
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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
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.
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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I saw Spaceballs before I saw Star Wars. I cannot take any Star Wars movie seriously now.
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Before Spaceballs, contemporaneous with Star Wars, we had "Hardware Wars":
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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)
Galaxy Quest belongs at the top of any such list. It's widely considered to be one of the best Star Trek movies.
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.
Army of Darkness (person out of time becomes a leader against evil)
So an isekai
How dare you‽ You're right, but how dare you‽
thanks i hate it
Hot Fuzz is up there for me too
Idiocracy.
Naked Gun.
Austin Powers.
Team America: World Police
The dicks, pussies, and assholes speech was based on an actual speech.
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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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The Orville
I don't even consider that show parody, I consider it Star Trek with a different brand name
Season 1 was basically Seth MacFarlane's TNG fan scripts... it's a Star Trek series through and through.
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)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were originally a parody of Daredevil. I think they have surpassed it in popularity.
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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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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
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.
I have not seen the original, but Airplane! for sure.
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
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.
It's been a while, but as far as I can remember, I liked Hot Shots way better than Top Gun.
Steamboat Willie was a parody of Steamboat Bill Jr., a Buster Keaton film.
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Discworld
Don Quixote
The Princess Bride
Cold Comfort Farm
Not really a parody but "happy but beats 2 and 4 are swapped."
The truth is this: oof!
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