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[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 144 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Pretty much everything from Weird Al.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] m_f@discuss.online 137 points 1 day 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 94 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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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[–] glitchy_nobody@leminal.space 108 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

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

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[–] Zonetrooper@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day 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.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 87 points 1 day ago (8 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 66 points 1 day 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.

[–] Crewman@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day 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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[–] CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 67 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Airplane parodying the airliner movies like Zero Hour

Dr Strangelove parodying atomic terror movies like Fail Safe

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[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Naked Gun.

Austin Powers.

Team America: World Police

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[–] madjo@feddit.nl 62 points 1 day ago

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

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (9 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 46 points 1 day 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 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

By Grabthar's hammer, what a movie.

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[–] ech@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

So an isekai

[–] cowfodder@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 60 points 1 day ago (2 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 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It was so weird watching that live.

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 58 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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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[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Cunk - parodying Attenborough and cosmos style docs

Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material

Happy Gilmore

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 39 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (5 children)

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

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 37 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

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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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

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

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[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 33 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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

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[–] dlhextall@sh.itjust.works 32 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 28 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (5 children)

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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[–] Crewman@sopuli.xyz 28 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

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[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago
[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yugi Oh The Abridged Series

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 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

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (6 children)
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[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

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[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don Quixote

The Princess Bride

Cold Comfort Farm

[–] princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago
[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 day ago

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

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 17 hours 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.

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