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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 9 points 1 hour 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.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

Spaceballs.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 35 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Still the best star trek movie

[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Airplane parodying the airliner movies like Zero Hour

Dr Strangelove parodying atomic terror movies like Fail Safe

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

Dr Strangelove parodying atomic terror movies like Fail Safe

I legit didn't know it was parodying something else. I thought it was just gallows humour.

Nobody watches the other airliner movies, but at least with Airplane! you know you're watching a parody.

Edit: Per other people in this thread, apparently not.

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 33 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] blindbandit@lemm.ee 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It was so weird watching that live.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm sad I missed that, actually.

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Steve Oedekerk, the writer/star of King pow: enter the fist, is amazing in every way - especially if you were consuming media in the 90s. He

  • wrote and directed when nature calls
  • cowrote the nutty professor
  • wrote including Patch Adams
  • wrote Nutty Professor II: The Klumps - wrote and directed Bruce Almighty
  • created thumbnation
  • executive produced Jimmy Neutron and his studio gave us two Jimmy Neutron movies
[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Cunk - parodying Attenborough and cosmos style docs

Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material

Happy Gilmore

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 9 hours ago
[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 95 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty much everything from Weird Al.

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] glitchy_nobody@leminal.space 55 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours 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.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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

[–] m_f@discuss.online 90 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 59 points 12 hours 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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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 40 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

TIL Airplane! is a parody.

[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It’s such a close parody that they actually secured the rights to remake it. Much of the dialogue is exactly the same.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Shit, I'm going to have to watch the original.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 10 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

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 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

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 63 points 12 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.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 45 points 12 hours ago (3 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.

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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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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 42 points 12 hours ago (5 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)

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 37 points 11 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.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 20 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

By Grabthar's hammer, what a movie.

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[–] Batadon@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

The truth is this: oof!

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 26 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 48 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

Naked Gun.

Austin Powers.

Team America: World Police

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[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 19 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 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

[–] Crewman@sopuli.xyz 16 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 30 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 24 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

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

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