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.
And then they made Blofeld to be James Bond's brother which was never a thing in any Bond movie before. That was just a thing they did in Austin Powers.
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.
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?
What's the line between being self aware and a parody?
I feel like this would require a Venn diagram. Not so much a "this crosses the line" but some movies are parody, some are self aware, some are both and some are neither.
To summarize, parodies show why those things being parodied are dumb, while self awareness is embracing the tropes while not taking itself seriously. Which answers my question.
Imagine that.
A movie set in the future with advanced space craft yet has guys dueling with pink glowsticks.
I didn't need Spaceballs to come to that conclusion when I was about 9.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a parody of a book by Peter George called Red Alert.
The book plays it perfectly straight. They started to adapt the book into a movie, but found they kept having to cut elements out to keep it from being absurd or funny because of the sheer...bullshit that is mutually assured destruction, so they leaned into it and made it a farce. And now just about no one is aware of Red Alert.
Dr. Strangelove was released before Fail Safe. The story goes that they were both being filmed around the same time and Kubrick used his pull with the studio to make sure Fail Safe was released later in the year.
Seems a really odd thing to insist your parody is released before the movie it's parodying. And I don't think there were all that many movies about the terror of nuclear war until after the Cuban missile crisis. It takes a couple of years to make a movie and Dr. Strangelove came out less than two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, so it was pretty much the first of it's kind.
Seems to me like Dr. Strangelove is a black comedy, not a parody.
Fail-Safe is amazing though. And I actually prefer that it's a computer glitch, that no individual causes everything to go bad, because the problem is the system
Any book written by future historians that accurately talks about this period of time will have a chapter devoted to Pepe the Frog and... God damnit it's all just so stupid.
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.
I mean I'm trying to wrap my head around what work it would be a parody of. like, Hot Shots! is primarily a parody of Top Gun with some scenes parodying other films.
Evil Dead 1 was a horror film. It's not a parody, or a comedy, it's a horror film. Evil Dead 2...defies definition. It's as much a remake as it is a sequel, it's still a horror movie though it leans more on comedy. Army of Darkness, better known by its actual title "The Studio Wouldn't Let Us Call It Evil Dead 3" is a horror themed action comedy. It's not really making fun of an existing work the way Hot Shots! or Airplane! does.
He is an overpowered white guy in a new land like John Carter adventure type stories. He is a chosen one the prophecy foretold! Person out of time who brings knowledge from the future to win war against evil. The deadite army is a comedic take on the stop motion armies of the dead from B movies. He even fights his evil twin!
It is a parody of a genre, not a single movie or series.
I remain unconvinced that Army of Darkness is a parody. A comedy yes, but...Sam Raimi didn't set out to say anything about the genre, he'll tell you he just wanted to entertain his audience. A fun setting to throw your protagonist into to see what breaks isn't necessarily a parody.
It definitely remade Leslie Nielsen's career. He (along with Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges) were known as very serious drama actors, and the thing is, they play their roles as such. Although they may be absurd, they deliver their lines perfectly seriously.
Leslie Nielson in particular was so hysterical his career shifted into comedy, starring in Police Squad! and The Naked Gun, and then a string of movies mostly not made by the ZAZ that used him wrong, frankly. Where they have him being silly and making funny faces...he was excellent at delivering an absurd line as if it was perfectly serious.
It really worked that Johnny played by Stephen Stucker was the only character who seemed to know what genre of film he was in. You get one character who gets to be wacky.
There's that perfect moment where he and Peter Graves share a moment. "How long until you can land this plane." "I don't know." "Well can't you guess?" "Well, not for another two hours." "...You can't take a guess for another two hours?" The fun of it is they got serious acting talent to deliver this dumb midwest humor dialog.
Yeah they cast a lot of guys like Peter Graves and Robert Stack that normally appeared in the over-serious thriller type movies. So Leslie Nielsen was just one of that group of actors they cast to have guys deliver silly lines in that stern serious tone that they did in actual serious movies.
But of course Leslie Nielsen was amazing at it, and didn't need to do those over-serious movies anymore. And don't call me Shirley!
I've seen a lot of people mistake it for a parody of Airport, which...I think there's a reference or two in there but Airplane! is a parody of airline disaster thrillers in general and Zero Hour specifically. The sick kid and the stewardess singing with the guitar is actually a reference to Airport 1975.
Airplane! II, The Sequel is a parody of Airport, with the whole bomb in the suitcase plot.
This Is Spinal Tap should have had one of the band members with a pre-pubescent girlfriend, but I guess that would have been too over the top even for them.
In case anybody doesn't know this, '70s rockers were notorious for their consumption of literally underaged girls. Tyler in particular even assumed legal guardianship of his bit of jailbait so he could take her on tour with him.
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.
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.
This happens every time an artist does a parody of popular music, see also Smells Like Teen Spirit and You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party. Turns out music that's in a popular style tends to be popular 🤔
It should've buried the genre entirely imho. So many inaccurate biopics got released since, with that Queen one being one of the worst offenders (breaks the real world timeline of events for dramatic story telling reasons, clearly biased from one member's perspective, and with piss poor editing throughout).
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.
That part I didn't know but it doesn't surprise me either.
Still, "Disney wanted to kill off their traditional animation department" might explain why every movie since has been CGI/Live Action. -- It does NOT explain why every movie since has been so metalinguistic and self-satirising. THAT can be laid at Dreamworks' feet entirely, with the influence of Shrek et. al. on the cultural zeitgeist.
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).
Probably, I watched because of my kid recently, and it striked me as one of the better Disney movies. In fact, it's a pretty awesome one compared to recent bigger hits like Frozen and etc.
Idiocracy has transitioned from pessimistic take to optimistic. At least in Idiocracy everybody listened to the smart one and enacted changes that helped.
Same should be said for DBZ Abridged. I seriously do a double take every time I see an original episode now, as the voice actors and characterizations from Abridged have replaced the canon ones in my head.
The Foot Clan vs The Hand is a solid example. The turtles getting oozed spilled on them to give them advanced powers while Matt Murdock was doused with chemicals giving him his sensory powers is another good example.
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.
I hate that joke with a passion because one of the members of our D&D group said it constantly in game and it never worked with the scenes. One of the many reasons the group "disbanded" but still met without him.
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.
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...
That song at 3:41 swims into my head from time to time, when I'm feeling stressed or overworked or uncertain about the future:
Somewhere out in space there is a place, Where I can do what I want to, And all at my own pace.
Somewhere out of time I hope I'll find, A place where I can just unwind, And work on my own mind.
Oh send me a signal, oh give me a prayer, I just need to know that there's some spot out there, Where I could be me and you could be you...
Just a pure sentiment longing for free time, personal agency, co-existence, brotherhood, and harmony -- which I think are topics everyone can click with.
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)
Does it count if I only read summaries of both works, not the works itself?
"A true story" is a parody on the "travelogue" that were popular in ancient Greece, like Homer's Odyssey and Illiad. 800 years later, they had a resurgence in the Roman Empire, like when Virgil wrote the Aeneid. Still 200 years later, A True Story was written by Lucian.
In the preface, Lucian complains that the genre was ruined by authors making up unbelievable tales to trick their dumb readership. So he thinks it better to just admit that all he says is a lie.
The story goes on how Lucian then set sail across the Atlantic, got caught in a storm so terrible it blew him to outer space, and meet the all-male civilisation that lives on the moon, who carry their children through the calf of their leg.
Lucian and his crew return to Earth, get swallowed by a whale, explore the Islands of the blessed, see the Sinners being punished (the ones who lied in their stories being punished the hardest) and reach a distant continent. Lucian says what happened there will be shared in the sequel, which a comment describes as the biggest lie of all.
Might not be exactly what you're asking for, but if you've seen ever seen Rocky and Bullwinkle, you'll know the villain "Boris Badenov," but you might not know his name is a pun of a historical figure, "Boris Godunov". Old cartoons like that are great because they're full of these super obscure references and jokes that completely fly past you until years later when you encounter something in a history class and suddenly burst out laughing. Another example I remember from that show is "The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam," a reference to "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is a satire of Gothic novels in general, and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe in particular. Several others are referenced by name in the story and for many of them it's probably the only reason they are even remembered today.
Thagomizer, it’s the end of stegosaurus. There was no scientific name for the spiked end, the paleontology side decided the Farside comic called it Thagomizer so let’s use that
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CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world · 148 pts · 1y
Pretty much everything from Weird Al.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y
Word Crimes for taking a song about dubious consent and changing it into a legitimately educational song.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y
Definitely White and Nerdy, and Like a Surgeon and Amish Paradise are on par.
AloneYogurt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Amish Paradise came to me, even over White N' Nerdy
m_f@discuss.online · 141 pts · 1y
Blazing Saddles. It killed the western genre for a long time because of how well it parodied them
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 97 pts · 1y
Austin Powers did nearly the same with Bond/spy flicks for a while. From Wikipedia:
toddestan@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
That's interesting. I always felt the newer Bond films were taking themselves a bit too seriously. I suppose this might be why.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
And then they made Blofeld to be James Bond's brother which was never a thing in any Bond movie before. That was just a thing they did in Austin Powers.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
Austin pretty much forced them to play it straight. It's was a stupidly huge movie back when it came out.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
Truly understood the bleak outlook of a gunslinger
glitchy_nobody@leminal.space · 110 pts · 1y
Hot Fuzz is the best buddy cop movie I've ever seen.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee · 29 pts · 1y
Just as Shaun of the Dead is the best zombie movie (come fight me)
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Why would I fight you? I’ve got your back! Now, let’s go to the Winchester for a pint until this all blows over.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Hahah, such an iconic line
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
And no one talks about the 3rd film
Hadriscus@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
I honestly couldn't get into it, I find it less endearing. Maybe should give it a rewatch
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
I thought it was ok, but not even close to the other two.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
Same. It was ultimately pretty forgettable except for the bathroom fight scene, which is literally all I remember of it.
Zonetrooper@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
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 · 88 pts · 1y
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 · 68 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I feel like this would require a Venn diagram. Not so much a "this crosses the line" but some movies are parody, some are self aware, some are both and some are neither.
Crewman@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 1y
Funnily enough, I looked up self awareness vs parody, and the first movie based article specifically addressed those two movies.
https://slowburnhorror.com/2024/11/27/self-aware-but-not-self-conscious-how-tremors-and-maxxxine-write-love-letters-to-the-horror-genre/
To summarize, parodies show why those things being parodied are dumb, while self awareness is embracing the tropes while not taking itself seriously. Which answers my question.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
How many lines of blow does it take before you stop writing a self-aware script and devolve into parody?
unwillingsomnambulist@midwest.social · 19 pts · 1y
I saw Spaceballs before I saw Star Wars. I cannot take any Star Wars movie seriously now.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Imagine that.
A movie set in the future with advanced space craft yet has guys dueling with pink glowsticks.
I didn't need Spaceballs to come to that conclusion when I was about 9.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
its not in the future though its a long time ago
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Before Spaceballs, contemporaneous with Star Wars, we had "Hardware Wars":
https://youtu.be/WUDEUQMCyKE
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y
You'll laugh!.You'll cry! You'll kiss three bucks goodbye!
capuccino@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
My gf used to believe that Scary Movie was the original. She didn't had idea that there was an actual movie called Scream.
Kng@feddit.rocks · 3 pts · 1y
Can confirm scream was one of the first horror movies I watched and I just figured the rest were like that.
CheeryLBottom@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 1y
Galaxy Quest!
MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
Still the best star trek movie
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y
By Grabthar's Hammer...
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I giggle every time about that please-kill-me-face.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 69 pts · 1y
Airplane parodying the airliner movies like Zero Hour
Dr Strangelove parodying atomic terror movies like Fail Safe
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 14 pts · 1y
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.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a parody of a book by Peter George called Red Alert.
The book plays it perfectly straight. They started to adapt the book into a movie, but found they kept having to cut elements out to keep it from being absurd or funny because of the sheer...bullshit that is mutually assured destruction, so they leaned into it and made it a farce. And now just about no one is aware of Red Alert.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
Dr. Strangelove was released before Fail Safe. The story goes that they were both being filmed around the same time and Kubrick used his pull with the studio to make sure Fail Safe was released later in the year.
Seems a really odd thing to insist your parody is released before the movie it's parodying. And I don't think there were all that many movies about the terror of nuclear war until after the Cuban missile crisis. It takes a couple of years to make a movie and Dr. Strangelove came out less than two years after the Cuban Missile Crisis, so it was pretty much the first of it's kind.
Seems to me like Dr. Strangelove is a black comedy, not a parody.
qevlarr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Fail-Safe is amazing though. And I actually prefer that it's a computer glitch, that no individual causes everything to go bad, because the problem is the system
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 1y
Naked Gun.
Austin Powers.
Team America: World Police
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 24 pts · 1y
The dicks, pussies, and assholes speech was based on an actual speech.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 1y
by who? where can i read it? how did i not know this? this sounds fascinating!
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 18 pts · 1y
https://www.mwkworks.com/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html
Here you go.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
That’s fucking awesome
singletona@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
I'm Matt Damen!
CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Gary?
scytale@lemm.ee · 63 pts · 1y
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 · 36 pts · 1y
It was so weird watching that live.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Any book written by future historians that accurately talks about this period of time will have a chapter devoted to Pepe the Frog and... God damnit it's all just so stupid.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
I'm sad I missed that, actually.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
or r/TheDarnold
when sam darnold starting tearing up the league with the vikings it seemed that sub was right all along
of course this is the vikings we're talking about so obviously it came crashing down
madjo@feddit.nl · 61 pts · 1y
Weird Al's White And Nerdy, so much better than Ridin Dirty.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
By Grabthar's hammer, what a movie.
shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
WHAT'S MY LAST NAME??!?
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 11 pts · 1y
...Maybe I'm the plucky comic relief...
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
"Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy" is still low-key one of my favourite lines.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 17 pts · 1y
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.
ech@lemm.ee · 27 pts · 1y
So an isekai
cowfodder@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
How dare you‽ You're right, but how dare you‽
princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 1y
thanks i hate it
proudblond@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Hot Fuzz is up there for me too
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
I guess Army of Darkness is an indirect parody of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I am sure that is one of the inspirations.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
I mean I'm trying to wrap my head around what work it would be a parody of. like, Hot Shots! is primarily a parody of Top Gun with some scenes parodying other films.
Evil Dead 1 was a horror film. It's not a parody, or a comedy, it's a horror film. Evil Dead 2...defies definition. It's as much a remake as it is a sequel, it's still a horror movie though it leans more on comedy. Army of Darkness, better known by its actual title "The Studio Wouldn't Let Us Call It Evil Dead 3" is a horror themed action comedy. It's not really making fun of an existing work the way Hot Shots! or Airplane! does.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
He is an overpowered white guy in a new land like John Carter adventure type stories. He is a chosen one the prophecy foretold! Person out of time who brings knowledge from the future to win war against evil. The deadite army is a comedic take on the stop motion armies of the dead from B movies. He even fights his evil twin!
It is a parody of a genre, not a single movie or series.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
I remain unconvinced that Army of Darkness is a parody. A comedy yes, but...Sam Raimi didn't set out to say anything about the genre, he'll tell you he just wanted to entertain his audience. A fun setting to throw your protagonist into to see what breaks isn't necessarily a parody.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
k
I'm not trying to convince you, just explaining why I see it as a parody.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 59 pts · 1y
Airplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don't know about the existence of the latter
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org · 25 pts · 1y
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
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
It definitely remade Leslie Nielsen's career. He (along with Peter Graves, Robert Stack, and Lloyd Bridges) were known as very serious drama actors, and the thing is, they play their roles as such. Although they may be absurd, they deliver their lines perfectly seriously.
Leslie Nielson in particular was so hysterical his career shifted into comedy, starring in Police Squad! and The Naked Gun, and then a string of movies mostly not made by the ZAZ that used him wrong, frankly. Where they have him being silly and making funny faces...he was excellent at delivering an absurd line as if it was perfectly serious.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Robert Stack apparently kept trying to play it like a comedy, and it took them a while to convince him to play it completely straight.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
It really worked that Johnny played by Stephen Stucker was the only character who seemed to know what genre of film he was in. You get one character who gets to be wacky.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y
he represents the perfect straight man. the end of airplane when he goes back to the empty cockpit, it's the coup de grace
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
There's that perfect moment where he and Peter Graves share a moment. "How long until you can land this plane." "I don't know." "Well can't you guess?" "Well, not for another two hours." "...You can't take a guess for another two hours?" The fun of it is they got serious acting talent to deliver this dumb midwest humor dialog.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah they cast a lot of guys like Peter Graves and Robert Stack that normally appeared in the over-serious thriller type movies. So Leslie Nielsen was just one of that group of actors they cast to have guys deliver silly lines in that stern serious tone that they did in actual serious movies.
But of course Leslie Nielsen was amazing at it, and didn't need to do those over-serious movies anymore. And don't call me Shirley!
Quazatron@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
TIL Airplane! is a parody.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y
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 · 4 pts · 1y
Shit, I'm going to have to watch the original.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
I've seen a lot of people mistake it for a parody of Airport, which...I think there's a reference or two in there but Airplane! is a parody of airline disaster thrillers in general and Zero Hour specifically. The sick kid and the stewardess singing with the guitar is actually a reference to Airport 1975.
Airplane! II, The Sequel is a parody of Airport, with the whole bomb in the suitcase plot.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
They were just jealous they couldn't go to 11.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
This Is Spinal Tap should have had one of the band members with a pre-pubescent girlfriend, but I guess that would have been too over the top even for them.
In case anybody doesn't know this, '70s rockers were notorious for their consumption of literally underaged girls. Tyler in particular even assumed legal guardianship of his bit of jailbait so he could take her on tour with him.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
getting lost backstage is a joke ozzy didnt like because it happened to him so many times 😂
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee · 50 pts · 1y
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.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
now i gotta go watch that movie. it apparently cause undershirt sales to sharply decline
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 47 pts · 1y
Amish paradise. I find the song better than the original(s)
Cyclist@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Nobody every mentions "I Think I'm a Clone Now".
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I can be at home while I'm out of town
ripcord@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Man, thank you for adding that (s).
Stinks that almost no one knows Gangster's Paradise is a remake.
BennyBnut@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Also the Weird Al style parodies. Dog Eat Dog is one of the best Talking Heads songs ever.
pzzzt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Also White And Nerdy
untorquer@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 1y
Cunk - parodying Attenborough and cosmos style docs
Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material
Happy Gilmore
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
It can be pretty telling how someone reacts to Starship Troopers being what it is, and I love it for that.
untorquer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Gotta squash them bugs
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1y
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
acchariya@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
You could say fans of the song might need to get thier head checked by a jumbo jet, even though it won't be easy.
weirdboy@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Nothing is
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
woohoo!
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I got my head shaved. It was easy though as I've done it countless times.
Objection@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
This happens every time an artist does a parody of popular music, see also Smells Like Teen Spirit and You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party. Turns out music that's in a popular style tends to be popular 🤔
cousinofjah@twit.social · 3 pts · 1y
American here. I first heard this in the soundtrack for FIFA 98 or 99
dlhextall@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 1y
The Onion is way better than real life, especially currently.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 36 pts · 1y
The Orville
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y
I don't even consider that show parody, I consider it Star Trek with a different brand name
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Season 1 was basically Seth MacFarlane's TNG fan scripts... it's a Star Trek series through and through.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 1y
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
You'll never look at a music docu-drama the same.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
It basically killed music biopics for 10 years or so.
ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
It should've buried the genre entirely imho. So many inaccurate biopics got released since, with that Queen one being one of the worst offenders (breaks the real world timeline of events for dramatic story telling reasons, clearly biased from one member's perspective, and with piss poor editing throughout).
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I was amazed to read that the surviving members of the band wanted that movie to be primarily about what Queen did after Mercury's death.
weirdboy@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
The fact that dipshit won an academy award for editing just kills me inside a little more every time I think about it.
ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah, that one really makes fuck all sense.
There's a great video on YT that goes into all the terrible edits in this movie, and they cover literally almost the entire runtime of the film.
I can only assume the academy was either bribed or blackmailed to come to this decision.
Pronell@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
One of my favorite singer-songwriters, Dan Bern, wrote many of the songs for that movie. Just an extra reason for me to love it.
VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 34 pts · 1y
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.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
princess and the frog had no chance, disney wanted it to fail so they had an excuse to never go back to 2d animation again
VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y
That part I didn't know but it doesn't surprise me either.
Still, "Disney wanted to kill off their traditional animation department" might explain why every movie since has been CGI/Live Action. -- It does NOT explain why every movie since has been so metalinguistic and self-satirising. THAT can be laid at Dreamworks' feet entirely, with the influence of Shrek et. al. on the cultural zeitgeist.
46_and_2@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Probably, I watched because of my kid recently, and it striked me as one of the better Disney movies. In fact, it's a pretty awesome one compared to recent bigger hits like Frozen and etc.
Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
I also quite liked it. It feels like a 'classic' Disney movie.
VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 6 pts · 1y
's a good movie. Predictable as those disney princess musicals tend to be--
-- But still. It's pretty. It's entertaining. And the music sequences are awesome.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Hi, it's me, The Devil
VinesNFluff@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y
Wrong game, but I always appreciate SnapCube regardless.
buzz86us@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y
Idiocracy started as a parody, and is now becoming a reality.
Bgugi@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Idiocracy has transitioned from pessimistic take to optimistic. At least in Idiocracy everybody listened to the smart one and enacted changes that helped.
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1y
Idiocracy is the only movie I’m aware of that was released as a comedy and became a horror movie.
Tungsten5@lemm.ee · -4 pts · 1y
GhatGPT will save us
Birch@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 1y
Yugi Oh The Abridged Series
ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y
Same should be said for DBZ Abridged. I seriously do a double take every time I see an original episode now, as the voice actors and characterizations from Abridged have replaced the canon ones in my head.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Sword Art Online Abridged.
Crewman@sopuli.xyz · 29 pts · 1y
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were originally a parody of Daredevil. I think they have surpassed it in popularity.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
They were a parody of other comics as well, notably X-Men (hence the "teenage mutant" part) and Howard the Duck.
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I had no idea, that's awesome!
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
The Foot Clan vs The Hand is a solid example. The turtles getting oozed spilled on them to give them advanced powers while Matt Murdock was doused with chemicals giving him his sensory powers is another good example.
discostjohn@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
Also Matt's mentor is called Stick, and the turtles have Splinter
PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
That's Master Splinter to you
shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 29 pts · 1y
Spaceballs.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
Merchandising! Merchandising! Spaceballs the t-shirt! Spaceballs the lunchbox! Spaceballs the FLAMETHROWER!!! The kids love this one.
Whitebrow@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
Does idiocracy count?
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
No, it's satire. Or it used to be anyway. But it's not a parody of anything.
venotic@kbin.melroy.org · 16 pts · 1y
I think we're seeing things happen that not even Idiocracy could predict.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
It’s not a parody it’s a documentary so no.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 1y
Idiocracy.
jpreston2005@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y
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
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 17 pts · 1y
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.
jacksilver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Dr. Zaisu song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2E1m90YSpA
huquad@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 1y
Kung pow: enter the fist
IMALlama@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
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
ookiiBoy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
I weirdly dislike most of these things. Nature calls was fine.
Still glad people found joy in his work though. Obviously talented.
huquad@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Kung pow is one of my favorites. Ironically my wife hates it, but loves when nature calls.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
Dragon Ball Abridged
junkthief@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y
Muffin button!
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
I hate that joke with a passion because one of the members of our D&D group said it constantly in game and it never worked with the scenes. One of the many reasons the group "disbanded" but still met without him.
singletona@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfLHfzrV-zU
njm1314@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Man if only we got a full Buu saga
SausageWallet@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
I need an adult.
huquad@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
I'm gonna deck you in the snoz
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 1y
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.
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com · 22 pts · 1y
It's been a while, but as far as I can remember, I liked Hot Shots way better than Top Gun.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yes, and Valeria Golino > Kelly McGillis.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 21 pts · 1y
Steamboat Willie was a parody of Steamboat Bill Jr., a Buster Keaton film.
singletona@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
...no kidding?
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 1y
No kidding.
Greg@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
…no kidding?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
No... kidding!
(No, kidding)
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y
Don Quixote
The Princess Bride
Cold Comfort Farm
Bezier@suppo.fi · 21 pts · 1y
I have not seen the original, but Airplane! for sure.
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
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?si=MHJB3Q59c79KVMdP
princess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 1y
Discworld
Wilco@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 1y
Deadpool It was a parody of DCs Deathstroke, right down to the guy's name Slade/Wade.
WaterFoul@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
WaterFoul@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
pineapplelover@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
I always thought Deadpool and Deathstroke look eerily similar
recentSloth43@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
FourStar Dragon Ball abridged parody
drmoose@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
Idiocracy is at least more entertaining
5parky@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Remember when Idiocracy was a farce instead of a documentary?
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de · 15 pts · 1y
the onion
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 1y
I think a lot of Whitest Kid's U Know stuff genuinely transcends the topics its mocking by how good it is.
For example: WKUK - Kennedy Assasination
That song at 3:41 swims into my head from time to time, when I'm feeling stressed or overworked or uncertain about the future:
Just a pure sentiment longing for free time, personal agency, co-existence, brotherhood, and harmony -- which I think are topics everyone can click with.
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio · 8 pts · 1y
I've spent the last couple of hours re-watching WKUK skits because of you.
Man those guys are funny.
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Great actors too, Trevor himself had just such a way with expression delivering lines both wacky and straight
jared@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y
RIP local sexpot.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 14 pts · 1y
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
captainnapalm83@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 1y
There's a difference between a parody and a cover. Weird Al does parodies, this is a cover.
TheFANUM@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
The venture Bros
Not_Dav3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
What were they parodying ?
SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Saturday Morning cartoons, super heros and stuff.
Denjin@lemmings.world · 8 pts · 1y
On Cinema has better story telling and character development than most of Hollywood.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Gintama.
Took me a while to realize the whole post-war samurai living in an era of peace premise was just Kenshin but with aliens.
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Does it count if I only read summaries of both works, not the works itself?
"A true story" is a parody on the "travelogue" that were popular in ancient Greece, like Homer's Odyssey and Illiad. 800 years later, they had a resurgence in the Roman Empire, like when Virgil wrote the Aeneid. Still 200 years later, A True Story was written by Lucian.
In the preface, Lucian complains that the genre was ruined by authors making up unbelievable tales to trick their dumb readership. So he thinks it better to just admit that all he says is a lie.
The story goes on how Lucian then set sail across the Atlantic, got caught in a storm so terrible it blew him to outer space, and meet the all-male civilisation that lives on the moon, who carry their children through the calf of their leg.
Lucian and his crew return to Earth, get swallowed by a whale, explore the Islands of the blessed, see the Sinners being punished (the ones who lied in their stories being punished the hardest) and reach a distant continent. Lucian says what happened there will be shared in the sequel, which a comment describes as the biggest lie of all.
discostjohn@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y
I think the Documentary Now! episode, "Juan Likes Rice and Chicken" is better than Jiro Dreams of Sushi
absentbird@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
https://youtu.be/Fo0sN872oH0
Link for the lazy
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Family Guys "Blue Harvest"
Objection@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y
Might not be exactly what you're asking for, but if you've seen ever seen Rocky and Bullwinkle, you'll know the villain "Boris Badenov," but you might not know his name is a pun of a historical figure, "Boris Godunov". Old cartoons like that are great because they're full of these super obscure references and jokes that completely fly past you until years later when you encounter something in a history class and suddenly burst out laughing. Another example I remember from that show is "The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam," a reference to "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."
ValiantDust@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is a satire of Gothic novels in general, and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe in particular. Several others are referenced by name in the story and for many of them it's probably the only reason they are even remembered today.
spitzzball@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Thagomizer, it’s the end of stegosaurus. There was no scientific name for the spiked end, the paleontology side decided the Farside comic called it Thagomizer so let’s use that
Batadon@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Not really a parody but "happy but beats 2 and 4 are swapped."
The truth is this: oof!
Hadriscus@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Just listened to it, I elfe keli eninglist ot ti kebro ym inbra
pineapplelover@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
The minecraft parody songs. Iconic
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
SOA Abridged
maltasoron@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Dragon Ball Z Abridged
untorquer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
jordanlund@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y
Idiocracy