Ask Lemmy

While that's true, it took a few writers before he really came into his own. It was the 2000s before he was the meta, witty, merc with a mouth. The parody was a lot more on the nose and it traded some of the parody for the meta, witty Wheaton-isms and pop culture references. Parody Deadpool and Deadpool Deadpool are arguably different characters.

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.

Still the best star trek movie

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.

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.

It was so weird watching that live.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material

It can be pretty telling how someone reacts to Starship Troopers being what it is, and I love it for that.

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.