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    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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      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.

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    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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      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.

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

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      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
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    Cunk - parodying Attenborough and cosmos style docs

    Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material

    Happy Gilmore

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      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.

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

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      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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    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.